Staff Writers, Author at Backseat Mafia

Track: Folk troubadour Sam Lee releases new song, Blackbird.

Travelling the UK, Sam Lee has collected and reinvented folk song and story. His creations are inspiring a new generation of folk musicians to explore, adapt and experiment with folk and sound.…

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Meet: Lola Colt – A Psyched up interview

Lola Colt provide such a rich deep vein of sound and vision to tap into that it’s almost too tempting to overdose the adjectives and comparisons. It’s Psych-edged, carefully honed…

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Live Review: In This Moment – Leeds Beckett University – 01.03.2015

Looking like lost characters from the Mass Effect videogame franchise, openers Starset intertwine rock heavy riffs with hard hitting electronics. The roaring choruses of Carnivore and My Demons prove the band are much more…

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Track: Cannibal Animal release carnal new single, ‘Followed’

Sirens call out the new song from Hull trio Cannibal Animal until rhythmic drumming and a fraught, frantic utterly filthy bass line start off proceedings. Previous track ‘Pavement Jungle’ set…

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Meet: Maria Brink – In This Moment Interview

For In This Moment it’s been a long journey to get to where they are today, for a band that released their first record in 2007, they’ve certainly gone through…

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Track: Spökraket – ‘In A Witch Forest’

Spökraket is a neo-psychedelic band from Århus, Denmark formed in 2010. The core band members are Bjørn Vind Abildtrup: 12- and 6-string guitars, organ/synth; occasional glockenspiel, percussion and backing vocals, double bass, Jonathan Højgaard:…

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Track: Black Honey – Madonna

So far Black Honey have impressed with their debut EP and a series of outstanding live shows around the UK, and Brighton’s best continue to raise the bar with latest…

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Album Review: Some Truths – Bliss Abyss

There is a lot that can be said for sobbing acid casualties. What might seem to the Conservative ballot-casting outsider like a drooling comatose corpse slumped in the corner of…

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Meet: Swervedriver interview

The Stone Roses famously took five years to make their woeful second album but Swervedriver must have set a new record taking a staggering 18 years to produce a new…

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Album Review: Bombay Heavy – Bombay Heavy

Reinvention of the self in the music world is nothing new. It’s been done, ad infinitum. Lennon, Bowie, Bono and Beyonce have all adopted alter egos at some stage in…

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