Music
News: Motorhead’s Lemmy Dies Age 70
Ian Fraser Kilmister, commonly known as “Lemmy” has died aged 70. The news was confirmed by Eddie Trunk, an American radio personality. Lemmy had recently celebrated his 70th birthday on Christmas Eve. Ozzy Osbourne tweeted “Lost one of my best friends, Lemmy, today. He will be sadly missed. He was a warrior and a legend. …
Feature: Best of 2015: Backseat Mafia staffers pick their favourite gig photos from 2015
Before we start looking forward to 2016 and all that they may bring, Backseat Mafia’s live photographers have been taking a look back at the gigs we covered in 2015 and choosing their own personal favourite photos… STEVE BARNES – DESPERATE JOURNALIST One of our bands of the year, caught them at Crystal Bar during …
Live: Shed Seven / Inspiral Carpets – Leeds 22.12.15 / Sheffield 10.12.15
Seeing Shed 7 has become as big a part of Christmas as turkey and sprouts. Every second year the boys take their show out on the road, and treat us to a set full of their greatest hits. We caught them at Sheffield and again at Leeds for the final night of the tour. (All …
Track: Mood Robot – Drip
By Ryan Jameson Weaver Los Angeles synth-pop trio Mood Robot (Jenny Helms, Alex Kazenoff, Ben Kazenoff), have been steadily releasing a sleek catalog of one-off velvet gems for the past year or so with each release giving us more awareness to their acuity of making PBR&B saccharine cuts. Their newest single, Drip, furthers this testament …
Festival Review: London Contemporary Music Festival
Spreading a festival over seven murky London nights is an ambitious move. Not only is it near-impossible to attend every single event, but one also gets an overbearing sense that the programme will wear itself thin over the week. Not so. Even though some work photographed better than it sounded and certain performances engaged the …
Track: Forced Random – Go Get It
By Ryan Jameson Weaver Go Get It, the latest track from Forced Random, is a paramount of tantalizing proportions. It is an anthemic cut that will pull at your heartstrings with its introspective guise and bring you up with its upward mobility. The slow, thrashing, wall of noise unfolds in front of you like dominoes …
Tracks: Saje – Freefallin’ Dreams
Parisian dance/chill wave duo Saje have been attacting a lot of attentions in the last year, garnering millions of soundcloud play and gaining the support of many of the influencers within dance music, so there’s some excitement about the release of their debut EP, Freefallin’ Dreams, which drops on January 15th via French label Roche …
Track: Vampires Everywhere – Black Betty
It’s been a wait, but finally Los Angeles rockers Vampires Everywhere have dropped some new music, their first since 2012, in the shape of Black Betty. It comes ahead of their forthcoming album ‘Ritual’, due out in the new year. As vocalist Michael Vampire explains,”This song is special to me because it represents a part …
Track: Joseph Sant – Nor’easter
Joseph Sant, originally from Seattle but now ensconced in Brooklyn is about to release his debut EP, Sea White Salt, on January 14th next year. It’s wrapped up in tales of the forces of nature, love, dreams and hopes and a whole lot of things inbetween. It was recorded with Gabriel Gavin during a few …
Track: bed. – The Rule
It might be very close to the end of 2015, but this might just be very close to being my favourite track of the year. Turns out that in late 2013 Alex and Sierra Haager escaped from their jobs and lives in California and headed to Portland Oregon (of course) to start Breakup Records. Subsequently, …