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Track: Worldcub Share Title Track From Upcoming Album ‘Back To The Beginning’

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Track: Dutch Neo-Soul Riser ROSEYE Shine On New Single ‘Sacred’

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Track: Febueder Share Beguiling & Beautiful New Single ‘Valley Of Kins’

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Here at Backseat Mafia, we have been lauding the dream pop aural landscapes Graywave has created through a series of singles released over the past year. Graywave – the nom de plume of West Midland’s multi-instrumentalist Jess Webberley – has now released an EP entitled ‘Planetary Shift’ through the boutique Brisbane label False Peak Records, …

It is recommended that you have your emergency contacts nearby when you intake the new single ‘Dehumanise’ by New Zealand’s Lords of Loud, The Datsuns. It has the full force a bolt of electricity administered by a faulty defibrillator and the effects will be felt in your ears hours after administration. And what a cathartic …

Texan band ‘Stoneside’ have released their debut single, ‘History Of Violence’. Stoneside of Crane (writer, vocals, instruments and co-arranger) and Wheeler (drummer and co-arranger). The track also has a sinister backstory, as vocalist Crane elaborates: “Down here in Texas, there is a place called the Prison Farm Cemetery. After the Civil War ended in the south, …

DOING the good and steadfast work, Leeds’ Come Play With Me is one of those organisations whose praises we should all sing; deeply involved in supporting the Leeds grassroots scene by way of its singles clubs, concert promotions and compilations (last year’s Come Stay With Me raised funds for musicians losing out in the pandemic, …

It’s been a month since Dubliner David Balfe’s remarkable debut album as For Those I Love was unleashed upon the world to critical acclaim. We absolutely loved it and are happy to see that Balfe is taking the self-titled record on a UK tour; at the start of October, he plays his first gig ever …

CHRIS W RYAN, the restlessly creative, multidisciplinary producer who is guising as SORBET for his latest project, roaming freely and with taste sans frontières – selecting and blending as he sees just, taking electronica, modern composition and pop nous to make intelligent, thematic music. A refreshing palate cleanser. Following the album-announcing “I Heard His Scythe” …

LOS ANGELINO trio Tashaki Miyaki really do put the dream into dreampop, with a deliciously languorous, hazy cast to their music, which seems to call on the Mary Chain, Lush, Hole, Mazzy Star, soothe them into a shoegazey drowse; and they’ve a new album, Castaway, out now on July 2nd – slightly delayed – on Metropolis Records. The new …

THE EVER-prolific Matt Berry has shared another track from his upcoming album, The Blue Elephant. Berry’s latest is not only, as ever, an elaborate and seemingly seamless stretching of his artistic development but also a significant milestone in his Acid Jazz Records career: the record marks his tenth year with the label, and promises to …

Wolfstar is a heavy metal band from Lexington, Kentucky. The band are set to release a five track EP ‘Apotheosis’ due 1st May. Taken from the EP is the track ‘Faceless’. Early metal vibes in the guitar tone and garage band drums but what a voice. Deep and gravely but huge lung filled screaming when needed. …

Bewitcher have shared the 4th and final single ‘Electric Phantoms’ taken from the bands album ‘Cursed Be Thy Kingdom’ M von Bewitcher (vox & guitars) further comments:  “Windswept highways, greasy night clubs, the smell of leather, beer and gasoline. In the glorious days when marauding heavy metal bands roam freely across the land, these things aren’t …