Briandroid, Author at Backseat Mafia

Album review: Wire – 10:20

Wire have been producing scratchy abrasive arty intelligent pop/punk since the late 70s, and have therefore an impressive and formidable back-catalogue. With that inevitably comes an equally impressive cutting-room floor,…

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Track : Brian Bordello – Boris Johnson Massacre

Brian Bordello’s been making music for decades, both with his band ‘The Bordellos’ and more recently as a solo artist. Highly prolific, fiercely indie, uncompromising and lo-fi to the nth…

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NEWS: Larry Pink the Human release debut single ‘Love You, Bye’.

Larry Pink the Human consists of Laurie Vincent from the band Slaves and producer Jolyon Thomas. Thomas, whose production credits include M83, U2 and Royal Blood, is exchanging the studio…

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SEE: Odina releases video for ‘1,2,3,4’

London-based Catalan pop sensation Odina has released her new video ‘1,2,3,4’. It’s a twisted treatise of Love as a double-edged sword and relationships on a knife-edge. Filmed in London and…

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News: Gregory Porter releases single, ‘Phoenix’

Gregory Porter has released the single ‘Phoenix’ from his forthcoming album ‘All Rise’ due in August. It’s a life-affirming sunny affair, drenched in Bacharach-style orchestration, breezy trumpets and soothing strings.…

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Obituary – Florian Schneider

Florian Schneider was co-founder of Kraftwerk with Ralf Hutter. Originally a flautist and violinist, he began experimenting with effects such as echo and reverb to expand the instruments’ capabilities. Flute…

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Obituary – Dave Greenfield of The Stranglers 29.3.49 – 3.5.20

Dave Greenfield was keyboard player in The Stranglers, frontrunners in the Punk movement. In a genre where lack of musicality was sometimes seen as a badge of honour, his virtuosity…

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Obituary – Tony Allen

Tony Olidapo Allen was born in Nigeria in 1940, and is regarded as the one of the principal founders of Juju and Afrobeat. A self-taught musician, being around Lagos at…

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SEE: DUB PISTOLS RELEASE NEW VIDEO FOR ‘BANKROBBER’

Big-beat sonic pranksters Dub Pistols are back with a cover of The Clash classic ‘Bankrobber’. The clip was made from individual band member contributions under lockdown, using their mobile phones,…

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Not Forgotten: Madness – The Dangermen Sessions Vol 1

In the eighties Madness were massive; kids loved ’em, your gran loved ’em. They scored hit after hit. While The Specials were personifying the grim zeitgeist of Thatcherite Britain in…

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