Briandroid, Author at Backseat Mafia

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Track: Apeman Spaceman – ‘Spacecatraz’

Featuring ex members of post-punk band ‘Dogs’, and ‘Razorlight’, this debut single, released on June 10th, is a fuzz-guitared groove/stomp/swagger, that stays in the head after only a couple of…

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Soundtrack of our lives : Benjamin Schoos

Singer-songwriter and producer Benjamin Schoos is a Belgian phenomenon. Creator of Freaksville Records (with its ever-expanding roster of cult artists) and online radio station Radio Rectangle, he’s a prolific musical…

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Live Review: Hong Kong Dong/the Poneymen, Le Hangar, Liege 15.04.2016

Le Hangar gigs are always an enjoyable affair. The Leffe prices are the best in town and there’s a large open fire in the centre of the room full of…

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Album Review: The Last Shadow Puppets – Everything You’ve Come To Expect

Alex Turner and Miles Kane are back as the Last Shadow Puppets, still playing at the Riviera bad-boys like Morecambe & Wise at their cinematic best. As on their debut…

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Album Review: Peter Baumann ‘Machines of Desire’

Peter Baumann reportedly met with his old Tangerine Dream bandmate Edgar Froese in January 2015, to discuss a reformation of sorts. Sadly, Froese’s demise some weeks later put paid to…

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Album Review: Field Music – Commontime

Sometime in the gloriously messed up late 80s I remember a friend playing me the ’25 ‘O Clock’ mini-album by ‘The Dukes of Stratosphear’, a blast of fabulous neo-psychedelia, that…

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EP: The Winter Typres – Holding Hands In Public

‘The Winter Tyres’ is a five-piece acoustic pop band based in Belgium, that came into existence when Brian Bordello (The Bordellos) found a battered C60 cassette down the back of…

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Album Review: David Bowie – ‘Blackstar’ – A Post-Script

Around a week ago I had the enviable task of reviewing the ‘Blackstar’ album (hey, it’s what we do and I got lucky – see below for original review). Like…

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Album Review: UNDERWORLD – ‘Second Toughest in the Infants’ Re-issue

Following on from the groundbreaking Underworld Mk 2 album ‘dubnobasswithmyheadman’, 1996’s ‘Second Toughest in the Infants’ just kept running with the template of hypnotic dance/rave/techno/acid house/pop its predecessor had alchemically…

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