Jim F, Author at Backseat Mafia

See: Stornoway reveal new video for Night Drive / Announce farewell tour

After more than ten years of playing heartfelt, affecting indie/folk, Oxford quartet Stornoway are bowing out with an 11 date farewell tour, due to take place next February/March, beginning at…

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News: Tom Chaplin heads out on 14 date UK & Ireland May tour

If you’ve checked out his new album, ‘The Wave’, and let’s face it, after debuting at number three in the UK Album Chart last Friday plenty of people have, pop/indie…

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See: Neil Cowley Trio release video for “Weightless”

Ahead of a run of three UK dates, in Southampton, London and Oxford comes a new single from one of the UK’s finest jazz exponents the Neil Cowley Trio, for…

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Album Review: Folk Devils – Beautiful Monsters; Singles and Demo Recordings 1984-86

Filed firmly under the criminally ignored banner during their lifetime, a brief flame that was snuffed out almost as soon as it has caught fire in the middle of the…

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Track: Invisible Boy – All the kids

Polica bassist Chris Bierden is a staple on the Minneapolis music scene – contributing both bass and vocals to the last two Har Mar Superstar records, as well as being…

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See: Baloji releases new video for “Spoiler”

Taken from his forthcoming EP, 64 bits & Malachite, out on November 11th via Bella Union, Spoiler is apparently about “the people that remind you of reality when the party ends,…

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Track: Magic Bronson – What a week

“What a week” is the new track from an L.A.-based duo, Michael Nicastro and Matthew Lieverman, under the guise of Magic Bronson. The pair make woozy electronic soul, and the…

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Track: Romare – Je ‘Taime

Previous single ‘Who Loves You?’ Was the first glimpse of the new album from London based producer Romare, and he’s now dropped another insight in the shape of Je’taime ahead…

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Meet: Hannah Peel on her new album ‘Awake But Always Dreaming’, plus new show details

Hannah Peel, 2/3rds of Magnetic North and acclaimed singer songwriter, has released one of the years most lovely, intimate, emotional and beautiful records of the year in Awake but always…

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Premiere: Stop Drop Robot – For the Day

One of the first ever articles we ever wrote on Backseat Mafia was about Sheffield proto-indie rock group Stop Drop Robot, so when they announced it was the end of…

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