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Track: Southampton trio Mystic Peach share shoegazey grunge banger ‘Wanna Be My Daddy?’
RELEASED via Honeymooner Records, who are also known for being one of the premier promoters on the South Coast, with shows from the likes of black midi, Fontaines DC, Black Country, New Road and Fat White Family being just a handful of names to grace the Honeymooner stages, the newest single from the trio encapsulates …
PREMIERE: See Daisy Coburn’s ‘Fire’: A flamin’ hot tune from new Austerity signing
BRIGHTON’S Austerity Records, the up and coming label home already to the dark-edged dream pop stylings of the lovely Winter Gardens, is pleased to announce another worthy addition to its roster: London solo artiste Daisy Coburn. Today at Backseat Mafia we’re premiering the flaming first fruits of this new partnership, with the video for the …
PREMIERE: Disco Zombies – ‘Drums Over London’: see the video for a track from Optic Nerve’s forthcoming deluxe punk reissue
YOU’VE got to applaud Optic Nerve; the Preston label that reissues some of the most excellent lost cult classics of British punk and indie culture (am I alone in finding my jaw drop involuntarily when I found you could buy a new pressing of, say, The Loft’s “Up The Hill And The Down The Slope” …
TRACK: Fujiya & Miyagi – ‘Feeling The Effects (Of Saturday Night)’
BRIGHTON’S cool groovers Fujiya & Miyagi used what we can now refer to as period of history known as Lockdown One wisely, and kept on creating. They dug back into the archives, blowing the dust from abandoned hard drives and found a fragment of an idea dating all the way back to 2000. Socially distanced …
News: The White Stripes announce news of their Greatest Hits album
The White Stripes are set to release the first-ever official anthology of recordings from the iconic rock duo via Third Man Records and Columbia Records. The anthology features 26 previously released songs for this essential, career-spanning set, such as “Seven Nation Army,” “Fell In Love With A Girl,” “Hotel Yorba,” “Dead Leaves And The Dirty …
Premiere: Jack Hinks reveals new video and single, ‘Jigsaw’
HERE at Backseat Mafia we’re very happy to premiere the video for Edinburgh singer-songwriter Jack Hinks’ brand new single, “Jigsaw”, out tomorrow. Jack is quickly becoming well-known in Scotland due to his introspective songwriting, renowned guitar playing and cross-media experimentation. With his multidisciplinary project Fabric is raising awareness of mental health issues and recovery, Jack …
SEE: Emma Miller – ‘Set Me Down’: piano-led lusciousness from Elgin
EMMA MILLER is a folk singer-songwriter with a very delicate and potent touch to her tunesmithery who, as so many of us do, left for the bright lights of London – but who also had the perspicacity and vision to shut that door again and leave for another, better way. She’s been releasing music entirely …
Soundtrack of Our Lives: Tom Joshua
TOM JOSHUA is a young singer-songwriter from Stockton-on-Tees, who’s set a course to seduce us with sweet and emotive, well-sculpted guitar and piano-led songs such as the autumnal fragility of “Meteor Showers”. He’s just released the Undergrowth EP (watch the video for the title track, here), and not content with just that, has made a …
SEE: Satoshi Kanno – ‘Elastic’: morphing IDM with enveloping visuals
A MULTI-media artist based in Tokyo, Satoshi Kanno has been splicing delicate skeins of noise with with tough beats since 2013. He’s appeared on a number of compilations, including Nenormalizm’s Various – Nenormalizm Birthday Gathering in 2015 and 樹海 Sea Of Trees; following that with a brace of EPs which you can still revel in …