Jim F, Author at Backseat Mafia

See: Wild Beasts reveal new video for ‘All the Kings Men’, live at RAK Studios

On the cusp of their final ever live dates in Dublin, Manchester and London, Wild Beasts have recorded a career spanning live studio album, due out on February 16th via…

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Track: The Longcut – Deathmask

Seven years in the making, Manchester three-piece The Longcut have returned with a new album, Arrows, out on Deltasonic on April 6th. From it they’ve released a new single ‘Deathmask’,…

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Track: Young Fathers – In my view

Following last Novembers news that Young Fathers had completed work on their new album, the trio – Alloysious Massaquoi, Graham ‘G’ Hastings and Kayus Bankole have followed up the first…

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New: Charlie Barnes announces UK tour dates

Sometime Bastille touring sideman Charlie Barnes has announced a full-band UK tour ahead of the release of his sophomore album ‘Oceanography’ ‘Oceanography’, his second album for Superball Music is the…

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Premiere: The Ocean Party – Vein, plus Interview

Coming just months after the release of ‘Beauty Point’, the seventh album from Australian sextet The Ocean Party, the band have wasted no time in recording a new EP, titled…

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Track: Nathan Fake – Sunder

Nathan Fake has revealed the title track from his new EP, out via the ever brilliant Ninja Tune label on 23rd February on 4-track 12″/Digital release. “These four tracks are…

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Track: Josh Rouse – Businessman

A year touring his critically acclaimed eleventh album, The Embers of Time, saw acclaimed singer songwriter Josh Rouse hanker for a change. “Coming off such a heavy record, I wanted…

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Track: Sextile – Current affair

It’s been a while but Sextile have released the first new music since July last years Albeit Living, in the shape of a new single, Current Affair. It comes from…

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See: Moaning release new video for Artificial

Taken from the forthcoming self-titled debut album from Los Angeles post-punk three piece Moaning, due out on March 2nd via the legendary Sub Pop label, Artificial is a staccato, angular…

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See: Editors release new video for Magazine

Editors frontman Tom Smith says of new single Magazine, “Magazine is a pointed finger aimed at those in power…some corrupt politician or businessman…a character, and a tongue in cheek poke…

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