Track: San Fermin – Open
San Fermin, the Brooklyn baroque pop band, are back right after a year on hiatus – a fruitful time for some members of the band that were able to put…
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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.
Premiere: Black Mamba Fever reveal video for Fake Blood
Theres a whiff of The Cramps, Television, Gang of Four and their post-punk ilk about Sheffield indie rockers Black Mamba Fever, but they manage to create a sound all of…
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Track: Alice Jemima covers No Diggity
Ahead of her debut self-titled album, out on Sunday Best Recordings on March 3rd, pop newcomer Alice Jemima has released her cover of Blackstreet’s No Diggity. In Jemima’s own words,…
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Track: Mr. Tophat feat. Robyn – Trust Me
What do you get if you put Swedish house producer Mr. Tophat in a room with serial chart botherer Robyn glorious vocals and Abba’s original drummer Per Lindvall and his…
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New Music: Spectres – Neck
Spectres release Condition, the follow up to their much admired debut album Dying, this coming March 10th via the Sonic Cathedral label. Recorded in the bands adopted home city of…
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Track: Gnoomes – Cascais
describing their particular brand of psych-rock as being ‘Stargaze’, Russian trio Gnoomes are back with a new track ‘Cascain’, taken from their forthcoming album ‘Tschak!’, out on Rocket Recordings on…
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News: Bronski Beat’s Larry Steinbachek dies at 56
Keyboard player Larry Steinbachek, a founder member of Synth-pop trio Bronksi Beat along with Steve Bronski and Jimmy Somerville, has died at 56 following a short battle with cancer, his…
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Track: The XX – Say something loving
South London indie wonders The xx have released the second song from their forthcoming album “I See You”, due to be released on 13th January via Young Turks. The highly…
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Playlist: Graeme Park – Hacienda, Manchester 28.3.92
Put together a legendary club, Manchester’s Hacienda (a club I frequented albeit somewhat infrequently around this time), famously owned by Tony Wilson and Factory Records and propped up almost exclusively…
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See: Virgin Kids release video for Bruised Knees
If you managed to pick up their debut album Greasewheel, which came out (in the Uk at least) on Fluffer records earlier in the year, you’ll be familiar with their…
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