Gareth O Malley, Author at Backseat Mafia

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PREMIERE: Laura Jinn faces her fears on seasonally-appropriate new song ‘Analog Stalker’

As unfortunate as it is to launch your musical career during an unfolding pandemic, Laura Jinn seems to be making it work. From New Orleans, she released her debut EP…

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PREMIERE: Stream Bebawinigi’s intense, experimental second album ‘Stupor’ and read a track-by-track guide

Virginia Quaranti’s second album as Bebawinigi is a wild ride, firmly rooted in the worlds of the experimental and avant-garde, yet simultaneously welcoming and compelling. Melding classical composition with metallic…

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PREMIERE: Ontario’s Graham Caldwell starts a new chapter as Tearing Up, shares EP highlight ‘Highway Bandits’

Billy is Dead. RIP. ‘Wait, who’s Billy?’ we hear you ask. Well, Billy Moon was the stage name and alter ego of sorts for Ontario-based Graham Caldwell. What happened? In…

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PREMIERE: Milan McAlevey shares lyric video for ‘Whatever It Was’ off his imminent debut album

For someone also in a band called Coke Weed, this song doesn’t bring either to mind. It’s probably pretty fond of whiskey, though; not so much the ‘sad sack crying…

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PREMIERE: Fujiya & Miyagi display ‘New Body Language’ with new album’ ‘Slight Variations’ out tomorrow

You never know what you’re getting with a new Fujiya & Miyagi record. The Brighton band have been blazing their own idiosyncratic trail for more than 20 years now, and…

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PREMIERE: Gemma Laurence recounts the anxiety of a blossoming relationship on ‘Watchdog’

With the release of her second album approaching at an alarming rate, the Brooklyn-based Gemma Laurence appears to be going from strength to strength as she prepares to release the…

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PREMIERE: Things heat up for Vancouver’s Bridal Party as they return with ‘Cool Down’

It’s been entirely too long since we’ve heard from Vancouver’s Bridal Party – they’ve been quiet, keeping their heads down and working on the follow-up to Too Much, their 2019…

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PREMIERE: New Originals are in their feelings on emotive new single ‘So Sad’

They announced themselves last month with ‘Wasteland’ and a stellar supporting cast, but New Originals are hitting the ground running. The project of Dave Brandwein and Rob O’Block, the pair…

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PREMIERE: Zachery Allan Starkey taps into 2022 club culture with ‘No Texting on the Dance Floor’

He’s been quiet for a couple of years, with the misfortune of releasing an album deserving of celebration in clubs all over his native New York in April 2020, as…

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PREMIERE: Stream Brook Pridemore’s unflinching new album ‘Glad to Be Alive’ ahead of release tomorrow

We’ll preface this one simply: we’re so excited to be sharing this one with you. If you missed it last month, we premiered the lead single from chameleonic Brooklyn artist…

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