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Track: Betty Taylor are ‘Stallin”- a bright and breezy journey into the pop hinterland – as they announce signing to new label Hello Gardener and launch date.
From the sunshine capital of Australia, Queensland’s Sunshine Coast, Betty Taylor is no single entity but rather the fusion of duo Sophie Patrick and Kayla Smart (AKA Dorah Jacson). The collaboration has resulted in a bright and breezy jangling gem with a confusion of quotation marks, ‘Stallin”. Mountainous choruses and scything sparkling guitars collude to …
See: It’s ‘Winter’ for Fazerdaze: a video filled with a wistful and longing air as news of support for Lorde tour is announced.
Off her recent long awaited EP ‘Break’, the enigmatic and brilliant Fazerdaze (the nom de plume of Amelia Murray) has today unveiled a video for the track ‘Winter’ as a well as tremendous news of her support slot on the new Lorde tour: a magnificent reflection of her growing stature. ‘Winter’ is the quieter, more …
Album Review: The magnificent Horsegirl unveil a precious collection of demos and outtakes in ‘Rough Trade Super-Disc’
Breathing an air of vitality and a barbed-wire edginess into the oft creaky old bones of rock n roll, the superb Horsegirl, have followed up their stunning debut ‘Versions of Modern Performance’ (out through Matador Records/Remote Control Records and still superglued to my turntable) with a collection of demos and and outtakes, all recorded entirely via …
Review: The Lumineers live at the Aware Super Theatre, Sydney 15.11.2022
The Lumineers are back in Australia and New Zealand as part of their ‘Brightside’ World Tour 2022. This is their first trip to our shores in three years. Tonight the Aware Super Theatre is hosting a capacity and excited crowd. This is a truly impressive venue, its steeped levels shrouded in haze, as I enter. …
Live Review: TV Priest / Modern Woman / Fraulein – Scala, London 10.11.2022
By Henry Regan Having been on tour round Europe and the UK for the past two weeks, TV Priest were back in London, for a very special hometown show. Although there were tube strikes, this did not stop people coming in their masses to Scala. The King’s Cross venue known for hosting a number of …
Track: Ōtautahi/Christchurch resident T.G. Shand returns with the shoegaze shimmer of WAWO ahead of EP release.
The irrepressible dream pop/shoegaze queen T.G. Shand is back with another shimmering masterclass in fuzzy pop with ‘WAWO’. T.G. Shand is the moniker of Ōtautahi/Christchurch resident Annemarie Duff, formerly of the legendary Melbourne shoegaze band Miniatures (on the iconic Saint Marie Records label). We here at Backseat Mafia have been transfixed by her stream of jangling, sparkling singles over …
Premiere: Sydney trio Motion Sickness steady the waves with the enigmatic video for the driving, shimmering single ‘This Body’, and announce live dates.
Back in August we were very honoured to bring you the single from Sydney auteur Maia Marsh, and the pleasure is doubled with an exclusive look at the new video from her band Motion Sickness for the track ‘This Body’. ‘This Body’ oozes with a delicious frisson of excitement: a snaky driving bass creates an …
Live Review: Jamie T/ 86TV’s – o2 Academy, Birmingham, 11.11.22
Fresh off the back of his latest album release, Jamie T brings his “The Theory of Whatever Tour” to a sold out Birmingham o2 Academy. The queue to get into the o2 Academy was huge upon arrival, the waiting crowd already in chorus’s of “Jamie, Jamie, Jamie, ******* T”, whilst excitedly entering the Academy. First …
News: The Wombats Have Released A New Track Ahead Of Their Australian Shows
The Wombats have released a new track ahead of their upcoming Australia shows.
Album Review: ‘Dave Graney & Clare Moore in a mistLY’ reverberates with a delightful, playful sense of a drunken fin de siecle wake.
There is a clattering, chaotic stately grace about the songs created by the legendary duo Dave Graney and Clare Moore: born in a rock’n’roll cradle of unadorned guitars and pattering percussion with a louche, fey, self-deprecating delivery. They create the most glowing and comforting aura as Graney states with a come hither tone that he’s …