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Track: Acid Dad drop new single, Get Me High with accompanying ‘otherworldly’ clip.
US psych rockers, Acid Dad (Vaughn Hunt on guitars/vocals, Sean Fahey also on guitars/vocals and Trevor Mustoe on drums) have just released a stunning new song and accompanying clip. The song, Get Me High is about “trying to grasp a breath after unexpectedly losing everything” – something the band experienced when their studio that they …
News: The Dead South add Hobart date to their Australian tour itinerary.
Dual Juno Award-winning Canadian hillbilly bluegrass band, The Dead South, have added a number of extra shows to their Australian tour, including one in collaboration with Southern Extremities Productions at The Odeon Theatre in Hobart on Saturday, 21st January 2023. The band, widely known for the sensation that became of the video for ‘In Hell …
News: Adalita returns with intensely powerful and introspective new single, ‘Dazzling’ ahead of new album & album launch shows.
Legendary lead vocalist and guitarist of Magic Dirt, Adalita, is set to release her third solo album, Inland. It is set for release on Liberation Records for the 2nd of December, almost 9 years after her second effort, All Day Venus. To herald the new album, first single, Dazzling has been released with an accompanying …
Album Review: US psych-rockers, King Buffalo to release Regenerator, the 3rd of a trio of albums written in Covid-19 lockdown.
New York-based trio King Buffalo will release their fifth full-length album and the 3rd of their ‘pandemic trilogy’, Regenerator on the 2nd September, 2022. Following on from the two releases in 2021, Acheron and The Burden of Restlessness, the intervening period has seen the band release three pre-release singles, and will have, by the time …
EP: The Great Emu War Casualties release the dynamic and shimmering indie pop EP ‘Vanity Project’
Australian-based and evocatively-named The Great Emu War Casualties (TGEWC) have released the EP ‘Vanity Project’ – a dynamic, fresh and dazzling collection of effervescent shimmering tracks. There is an indefinable sound to the band, but it is one grounded in a great musicianship and creative, innovative songwriting – an indie pop sensibility that has been …
Backseat Downunder: Favourite Releases from Australia/New Zealand in 2020
Last week Backseat Mafia released its Top Fifty Albums of 2020 – a incredibly rich and diverse list of albums from across a wide range of writers with different tastes and a huge spread of genres; a magnificent task delivered well. At the end of a particularly challenging year, I wanted to highlight the outstanding …
RENOUNCED SHARE VIDEO FOR ‘SALTATION’
Dark metallers Renounced latest album ‘Beauty Is A Destructive Angel’ has all the riff heavy, doom laden lyricism, thrash tones and throaty vocals. Pounding bass kicks and choppy snares royally rumble with the basslines and make for raw, ear rupturing pleasure. The band on the inimitable Holy Roar label have just shared their new promo …
WARM DIGITS SHARE NEW VIDEO ‘FEEL THE PANIC x ANNOUNCE NEW LP ‘FLIGHT OF IDEAS’
Drum machinists and synth bubblers Warm Digits share new video for ‘Feel The Panic’. The track features collaborators The Lovely Eggs and sees the motorik space-rock outfit burst into technicolour with a pounding post-punk pulse. The track is the second shared from forthcoming LP ‘Flight Of Ideas’ The new LP is a work that condenses the duo’s …
UTILITY TAPES | HOUSE PARTY x RELEASE SHOW
BMF being based in Sheffield its only right that we shine a spotlight on established and emerging local talent. Not long back we posted a featured on the citys Tye Die Tapes. A label incarnation that ran a decade long. Adam who ran Tie Dye Tapes has the bug again and launches a new manifestation …
NEWS: The Goon Sax Announce New Album ‘We’re Not Talking’
Mark Bowen and Dick Green’s Wichita Recordings Label (Bloc Party/First Aid Kit/Ride) have fresh new signings in Australian IndiePop Rockers The Goon Sax. The album will launch worldwide on September 14th and this summer also sees the band out on tour supporting Frankie Cosmos across Europe in May, including a date at Gorilla in Manchester …