Jim F, Author at Backseat Mafia

Track: Tinariwen – Taqkal Tarha, plus new album and European tour news

Tinariwen have revealed details of their forthcoming ninth album, Amadjar, out on Wedge / PIAS on Friday 6th September. They’ve drafted in a whole host of guests for the record…

View Post

View Post

Album Review: Mndsgn – Snaxx

Of the thinking behind Mndsgn, aka Ringgo Ancheta‘s fifth album, he explains, “I think of all the posthumous Dilla leaks, and how I’ve always been just as, if not more…

View Post

View Post

Album Review: Tenderlonious – Hard Rain

Tenderlonious is essentially the project of London producer, jazz flautist/saxophone head and 22a label owner Ed Cawthorne. Under this moniker though he makes jazz infused house music aiming, by his…

View Post

View Post

Album Review: Lettuce – Elevate

“This album definitely stretches the boundaries,” says chief composer and percussionist Deitch of New York funk sextet Lettuce, before pretty much summing up the album succinctly, saying “The idea was…

View Post

View Post

Track / Video

See: Bonniesongs reveals new video for Ice Cream

Bonnie Stewart under her moniker Bonniesongs has signed to Small Pond Records, who will release her debut album Energetic Mind, due out on September 6th. Of the song she says…

View Post

View Post

Track / Video

See: Sampa the Great releases Final Form, along with new video

Sydney based MC Sampa the Great has released her new single, Final Form, and along with she’s also produced a new accompanying video to go with the track. Produced by…

View Post

View Post

Track: Night Moves – Recollections

Taken from their forthcoming ‘Can you really find me’, out on June 28th via Domino Records, Night Moves have released a new track, Recollections. It’s a dramatic slice of pop…

View Post

View Post

Track / Video

See: Larkins release video for new single Sugar Sweet

Manchester quartet Larkins have released their new single ‘Sugar Sweet’ via Good Solider Records. The bands frontman Josh Noble says of the track “‘Sugar Sweet’ was always about a moment.…

View Post

View Post

Track / Video

See: Birthday Girl release new video for ‘I came here to eat’

Stockholm alt-rockers have released a new video for their track ‘I came here to eat’, which is out now via Sweet Cream Records. Taking something from the likes of Sonic…

View Post

View Post

Track / Video

See: Dude York reveal new video for Box

We’re beginning to fall in love with Seattle pop punks Dude York, ahead of their album ‘Falling’ out via Hardly Art on July 26th. Vocalist Peter Richards says the song…

View Post

Pages