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Courteneers and Shame added to Yours and Owls Line Up – Backseat Mafia
Courteeners, Manchester’s iconic indie-Britpop torchbearers, are gearing up for their first-ever Australian festival performance at Wollongong’s Yours and Owls this March. With seven studio albums to their name—most recently Pink Cactus Café (2024)—the band has secured their place among UK rock royalty. Known for festival anthems like Not Nineteen Forever, Are You In Love With a Notion?, and Bide Your Time, their global festival resume spans Glastonbury, Reading & Leeds, Fuji Rock, and Lollapalooza. Now, it’s time for Aussie fans to catch the Britpop heavyweights up close. South London post-punk disruptors Shame are set to deliver their adrenaline-fueled shouty anthems, bringing their blend of wit, chaos, and catharsis to the…
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Meadow 2025 Drops Final Line Up For Last-Ever Bambra Hill Festival! Feat. Hiatus Kaiyote, Pond and More – Backseat Mafia
Australia’s festival scene has been on one lately. From the tree-lined magic of Strawberry Fields to the community spirit of Meredith and the chaos of Beyond the Valley, it seems like every month has another reason to pack your tent, charge your phone, and road trip into the great unknown. If you’ve been lurking on Instagram stories and quietly questioning your life choices, Meadow 2025 is here to tip you over the edge. Set in the rolling Bambra hills on Gulidjan, Gadubanud, and Wadawurrung land, Meadow has quietly built a reputation for delivering one of the best boutique festival experiences in the country. But this year, the stakes are higher…
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full line up revealed – Backseat Mafia
DEFEATED SANITY unveiled as co-headliner for OFFAL FEST 2025; full line-up revealed Veteran brutal death metallers Defeated Sanity to co-headline Sunday along with Internal Bleeding as 14 new bands revealed for next year’s edition Putridity, Begging For Incest, Indecent Excision, Plasma, Impurist, Chainsaw Castration, Ancient Rivalry and many more other new bands complete the 2025 fest and pre-show line-ups Offal Fest to take place on 25-27 July 2025 in Manchester, UK. Day, Weekend & 3-Day ticket bundles still available! Manchester, UK; 21 November 2024: Veteran brutal death metal act Defeated Sanity has been revealed as the next headliner for next year’s Offal Fest – the must-attend event for fans of…
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incineration festival adds more names to its massive line up for 2025 with the likes of lamp of murmuur, carnation, cryptopsy and celestial sanctuary. – Backseat Mafia
American thrash assailants Warbringer are set to bring the hammer of heavy metal to Incineration Festival in 2025, joining our ever-heavier, stacked Electric Ballroom billing. Joining Blood Incantation on the ‘Absolute Elsetour’ campaign next Spring, Tokyo’s MINAMI DEUTSCH become the latest addition to Incineration Festival to be making their Incineration debut. Canada’s WORMWITCH return to the shores of Britain in May, bringing their relentless, extreme metal might to Incineration Festival’s Underworld stage. CELESTIAL SANCTUARY joins Undergang, Wormwitch and more on our ever-growing, stacked Underworld stage.Pulling influence from legendary death metal outfits such as Carcass, Dying Fetus and Cannibal Corpse, Celestial Sanctuary smacks you in the face with their own brand…
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lutruwita/Tasmania’s Party in the Paddock Festival announces stunning line up for 2025 including Empire of the Sun, Aurora, A .Swaye and the Ghosts and Amyl and the Sniffers – Backseat Mafia
From humble origins of a few-hundred-people-party, local bands and a hay bale stage, to evolving into Tasmania’s largest multi-day camping festival – Party In The Paddock (PITP) has just revealed its line-up for 2025. Taking place at Quercus Park on tilapangka/Liffey River, in lutruwita/Tasmania, on Palawa/Tasmanian Aboriginal country, the festival will run from 6-9 February 2025. Given the many documented challenges facing the music industry at the moment, this promises to be something quite spectacular. The stunning full line up (with one UK special secret headliner) includes: Amyl & The Sniffers, Angie McMahon, Role Model (USA), Still Woozy (USA), ‘Secret Act’ (UK), The Rubens, Thelma Plum, King Stingray, Slowly Slowly,…
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Biossance Squalane Line Reviews 2024
Pro-Peptide™ Hydrating Lip Perfector Balm with Hyaluronic Acid ($18) “As someone who takes lip care pretty seriously (I use a separate toothbrush just for lip scrubs and regularly apply overnight lip masks), I’m always on the hunt for a great lip balm. I tried the Biossance Pro-Peptide™ Hydrating Lip Perfector Balm with Hyaluronic Acid, and one of the things I loved right away about this product was its light vanilla scent — it was sweet but not at all overwhelming. This lip balm is pretty rich in texture, almost like a lip mask, and one of my favorite things about it is how glossy it is. My lips instantly looked…
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ColourPop’s “Stranger Things” Collection: Shop the Line Here
While each product featured is independently selected by our editors, we may include paid promotion. If you buy something through our links, we may earn commission. Read more about our Product Review Guidelines here. Spooky season fans, listen up: ColourPop’s Halloween collection is almost here — and it might just be the best one yet. As any beauty enthusiast knows, the brand’s collaborations are legendary, and this year, if you’re a lover of all things eerie, you’ll be stoked to learn that latest lineup of Halloween products are inspired by season one of “Stranger Things.” The series, created by Matt Duffer and Ross Duffer and starring Millie Bobby Brown, Sadie…
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Incineration Festival Announce Date and Line Up For 2025 – Backseat Mafia
The next edition of Incineration Festival will take place on Saturday 3rd May 2025, and they are going bigger and getting louder ! Created with GIMP In the spirit of extreme metal, across five hallowed grounds they will lower the tone and present the next edition of Incineration Festival. They recently enthused “We are honoured to be adding the Roundhouse to our usual Camden Town setup of the Electric Ballroom, Underworld, Black Heart and The Dev”. DECAPITATED TO HEADLINE THE ELECTRIC BALLROOM Brace yourselves for the visitation of one of extreme metal’s finest. Decapitated – Poland’s formidable masters of death metal return to London in 2025 to headline the Electric…
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Fortress Festival Announces 2025 Line Up – Backseat Mafia
The Mighty and Magnificent Fortress festival will take place again on the Yorkshire coast in the beautiful and exquisite town of Scarborough at the Scarborough Spa from 31st May to 1st June 2025, and thus far, they have not been disappointed with the announcements. To date, they have unleashed festival headliners Agalloch alongside Moonlight Sorcery with their first ever live show, Selbst and Perennial Isolation, who both come to the UK for the first time ever, Grist who will perform a UK exclusive 10 year anniversary set of the debut album ‘Syner’, Akhlys, Spirit Possession, Belore, The Great Old Ones, Perchta with a UK Debut appearance, Fortresse, Ulcerate with a…
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Chloe Star – the bed i line in – Backseat Mafia
Blending emotive, expressive alternative-rock with a pop sheen and electronic flair, Chloe Star captures a radiant high-octane sound which glows with commercial appeal across the new EP ‘the bed i lie in’. Opening with the intense guitar lines, punching drums and subtle synths of ‘hollywood kills’, Chloe Star immediately showcases the Bring Me The Horison-meets-Juice WRLD and Post Malone sound, characterised by her at times half rapped, at others melodic vocal delivery. Urgent, explosive and emotionally driven, the track shines bright through the distorted tones of its verse into an anthemic chorus. Elsewhere on the 5 track release, ‘after thought’ delivers a more straight post-punk sound as a more clean,…
