Gareth O Malley, Author at Backseat Mafia

Premiere: OSEES let loose in a warehouse in video for ‘Stunner’, new album next month

You didn’t think they’d be away for long, did you? The John Dwyer-led OSEES/Oh Sees/Orange County Sound etc. haven’t taken a year off since they released their debut album 1…

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Premiere: maeve & quinn dream of a better life in new video for ‘Stuck Inside’

The debut album from maeve & quinn – the Chicago/Alaska duo of twin sisters Maris & Bryce O’Tierney – is seriously good and an absolute must for any folk-pop fans,…

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Premiere: Eldridge Rodriguez look inward on new single ‘The Strange Things That Happen to People’

Last month, Boston band Eldridge Rodriguez returned with news of a new album and a lead single from said new album, both of which reaffirm why Slightest of Treason was…

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Premiere: Careful explores painful intimacy on bare-bones new single ‘I had a secret’

Last month, the San Francisco-based Eric Lindley resumed activity as Careful after a hiatus of nearly a decade, announcing his intention to release a new EP in September. Today, Lindley…

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Premiere: Ashlynn Malia shares lyric video for ‘Feels So Good’

Earlier this year, Los Angeles-based artist Ashlynn Malia released a six-song EP called navigating galaxies, songs written to exist in the voice memo stage. A refreshingly intimate look into her…

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Premiere: LEONE take their power back on title track from forthcoming new EP, ‘GTFOH’

Last month, Brooklyn band LEONE got our attention with ‘I Wanna Be’, a taster of the new EP they’re putting out in just under a month. It was accompanied by…

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Premiere: the world famous tease debut album with bubbly teaser track ‘Hollywood Pawn’

What do you do when you move across the country and still don’t feel at home? If you’re the world famous, you form a band and write songs about being…

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Premiere: Hallie Spoor laments missed connections on stirring EP lead single ‘Diamond Ring’

When last we heard from Brooklynite Hallie Spoor, she’d released her most recent EP New Ground into a world that was about to be turned upside down by a pandemic.…

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Premiere: MIDNIGHTCHOIR heralds new album release with emotive closing track ‘Rising Tide’

Back in May, New York’s MIDNIGHTCHOIR (the solo project of Brooklyn’s Patrick Bobilin, sometimes assisted by Sarah Simon) announced his first new record in 7 years, and those were indeed…

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Premiere: Brooklyn band FORAGER are fed up with city life on expressive new single ‘Hello to the Kiddies’

Well, doing each other’s hair in a press photo is definitely different, but that’s just FORAGER‘s thing. The Brooklyn trio put themselves on our radar back in May with the…

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