Jim F, Author at Backseat Mafia

Exclusive: Tommy Ashby does Blood Wolf Moon live in session for Backseat Mafia

We fell for Scottish singer-songwriter Tommy Ashby’s recent Blood Wolf Moon single, its aching melancholy set against this bubbling acoustic guitar, so we were absolutely delighted when he agreed to…

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Track: Two Tone Television – Old News

Out now is the new single from Glasgow indie punk Two Tone Television, Old News. They’ve been creating something of a storm in their native Scotland, earning rave reviews for…

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Track Toronto indie folk band Decoration Day release ‘Lanark County’

Taken from their forthcoming debut album Makeshift Future, Toronto folk band Decoration Day have released a new single, Lanark County. It’s described by guitarist and songwriter Justin Orok as a…

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Album Review: Attraktors – Attraktors

Made up of former members of Julian Cope’s band, Six By Seven, Bivouac, The Selecter and The Nectarine No. 9, we’ve already given some love to Nottingham space/krautrock trio Attraktors…

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See: Anna of the North reveals new video for Dream Girl

Norwegian singer-songwriter Anna of the North has released a new version of her track Dream Girl, along with a new video. You might recognise the track was in the Global…

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EP: Oscar G Returns to DFTD with ‘Party People’

Oscar G certainly has a weighty reputation in dance music circles, both as one half of legendary US duo MURK, and in his own right. He’s recorded under his own…

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See: Dan Pugach Nonet reveal live video for ‘My Favourite Things’

Famously covered by John Coltrane, the Rogers and Hammerstein classic passed over from show tune to standard a long time ago. Brooklyn based Grammy nominated drummer and composer Dan Pugach…

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See: Davie releases new video for Testify

Discovered when Defected Records head honcho Simon Dunford visited the cinema, and heard his singing on a Wild Turkey Bourbon advert with Matthew McConaughey, Davie recently released his new single,…

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Feature: Soundtrack of Our Lives – The Flatmates

THEY came bursting outta Brizzle on the back of one-foot-in-the-Spector-camp fizzbomb pop classics like “Shimmer” and “I Could Be In Heaven”. And this year, a mere 34 years after their…

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Premiere: The Apartments – Pocketful of Sunshine

Sydney’s legendary The Apartments are back with a new album, ‘In and out of the light’, out on September 18th via Talitres Records. Peter Milton Walsh formed his charges in…

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