Jim F, Author at Backseat Mafia

Premiere: R.O.C. reveal new video for Journey

Since the 90’s R.O.C. (aka Fred Browning, Patrick Nicholson Karen Sheridan from Denver USA) have run a playful line between adoration and confusion, their music glistening with originality and left turns…

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Live Review: Richard Hawley/Studio Electrophonique – The Picturedrome, Holmfirth. 04/05/2019

Me and the musical Prince of Sheffield Richard Hawley have history. Sadly, history that he’s blissfully unaware of. Back in 1989, or it could have been 1988, slightly drunk on…

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Track / Video

See: China Bears reveal new video for Stay For Good

Fierce Panda, the label that started many a stellar career, may just have another juggernaut on their hands after Somerset/Guildford quartet China Bears release their debut for the label, Stay…

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Track: Quantic – You Used to Love Me ft. Denitia

Taken form his forthcoming album Atlantic Oscillations, You Used To Love Me ft. Denitia is the latest single from renowned producer Quantic aka Will Holland. Returning to his electronic roots,…

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News: Madonna announces Madame X Tour

If her incredible performance at the Billboard Music Awards and the announcement of a new album Madame X set your heart racing, then hold onto your boots because Madonna has…

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Album Review: Knuckle – Life Is Hard When You’re Soft Inside

From the opening riffs of the Spilt Milk, the first track on Huddersfield three piece Knuckles debut album, you’re transported away. Not far, but maybe to a hostelry in the…

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Album Review: Loyle Carner – Not Waving, But Drowning

We saw with London rapper Benjamin Coyle-Larner, aka Loyle Carner’s first album Yesterday’s Gone that he was something different. Rejecting, or at least choosing to ignore the usual spoutings of…

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Track: Blue Lab Beats – Hi There

Mixing up jazz, hip-hop and electronica served Blue Lab Beats (aka producer NK-OK and multi-instrumentalist Mr DM) well on their debut album Xover, as it topped the UK jazz charts…

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Track: Sarasara – Blood Brothers

Paris born, Margate based producer Sarasara returns with a new album, Orgone, out on July 5th via One Little Indian, and ahead of that has released a brooding new single,…

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Track: Utah? – Bronze

Sheffield producer Utah? is on the cusp of his first release for the Coyote label with a new four-track EP, ‘Bronze’, out on May 24th. From it he’s streaming the…

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