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Premiere: We Are Waves – SELVA
Backseat Mafia is honoured to premiere the new video from Italian post-punk/synthwave band We Are Waves for their blistering new track ‘SELVA’. Brewed and percolated in lockdown conditions, the wave of innovative and very exciting music from Italy continues unabated in this track: a hybrid of electronic industrial drive and straight out indie rock. The …
Exclusive: Tommy Ashby does Blood Wolf Moon live in session for Backseat Mafia
We fell for Scottish singer-songwriter Tommy Ashby’s recent Blood Wolf Moon single, its aching melancholy set against this bubbling acoustic guitar, so we were absolutely delighted when he agreed to do an At Home Session for us here at Backseat Mafia and record the track, taken from his forthcoming EP ‘Everywhere is Home’, out this …
Say Psych: Premiere: The Oscillation – Droneweapon Phase 1
Over the duration of its lifetime, The Oscillation has come to be recognised as one of the leading lights in contemporary psychedelia. Fuelled by a restless desire to push ever further forward, The Oscillation’s explorations into the furthest reaches of music, sound and sonic dynamics have ensured a back catalogue where no two albums sound …
Premiere: Jo Meares – The Dirty Game of Art
Here at Backseat Mafia we are very proud to premiere the brilliant new track ‘The Dirty Art of Game’ from Sydney artist Jo Meares. This is a stunning and mesmerising song – haunting, poetic and celestial in its tone. Foremost is the rumbling hypnotic vocals that weave an enticing tale of temptation and sin in …
Premiere: Beezewax – Mom and Dad
Beezewax have been pillars of the Norwegian indie scene for over a decade, fading in and out of the scene, as bands do from time to time, but providing consistently energising material throughout. We are privileged to premiere their new song ‘Mom and Dad’ which is in fact a cover of a song by fellow …
Premiere: The Apartments – Pocketful of Sunshine
Sydney’s legendary The Apartments are back with a new album, ‘In and out of the light’, out on September 18th via Talitres Records. Peter Milton Walsh formed his charges in Brisbane back in 1978, and took them from Australia to firstly New York, then London when they were signed by Rough Trade, finally back to …
Premiere: The Total Rejection release new video for ‘Gravy’
We’ve already fallen pretty much head over heels for Garage / Psych rockers The Total Rejection, and their forthcoming album The Time Traveller’s 3rd Will & Testament’ (Raving Pop Blast! Records), which you can peruse at your leisure here, so we’re delighted to premiere the new video for the track ‘Gravy’, right here on Backseat Mafia. …
Exclusive: The Ghost of Helags record Chemistry live in session for Backseat Mafia
The Ghost Of Helags, aka singer songwriter Teresa Woischiski and producer John Alexander Ericson, have already attracted out attention with their brilliant track Chemistry, this dark nuances synth-pop track full of emotion and brilliant melodies, so we were delighted that the Swedish duo, now living in Berlin, agreed to record the track for an ‘At …
Premiere: Tamara Hall – Bubble Bubble
Electronic producer Tamara Hall has been turning heads and ears since she was 15, signing to German label Plasmapool just a year after beginning to produce music herself. The Limerick producer she’s received airplay all over her native Ireland and beyond, and produced produced a number of irish artists including Gavin Da Vinci, who is …
Premiere: Omar Addis – Easy
21 year old Cardiff producer / songwriter Omar Addis releases his new single ‘Easy’ on 29th June, and we’re delighted to premiere it right here on Backseat Mafia this morning. Of the track, Omar told us “Easy is a tune that I have been working on for almost two years now. It started off sounding …