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News: Live music is back as Hamburg’s Reeperbahn Festival gets underway

Hamburg’s iconic annual Reeperbahn Festival’s organisers said right from the start of the pandemic that they would go ahead with this year’s event come what may and true to their…

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TRACK: Cardiacs release previously unheard track, ‘Vermin Mangle’

CARDIACS have shared a poignant farewell in the form of a previously unreleased song. “Vermin Mangle” was shared to mark the funeral of bandleader Tim Smith, who died in July…

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Track: PET SHIMMERS announce new album, share lead single ‘IMBER’

Indie Bristol-born outfit Pet Shimmers have announced their second album of 2020, Trash Earthers, also sharing the first single ‘Imber‘. The album will be released on 2nd October via their own PS Records.…

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See: Tokyo Taboo anger the Donald with ‘American Dream’ video

London alternative rockers have released their new single American Dream. Not only is it a hard rock banger charged with political satire, but it’s reaction and backlash has been causing…

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See: Darwin releases visuals for “Unkind Lover” feat. David J (Bauhaus, Love and Rockets)

Santa Rosa-based alternative pop artist Darwin presents his new single ‘Unkind Lover’, which features David J (Love and Rockets, Bauhaus) on harmonica, Dustin Heald on guitar noise and ambience, and producer/collaborator Julian Shah-Tayler (a.k.a. The Singularity). Darwin…

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See: Choir of Young Believers – Hollow Talk

Very new to Backseat Mafia as I am I didn’t know which section to submit this to. Eventually I selected Track/Video but could equally have requested Film (although ‘TV’ would…

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Meet: The Damned’s Captain Sensible talks new EP, plants, bees, and a world beyond lockdown

Raymond Ian Burns, known more commonly as Captain Sensible from the seminal punk band The Damned has, like the most of us, had a lot of time on his hands…

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MEET: Irish queerpunks Strange New Places

BUILDING on the solid foundations of the Northern Irish rock of Stiff Little Fingers and their 70s’ contemporaries, the Belfast punk scene has gone from strength to strength in recent…

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MEET: Steven Lind of Freak Heat Waves

FROM their eponymous Krautrock debut album in 2012, right through to the futuristic punk of 2018’s Beyond XXXL, Canadian duo Freak Heat Waves have consistently churned out unpredictable, bold and…

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Feature: Does Manchester really need the two largest music venues in the country?

It opened in 1995 and was originally planned as part of a bid to land the 2000 Olympic Games. With a maximum capacity of 21,000 spectators it is the largest…

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