Jim F, Author at Backseat Mafia

Meet: We interview Los Angeles based MC Jonezen on new single Tear The Club Up and more

Detroit bred but Los Angeles based, Chris Jones, aka Jonezen is a man on the up. Last year he won best hip-hop artist in the Los Angeles and subsequently signed…

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Meet: We talk to The Twilight Sad about their new record, touring, politics and more

The Twilight Sad have always been one of our favourite bands here on Backseat Mafia. Their fourth album, ‘Nobody wants to be here, and nobody wants to leave’, dropped on…

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Track: Dublin electro-indie collective Jape release new single, The Hearts Desire

Out on November 3rd via Faction Records is the new single from Dublin electro-pop collective (describing their band members only as ‘Many’), based around singer-songwriter Richard Egan and a core…

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Premiere: Frontier Ruckus – Crabapples in the Century’s Storm

We’ve already fell for Michigan indie-rockers Frontier Ruckus on more than one occasion, and so we couldn’t pass up the chance to premiere ‘Crabapples in the Century’s Storm’, taken from…

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Track: The Slow Readers Club release new single, Forever in Your Debt

Following the success of previous single ‘Don’t Mind’, which found favour on both the BBC and XFM, Manchester quartet The Slow Readers Club return with a new track, ‘Forever in…

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See: The Belle Brigade announce new album news, watch “Back Where You Began” video

There’s some good genes at work in the new music from LA duo Belle Brigade. The siblings, Barbara and Ethan Gruska’s father songwriter/composer Jay Gruska while their grandfather is esteemed…

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New Music: Garage Punks Bad Breeding release new single, Chains

Following on from their explosive debut single, Burn This Flag, garage punks Bad Breeding return with a new single, Chains, out on November 24th as a limited edition 7″ single…

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Premiere: Kool Stuff Katie release video for Hard Girl To Know

Oh, this is good. This is really good. Portland Oregon duo Kool Stuff Katie, aka Shane Blem and Saren Oliver, make this kind of primal garage punk/blues that infects your…

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See: Archie Bronson release video for “Two Doves on a Lake”

Alls well in the Archie Bronson Outfit. Fresh from the release of one of the albums of the year in their forth album, Wild Crush, they’ve now returned with a…

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See: Black Label Society announce 2015 UK/European tour dates

These are out now, so you need to be quick. Hard rocking quartet Black Label Society, aka former Ozzy Osbourne guitarist Zakk Wylde along with Dario Lorina (Guitar), John DeServio…

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