Indie
Track: Julia Jacklin Drops New Track ‘Love, Try Not To Let Go’
Julia Jacklin’s new track ‘Love, Try Not To Let Go’ is a delight that augurs well for her new album ‘Pre Pleasure’ which is out on 26 August.
Track: Ruby Gill Releases New Track ‘I Forgot To Be Profound Today’
Ruby Gill proves that she is a master of social observation with her new track ‘I Forgot To Be Profound Today’
Premiere: Ponte Pilas – San Ignacio
Berlin based Scottish-Ecuadorian four piece Ponte Pilas are set to make 2022 their year with the release of their debut album due later this year. Backseat Mafia are delighted to premiere the new single ‘San Ignacio’. A song dedicated to one of their biggest heroes in Iggy Pop, and the fourth track to be taken …
Track: Charlie Needs Braces unveils the exuberant and hyperkinetic track ‘Daryung’ and announces launch gig.
With a looping, breathing backtrack and an hyperkinetic restless lilt burnished by a wild and abandoned trumpet, the new single from artist Charlie Woods, under the name Charlie Needs Braces, is an exuberant ray of golden sunshine. Woods comes from a proud First Nations background (a GuriNgai woman, descendant of Bungaree and Matora) and the …
Premiere: Brighton Indie 4 Piece Comforts Shine On New Single ‘Mixed Signals’
Brighton 4-piece Comforts demonstrate their ability to capture a vibrancy and an uplifting aura with beautifully placed instrumentation and an affecting air of melancholy on the new single ‘Mixed Signals’. We’re very excited to be running the premiere! Dreamy-indie at it’s very best, ‘Mixed Signals’ blends modulation and reverb tinted, interweaving guitar lines which float …
Track: New Zealand’s MACEY unveils the smooth and bucolic sounds of ‘Summer Grunge’ and announces EP ‘Lovers: Side A’.
‘Summer Grunge’ from Auckland-based artist MACEY is a smooth and shimmering track which has an easy sibilant and aquatic flow evoking images of balmy sun-soaked afternoons in a green and pleasant land. The instrumentation provides a string-laden billowing dream pop pillow supporting the velvet soft vocals that hypnotise. MACEY is the nom de plume for …
Track: Brisbane based Claude (Mess Esque, Requin) releases the raw, fragile and delicate beauty of ‘Tamarind’.
A touring member of the fabulous Mess Esque and a member of the much lamented Requin, Brisbane based Keeley Young has just released a very special solo project under the name Claude, and our first blissful encounter is the shimmering, fragile single ‘Tamarind’: a delectable morsel of sonic goodness. Gently plucking crystalline acoustic guitars support …
Track: Alannah Russack’s Entropy Band unveil the anthemic and urgent indie pop brilliance of ‘Movement’.
With a steeped and honoured history in Australia’s indie music scene stemming from her role in the legendary The Hummingbirds and Aerial Maps, Alannah Russack has been gracing us with some special music over the past year with a series of solo singles that glitter and shine. Today, Russack made a surprise release of the …
Live Review: Death Cab for Cutie/Illuminati Hotties – MJN Center, Poughkeepsie, NY 16.07.2022
Not so long ago, Death Cab for Cutie’s Ben Gibbard was coming to us solely on video from his home studio. Remember the days when we were trying to keep each other sane from a distance? Gibbard spent over a year online, posting numerous solo performances and like many artists, provided us with some solace …
Premiere: The Double Happiness create their own unique antipodean spaghetti western surf genre in their evocative new single ‘Smoking Gun’, and announce launch date.
Brisbane’s The Double Happiness have provided an endless source of brilliant shimmering sounds like no other band over the past few years, carving out a distinct sun-kissed brand of jangle that resonates and captures the sea salt encrusted radiant shores of coastal Queensland. We are ever so honoured to premiere their new single, ‘Smoking Gun’: …