Interview
Meet: Supersonic festival director Lisa Meyer ahead of July’s must-catch happening.
Festivals are back and that’s important. Every festival, from gargantuan to the esoteric, has a community around it, they have become part of our folklore, part of our cultural clock, a marker in the year, a celebration of a certain thing that happens over and over. Relationships build between a festival and its people, the …
Meet: Your New Favourite Band – Excuses Excuses
Excuses Excuses are a rock band from Ontario, Canada, who are bringing back the punkier side of rock in a big way with a set of brilliant singles, setting them out as a band to watch. Their debut album is due out later this year, so Backseat Mafia caught up with them to find out …
Meet: Punk Rock Factory at Slam Dunk Festival North
BM: My name is Erin. I’m from Backseat Mafia. Could you just introduce yourself and then what you do in the band? PRF: I’m Peej. I’m the singer and rhythm guitarist and I’m Kob and I play drums. BM: Lovely. I just watched your set, we don’t talk about technical difficulties because by the end …
Meet: Billy Rowan, The Man Behind The Undercover Hippy
Drum n Bass MC turned singer-songwriter Billy Rowan aka The Undercover Hippy is on a mission tomake people think, laugh and dance simultaneously. We caught up with Rowan to find out where it all started and his new track ‘These Days‘. Give us a potted history of yourself I started out as an acoustic solo …
Meet: Lit’s Ajay Popoff talks cancel culture, COVID-19, and leaving California
It’s been over 20 years now since American rock band Lit hit the big-time with A Place in the Sun and that album’s smash lead single ‘My Own Worst Enemy’, which has since been featured on NBC’s political satire sitcom Parks & Recreation (2009-2015) and on pretty much every version of Rock Band or Guitar …
Feature : Ramy Essam releases ‘ Mafi Mafi (Khod) – The New Voice of the Middle East
For the longest time, music artists have depicted the world around them as it unfolds. The change, the revolutions, the social injustice , and the universal story which connects us all : hope. The term ‘activist ‘ has long since been overtly used to describe those artists who use their voice to talk about the …
Album Review: We talk to Eliza and Delusionals about their new album ‘Now and Then’
Eliza and the Delusionals emerge from the Covid pandemic with an album that draws on the best of the 90s and early 2000s and delivers a rocking punch that leaves you reeling with delight.
Meet: Leeds Rockers Fudge, Who Are Set For A Very Big Year
With the imminent release of the bands EP ‘The Town Hall Session’ which features three previously released singles and two additional tracks ‘Jekyll & Hide’ and ‘Pepsi Noggins’. The EP release also coincides with ‘Nothing But Noise‘, the band’s first one day festival at Leeds Belgrave Music Hall on 21 May and will be followed …
VIDEO PREMIERE: New Yorkers The Velvicks explore the cyclical nature of trauma on powerful new single ‘Old Mistakes’ (+mini Q&A)
It’s been a minute since we’ve heard from New York-based band The Velvicks. They’ve been suspiciously quiet aside from the release of a couple of singles last year, and now we know why: they’ve been working on their debut album! That’s very exciting indeed for a band who displayed plenty of promise on 2020’s debut …
Meet: Matthew Smith from New Zealand’s band Deep Water Creek talks about inspirations and influences.
Give us a potted history of you / the band: I started the band Deep Water Creek about four years ago, sort of as a vehicle for my own songs. Before that I was in a band called Von Voin Strum for 4 or 5 years then did a solo album and a solo EP with a different crew. Most of …