Jim F, Author at Backseat Mafia

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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Track: Hunck – Toy Trucks

Hunck could be described as a side project, you know, one of one things you do for fun, or when things are quiet, or something you can be a little…

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Meet: We chat with Tim Love Lee, and his new project with Shawn Lee

I’ve got to hold my hand up – I’m one of them. ‘Them’ being crate diggers, or record collectors / sound experimenters. I have a (mental) list of records I…

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New Music: Little Racer – Punk Life

I sort of miss the days when on every street corner in every town was a little gang of punks. I remember being very small and seeing these cool people…

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Track: Ben Watt to release new album Hendra, and listen to the title track

There are things we all either put off, or keep meaning to get round to. I’ve been meaning to paint my garden shed for quite a while now, while the…

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Album Review: Shit Robot – We got a Love

Out today on DFA records is the new, second album from Dublin’s Marcus Lambkin aka Shit Robot. Recorded in Germany and New York, the record features a whole load of…

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