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Track: In a brilliant antipodean collaboration, BENEE and Mallrat unveil the ultra pop track ‘Do It Again’, Official Song for the FIFA Women’s World Cup 2023™ with live dates ahead.
Aotearoa/New Zealand’s BENEE and Australia’s Mallrat have joined forces to release the Official Song for the FIFA Women’s World Cup 2023™, ‘Do It Again’. Could there ever be such a perfect collaboration? Fittingly, the football competition takes place across Australian and New Zealand throughout July and August and the collaboration between the antipodean über pop …
News: New Zealand’s Clementine Valentine (fka Purple Pilgrims) announce new album and unveil the elegant single ‘Time and Tide’ as a taste of what’s to come.
Clementine Valentine, the New Zealand-based art-pop duo formerly known as Purple Pilgrims, today announced their upcoming album, ‘The Coin that Broke the Fountain Floor’, out on 25 August via the prestigious Flying Nun Records. To whet our appetites, they have released a delicious single entitled ‘Time and Tide’. There is a baroque, pastoral elegance to …
Premiere: ‘How I Miss Home’ – Max Aurora & The Southern Lights deliver a dreamy and poignant paean to Aotearoa from a wandering sailor
We are very honoured to premiere the new dreamy, floaty track ‘How I Missed Home’ from Naarm/Melbourne-based band Max Aurora & The Southern Lights. Drenched in sweet poignancy, it’s a delicate and raw paean to home from a sailor on the high seas, sparked from deep feelings of longing and displacement. Recorded down at Marigold …
News: The legendary Slowdive announce new album ‘everything is alive’ and unveil the glorious first single ‘kisses’ on eve of antipodean tour
In very exciting news, today, Slowdive announced their new album, everything is alive, coming out Friday, 1 September on Dead Oceans, and unveiled the video for the gorgeous lead single, ‘kisses’. This comes ahead of the band’s headline Australia and New Zealand tour which kicks off in July — tickets on sale here. The announcement also comes ahead of the band’s first-ever Glastonbury performance this weekend, …
Premiere: Sydney’s Grids & Dots unveil the luscious, evocative video for the dream pop delight that is the appealing ‘Pink Plaster Walls’. A New EP is also on the way.
We are overjoyed to bring you an exclusive look at the new video for the dreamy evocative track ‘Pink Plaster Walls’ from Sydney’s Grids & Dots. ‘Pink Plaster Walls’ is a heavenly slice of dream pop: unfurling across a bright blue sky with its iridescent glow and gentle, warm disposition. The distant, almost observational, delivery …
Premiere: I Am A Rocketship unveil their take down of superficiality in the track ‘Do You Feel Good’, along with album news.
We are very pleased to bring you the premiere of the new single ‘Do You Feel Good’ from Atlanta duo I Am A Rocketship. The track features drumming from Kellii Scott, known as being the drummer for the band Failure and his work with other artists, including Veruca Salt, Dr. Dre, Pink, Enemy and Christina Aguilera. Less of a question …
Live Review & Gallery – The Meanies, Frenzal Rhomb, Canine, Nunchukka Superfly, LoJetz, The Hot Ness, Drifters Wharf and Crowbar 2-3 June 2023
Punk fans were treated to a huge couple of gigs last weekend as Oz punk legends The Meanies swanned into town, bringing with them a suitcase full of other punk favourites along with plenty of attitude and swagger. Friday night saw them support Frenzal Rhomb at Drifters Wharf as part of Frenzal’s national tour in …
Premiere: It’s ‘Museum Day’ for Coyle Girelli – a blindingly bright excursion to indie pop heaven ahead of new album.
We are inordinately privileged and honoured to bring you a first listen to the new single ‘Museum Day’ from one of Backseat Mafia’s favourite artists, Coyle Girelli: the English troubadour based in New York City. Coasting along on a bright dappled instrumental sound, Girelli’s crooner vocals are cool and expressive with the kind of sonorous …
Track: We Set Sail are departing and their penultimate offering is a beautiful and passionate ‘Broken Umbrella’. Out through False Peak Records.
We Set Sail are a firm favourite here at the antipodean outpost of Backseat Mafia and if there is any certainty in life, it’s that good things don’t last for ever. We Set Sail have announced their final departure into the Queensland sunset and ‘Broken Umbrella’ is their penultimate release before anchors up, with their …
News: Donovan Keith Releases Summery, Infectiously and Joyous New Single ‘Tidal Wave’
Indie, Roots and Folk Singer-songwriter Donovan Keith releases the infectious, joyous and radiantly celebration of love ‘Tidal Wave.’ ‘Tidal Wave’ is a mesmerizing, uplifting love song that explores the ups and downs of new love. Through vivid natural imagery, the track skillfully captures the mix of excitement, anxiety, and uncertainty that accompanies the beginning of …