Staff Writers, Author at Backseat Mafia

Album Review: Singapore Sling – ‘The Tower Of Foronicity’

‘The Tower Of Foronicity’ is Henrik Björnsson’s latest Long Player and follow up to the 2011 release ‘Never Forever’. Henrik has in the past described Singapore Sling’s sound as “dance…

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Premiere: Death Rattle – ‘Shell’ + Interview

The first time I heard Death Rattle was just over 3 years ago in rural France when Chris (one half of the duo) played me and my band “something new…

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DVD Review: Pritchard and Dainton – ‘The Rise and Falls’

‘“From zero to hero to zero again” is Lee Dainton’s summation of the crazy, roller-coaster world he has shared with his long-standing partner in crime Matthew Pritchard. ‘The Rise and…

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Album Review : The Myrrors – ‘Solar Collector’

The Myrrors will always be a special band for me. Thanks to my good friend Darren in Japan, I first heard “Burning Circles In The Sky” back in November of…

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New Music: Pjaro – Swordface

The first time I saw Pjaro was when they were supporting Joie De Vivre about 3 years ago. At this point they were just two abnormally mature looking teenagers playing…

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Live Review: Ras G, Low Leaf and Zeroh @ Electrowerkz

The continuing popularity of Kiss as a live act demonstrates that live music is about a whole lot more than music, it’s about performance as well. On the London date…

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See: Flying Lotus releases new video for Never Catch Me feat. Kendrick Lamar

It would be fair to say that Kendrick Lamar’s new single ‘i’ has been controversial, with many seeing it as Kendrick’s play for the radio. That the Kendrick featuring ‘Never…

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Interview

Meet: DAS FLUFF Q+A with Front Woman Dawn Lintern

Das Fluff’s twitter strap line states they are ‘attention seekers playing sexistential electro post punk twisted disco cyber filth with alarming passion’ and after catching them live recently, I completely…

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Live: Kate Bush – Before The Dawn

The story of Kate Bush’s return to live concerts is now well-known: one six-week tour in 1979 finished at the Hammersmith Apollo and she never again went on tour or…

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Meet: Interview with Sam Paganini talks about his new album and how things got started…

Ahead of Italian DJ and producer Sam Paganini’s debut album release “Satellite” on Drumcode in a couple of weeks, I asked him if he could tell us a bit about…

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