Staff Writers, Author at Backseat Mafia

Album Review: Panic! At The Disco – Death Of A Bachelor

Panic! At The Disco have never shied away from the weird and the wonderful, every album has an electrifying creative spark and a wonderfully eclectic musical image. Ten years on…

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Album Reviews

Album Review: Suede — Night Thoughts

Suede* is the band that many forget actually kickstarted (or possibly hotwired) Britpop. Night Thoughts is Suede’s seventh album and only the second since their welcomed reunion in 2010, a…

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News: Smiths legend Mike Joyce pledges signed vinyl to record fair to help flooded record store

The Smiths drummer Mike Joyce has donated some very rare signed vinyl to a special record fair that will help save Muse Music who lost their stock after floodwater ripped…

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Track: Cullen Omori – Cinnamon

By Ryan Jameson Weaver Not many people know this, but Smith Westerns were an incredibly special band. They crafted delectable teenage gospel in a way that was almost purposefully harking…

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Film

Obituary: Farewell to Alan Rickman – King of the Villains

That Alan Rickman was one of our great screen actors was really brought home to me in the underrated British classic Truly, Madly, Deeply – a movie that still make…

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Live Review: Slaves – 02 Academy, Leeds, 10.11.2015

Slaves; the two-piece from Tunbridge Wells that unexpectedly rose to fame in 2015. Their debut album reached number eight in the UK album charts, they played Glastonbury festival several times…

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Meet: Sid Griffin from The Long Ryders

In the midst of endless mid-80s synth pop the arrival on these shores of The Long Ryders with their swaggering fusion of country rock with punk attitude was a welcome…

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Album Review: Ignite – A War Against You

A War Against You is the first release in ten years from California’s melodic hard-core punks Ignite. The band return with their own blend of fast paced melodic hard-core and…

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Track: Black Stone Cherry – The way of the future, plus album/tour news

With a recent new signing to The Mascot Label group last year, Black Stone Cherry are set to release their fifth studio album ‘Kentucky’ on April 1st. Named after the…

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News

Meet: Tim Burgess is Telling Stories in aid of flood relief

When The Charlatans frontman Tim Burgess agreed to play a DJ set at the Hebden Bridge Trades Club on Saturday he couldn’t have forseen the Boxing Day floods that flooded…

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