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Premiere: BrucexCampbell Share track ‘Project Annihilation’ – Listen first here
LA Grindcore band BruceXCampbell have announced the North American vinyl release of their debut full length album ‘South To No Life’ via Give Praise Records. The band share track ‘Project Annihilation’ and we’re delighted to premiere it right here on Backseat Mafia today. Named in homage to the famous Evil Dead actor, BruceXCampbell has been blasting furious, horror-themed grindcore since 2005. …
Premiere: Dirty Freud releases new single Blood Bayou – listen first here
Taken from his upcoming EP ‘Love In The Backwater’, out on Modern Sky UK later in the year, Sheffield producer Dirty Freud is back with a new single Blood Bayou, and we’re delighted to premiere it right here on Backseat Mafia today. It’s the follow up to his lauded recent single ‘Intentions’ (ft. Szou), and …
Premiere: Mindset releases new single, Purple Açai
We’re becoming almost the official Mindset channel here on Backseat Mafia, having premiered his previous two singles ‘Breakfast in Bed’ and ‘I still use Ur netflix’, but the Colombia, South Carolina native makes such a catchy brand of soulful/funky hip-hop, we can’t ignore, so we’re delighted to premiere his latest release – Purple Açai. Named …
PREMIERE: Fixtures – ‘Five Ft One, Six Ft Ten’: proper scruffy, shredding alt.guitar pop like they used to make
BROOKLYN five-piece Fixtures know how to do a ridiculously fun guitar pop rush. Really, they do. They’ve just signed on the dotted with Spain’s Bobo Integral, and will be releasing their debut EP, Weak Automatic, for their new home in December. We’ve had a little listen, and another one, and another; and it really is …
PREMIERE: JR Samuels – ‘Doomer’: fine porchside guitar soli outta Philly
JR SAMUELS has been involved in the indie and underground scenes of the North-Eastern United States for the better half of a decade now. While resident in Ithaca in New York’s Finger Lakes back in 2015, he tickled the six strings in fine lofi outfit Izzy True and also steered the good ship Sweet Baby …
Exclusive: Alasdair Roberts records ‘Seagulls, Belts’ for Backseat Mafia live in session
Nearly 20 years after dropping his Appendix Out moniker, the name he used for his early output that put him firmly on the Folk map, Alasdair Roberts revisited it for his recent album ‘The Songs of My Boyhood’, which came out digitally recently on the acclaimed Drag City label. Mixing things up somewhere between Scottish …
Premiere: The Bachelor Pad reveal new video for Meet the Lovely Jenny Brown
Well yes and no, if that’s your question. Yes, there’s a new record from the all too briefly Brilliant The Bachelor Pad, the Strathbungo, Glasgow based psychedelic indie poppers who scored big (at least on tunes, and scruffy brilliant ones at that – and influence) with their solitary album – 1990’s Tales of Hofmann and …
Premiere: LE JUNK reveals new single and visuals for ‘Level 3”
London producer LE JUNK’s new single, Level 3, is out today on Naked Superstar Recordings and we’re delighted to premiere it, along with the Elliott Gonzo directed accompanying visuals, right here on Backseat Mafia today. Produced by Dan White (Buff Records) the track is lyrically at least, a metaphor of a love song, advocating treating …
Premiere: John McLucas releases new single ‘Play It Out’
San Francisco singer-songwriter John McLucas is back with a new track, Play It Out, and we’re delighted to premiere it right here on Backseat Mafia this morning. After starting out as a songwriter/producer for other artists such as Krimetz, George Brandt and Tamara Bubble, he moved to LA to pursue his dream of being an …
Premiere: Divest – Time Well Spent
There’s something in the Scandinavian air that’s producing some pretty special music. This time around, it’s Divest, a Norwegian indie pop band that are premiering their new album ‘Time Well Spent’ on Backseat Mafia. This is as far as you can get from a bleak Nordic winter: it’s bright, sparkling summery pop that canters forth …