Staff Writers, Author at Backseat Mafia

Album Review: The Wombats – Beautiful People Will Ruin Your Life

It’s a matter of fact that every budding indie fanatic was raised on a saccharine diet of The Wombats; the angst-ridden exuberance that pulsated from their debut album A Guide…

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Album Review: Field Music – Open Here

With the release of their sixth album proper, Open Here, Field Music have firmly established themselves as mainstays of the dermis of UK music, IE where all the interesting stuff…

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Track / Video

Track: The Vaccines release new track “Nightclub” ahead of new album and tour

The Vaccines have released “Nightclub”, a track from their forthcoming album Combat Sports, released on March 30th. It’s an energetic, catchy romp through 80s pop and early 00s guitar music in…

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Track / Video

Track: Erasure – It’s Still Not Over (rework)

In LGBT+ History month Erasure celebrate their role in the struggle with a classical reworking of ‘It’s Still Not Over.’ I don’t know when it began, but there has been…

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Album Review: Johnny Jewel – Digital Rain

Johnny Jewel is a musical Renaissance man: he owns a record label, he writes film scores, he collaborated with David Lynch on the recent Twin Peaks soundtrack and he’s a…

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See: Evestus release new video for ‘Welcome to my World’

Estonian indsutrial rock band EVESTUS have published a music video for the track “Welcome To My World”. The song was selected from approximately 300 applicants to compete at Eesti Laul…

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See: Fozzy Release Video for ‘Painless’, On European Tour With Steel Panther

Fozzy have released the music video for “Painless”, the latest single from their album Judas. Lead singer Chris Jericho (yes, that Chris Jericho) said of it “In essence, it’s a…

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News: Electric Six Tour UK and ROI

HOW DARE YOU Electric Six released their Thirteenth album in October 2017 and are heading out across the UK and ROI to support this milestone. The madcap Rock…

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See: Necrophobic release video for Tear Bombs

NECROPHOBIC’s brand-new studio album “Mark Of The Necrogram” will be out in three weeks! With the new track ‘Tsar Bomba’ comes another glimpse into this beast of an album. With…

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Live Review: Bang Bang Romeo, The Wholls, Idle Ross – The Harley (Sheffield) 2/2/18

The 29th of January marked the start of Independent Venue Week, a “celebration of small music venues around the UK and a nod to the people that own, run and…

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