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Live Review: The Rockaway Beach Festival – 07.01.2022 – 09.01.2022
Welcome to the end of the fear show! After everyone was grounded in 2021 Bognor braced itself for the return of the Rockaway Beach Festival. In the middle of a continuing pandemic? Really? As an idea it seemed crazier than the competitors in the notorious Bognor Birdman contest – a true leap of faith! During …
News: Melbourne’s pop punk troubador Luke Seymoup announces new album ‘Tales of Suburban Angst’ and releases the effervescent single ‘Paint’ as a taste of what’s to come.
Luke Seymoup is a veritable institution in the world of Melbourne indie, punk and ska, backed by his band affectionately known as the Moup Group. He today announces the release of his album ‘Tales of Suburban Angst’ on 27 February 2022 – an album that, according to Seymoup, …was an album that the universe didn’t …
Track: Coyle Girelli – Here Comes My Baby
‘Here Comes My Baby’ is the latest single to be shared by Coyle Girelli taken from his ‘Funland’, album due 25th February via Honey Lemon Records. Girelli himself thinks of the song as: “a turquoise-sea-green-coloured-washed-out-shoegazer feeling ode to a lover, celebrating being lost in her and how she anchors you, even in the midst of …
Track: Elaine Palmer – Oh My Oh My
After releasing one of the finest albums of last year, with The Land In Between (read our review here), Elaine Palmer has started 2022 off with a video for the track ‘Oh My Oh My’. Regarding the track Palmer comments: “An easy going Alt Country song all about finding yourself again.” ‘Oh My Oh My’ …
Premiere: Mako Bron’s ‘cloudbites’ EP is an effervescent and glorious pop masterpiece, with a dark heart and uplifting melodies.
Mako Bron is the brainchild of one musician/producer Chris Brookman, and the single ‘Straight Down’ went to straight up to my top five Australian/New Zealand single releases for 2021. We at Backseat Mafia are therefore absolutely thrilled to be asked to premiere Mako Bron’s new EP, ‘cloudbites’, set for release on 3 January 2022. Brookman …
Track: PYNGU’s ‘Everytime’ brings uplifting, bittersweet dance-pop futurism to the Christmas run-in
SOMETIMES it’s best to keep it short and sweet and let a track speak for itself. PYNGU is the reincarnation of the German DJ, artist and producer who could formerly be found working as Kyco, under which moniker his work achieved some 27 million streams. His first single newly baptised and capitalised as PYNGU was …
See: Lime Cordiale and Idris Elba’s incredible and improbable collaboration continues to bloom with the release of a video for the absolutely brilliant track ‘What’s Not To Like’, plus EP and tour news.
The musical collaboration between Australia’s foremost indie dance pop outfits Lime Cordiale and iconic and enigmatic British actor Idris Elba is at first blush one of the most outlandish concepts imaginable. Following the fabulous single ‘Apple Crumble’ released last month, the dynamic paring have just released the brilliant track ‘What’s Not To Like’ as another …
Live Review: GIRLI / July Jones / Amber Jay – Arts Club, Liverpool 3.12.2021
On the third of December at Liverpool’s Arts Club Loft, GIRLI, with support from July Jones and Amber Jay, took to the stage for the final night of the Damsel in Distress tour. The incredibly successful nationwide tour, which was entirely self-funded by GIRLI herself, was made possible by a crew of remarkable women and …
Track: Rosie Alena releases beguiling new single, Adore Me
Emerging from the depths of south London comes one of the most promising new artists Rosie Alena, who’s unleashed her newest offering, an emotive piece of art-pop that is ‘Adore Me’; available now via untitled recs. Rosie Alena apparently has a boundless capacity to spawn celestial, grandiose cinematic stunners and ‘Adore Me’ is another piece …
Track: GGGOLDDD – Notes On How To Trust
Dutch alternative pop innovators GGGOLDDD (previously known as GOLD) have announced details on their fifth studio album, ‘This Shame Should Not Be Mine’ which is set for release on 1st April via Artoffact Records.They have also shared the powerful new video for, ‘Notes on How to Trust’ In the silence of 2020’s lockdown, Milena Eva …