Music
News: The Psychedelic Furs Return!
31 years after their last album, and 2 years since its release, The Furs finally get to deliver Made of Rain, to an awaiting UK audience, when their tour finally kicks off in Nottingham on 2nd April at Rock City. The album fits very neatly in their repertoire, with their trademark sound not dulled by …
Live Review: Funeral for a Friend / Holding Absence – 02 Academy, Sheffield 11.03.2022
Friday night and a trip to a sold out 02 Academy to see Funeral for a Friend. This gig had been rearranged twice due to the pandemic and judging by the huge crowd buzz as I entered the venue, highly anticipated. Sometimes you just have a gut feeling that it’s going to be a night …
Live Review: The Darkness / The Dead Deads – The Observatory North Park, San Diego 09.03.2022
Another great gig at The Observatory North Park, San Diego captured by Taylor Betancourt for Backseat Mafia. This time Betancourt was present as British rock band The Darkness performed with support from the punk, metal, grunge, rock band that is The Dead Deads. Check out the photos, below: Find out more about the band via …
Live Review: Dana Gavanski – The Lexington, London 08.03.2022
I’m afraid the mosh-pit has been cancelled. To the uninitiated the London gig scene may seem hip, cool and above all – dominated by the young and open-minded. Tonight that misconception is laid bare. Here in the city I love, a city I consider to be the global capital of culture, diversity and youthful vibrancy …
Album Review: Tapani Rinne & Juha Maki-Patola – Open: exquisite jazz electronica that restores and inspires.
Some records arrive that make you wonder if there is much value to writing about music. ‘Open’ by the Finnish ambient jazz partnership of reedist Tapani Rinne and composer/producer Juha Maki-Patola is one of those albums. Elusive, shivering with atmosphere, the immersive soundscape that the pair have crafted elevates listening beyond the incidental and reduces …
Track: Alexisonfire Announce New Album ‘Otherness’ Out 24th June; Share New Track ‘Sweet Dreams Of Otherness’
Alexisonfire have announced new album ‘Otherness’, which will be the first full-length album in over 13 years from the band. ‘Otherness’ will be released on June 24 via Dine Alone Records. The album features 10 new tracks and the band have shared the first single, ‘Sweet Dreams Of Otherness’. George Pettit says, “This song was largely Dallas’ brain …
News: Royal Blood Announce Huge 2022 UK Arena Tour; Bands New Album ‘Typhoons’ Out Now
From ‘Trouble’s Coming’ to ‘Boilermaker’, Royal Blood’s recent releases are making a phenomenal impact. After three consecutive Hottest Records courtesy of Annie Mac at Radio 1, another 50 million streams and the biggest North American airplay of their career, next Friday’s release of their third album ‘Typhoons’ is set to make the duo bigger than …
PREMIERE: Royal Canoe open the ‘Vault’ with surprise release of rarities album
You know Vancouver’s Royal Canoe, right? Released a very good new album called Sidelining last year? Yeah, them? Well, they’ve made a new record, and it’s out right now. 10 new Royal Canoe songs! For all intents and purposes it’s a brand-new offering, but it’s a rarities collection and not a proper full-length. We’d imagine …
Track/Video: Istanbul’s dark electro-rock agitators Lalalar deliver ‘Alba Deme Lazim Olur’ ahead of album debut ‘‘Bi Cinnete Bakar’.
The sound of the Istanbul underground is juddering ever nearer to your listening posts in the shape of electro-alt-rock agitators Lalalar. With a name that approximates (semi-ironically) ‘The Wise Guys’, this trio has the in-built swagger, edge and beat power to tear up any template of new wave Anatolian psyche that you might cosy up …
Live Review: Puma Blue / Lucy Lu & Uma / Harvey Dweller / Chartreuse – Amsterdam, Bristol, London
Jacob Allen better known as Puma Blue is currently on his North American and EU/UK tour. Backseat Mafia’s Cath Dupuy caught Allen at his Amsterdam, Bristol and London gigs. Lucy Lu & Uma supported in Amsterdam, but then became ill and couldn’t do rest of tour. Puma Blue then had their very own Harvey Dweller …