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Track: Pete Fij / Terry Bickers – Downsizing
I’ve tried to write songs, with no success at all. I can play music all right, but every time I try and write songs, they sound, at best, faintly embarrassing. So I have the utmost respect for those who carve a career in this most mysterious of skills (to me at least). It seems like …
See: Cold War Kids new video for Tuxedo
I’m not like Cold War Kids. I go days without noticing messages my wife has left me around the house, you know the sort of thing, Can you make sure there’s a babysitter for so and so, or we need more milk – that sort of thing. Or I see this new shop that’s opened …
Track: Eyezon – Rubies and Raindrops
Saying goodbye is always hard. The baseball broadcaster Ernie Harwell found a good way around it. ‘It’s time to say goodbye’ he said ‘but I think goodbyes are sad and I’d much rather say hello. Hello to a new adventure’. Eyezon, the South African native and Northern California resident is also saying goodby to hip-hop …
EP: Polybius – The arrival
Apparently, Polybius was a Greek historian, who lived a couple of hundred years before the birth of Jesus, and is best known for his bestseller (well, a text that was remembered at least) The Histories, which covered the period 246 – 146 BC and plotted the rise of the Roman Empire. He was also one …
NOT FORGOTTEN – TORI AMOS – STRANGE LITTLE GIRLS
I must have stood here, staring at my CD collection for half an hour or so. I had known I’d wanted to do an ongoing series of articles for Backseat Mafia that would build up to be an A to Z of unfairly overlooked and forgotten albums through the decades, but I just didn’t have …
Track: Peppermint Heaven – The Delicious EP
Sometimes you have to go where your influences are. Not because you’re a fan, or you want to be near them, but because you need to see what made them like they are, and just in case a little bit of that thing that made them special to you rubs off on you. At least, …
See: Until the Ribbon Breaks – Perspective (ft. Homeboy Sandman) New Video
In my day, and with my technical skills, we didn’t make mixtapes, we made compilation tapes. I used to hover over my favourite radio shows, making endless tapes of unheard of and unremembered bands on the John Peel show, or piles of African music that Andy Kershaw used to play, or Reggae, or just about …
Interview: Rowetta from The Happy Mondays
The Happy Mondays are well and truly back. Playing live and rumors of a new album, we caught up with the queen of Madchester, Rowetta to see just whats going on…. BM:The Happy Monday comeback is well and truly in full swing. The gigs have been getting great reviews and you are just getting ready …
New Music: Fatboy Slim – Eat, Sleep, Rave, Repeat, plus tour news
I grew up with Fatboy Slim. Not in a literal sense you understand, that would be rather silly. But I copied his basslines off my Housemartins ‘London 0 Hull 4‘ cassette, fell in with dance music and one of the first things I bought was his Pizzaman LP (without even knowing it was him), Beats …
Film Review: Nic Jones – Return Of Britain’s lost folk here
Many people have such fondness for the music of Nic Jones, as the documentary Nic Jones: Return of Britain’s Lost Folk Hero represents. Focusing on Jones’ return to music after a terrible car accident late one night after a performance, the film shows both the Jones of old and the music he is performing today. …