Music
News: Grammy Nominees BONES UK release new single alongside captivating video “Cheap Love”
In anticipation of a their highly-sought-after Sophomore record (rumored to be in works!), Grammy nominated rock duo BONES UK release new single, ‘Cheap Love’. Exploring the juxtaposition of finding love in hate and searching for the positivity in an environment that feels to be increasingly challenging for most, BONES UK debut new single, “Cheap Love” – BONES UK’s first new music …
Live Review: Cherry Poppin’ Daddies – Tracyton Movie House – Bremerton Washington 24.09.2022
Cherry Poppin’ Daddies, best known for their 1997 hit “Zoot Suit Riot” have been playing music since 1989 and continue to bring their swing, ska, jazz and various other sounds to live audiences. September 24th, they played the Tracyton Movie House in Bremerton, Washington.
News: EWAH and the Vision Of Paradise’s Emma Waters presents special showings of film ‘Finding Paradise’ with a soundtrack from the band’s album ‘The Warning Birds’.
EWAH and the Vision of Paradise (EVoP) released a magnificent album ‘The Warning Birds’ last year (see my 9.2/10 review here) – an album that I described as being a palimpsest for beauty and decay, wild and turbulent landscapes with the intrusion of modernity and the threats and ugliness this can entail. It is an album that …
Premiere: Steve Lane’s majestic ‘Don’t Forget To Breathe’ is a slow burning melodic gem that hypnotises and glows ahead of album release. Out through Last Night From Glasgow.
We are ever so honoured to premiere today the new single ‘Don’t Forget To Breathe’ from central Victorian Steve Lane. Floating on a bed of sweeping, weeping strings and a gentle patter of guitars and piano, ‘Don’t Forget To Breathe’ is breathtakingly elegant and mournful: an air of melancholy oozes from the crystalline cello strings …
Meet: Musical Tour De Force Andrea Viscardi
After studying piano at the Mozarteum in Salzburg, the Royal Academy of Music in London, and the Conservatorio Giuseppe Verdiin Milan, graduating in 2012, Andrea Viscardi is a musical tour de force. He has worked in classical and electronic music and also written film scores. In 2013, Viscardi wrote the music for the documentary Cue …
Live Review: Porij – Brudenell Social Club, Leeds. 21.9.22
If you like your music genre-defying, hard to pin down but irresistibly danceable, then last Wednesday’s sold-out crowd at Brudenell Social Club is where you should have been… Porij formed in 2019 in Manchester, a product of the Royal Northern College of Music, making beats that subsequently blossomed into a heady mix of UK garage, …
EP Review: Luxury Goods – This Is No Time To Dance
Sheffield solo artist Luxury Goods shines on her striking debut EP This is No Time to Dance – a four track release showcasing infectious energy and punchy indie-come-alterative-pop soundscapes which move between biting intensity and melancholic reflection. Opening with ‘Tiny Moving Parts’ quickly introduces the punching live drums prevalent across the EP, giving the growling …
Premiere: Andrea Viscardi Shares New Track ‘Distance’
After stretching his musical wings into electronic music and film scores 2020 saw Andrea Viscardi returning to the piano and more classical scores. We are very pleased to be premiering the video for Viscardi’s new single ‘Distance’. The track is his new solo piano piece released via Phono Klavier Limited on September 30th 2022 You …
Track: The brilliant Gena Rose Bruce collaborates with Bill Callahan in sultry new track ‘Foolishly in Love’
We here at Backseat Mafia have been long time fans of Melbourne-based chanteuse Gena Rose Bruce with her smoky, sultry voice and reverb-inflected laconic style that comes across as a melange of Mazzy Star and P.J. Harvey: a femme fatale with a steely spine cloaked in luscious velvet and a smoldering style. Her debut album …
Live Photos: THICK – Seattle, Washington 23.09.2022
THICK is currently on tour supporting their new album ‘Happy Now’, the follow-up to their 2020 album “5 Years Behind”.