Jim F, Author at Backseat Mafia

See: Car Seat Headrest reveals video for Nervous Young Inhumans, plus album news and tour dates

“It was never a finished work,” Will Toledo aka Car Seat Headrest says of his 2011 Bandcamp album Twin Fantasy, “and it wasn’t until last year that I figured out…

View Post

View Post

Track / Video

Track: Amber Bugs – David Dimbleby

Noisy London three piece Amber had a motto upon entering the recording studio. “If it can’t be done live, it can’t be done”. It was from this motto that their…

View Post

View Post

Track / Video

Track: The Men – Maybe I’m Crazy

As they enter their tenth year, Brooklyn four-piece The Men have announced their new, seventh album Drift is due out on March 2nd via long time label Sacred Bones. The…

View Post

View Post

Track / Video

Track: Ezra Furman – Suck the blood from my wound, plus UK tour dates

His new album ‘Transangelic Exodus’ is still a month away from its 9th February release on Bella Union, and already Ezra Furman has released a couple of singles from it…

View Post

View Post

Music
News

News: The Low Anthem reveal new concept album, watch album trailer

The eminent classical avant garde composer John Cage visited the music college I attended in my youth. Little did he expect, I’m sure, after a detailed explanation of his chance…

View Post

View Post

Track / Video

Track: Ty – Eyes Open

Out on March 2nd 2018 via the increasingly important Jazz:Refreshed label is the fifth album from UK hip-hop royalty Ty. With his usual subtlety and humour Ty tackles subject matter…

View Post

View Post

Track / Video

Track: Superchunk – Erasure, plus new album news and UK/European tour dates

Out on February 16th on the ever brilliant Merge Records, What a time to be alive is the new album from legendary alt rockers Superchunk. It features a host of…

View Post

View Post

Track / Video

Track: Drum Thing: Warp Skin

Warp Skin is the title track taken from the new EP by East London producer Drum Thing, which drops on 26th January via emerging club collective Super Kitchen. On the…

View Post

View Post

See: White Knife Study release new video for Ghosts

Out of the ashes of Divides and The Hoons, both Alaskan bands that had moved to Portland, comes a new project, White Knife Study. Whereas, certinly in the case of…

View Post

View Post

See: Lowpines reveal new video for ‘We Come Right’

Lowpines, aka West London singer and producer Oli Deakin is preparing to release his first full-length Lowpines record In Silver Halides will be released on Adventure Club Records on Feb…

View Post

Pages