See: The Prince estate released video for Manic Monday on Apple Music
Hard to believe its just over three years since we were left with a big Prince shaped hole in our lives, but his estate in conjunction with Apple Music have…
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Jim F
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Founder of Backseat Mafia, obsesser of music, hoarder of records, player of notes, defender of the unheard, ignorer of genre, writer of words, hater of preconceptions.
Track: One Eyed Wayne – Waste of a day
Taken from their Saucy Postcards Super Creeps album, out on Optic Nerve, Waste of a day is the new track from One Eyed Wayne. Telling the familiar tale of, well,…
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Track: 808 State – Tokyo Tokyo, plus EP news
“We’re trying to make a future for other people to immerse themselves in. It feels a bit like an imaginary landscape. That’s always been a big part of 808 State,…
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rack: Wedding Present – Jump in, the Water’s fine
The boy Gedge and current Wedding Present line-up are preparing for the release of a new single, their first new material since 2017, on August 2nd, via Come Play With…
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Premiere: Gus Ring – Will I be alone for the rest of my life?
Ahead of the release of his new album ‘For us Lonely Souls’, out early 2020, we’re delighted here at Backseat Mafia to premiere the new single and video from Gus…
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Album Review: Wovoka Gentle – Start Clanging Cymbals
“We felt we wanted a really hard-hitting intro track that makes you go, ‘woah, what is this record?’” says Imogen Mason of Wovoka Gentle, who along with twin sister Ellie…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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