Jim F, Author at Backseat Mafia

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Meet: Indie pop darlings Making Marks, and listen to new track ‘Barcodes’.

Sometimes, you hear quite by accident a track that literally bowls you away. That happened to me a couple of weeks ago when I was trawling various social media sites…

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See: Emily and the Woods release new video for small song / announce Summer tour dates

My father used to take us to the woods, quite a lot of the time. They didn’t have much money (I’ll never live the embarrassment of my home-made elasticated school…

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See: This Friday Alan Braxe DJ’s in London, plus new EP

It was an inauspicious start. It was a Saturday morning at a hall somewhere in the town I grew up in that was usually used by the St Johns Ambulance.…

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New Music: Iggy Azalea – Bounce (green lantern remix)

You all know Iggy Azalea, right? She shot out of New South Wales in Australia to become one of the leading hip-hop artists in the world today, signed to legendary…

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Track: Editors new single – A ton of love / The Sting

I went to live in Huddersfield when I was 17, away at this music place. I’d lived in the county pretty much all my life so when I first moved…

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Meet: Gerard Langley of The Blue Aeroplanes, plus new reissue / tour dates

I suppose I would have been about 18. I’d gone along to the Trent Polytechnic (in those days we had such things) to watch my then favourites, The Darling Buds.…

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Meet: Keida – Dancehall, Jamaica & Me.

I’m pretty sure I saw a glimpse of sun the other day, although I may well have been mistaken. It reminded me (well, sort of reminded me) that I once…

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New Music: Lost Ghosts – Tunnels

I remember my debut quite clearly. The first concert I ever played in I was (just) eight years old. Even by eight year old standards I was rather a runt…

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Joel Compass – Fucked up Huxley Remix, plus Video

We’ve met Joel Compass before. Not in a literal sense of course, I was just searching for a new way of saying I’d written about him. He’s one of…

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See: Vampire Weekend – Diane Young Video, Plus Tour News

How did it happen? You know that four regular guys, Ezra Koenig, Rostam Batmanglij, Chris Baio, and Chris Tomson firstly met, and then formed Vampire Weekend in 2006 while attending…

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