Jim F, Author at Backseat Mafia

Track: High Highs cover College’s A Real Hero, plus US tour dates.

Australian duo High Highs a.k.a. Jack Milas and Oli Chang have been bringing delicious electro to parties basically everywhere. They’ve toured with Vampire Weekend, Empire of the Sun and How…

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New Music: Wild Swim – New Dawn

It’s one of those quintessentially English places, Oxford. The writer William Butler Yeats, in a letter to fellow poet, and possible unrequited love interest Katharine Tynan, said “I wonder anybody…

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Meet: The Kitchens of Distinction, and news of their new album

Sometimes you have your head turned. By money, by people you find attractive, by a job offer. For me it was much more simplistic. It was by records. So when…

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Track / Video

Track: Blitz the Ambassador – Bisa ft. Nneka, Ty

So today was September. and here in Sheffield, it was like they switched off the Summer and switched on the Autumn. As i ventured out this morning, I had to…

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See: Fallulah – Out of it Video

Part of growing up is the inevitable invites to dinner parties. I try, as much as I can to avoid them. The strained conversation, usually about a mutually convenient, middle…

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Track: John Newman – cheating, plus video/wookie remix

I can feel for John Newman. I’ve not very much in common with 22-year-old Londoner, chart star, and one of the most sought after singers in the country right now.…

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News

See: Savages announce tour details

Savages. You had us with your darkly brilliant debut album. All that post-punk Magazine and Gang of Four type stuff, dragged into the modern, and given that feminine touch. Somehow…

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Track: Blood Sport release new track Palomar, plus album news

When I came to Sheffield, I got told that people had said it was the largest village in the country. This (for those that don’t know) is one of the…

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New Music: MT Warning – Youth Bird

And so we propel towards the end of the Summer. Here in the north of England, it’s especially important to try and grab any chance we can to sit in…

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See: Editors reveal new video for Formaldehyde, plus November tour news

Sometimes, as much as I love music, the way things look is the thing that makes them beautiful. When I was at University I had a poster of (this might…

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