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Live Review: The Black Crowes / Reef – 3Arena, Dublin 21,09,2022
The Black Crowes $hake Your Money Maker in its entirety plus all the hits tour opened its European/UK leg at Dublin’s 3Arena with special guests Reef as support. The Reef diehards are in early and there’s a good number of them in to enjoy the 45 minute set that the band delivered including songs like …
Track: Rex Simonson – Shimmer
Made up of Simon Topping of A Certain Ratio fame and his son Rex (hence the name) Rex Simonson are a brand new post punk project who have shared their new single ‘Shimmer’. Edgy driving bass joins with mysterious synths dripping with a cool, slick post punk vibe. Bright bursts of guitar break the surface …
Premiere: Big Mono Share Video For Debut Track ‘A Thousand Times’
Big Mono are a brand new band that came together during the pandemic from classic rock fans. The band are set for an album due in mid ’23. Here at Backseat Mafia we are very excited to be premiering the bands video for their debut single ‘A Thousand Times’ which is taken from the bands …
TRACK: The Clockworks – Advertise Me
The Clockworks have released new single ‘Advertise Me‘ alongwith a striking video to accompany the track. The Irish 4-piece continue to mature their sound and demonstrate a versatile approach, refusing to stick to the same formula as previous singles. The lyrics of James McGregor are again at the forefront but the sonic landscape soars particularly …
TRACK: Meat Wave – 10k
Chicago’s Meat Wave have released the second single from Malign Hex, their first album in over five years which is set for release on 14 October via Big Scary Monsters. The thunderous ‘10k’ is a punk rock gem, with its earth shaking sonic landscape and vocals full of power and passion. Of the track, Meat Wave’s Chris Sutter (guitar, vocals) …
Video: Fontaines DC Release Video For ‘The Couple Across The Way’
Fontaines DC Release New Video For ‘The Couple Across The Way’
News: Adalita returns with intensely powerful and introspective new single, ‘Dazzling’ ahead of new album & album launch shows.
Legendary lead vocalist and guitarist of Magic Dirt, Adalita, is set to release her third solo album, Inland. It is set for release on Liberation Records for the 2nd of December, almost 9 years after her second effort, All Day Venus. To herald the new album, first single, Dazzling has been released with an accompanying …
Premiere: Key Out go for an endless, shimmering and breathtaking ‘Drive’ ahead of new album out through False Peak Records and launch gigs.
We are immobilised with excitement at being able to bring you an exclusive listen to the new single from Sydney’s magnificent Key Out: one of the most exciting outfits in the antipodean scene at the moment. ‘Drive’ has that indefinable Key Out sound: mesmerising shimmering folds of instrumentation that daub brushstrokes from a colourful multi-layered …
PREMIERE: Zachery Allan Starkey taps into 2022 club culture with ‘No Texting on the Dance Floor’
He’s been quiet for a couple of years, with the misfortune of releasing an album deserving of celebration in clubs all over his native New York in April 2020, as the pandemic bit, but Zachery Allan Starkey, or ZAS for short, is racing to make up for lost time, and his new single is an …