News: Sigrid wins BBC sound of 2018
The BBC have been pioneering new music for many years (just like we like we do here at Backseat Mafia towers). Their annual poll artists and bands we can expect…
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News: Charlotte Gainsbourg announces European/Japanese tour dates
With the sound of her current single ‘Songbird in a cage’, co-written by Sir Paul McCartney, rattling around your radios, Charlotte Gainsbourg had revealed a run of European and Japanese…
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News: The Fallen State announce March/April UK tour
Fresh from successful tours with Black Stone Cherry, US Grammy winners Halestorm, 3 Doors Down and fellow UK rockers Young Guns and Heavens Basement, UK five piece The Fallen State…
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See: Nightmares on Wax release new video for Shape the Future, plus tour dates
It’s been five years since we had a Nightmares on Wax album to get our teeth into, but that wait is about to come to an end with the release…
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Obituary: Motorhead guitarist Fast Eddie Clarke dies at 67
And so the so-called classic trio is no more. The last remaining member of iconic heavy metal band Motörhead best known line up, ‘fast’ Eddie Clarke has died, aged 67.…
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Say Psych: News: The Men put out first track ‘Maybe I’m Crazy’ from upcoming album Drift
To coincide with their 10th anniversary, Brooklyn-based quartet The Men have announced they are to release a new album on 2nd March on Sacred Bones Records. The first take taken from…
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See: Car Seat Headrest reveals video for Nervous Young Inhumans, plus album news and tour dates
“It was never a finished work,” Will Toledo aka Car Seat Headrest says of his 2011 Bandcamp album Twin Fantasy, “and it wasn’t until last year that I figured out…
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News: The Low Anthem reveal new concept album, watch album trailer
The eminent classical avant garde composer John Cage visited the music college I attended in my youth. Little did he expect, I’m sure, after a detailed explanation of his chance…
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See: Underground Lovers release new video for Every Sign and announce tour
Melbourne’s magnificent Underground Lovers have released a new video for the song “Every Sign” off last year’s epic album “Staring at you, Staring at me” (reviewed here). This is in…
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News: Bradford to reissue Shouting Quietly plus extras via A Turntable friend
Ah, Bradford. If you’ve followed Backseat Mafia through the years, you’ll be well aware of our devotion to Blackburns skinhead indie soulboys Bradford. A light that shines so brightly it…
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