EP Review: Various Artists – Planet Socool
Curated by Andy ‘Epicentre The Dragon’ and Emily Socool, and out on the formers Dragon Trax imprint is a compilation of some of the best in new liquid drum &…
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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.
Track: Devendra Banhart releases new song, Nun, taken from forthcoming Flying Wig album; plus World Tour dates
In the run up to his Flying Wig album, due out on September 22nd on one of our favourite labels here at Backseat Mafia, Mexican Summer, Devendra Banhart has released…
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Track: Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs release live version of Big Rig ahead of Live In New York album release
We’ve long been fans of Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs here at Backseat Mafia. The Newcastle behemoths seems to be winning the world over, one huge riff at…
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Live Review: Badly Drawn Boy / Liam Frost – Sheffield Memorial Hall 12.05.2023
Sometimes beautiful things are difficult to get to. Often though, when you take the trouble to search through the things obscuring it, getting in the way of it even, it…
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Track: Black Grape return with a new single Milk ahead of tour and new album later in the year
Black Grape, the swaggering Manchester band headed up by Shaun Ryder and Kermit (aka Paul Leveridge) return with a new album ‘Orange Head’ out on November 3rd via DGAFF Recordings.…
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Track: Poolside reveal new single, ‘Ride With You’ featuring Ben Browning; watch video here
LA based producer, songwriter and multi instrumentalist Jeffrey Paradiseis, aka Poolside, has returned with a new single ‘Ride With You’, featuring Cut Copy bassist Ben Browning. It’s taken from the…
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Track: Sofia Kourtesis releases new single ‘Vajkoczy’ ahead of debut album on Ninja Tune
Sofia Kourtesis recently gave us more details on the release of her debut album. It’s called Madres, and is out on the utterly brilliant Ninja Tune imprint on October 27th,…
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Album Review: Slow Knife – A Hymn Supreme
Todmorden experimentalists Slow Knife have returned with a second album, the fully improvised two track long player, A Hymn Supreme. Taking its lead more than likely (as well as half…
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Track: Peter Broderick and Ensemble 0 release unreleased Arthur Russell track, Give It To The Sky. Watch beautiful accompanying live video, here
It seems as more time passes since his death, the more the extraordinary musical cannon of Arthur Russell is explored and appreciated. Musician and composer Peter Broderick has teamed up…
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Track: Steven Wilson releases a brilliant new track ‘Economies of Scale’ ahead of album release
With his new album The Harmony Codex due at the end of the month on Virgin, Steven Wilson has released a sighter of whats to come from the album in…
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