Music
Premiere: Emily Kuhn releases new video for ‘Roses’ featuring Helios
Ahead of her debut album Sky Stories, out on October 30th on BACE records, Chicago trumpeter Emily Kuhn has released a new video and track from it, titled ‘Roses’, and we’re absolutely delighted to premiere it here on Backseat Mafia today. Emily has worked already with the likes of Kitt Lyles, Erik Skov and Gustavo …
PREMIERE: See the video for Arch Garrison’s ‘Open My Eye’: warm psych-country track trails tomorrow’s LP; live stream news
ARCH GARRISON, the ‘other’ project of North Sea Radio Orchestra’s Craig Fortnam, have a rather lovely album of pastoral psych-folk, The Bitter Lay, out tomorrow on Believer’s Roast. It’s an album steeped in the landscape of the chalk downs; of spindle-whorls turned up by the plough, of seemingly endless old drove roads cresting the ridges; …
See: Plants and Animals share video for new track Le Queens
Plants and Animals have shared a brand new single and video for ‘Le Queens’. Featuring Adèle Trottier-Rivard on vocals, the theme was inspired by an evening spent in Queens, NY. Taken from their new album ‘The Jungle’, set to be released October 23rd via Secret City Records. The band shares the inspiration behind the song : “Woody got this machine …
Track: Big Thief’s Adrianne Lenker’s releases new single, ‘Anything’; announces two new albums
Adrianne Lenker, member of the American rock band Big Thief, has announced the release of two new albums on October 23rd. The news is proceeded by Lenker sharing a new single, “Anything”. Entitled Songs and Instrumentals, the albums are two distinct collections, both written and recorded in April after Big Thief’s March tour was abruptly cut short due …
Say Psych: Album Review: The Asteroid No. 4 – Northern Songs
Psychedelic rock legends The Asteroid No.4 will release their new album Northern Songs this Friday through a partnership with UK-based Cardinal Fuzz Records and Portland’s Little Cloud Records. Stalwarts of the modern ‘psych’ genre, they are known for their prolific discography of reverb-drenched recordings and liquid-projected live performances. With a sound all their own and neo-psychedelic / shoegaze leanings, they are often compared to acts …
NEWS: Gorillaz announce ‘SONG MACHINE: Season One – Strange Timez’ – watch the new Robert Smith collab
Gorillaz have announced the full collection of their Song Machine collection, featuring an expanding roster of collaborators captured live in Kong Studios and beyond. Entitled Song Machine: Season One – Strange Timez, it’ll be out on October 23rd on digital, standard CD, vinyl and cassette; plus the 17-track deluxe and super deluxe box sets. As well as …
SORBET – Life Variations EP
SORBET is the new project from drummer and producer Chris W Ryan; his debut EP under the SORBET name, Life Variations, is a navigation through the key stages of life over three tracks in a suite of more than 20 minutes. Ryan states that the three tracks are borne from the same musical seed: “Every …
Droppin’ Knowledge: Gold Standard Collective Shares “Deli Slice” – Watch
Chicago based hip hop ensemble Gold Standard Collective shares a new video and single from their forth-coming compilation album, Deli Slice. The title cut finds veteran emcees, Thaione Davis, Neak, Philmore Greene, F.A.B.L.E., Since9ine6ix and Rashid Hadee, trading conscious bars over a pounding beat, in a style they call “true-school hip hop.” According to the …
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 word they have. The largely indoor festival, held in Hamburg’s plethora of music venues including the famous Beatles ones such as Indra and Kaiserkeller at …
TRACK: Sing Leaf – ‘Out Of The Dream’: sleepy beauty preludes next week’s lovely LP
DAVID COMO, the Canadian musician who hides his considerable musical light under the Sing Leaf bushel for us, the recipients of his off-kilter, psychedelic synth-folk joy, has today dropped a final taster song for his new album, Not Earth, which will be released on Friday week. He’s been dropping soothing, spacey little gifts from Not …