Backseat Mafia

Track: New Zealand’s enigmatic T.G. Shand gifts us with an exquisite new track ‘Seats’ for the festive season and announces new album for 2022

Ōtautahi/Christchurch resident Annemarie Duff, formerly of the legendary Melbourne shoegaze band Miniatures (on the iconic Saint Marie Records label) is T.G. Shand: the producer of some of the most dreamy velvet textured shoegaze dream…

View Post

View Post

Track: White Void Release New Model Army Cover ‘The Hunt’

Norwegian hard rock band White Void, have released a cover of the song ‘The Hunt’ by British indie rock and post punk heroes New Model Army from their 1986 album The Ghost Of Cain. The track features…

View Post

View Post

Track: Kurokuma Share The Blindingly Brilliant ‘Jaguar’

UK psychedelic sludge-metal band Kurokuma have announced details of their debut album ‘Born of Obsidian’ which is set for release on 4th Feb. The band have shared the first single…

View Post

View Post

PREMIERE: Stream Eric Schroeder’s second album of 2021 in full ahead of release tomorrow

If you haven’t been keeping up, San Diego’s Eric Schroeder released his most recent album in April – a deeply personal offering that was, as Donnie and Marie Osmond didn’t…

View Post

View Post

PREMIERE: John Dwyer is at it again on Gong Splat’s self-titled debut album

You know John Dwyer, right? Him from the Osees/Oh Sees/OCS etc.? If so, you know he’s famously prolific, and even though his main gig have taken a year off from…

View Post

View Post

Premiere: Robbi Niles reveals new visuals for current single ‘Melody’

Captivating R&B artist Robbi Niles has returned with a new single, titled ‘Melody’, and we’re delighted to be able to premiere it right here on Backseat Mafia today. The Barbados…

View Post

View Post

Track: Fontaines D.C. treat fans to a Christmas present with ‘A Lucid Dreamer (Live Version)’

Fontaines D.C. have given fans an early Christmas present, a surprise release of ‘A Lucid Dreamer (Live Version)’ on all streaming platforms. It is a stripped back version of ‘A…

View Post

View Post

Live review: The Charlatans and Martin Carr, Exeter University, December 14th, 2021 plus gallery

A GREATEST hits tour, from The Charlatans, you say? Actually, I thought: with the increasingly Kafkaesque qualities of everyday life in the political, viral and, it being December, the actual…

View Post

View Post

Track: Owen FitzGerald investigates the disassociative in the confessional alt.country of ‘Touching The Oven At Work’

DURHAM, North Carolina-based Americana troubadour Owen FitzGerald isn’t just a songwriter of whom you can simply say, he looks askance at life in a refreshing way couched in sound songsmithery…

View Post

View Post

Track: Roedelius & Story show us the beauty of four hands working in empathy on the nuanced piano duet, ‘Ba’

PEOPLE can often bandy about terms such as legendary and scion with a carefree laziness; but, when it comes to German electronic and ambient music pioneer Hans-Joachim Roedelius, now into…

View Post

Pages

Home

Track: New Zealand’s enigmatic T.G. Shand gifts us with an exquisite new track ‘Seats’ for the festive season and announces new album for 2022

Track: White Void Release New Model Army Cover ‘The Hunt’

Track: Kurokuma Share The Blindingly Brilliant ‘Jaguar’

PREMIERE: Stream Eric Schroeder’s second album of 2021 in full ahead of release tomorrow

PREMIERE: John Dwyer is at it again on Gong Splat’s self-titled debut album

Premiere: Robbi Niles reveals new visuals for current single ‘Melody’

Track: Fontaines D.C. treat fans to a Christmas present with ‘A Lucid Dreamer (Live Version)’

Live review: The Charlatans and Martin Carr, Exeter University, December 14th, 2021 plus gallery

Track: Owen FitzGerald investigates the disassociative in the confessional alt.country of ‘Touching The Oven At Work’

Track: Roedelius & Story show us the beauty of four hands working in empathy on the nuanced piano duet, ‘Ba’