Jim F, Author at Backseat Mafia

See: The Antlers release video for Palace, plus new album news

Is been three years since The Antlers much admired long player Burst Apart showed that the band could produce some of the most sparkling and beautiful alt-indie music around. Originally…

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New Music: Street Joy – Laurel Hill

We’ve written about Los Angeles‘ Street Joy before, here. The duo, Jason DeMayo on lead vocal, guitar and bass, and Scott Zimmerman on drums and backing vocals, deal a winning…

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Track: Frankenstein feat. Luminous release The Roughtalk from reissue – “The Science of Sound”

Taken from the golden era of hip-hop, Hillside, New Jersey label Ill Adrenaline Recordshas jumped on possibly Canada‘s finest Rapper Frankenstein back catalogue. for their new release ‘The Science…

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New Music: The Horn The Hunt – Starless / Heart Of Gold

Leeds duo The Hunt The Horn make this sort of sweeping, expansive pop music, that owes as much to synth pop as it does to indie and grunge, and could…

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Not Forgotten: Bob – Leave the Straight Life Behind Reissue, plus interview

It might be unjustified, but I’ve always North London indie band BOB were in debt to me. I’d discovered them, as I did most things back then (then being the…

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See: Able Archer release video for Ghostmaker

Dublin’s Able Archer, aka Emmet McCaughey, Rob McDonnell, Diarmuid Breathnach, Sean O’Connor and Neil Buckley first attracted our attention with their Bullets EP, with their forceful indie/alt rock and their…

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Track: L A C E D release the shimmering Shoegaze of Celeste

Birmingham five piece L A C E D have followed up last years Jade Vine with a new track, Celeste. Its taken from their forthcoming EP, New Bloom, out soon…

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Track: The Twilight Sad – Untitled #4, plus tour dates and reissue news

It doesn’t seem two minutes since fresh faced Scottish indie rockers The Twilight Sad released their debut album Fourteen Autumns & Fifteen Winters. Taking their name from Wilfred Owens ‘The…

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See: Ming City Rockers release new video for Twist It

We’ve long been fans of the scuzzy rock and roll of Immingham’s Ming City Rockers. fusing together elements from Chuck Berry to Link Wray and the MC5 via New York…

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Premiere: Geno Carrapetta releases new video for ‘Éternité’

We’ve been loving London psych-upstarts for sometime now, so we are very excited to premiere the video for ‘Éternité’, the lead single from the drummer of Gentlemen, Geno Carrapetta., He…

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