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News: The venerable Underground Lovers announce Australian Anniversary tour with Youth Group and reissue of the classic ‘Dream It Down’ album on vinyl.
It feels like Christmas here at the antipodean outpost of Backseat Mafia with the much anticipated news that the brilliant Underground Lovers are taking to the road for an anniversary tour with the wonderful Youth Group. And, continuing their reissue of past albums, the much lauded ‘Dream It Down’ will be issues in vinyl for …
Track: Joey Sachi returns with another ethereal delight in the delicate ‘Reverie’.
We were incredibly honoured to premiere the stunning debut single ‘Fractured’ of Tokyo-based Sydney artist Joey Sachi last year, and she has followed this up with a new single, ‘Reverie,’ which proves without doubt that this is an artist that has a brilliant career ahead. ‘Reverie’ floats in the skies: celestial and majestic instrumentation dapples …
News: Australian Artist Sam Fischer Returns Home for National Tour Following Debut Album ‘I Love You, Please Don’t Hate Me’
Sam Fischer, the Aussie singer-songwriter who warmed hearts worldwide with his debut album ‘I Love You, Please Don’t Hate Me‘ in 2023, is gearing up for a limited series of gigs along the East Coast this May. Brisbane, Sydney, and Melbourne are in for a treat as this homegrown sensation hits the stage. His latest …
Premiere: Yoskos in the Cosmos unveils the effervescent ‘Always On My Mind’ ahead of live dates.
Yoskos in the Cosmos is a Sydney-based songwriter and producer (Yossif Kafejisky) whose new single ‘Always On My Mind’ we are very pleased to premiere today. ‘Always on my Mind’ is an effervescent slice of driving pop that positively brims with energy, threaded with a little thread of melancholy born from regret and loss. Kafejiskey …
News: Milky Chance and The Beaches team up on ‘Living in a Haze’
Milky Chance and the Beaches drop ‘Livining in a Haze’
Meet: The Avant-Garde entertainer – Blixa Bargeld from Einstürzende Neubauten talks about rocket ramps, the future for the band, writing the new album and creating a whole new genre of pop music.
It was nearly four years ago to the day that I spoke to Blixa Bargeld from Einstürzende Neubauten on the eve of the release of their album ‘Alles In Allem’. It was a strange time given we were both just entering lockdown and it was an interview interrupted by food delivery services, which symbolised, in …
News: The legendary Dirty Three announce new album ‘Love Changes Everything’ along with national tour – ‘older, meaner, sadder and totally dangerous’.
If you have ever had the luck to see the Dirty Three perform live, you will understand the powerful force that is created by this instrumental trio on stage – creating something close to a musical epiphany or spiritual enlightenment that will always be treasured (read my review of their appearance at the iconic Dark …