News: Joanne Shaw Taylor Announces New Album ‘Black & Gold’, Featuring New Single ‘Grayer Shade Of Blue’
British blues-rock sensation Joanne Shaw Taylor has announced the upcoming release of her highly anticipated 10th studio album, ‘Black & Gold’, arriving June 6th via Joe Bonamassa’s Journeyman Records. Reuniting with iconic producer Kevin Shirley (Iron Maiden, Journey, Joe Bonamassa), the album showcases Taylor’s bold creativity, blending blues-rock with influences from Americana, indie rock, and retro ‘80s pop. ‘Black & Gold’ offers a captivating mix …
News: Goat And MC Yallah Release New Single ‘Nimerudi’
Goat’s recent, eponymous album hit the listener like hip hop reverse-engineered — a record built to be the perfect fodder for samples and sound systems. Its mix of breakbeats, funk-scuffed guitar, and burnt sonics offers up a producer’s playground waiting to be rifled through and roughed up, but why wait? Scrapping the need for the …
Track: Hotgirl Announce ‘Blast Off’ EP And Share New Single ‘On The Brink’
Dublin upstarts Hotgirl announce their EP titled ‘Blast Off’ due out April 10th via Cartoon Records. The band collaborated with esteemed producer Neil Kennedy (Milk Teeth, Creeper) on the EP and have shared a teaser with new single ‘On The Brink’. Exploring relationship dynamics in their brand new release, Abbedeen explained: “‘On The Brink’ talks about my sadness, my insecurities and my past trauma in …
Track: Bishopskin – Old Sock
London avant-folk collective Bishopskin return with new single ‘Old Sock’. Delving into themes of spiritual fatigue, circular journeys, and the surreal interplay of human frailty and divine power. The song’s evocative imagery blends frontman Tiger Nicholson’s signature lyrical depth with the band’s hallmark sound: a potent mix of pastoral English folk, bluesy lamentations, and spiritual fervour. Recorded alongside the …
Track: Rianne Downey – The Song of Old Glencoe
After recently dropping the first taste from her eagerly anticipated debut album with the fantastic ‘Lost In Blue’, Rianne Downey today dives into the world of traditional celtic folk with the stunning, mystical ‘The Song Of Old Glencoe’ Rianne explains; “The song is set against a backdrop of Scotland’s enchanted highlands, as I wanted to pay tribute to …
News: Edwyn Collins Announces New Album, ‘Nation Shall Speak Unto Nation’; Listen To first Single ‘Knowledge’
Edwyn Collins has announced the details of the release of his 10th solo album, ‘Nation Shall Speak Unto Nation’ and released the first track to be taken from the record, ‘Knowledge’. ‘Knowledge’, is accompanied by a video shot between Christmas and New Year in Edwyn’s home village of Helmsdale and directed by Delbert Anthonio Wright, a talented young filmmaker …
Track: Pit Pony – Vacancy
Newcastle-based five-piece Pit Pony new track ‘Vacancy’, taken from their upcoming album ‘Dead Stars’, due out on the 7th of February via Clue Records/EMI North. ‘Vacancy’ navigates our complicated relationship with social media, the influx of life hacks and trends that come with it, and ultimately how empty it can make you feel. “It’s about being dumbfounded by the modern world …
Album Review: Weathership – Splendid Beast
A tortured start, ‘Golden Age’ has a gilded, fragile guitar-led edge to it. It is dominated by singer J.P Riggall’s laid-back vocals and lyrics that say so much with so little—flowing sonic landscape rolls like a sea mist slowly developing into a raging storm of white-tipped cymbals and picked strings. This album is about vast, …
Album review: The Halo Effect – The March Of The Undead
It doesn’t feel like two minutes since this super group blew up my speakers with their album ‘Days Of The Lost’—a superb debut from some of the finest voices/fingers in the melodic metal scene. Now the band have regrouped for the second album ‘The March Of The Undead’ The band bring more of the same …
Meet: South London Alt-Rockers Dead Air
After impressing us here at Backseat Mafia with their past single, ‘Violently Blue‘ and ‘Die’ we had to learn a little more about the South London alt-rock newcomers Dead Air before they drop their forthcoming sophomore EP, ‘Elements’, due out on the 7th of February 2025 via Fly Tip Records. Give us a potted history of the band Lyle …