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News: Deftones reissue their White Pony album along with a remix
To mark the 20th anniversary of their 2000 alt-metal opus, White Pony, Deftones are reissuing the album with a companion disc of remixes titled Black Stallion on Reprise / Warner Records. With remixers include icons like Robert Smith of The Cure, DJ Shadow, and Mike Shinoda of Linkin Park alongside genre-bending heavyweights: dark-pop favorites Phantogram, electronic experimentalist Squarepusher, beatsmith Clams Casino, renowned …
Premiere: Sonny Winnebago releases new video for ‘Lemonade’
Welsh-Australian singer-songwriter Harvey Jones has producer Charlie Francis, and session musicians Davey Newington (Boy Azooga) and Matt Evans (KEYS) to release a new single under his moniker Sonny Winnebago called Lemonade, and we’re delighted to premiere the video right here on Backseat Mafia today. Of the track and its accompanying visuals, Jones says “The concept was to create something a …
SEE: Patrick Watson – ‘Lost With You’: piano grace from the brilliant Canadian
CANADIAN songsmith Patrick Watson, who leads the band of the same name, somewhat flies under the radar on UK shores – and that’s bordering on criminal once you dive into his world of beautifully arranged music. You may know him as the man behind (well, the man upfront, since he composed, sang and played piano …
SEE: Calexico to release seasonal album; watch the video for ‘Hear The Bells’
ARIZONA’S atmospheric Tex-Mex outfit Calexico have returned after last year’s collaborative album with Iron & Wine, and have announced a new album whose songs are very much concerned with this time of year in the shape of Seasonal Shift. The album is a celebration of the wider winter and festive season and will be released …
TRACK: Stats – ‘Come With Me’: where the Welsh hills bare synthpop dancefloor teeth
AFTER two singles dropped on the drove road through the autumn in the shape of the swirling and funky “Naturalise Me”, and the graceful boy/girl synthpop of “Old Flames”, which we took a butcher’s at here and here, respectively, Ed Seed and his band have decided to bare their dancefloor teeth as they descend the …
TRACK: Bleach Lab – ‘Never Be’: dreampop brilliance from south of the Thames
SO, BRASS tacks: Bleach Lab, the upcoming dreampop who formed in Buckinghamshire but who moved to a new operating base south of the river; they’re bloody lovely. Now we’ve got that firmly established, we can move on. Agreed? They’ve been around for a little while, and they’ve released three singles since 2019, including the beautiful, …
Track: Black Stone Cherry share third single, ‘In Love With The Pain’ from their forthcoming album
Black Stone Cherry have released ‘In Love With The Pain’, the third new song to be taken from their forthcoming seventh studio album, The Human Condition, set for release on 30th October via Mascot Label Group. Black Stone Cherry tell us: “In Love With The Pain is one of the unexpected classics that we didn’t even know we needed! We …
SEE: The stunning animation for A Certain Ratio’s ‘YoYoGrip’ – two ‘ACR Loco’ tracks meet in harmony
NOT CONTENT to rest on their laurels following the release of ACR Loco, that rich, irresistible return of an album from September, A Certain Ratio have just dropped the animated video for a new single, “YoYoGrip”: yes, that’s right, two of the highlight tracks from that album blended sweetly in a soundclash orchestrated by UK …
NEWS: Scottish Alternative Music Awards announces shortlist and live stream details
THE Scottish Alternative Music Awards (SAMA), now in their eleventh year, is an annual celebration of the best in new leftfield Scottish music. This year’s live ceremony will take place online at 6.30pm on Wednesday, November 18th, in partnership with live streaming platform Twitch. The ceremony will include live performances from Glasgow quintet Walt Disco, who are known …
TRACK: Edith Frost – ‘Little Sign’: a psych-country call for positive action
NOW THERE’S a singer from Drag City’s diverse and always lovable stable that we haven’t heard nearly enough from in recent years. San Antonio’s self-styled purveyor of “pensive, countrified psychedelia”, who recorded a lovely quartet of albums for the label around and just past the turn of the century, has broken ground in 2020 with …