Chris Sawle, Author at Backseat Mafia

NEWS: The Telescopes guitarist David Fitzgerald dies

A REALLY sad loss to the world of early Nineties British independent guitar music this evening, as news began to circulate on Facebook that David Fitzgerald, the original guitarist with…

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PREMIERE: Graywave – ‘Like Heaven’: surging, solo dreampop beauty

GRAYWAVE is the upcoming one-woman musical project of Jess Webberley who, after being a member of various other bands, decided to strike out with her own collaboratively untainted version of…

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SEE: David Lewis Gedge – ‘All The Time In The World’ – Weddoes-related Bond covers album!

WEDDING PRESENT frontman David Gedge has dropped a video for his cover of “We Have All The Time In The World”, which crowns the album the Not From Where I’m…

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SEE: Drive-By Truckers share visuals for their cover of Ramones’ ‘The KKK Took My Baby Away’

ATHENS, Georgia’s next most famous musical sons, Drive-By Truckers, have shared a lo-fi video for their cover of Ramones’ classic “The KKK Took My Baby Away”. Have a watch below. The…

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SEE: Generation – ‘Tokyo’: sleaze rock brothers take another glammy bite

TAKING on the all the glorious, skinny, wasted rock’n’roll tradition of the Stooges, the New York Dolls, early Manics, and throwing open a mascara and glam-riffing portal in the centre…

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TRACK: Madmess – ‘Ignition’: Portuguese psych trio sign and reissue debut EP

HASSLE RECORDS, home to such guitar assault squads as raging post-feminist outfit Petrol Girls and Belgian hardcore/mathrock band Brutus, has enticed a blurrily excellent act through its doors: the London-based…

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Aaron Lee Tasjan – ‘Computer Of Love’; Nashville troubadour’s new album is out in February

NASHVILLE Americana troubadour Aaron Lee Tasjan, who’s been far from idle this year with the release of two digital-only EPs, the two-volume Found Songs, has dropped one final, finely sculpted…

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TRACK: Tacsidermi – ‘Gwlr’: a glide of blurry Welsh psych

GWENLLIAN ANTHONY, bassist, keys wizard and more with Carmarthen’s award-winning indie outfit Adwaith has, on and off, over the past few years, been jamming and writing with Matthew Kilgariff, who’s…

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TRACK: John Paul Keith – ‘How Can You Walk Away’; a love letter to the Memphis sound

MEMPHIS’ John Paul Keith, an artist deeply embedded in the raunch and the blues of his home city, has announced the follow-up to his 2018 album Heart Shaped Shadow; it’ll…

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SEE: Richie Hawtin – ‘Time Warps’: the original plastik man returns to the dancefloor

THE CANADIAN techno wizard who climbed into all our minds on a perforated sheet of blotting paper back when as Plastikman, Richie Hawtin, has decided to make a return to…

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