Music
Track: Beyond The Black – Is There Anybody Out There?
After sharing the previous single ‘Reincarnation’, Beyond The Black have released another new song titled ‘Is There Anybody Out There?’. Jennifer Haben proclaims: “These times confront us with unknown demons and often we must painfully lose our principles to find new paths. ‘Is There Anybody Out There?‘ shines light on these dark moments to give you power to …
Track: Enslaved Return With New Track ‘Kingdom’
Enslaved have shared their new track titled ‘Kingdom’ alongside an evocative concept video. Ivar Bjørnson stated:“Kingdom – a tribute to the endurance of ideas and the people that carry them forward through hardship and fatigue, for the benefit of us all. Musically, it is a tribute to the Riff and the Rite: to the Teutonic Thrash kings, to Space …
Album Review: Excuses Excuses – Listen Up
After exploding on to the music scene with three energetic singles that took the music world by storm. Excuses Excuses have finally unleashed their debut album to the world in a joyous expression of loud and proud guitar led music keeping true to their live shows. Lead vocalist Kyle Wilton states: “I was always very …
Live Review: alt-J / Just Mustard – Collins Barracks The National Museum of Ireland, Dublin 25.08.2022
Words: Max Falvey // Pictures: Ian Mc Donnell After selling out Dublin’s 3Olympia Theatre twice at the beginning of the summer, the quirky and ever-mesmerising Alt-J promptly returned to fair city last night to kick off the first ever Wider Than Pictures concert series at Collins Barracks. For an all seated show in a venue …
News: Nothing Nowhere Shares New Single and tour dates.
NOTHING,NOWHERE. SHARES SINGLE M1SERY_SYNDROME FEAT. BUDDY NIELSEN OF SENSES FAIL WATCH VIDEO HERE ON TOUR ACROSS THE UK & EUROPE IN NOVEMBER AND DECEMBER DCD2 / Fueled By Ramen artist nothing,nowhere. has shared the brand new single M1SERY_SYNDROME which features Buddy Nielsen of Senses Fail. M1SERY_SYNDROME is available today on all streaming platforms and is joined by an official music video created by Gabor Toth (gabxtoth) …
New Track/Video: Fiery fusion ensemble M.CHUZI serve up ‘Mammoet’ – steamy multi-grooves from their soon come album ‘Papara’
You may have clocked the announcement on Backseat Mafia a couple of days ago about Stellar Legions debut release and Sdban Records Autumn offensive . In hot pursuit comes news of a second mighty push to keep the imprint’s jazz momentum rolling, the mega-octet M.CHUZI’s breakout LP ‘Papara’ due 4th November. Giles Peterson endorsed, this …
Track: Salarymen ease gently back into our pop dreams with ‘Young Guns’ – a dark view of society leavened by an indelible sparkling delivery. Plus album and tour news.
We are pleased to see the return of the vintage-tinged dream pop shimmer of Sydney duo Salarymen with their deceptively sunshine filled single ‘Young Guns’. The single is a first taste of their sophomore EP due out October 20, and comes as the duo announce international shows in Japan for November 2022. The dual vocals …
Premiere: The Nethered’s ‘The Long Goodbye’ is a refreshing breeze of languid joy and comes ahead of album news.
With gentle background vocals and gentle guitars lapping at the shores, ‘The Long Goodbye’ from ollo’s Alex Crowfoot under the name The Nethered is a fifties-flavoured widescreen epic: easy and languid music that bursts with a melancholic ray of sunshine. We are honoured to premiere this luscious track on Backseat Mafia. ‘The Long Goodbye’ seems …
Festival Preview: Leeds Festival 2022 – Sunday
The final day of a festival is always a little bit sad. The realisation that there is only one day left and time to reflect on how wild the weekend has already been. However, there is no time to be sad as Sunday at Leeds is jam packed of great bands that you shouldn’t miss, …
Album Review: US psych-rockers, King Buffalo to release Regenerator, the 3rd of a trio of albums written in Covid-19 lockdown.
New York-based trio King Buffalo will release their fifth full-length album and the 3rd of their ‘pandemic trilogy’, Regenerator on the 2nd September, 2022. Following on from the two releases in 2021, Acheron and The Burden of Restlessness, the intervening period has seen the band release three pre-release singles, and will have, by the time …