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New York punks The Jukebox Romantics channel their inner Mariah Carey for new video ‘Hey Nora’

Taken from their forthcoming EP ‘Fires Forming’ – out on December 17th via Sell the Heart Records (U.S.) and Engineer Records (UK), New York based punk quartet The Jukebox Romantics…

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News: The Charlatans reveal music box in support of ‘The Music Venue Trust’

Who doesn’t love those little wind up music boxes of yesteryear, and also The Charlatans anthem ‘The Only One I Know’. Well certainly not us here at Backseat Mafia, and…

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Album review: Pie Eye Collective – ‘Salvation’: genius future broken beat and addictive intricacy map a curious world

PIE EYE COLLECTIVE is the solo project of Bristol-born, London-based sound scientist Matthew Gordon, who melds elements of ambient, broken beat, dub-techno and hip hop, all refracted and discoloured via…

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Film Review: Rose Plays Julie

Humans are naturally curious. Whilst this inquisitiveness often fades as we get older, the impulse to discover our roots remains strong. Whether this is in the forlorn hope that despite…

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Sheila preparing to express her emotions

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TIFF Review: Quickening

The journey faced by migrants leaving their home, families and cultures behind for a new and/or better life is long and often winding. The difficulties of integration. Of learning a…

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TIFF Review: Benediction

Whilst poetry today is normally consigned to the specialist sections of bookstores, if stocked at all, at the time of World War I it was still popular. Especially in the…

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TIFF Review: Julia

If you turn on your TV set today, you’ll not need to channel hop for too long before you encounter a cookery show. They’ve become a staple of daytime television…

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Track: LLNN – Desecrator

Unmaker, the 3rd album by Copenhagen’s LLNN, set for release on 24th September via Pelagic Records. The band have shared another single and new video for track ‘Desecrator’. Ketil G.…

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TIFF Review: Lo Invisible

Whilst most new mothers experience what is often jokingly called the ‘baby blues’, postpartum depression is no laughing matter. Affecting over one in ten women, it’s much more invasive than…

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Gloria and Marcel get up close and personal

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TIFF Review: Inexorable

During the 1990s, erotic thrillers were big business. The likes of Fatal Attraction, Basic Instinct, Disclosure, Body of Evidence and The Last Seduction were not only critically acclaimed and successful…

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New York punks The Jukebox Romantics channel their inner Mariah Carey for new video ‘Hey Nora’

News: The Charlatans reveal music box in support of ‘The Music Venue Trust’

Album review: Pie Eye Collective – ‘Salvation’: genius future broken beat and addictive intricacy map a curious world

Film Review: Rose Plays Julie

TIFF Review: Quickening

TIFF Review: Benediction

TIFF Review: Julia

Track: LLNN – Desecrator

TIFF Review: Lo Invisible

TIFF Review: Inexorable