Music
Track: Fleshgod Apocalypse Cover Eiffel 65’s track Blue (Da Ba Dee)
Orchestral death metal masters, Fleshgod Apocolypse, are ringing in 2021 with an unexpected cover of fellow Italian electronic group Eiffel 65’s 1998 hit single “Blue (Da Ba Dee).” Commenting on the cover, Fleshgod Apocolypse frontman Francesco Paoli states: “After the amazing response over our latest single “No,” we wanted to release something that could make the end of this shitty 2020 a bit funnier …
SEE: Jon Mueller – ‘Welcome’: glorious drone textures from Wisconsin
WISCONSIN musician? Sound artist? Explorer? Curator? – all of these things, Jon Mueller is always seeking new confluences of thought and sound. He may be best known to you as part of Volcano Choir, in which he lined up alongside Justin Vernon of Bon Iver to push out the boundaries of alt.rock into weirder, treated shapes, employing …
Track: Falcon Jane releases new Romshii remix of ‘Heaven’
Ontario based artist Falcon Jane, aka Sara May, released her album ‘Faith’ at last year via Pittsburgh based label Darling Recordings, which garnered a serious amount of praise. The album proved to be an insight into memory, grief and loss, with Sara losing a succession of immediate family members during 2019 when writing the album. …
SEE: Cathal Coughlan – ‘Song Of Co-Aklan’: Cork’s devilish genius is once more to the breach
CATHAL COUGHLAN, the devilish genius behind such acts as Microdisney and The Fatima Mansions, has always been a joyous thorn in the side of Irish alternative music; erudite, scathing, never afraid to tread his own, rockier path. He’s been away a decade – how did that happen? – yep, the last missive from Cathal-land was …
See: Teenage Fanclub release new video for ‘Home’, plus new album news
In these most desperate of times, we all need something to hold onto, and what better than new music from the most life affirming of all bands, Teenage Fanclub. They’ve released a new video for the track ‘Home’, which is the opening track from the bands forthcoming tenth studio album, Endless Arcade, which is out …
Premiere: Joel Stanton reveals new video / single, Pay Me Please
Los Angeles indie / electronic artist, Joel Stanton is back with a new single, Pay Me Please, taken from his upcoming album ‘In Harmony’, and we’re delighted to premiere it right here on Backseat Mafia today. Of the track, Joel says “The song confronts the ego-bruising nature of the creative hustle, on a bed of …
TRACK: IsoPHeX – ‘Doppelgänger’: haunting, propulsive ‘tronica from North Wales
CAE GWYN RECORDS is a little label out in Snowdonia which quietly goes about the business of releasing excellent tunes well-springing from the Welsh underground – which is what you want, really. Alongside label head honcho Dan Amor, and his beautifully blurry, chiming guitar essays, keeping that particularly Welsh psych-pop torch burning bright, Cae Gwyn …
News: Unflesh announce news of new album Inhumation and share art work and trailer
New Hampshire-based blackened melodic death metallers Unflesh are excited to announce their second full-length, ‘Inhumation’. Set for release on Friday, April 2nd. The band partnered with artist Junki Sakuraba (Seven Spires) once again to create the killer album art for Inhumation. The album was mixed and mastered by renowned musician and engineer V. Santura (Triptykon, Dark Fortress, …
Album Review: The White Stripes – Greatest Hits
The White Stripes always seemed to be a band that stood apart. Yeah, they were part of the garage-rock revival movement of the early 2000s, but unlike the other act from that scene that critics hyped beyond all comprehension at the time, The Strokes, Jack and Meg White didn’t fall foul of the weight of …
EP: Pluto Is A Planet – Dying Every Second
Out now on Bandcamp, via Shore Dive Records is the debut ep, ‘Dying Every Second’ from Australian Dreampop/Shoegaze/Synth band, Pluto Is A Planet. The EP opener ‘Binary’ is a track which wavers in a hazy ambience, before being catapulted into noisy guitar Shoegaze yet underpinned by a Dancy, Baggy Beat. This tune, with its rhythms, …