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News: Dokken release LP & CD box-sets of their four classic albums.
The 4 albums that made Dokken one of the ’80s top rock bands collected together as a box set (available in LP or CD formats) from BMG, ’The Elektra Albums 1983-1987.‘ Available now, the limited edition set includes Dokken‘s million-selling, worldwide charting first 4 studio albums (’Breaking the Chains,‘ ’Tooth and Nail,‘ ’Under Lock and …
Album Review : New Age Doom & Lee Scratch Perry – Remix The Universe : a daring excavation of The Upsetter’s parting gift.
This is exactly how Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry would have liked it now that he’s left us. Not just commemoration with a stream of inevitable reissues or out-take raids from his archive but something more vibrant, new music with him providing its soul. Dial back to November 2021 when the legendary Upsetter performed as the inspirational …
News: keep of kalessin to release new album ‘katharsis’ march 24th.
Keep of Kalessin return with their most epic work to date! The pioneers of Epic Extreme Metal have crafted an album that will hit both hard and direct as well as challenge the listeners with its rich detail and enormous atmosphere.Epic and melodic. Extreme, yet diverse. Intense, captivating and simply grand in every form! Katharsis marks a …
Album Review: Gena Rose Bruce’s ‘Deep Is The Way’ is an ethereal, majestic triumph. Australian and UK tour dates also announced.
We here at Backseat Mafia have been long time fans of Melbourne-based chanteuse Gena Rose Bruce with her smoky, sultry voice and reverb-inflected laconic style that comes across as a melange of Mazzy Star and P.J. Harvey: a femme fatale with a steely spine cloaked in luscious velvet and a smoldering style. We first noticed her soon …
Track: The Pinx – You’re Not The One
The Pinx have shared their brand new single ‘You’re Not The One’ taken from the album ‘The Pinx’, which came out now via Earache Distribution. The band state: “You’re Not The One is an exercise in lust and longing but also regret and shame. I was saving myself for “the one” and she was determined …
News: Coyle Girelli Shares Brand New Single ‘True Love Forever’ From Upcoming Musical Theatre Show
‘True Love Forever’ is a brand new single by the New York City based British singer-songwriter Coyle Girelli. His first release since 2022’s ‘Funland’, his second solo album, and its acoustic companion piece, ‘Stripped’, the song appears in a show that he has created in collaboration with the musical theatre company Third Rail Projects. Girelli …
Say Psych: Track Review: Golden Hours – Come and Find Me
Based between Berlin and Brussels, Golden Hours is comprised of past and present members of Gang Of Four, The Brian Jonestown Massacre, Tricky, The Fuzztones and The Third Sound, to name just a few. A band with mileage and stories, Golden Hours trade in rock’n’roll missives that are at times dark, tense and hypnotic, at others sweaty, relentless and danceable. Their debut …
PREMIERE: Tearing Up shares video for ‘Said Something’; debut album Heavy out today
That Graham Caldwell keeps busy, doesn’t he? Back in October, we premiered ‘Highway Bandits’ from the Ontario native’s Billy is Dead EP (his debut release after retiring the Billy Moon moniker); what we didn’t know at the time was there was an entire debut album on the way in three months, so we’re delighted to …
News: Rock & Roll legends KISS release new archival title with ‘KISS – Off The Soundboard: Poughkeepsie, New York, 1984’
THIS CLASSIC 1984 PERFORMANCE FROM POUGHKEEPSIE, NEW YORK IS AVAILABLE ON DOUBLE VINYL, CD & DIGITAL LOS ANGELES, CA – January 27, 2023 – On April 7, rock icons KISS will release the next installment of their Off The Soundboard official live bootleg series with KISS – Off The Soundboard: Poughkeepsie, New York, 1984. Recorded live at the Mid-Hudson Arena …