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Say Psych Premiere: Driftwood Pyre – Strangeways EP
Driftwood Pyre from Minneapolis USA, are back with their new EP Strangeways, set for release on Record Store Day – 22nd April 2017 on EXAG Records and Backseat Mafia are pleased to offer you an exclusive stream. Having begun in the winter of 2012, Liam Watkins and Aaron James found themselves in the midst of …
Premiere: One day, After school – Hammer and Anvil
Wakefield ‘post everything’ band, One Day, After School, are gearing up for the launch of their debut album ‘The Invisible Anchor’ in just under a months time. As a precursor to the 12″, they’d like to whet your appetite with the video for ‘Hammer and Anvil’. ‘Hammer and Anvil’, backed with ‘Make Do’, is available as …
Premiere: Dominic Waxing Lyrical releases new video for ‘Susan Sontag’, plus UK tour dates
Ahead of the release of Dominic Waxing Lyrical’s new album ‘Rural Tonic’, which drops on 21st April via Tenement Records, we’re delighted to premiere the new video for his new single ‘Sunsan Sontag’. The Edinburgh based poet, otherwise known as Dominic Harris and his ever changing line up of collaborators this time features both his …
PREMIERE: INTRODUCING SCAB HAND & THEIR DEBUT RELEASE ‘IRREGULAR BED’
Squeezing out from between the cracks in the floorboards of the garage punk underground come’s Scab Hand. They’re loud, visceral and they will make you itch. Scratch that itch and just below the surface you’ll find ex-members of Love Buzzard rubbing body parts with ex members of Eighties Matchbox B-Line Disaster, giving us a cross …
Premiere: Graces – Smile
Sheffield band Graces have set the mark with new single ‘Smile’, released on 10th March 2017, introducing their own brand of cinematic indie-pop to the modern world. The track will be officially launched with a sold-out show at the Rocking Chair, cementing their roots in Sheffield’s rich indie music heritage. ‘Smile’ follows the band’s debut EP …
Premiere: Long Teeth – Pangea
Here at Backseat Mafia, we’re delighted to premiere the new single from East London three piece Long Teeth. Called Pangea, it’s out on March 20th via Drastic Decline Records and precedes the bands ‘Canned Laughter’ EP which follows in April. The EP is a follow on from the bands two previous self-released singles – ‘Little …
Premiere: The Holiday Crowd release video for Cheer Up
Toronto indie pop quartet The Holiday Crowd have released a new video for ‘Cheer Up’, debuting here today on Backseat Mafia. It was the first single to be taken from the bands self-titled sophomore effort, which dropped last month on the Shelflife label. Cheer up is this picture-postcard indie pop (postcard being the operative word …
Premiere: Studio Montaigne – Believe (Tëro remix)
French producer, composer and arranger Studio Montaigne aka Martin Helleu is about to drop his latest EP, Believe – and from it we are delighted to premiere the Tëro remix of the track. Influenced by the likes of Daft Punk to Michael Jackson, Armand Van Helden to Visage, Helleu has made what is essentially a …
Premiere: Low Cut Connie release video for Revolution Rock n Roll
What happens when things get rather out of hand. Low Cut Connie Frontman / songwriter Adam Weiner describes a night thats been documented in their new video for Revolution Rock n Roll as one where “the room was throbbing with existential tension and orgiastic release…our fans showed up stressed and depressed and we gave them …
Premiere: Equators – Second Wind
Equators are essentially the project of Trevor H, and they make rather lovely psychedelic pop out of San Francisco, CA. Describing their output as being an attempt to “break away from a (sometimes) forced or narrow structure within pop/rock music to conjure sounds/textures/melodies based on off-the-cuff exercises creating something charged with immediacy…little by little the …