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Album Review: End Scene declare ‘I Will Not Live Safe, I Will Live True’ in an album filled with beauty, self reflection and passion.
End Scene highly impressed us with their debut album ‘All My Ghosts‘ way back in 2021 and they are back with the expansive journey that is ‘I Will Not Live Safe, I Will Live True’: a true declaration of intent that permeates every note. The album comes from the fevered imagination of James Jennings whose literary …
Track: CMAT drops epic new single “Running/Planning” and details ‘EURO-COUNTRY’ LP
CMAT’s back with her third album and she’s got economics, grief and glitter on the brain
Live Review & Gallery: Sultan + Shepard’s genre-bending Sydney stormer 22.03.2025
The duo behind your favourite club banger just tore up Liberty Hall
News: MF Tomlinson announces new album and unveils the cinematic title track ‘Die To Wake Up From a Dream’ ahead of UK dates.
We’ve always been huge fans of Australian-born UK resident MF Tomlinson and it is exciting to see he will be releasing a new album entitled ‘Die To Wake Up From a Dream’ on 11 July via PRAH Recordings. To give a hint of what treasures lie within the record, the title track has just been …
News: Pop Maverick Camila Cabello Announces Two Australian Dates for August
Camila Cabello’s 2025 Tour Heads Down Under
News: Brisbane’s Open Season Line Up has dropped
Open Season 2025: The Festival That’s Turning Brisbane into Australia’s Cultural Capital
Album Review: Haters debut with ‘Non-Violent’ – a raw and abrasive delight that soars with passion and melody.
In the words of a poetic messiah, haters are going to hate, but here at Backseat Mafia’s antipodean outpost we love the new album ‘Non-Violent’ from Queensland’s indie punk band Haters. Recorded in Ontario, Canada with Cancer Bats founding member Scott Middleton, ‘Non-Violent’ is the culmination of a month-long recording blitz that challenged the band …
News: New Zealand’s Ringlets announce new album and unveil shimmering single ‘Heavenly Wheel’ through Flying Nun/Leather Jacket Records.
New Zealand’s Ringlets have announced the release of their second album, endearingly entitled ‘The Lord Is My German Shepherd (Time For Walkies)’ for 27 June 2025, and unveiled the first delicious taster, the single ‘Heavenly Wheel’. Ringlets so epitomise the classic Dunedin sound it is kind of fitting they are on the legendary Flying Nun …
News: French Guitarist Gabriel Gosse Collaborates With Emile Parisian On New Track ‘Breeze’
‘Breeze’ feat. Emile Parisien is the new single from French guitarist and vocalist Gabriel Gosse, taken from his upcoming album ‘MOJO’ due for release September 2025. Fuelled by vivid compositions that drift between introspective restraint and flashes of elegant intensity, Gabriel develops his own open and modern twist on traditional jazz. The track follows previous single, “Chill Wind” which was the …
Track: Tom Nethersole releases achingly beautiful track ‘Ardmona Road’ on the exquisite joys of first love.
Tom Nethersole has captured in his new single ‘Ardmona Road’ that blush of first love – that exquisite feeling that blends both vulnerability and hope, the euphoric passion and joy. And being from the perspective of young queer lovers adds a certain poignancy. Netherole’s vocals are velvet soft and the melodies are tinged with a …