Chris Sawle, Author at Backseat Mafia

TRACK: Whitney take on The Roches’ ‘Hammond Song’; full covers set next month

CHICAGO’S Whitney, who set all kindsa ears on fire with that fragile, world-weary crossover slice of Americana “No Woman” back in 2016, have released a video for their cover of…

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NEWS: Peter Green, RIP: Fleetwood Mac guitarist dies at 73

A GREAT of the guitar world has left us: it has been announced that Fleetwood Mac founder member Peter Green has died at the age of 73. The news was…

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NEWS: mod revival nearly men The V.I.P.’s get an Optic compilation

OPTIC NERVE is really becoming the go-to mecca for wax heads who want pristine vinyl reissues of lost, past greats; an Edsel for the 21st century. The latest cult musical…

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NEWS: vinyl for Chemical Brothers’ ‘Got To Keep On’; museum exhibition

ATTENTION wax heads: in conjunction with The Design Museum in London, The Chemical Brothers have announced a limited edition pink vinyl 12” of the award-winning single “Got To Keep On”,…

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SEE: Becky and the Birds – ‘Paris’: awesome Swedish future soul

LEAVING aside the Anglophone countries, there’s a cast-iron case that no other country has engaged with the world of post-1955 popular music quite like Sweden. There’s that acronymical band, two…

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EP REVIEW: Devendra Banhart – ‘Vast Ovoid’: bursting with ideas

DEVENDRA BANHART was one of the main beneficiaries of the American acid-folk explosion just after the turn of the century. He came in as part of that movement with bands…

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TRACK: Big Bad Mama Jama – ‘Memory’: steel city funksters forge forward

STEEL CITY funksters Big Bad Mama Jama got together just last year in Sheffield. Their mission? To “bring you the biggest baddest mama jams”. And today they release their second…

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SEE: Floodlights – ‘Matter Of Time’: garagey Melbourne bite

GUITAR pop from Australia and New Zealand: it’s inarguably a very good thing. From the 1980s onwards, with bands like The Chills, The Go-Betweens, Straitjacket Fits, The Verlaines – no…

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TRACK: Lack of Afro – ‘You Could Do Better’: classy South West soul empowerment

WEST COUNTRY boy Adam Gibbons, better known to the funk and groove cognoscenti as Lack of Afro, has today dropped a new single taken from his sixth studio set, I’m…

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SEE: Sofie – ‘Georgia Waves’: elegant piano songsmithery

VIENNA’S Sofie Fatourechi has moved from behind the scenes at California’s ice-cool Stone’s Throw imprint to hog a little of the spotlight, with a very finely crafted album of sophisticated,…

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