Jim F, Author at Backseat Mafia

See: Until the Ribbon Breaks – Perspective (ft. Homeboy Sandman) New Video

In my day, and with my technical skills, we didn’t make mixtapes, we made compilation tapes. I used to hover over my favourite radio shows, making endless tapes of unheard…

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New Music: Fatboy Slim – Eat, Sleep, Rave, Repeat, plus tour news

I grew up with Fatboy Slim. Not in a literal sense you understand, that would be rather silly. But I copied his basslines off my Housemartins ‘London 0 Hull 4‘…

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Album Review: Sleigh Bells – Bitter Rivals

Far from being bitter rivals, Sleigh Bells third album actually shows they may be working towards more equality. The Brooklyn duo, singer Alexis Krauss and guitarist Derek Miller met when…

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Track: Rodney P – Success feat. Harleighblu & Renegade Brass Band

There’s something about the vibe of Success, this earthy brass-laden soul show-stopper that has goaded me off the sofa, and filled me with the urge to write about it and,…

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Album Review: Smoke Fairies – Ghosts

There’s something otherworldly about Smoke Fairies. Their name, taken from the Summer mist that collects in the hedgerows of the lanes in the duo’s, school friends Katherine Blamire and Jessica…

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Meet: Harleighblu, and new album news

When I was seven, I was barely into elasticated school trousers, and collecting worms out of the garden, albeit after episodes of Hong Kong Fuey. I might have managed a…

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See: Wet Nuns release new video for Hanging

We’re all older, wiser than we were days ago, never mind months or years. Every 24 hours is another experience or set of experiences, feelings, happenings. The the famous saying…

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See: White Lies release First Time Caller Video

I once was sat at the side of the Royal Albert Hall, waiting to play a concert there (I know, and I apologise for the name dropping, but it’s part…

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News: Dead Leaf Echo announce US Tour Dates

The celebrated American Poet Robert Frost noted that “There are two kinds of teachers: the kind that fill you with so much quail shot that you can’t move, and the…

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New Music: Fallulah – Dragon

Who’s got the key to your heart? So say’s Danish singer Fallulah (a.k.a. Maria Apetri) quite insistently in her new song, Dragons. W’ve met her before (not actually you understand,…

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