Staff Writers, Author at Backseat Mafia

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Track : Symbion Project , “Bloodthirsty”

Symbion Project led by Seattle’s own electronic craftsman Kasson Crooker releases the single Bloodthirsty on October 20. What a striking, strange title for a down-tempo synthetic single song is this…and…

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Album Review: Trupa Trupa – Jolly New Songs

Trupa Trupa’s macabre poetic outlook has much in common with contemporary exponents of psychogeography, such as one Iain Sinclair, whose wanderings around London’s orbital networks elicit a meandering prose that…

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TRACK: LUMER – HOMICIDE

Torn straight from The City of Culture, post-punk band LUMER introduce to us their latest single, ‘Homicide’. Ripped at every edge, with a white-knuckle freneticism and lyrics spat through gritted…

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TRACK: ‘SHOEBOXES’-YSABELLE WOMBWELL

If you like your music good, and your artists championing women in music, then listen close and look no further: I introduce to you, dear reader, Ysabelle Wombwell and her…

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News

News: Tse Tse Fly Middle East London Debut

The music promoter and community arts organisation Tse Tse Fly Middle East will be making its London debut at IKLECTIK on Saturday 9th September. The night will feature a curated…

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See: Mastodon reveal new video for Steambreather, plus EP news and UK tour dates

After releasing their opus “Emperor Of Sand” album in March 2017 to great critical acclaim the album entered the Billboard sales charts at #1. The band, over their 8 studio…

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Interview: Trupa Trupa

Music as landscape: Trupa Trupa contemplating the poetry of place. Photo courtesy of the band. Trupa Trupa is a psychedelic no wave band from Gdansk, Poland. Their stylistic approach recalls…

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Album Review: Everything Everything – A fever dream

Everything Everything has been building a really solid career throughout their nearly 10 years of existence. From the 2011’s weird, fresh and intense debut album Man Alive, to the melancholic,…

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Meet: System Corporation

System Corporation has just released their debut single ‘Dismal Universal Hiss’, giving us the first look into what’s coming from this New Zealand rock outfit on their debut album ‘Fiction Dept.’, slated…

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Live Review: Weirdwolf / The Claxbys / The Last Hearts, Scunthorpe Cafe Indie 14/7/2017

Spontaneity can be a risk, and a risk is something that bands – aside from those belonging to the highest, top-billing, festival-headlining echelons – aren’t always willing to take. But…

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