Meet: The Ting Tings Interview, plus new UK tour dates
With the likes of their breakthrough hit ‘That’s not my name’ they proved that they could write tunes that lived long in the memory, now The Ting Tings return with…
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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.
Meet: Habitats interview
One band who we fear we may have fallen head over heels with in the last few weeks and months is London quartet, Habitats. If there’s one thing we like…
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Track: Dirty Dishes – Thank You Come Again
Can we apologise? This has been out a while, and yet we’ve only just got to it, as good as it is. Its by Boston Massachusetts duo Dirty Dishes, aka…
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Meet: DJ Butter and watch his new video with DJ Dez for “Legends in the Game”
DJ Butter is a legend, especially in his home city of Detroit. For the last two decades he’s emrged not only as one of the cities finest DJ’s, but as…
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New Music: Austin punks Krum Bums release new track,Smoke
Sometimes you need Krum Bums. Ever been out, had a few drinks and suddenly this idea pops into your head and says ‘Right, I’m tired now and I must proceed…
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See: Stars announce European tour, plus new lyric video for No One Is Lost
The brilliant Stars, who’s new album No One is Lost is out via ATO on Monday (3rd November) have confirmed a series of European dates in January. The follow up…
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Track: L.A.’s Street Joy are back with new single, Wrong Cloud
We’ve long been fans of Los Angeles’ Street Joy. They seem to have a never ending stream of indie rock goodness (greatness even) they put out at seemingly regular intervals.…
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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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