Singer/songwriter and guitarist with The Hadron Colliders, Writer/Senior Editor for UK music webzine Backseat Mafia. Currently living. And in Hobart.
There are some musicians who never seem interested in chasing relevance because they’ve spent their careers creating music that simply exists outside of trends. Joeys Coop fall squarely into that…
Following the release of his solo album ‘Strawberries’ last year, the inimitable and erudite Robert Forster is finally bringing his launch tour to Australia with a series of dates across…
The legendary and highly prolific Mick Harvey‘s collaboration with Mexican singer and filmmaker Amanda Acevedo continues to bloom with a glorious blush as they release a new single ‘Perfect Storm’,…
A cover is always more interesting if it brings something different to the original, and we are honoured to bring you an exclusive listen to troubadour extraordinaire Simon Robert Gibson‘s…
There’s something gloriously unfashionable about ‘Boss’, the debut album from Sydney’s The Vors. At a time when so much guitar music seems trapped between algorithm-friendly restraint and self-cons...
With a national tour on the cards and a series of fabulous singles to wet the appetite, Australia’s king of grunge and all round legend Kim Salmon and his merry…
There are bands that tour. And then there are bands that arrive like weather systems — dark, slow-moving, impossible to ignore. For more than four decades, The Sisters of Mercy…
Newly formed trio Louderstar has coalesced in Launceston, Tasmania at the far edge of the world following songwriter and producer singer Fiora’s return from Berlin and Los Angeles. She has…
With a new album ‘Totally Sick’ on the way, Kim Salmon, international doyen and legend of the indie music scene, is packing up his his Smoked Salmon and taking his…
The Australian indie scene has been mourning the death of Crow‘s founding member Peter Archer last week following news earlier this year that the band was back together and releasing…
With a membership that reads like a who’s who of the Australian independent music scene, new group Marlophone exclusively share their debit single ‘I’m On Your Side’ with Backseat Mafia,…
All may be dark and cold in the southern outpost of Australia, but in their first hometown gig in Hobart, All India Radio emanated a warm starburst of magic into…
Over the years, writing about Steve Kilbey and Martin Kennedy has become a little like tracing constellations across different skies. Whether reviewing latter-day albums by The Church or previous...
We are very honoured to premiere the new single ‘Disappear From The Earth’ from one of our favourite US bands, Lunar Twin, as a taster to their newly announced album…
There’s always been something gloriously unbothered about Dave Graney and Clare Moore — a sense that the rules of engagement (hits, trends, relevance) are for other people. ‘Laburnum Of The…
Melbourne-based supergroup Fancy Weapon invited us into their fuzzy world in March with the debut single ‘Squid’ (see my review here), and just over a month later they return with…
We are honoured to premiere the new single ‘Papers’ from Sydney-based punk band This Time Only. ‘Paper’s is a thoroughly refreshing and urgent blast of sound delivering an excoriating look…
There’s a neat symmetry to this one that feels almost too perfect to script. In the early ’80s, a teenage Martin Kennedy stood in a dusty field watching Steve Kilbey…