Jim F, Author at Backseat Mafia

Track: Soft Science release the brilliant new single True, along with accompanying video – watch here

Northern California dreampop/ shoegaze outfit Soft Science have returned with a new single and accompanying video ‘True’. It’s taken from their recent album ‘Lines’ which dropped earlier in the month…

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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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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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