Gareth O Malley, Author at Backseat Mafia

News: London punks Tripsun push back against colonial attitudes and racism on new single ‘Civilised’

They may not be a new band, but it’s a new era for London quartet Tripsun, who you may know as Triple Sundae – they snipped the old name in…

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Premiere: The Mortal Prophets rework ‘Down On Me’ into electro-blues banger; new album out next month

Continuing his tradition of putting his stamp on standards and classics from across decades of the blues, John Beckmann’s forthcoming second album as leader of New York’s The Mortal Prophets…

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Premiere: JD Pinkus & Tall Tall Trees mark the release of collaborative album with ‘Can’t C#’ video

Today sees the release of the weird and wonderful debut album from JD Pinkus (The Butthole Surfers) and Mike Savino (Tall Tall Trees), whose combined psychedelic alt-banjo wizardry may prick…

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Premiere: Eldridge Rodriguez share new song ‘A Feeling That Won’t Go Away’ and announce new album

Like so many other bands, 2020 should have been a big year for Eldridge Rodriguez. Bostonian Cameron Keiber had previously used this outlet as a pseudonym for solo work outside…

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Premiere: Malick Koly lines up debut solo EP with the energetic new single ‘Eaux Rouges’

He may be primarily known as a drummer, not to mention come from a jazz background, but New Yorker Malick Koly isn’t especially interested in defining himself by his limits.…

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Premiere: Camp Bedford mark the end of Pride month with a call for solidarity in ‘Our America’

Back in March, Brooklyn trio Camp Bedford released their fantastic debut EP So Often & So Sweet, a short but impactful collection that put them on the map as a…

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Premiere: Eric Lindley returns as Careful with first new music in almost a decade, ‘Promise’

Here’s a welcome surprise for a Thursday evening – you may have thought Eric Lindley had hung it up as Careful, but life events simply got in the way for…

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Premiere: LEONE search for the romantic ideal on the darkly seductive new cut ‘I Wanna Be’

In the video for their new single, Brooklyn trio LEONE put it all on red, and lose, badly, as a trip to a dingy casino has consequences. On first glance…

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Premiere: New York’s Bandits on the Run are boxed in and listening to the ‘Radio’ on effervescent new single

What do you get when you mix together three lead singers, guitar, cello, a suitcase drum and various toy instruments? Nobody knows for sure but it’d probably sound something quite…

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Premiere: JD Pinkus and Tall Tall Trees are ‘Afterlifers’ in surreal new video

About a month ago, JD Pinkus of the Butthole Surfers and Mike Savino of Tall Tall Trees announced the collaborative album Ponder Machine, a record on which traditional bluegrass takes…

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