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Live Review & Gallery: The Victims w/ Chimers and Hellebores, Crowbar Sydney 021223
Before he became a Hoodoo Guru, Dave Faulkner founded seminal Perth punk outfit, The Victims back in 1977 in his hometown of Perth. After over 40 years of on again off again, it became time to bid a final farewell and they did so in style. Three shows only; beginning in Perth, then Melbourne and …
News: The Battery Farm – Flies
Good music should entertain you, be memorable after you’ve just heard it for the first time. It’s the Old Grey Whistle Acid Test!!! Great music on the other hand should disturb you, rock your core and enthuse you to share it with anyone else who think should care. Flies, the debut LP by The Battery …
Meet: Beau Neilson – Creative Director of Sydney’s Magnificent Phoenix Central Park
Backseat Mafia goes behind the scenes and talks to Beau Neilson the Creative Director of Sydney’s Phoenix Central Park.
Punk’s Lost Daughter// BEX releases debut single “Tiptoe”
Describing herself as, “A punk-rocker who wants the music to speak again” BEX is a young artist looking to reshape the rock industry through a lens of hard-hitting riffs, feminist lyrics and cutting-edge videos. Amongst this BEX balances out all the things that “suck,” such as: sexism, racism, fast fashion, judgementalism and heartbreak with pleasantly uplifting things like: riffs, self-expression, …
News: Ed Sheeran releases new remix with Irish rapper Denise Chaila
Irish rapper Denise Chaila has teamed up with Ed Sheeran for a remix to his song ‘2step’, and it’s out now!
Discover: Singer Sayed Sabrina is a soul – busting Tour De Force
We live in a musical world where the quintessential soul singer has become synonymous with either reflecting the sounds and timbres of old, stemming from Janis Joplin to Chaka Khan, or Mama Knows Best to the lady that did it all, Aretha. Then , along comes Sayed Sabrina. I should say she’s been around for …
Droppin’ Knowledge: The Songs of New York City Beatmaker Radicule Are Undiscovered Gems Of Hip Hop
With music proliferating at an explosive rate, it’s often difficult to wade through the morass and discover new artists, or artists who have been toiling away at their craft for years, unable to rise above the noise. The ability to create rudimentary sounds or beats with inexpensive software means that the stream-waves are crowded with …
Track: Nia Wyn – Who Asked You.
Fresh from releasing her debut EP Love I Can’t Ruin in February, UK soul artist Nia Wyn has released her brand new single “Who Asked You“. Focused on dealing with negative energy from people with unwelcome opinions, especially about the stigma around mental illness and naysayers doubting your aspirations of leaving a small town and …
Track: Slow Crush – Reel
Shoegaze seems to be a genre that undertook a popular resurgence in the latter part of the ’00s. My Bloody Valentine released new music, a number of musicians took influence from the genre and, in 2018 to be precise, Belgian quartet Slow Crush released Aurora. Such was the appeal of the album that the band …
Track: Son Lux’s Ian Chang releases the latest cut from Belonging; “Lion Dance.”
Ian Chang has shared a second track from his debut full-length record; “Lion Dance” a track that highlights his energetic blend of percussive prowess and hyper-sonic electronics by the Son Lux member. “This was the last song I made for the album, so it still feels very fresh to me” Lang remarks about the track. “The initial …