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News: Heligoland’s Karen Vogt announces new collaboration with ambient experimental composer Pepo Galán and unveils the glorious single ‘The Dark Opens the Way’

Australian born, Paris-based artist Karen Vogt has blessed these pages in the past with her band, the magnificent Heligoland (see our interview and review of their last album ‘This Quiet…

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Album Review: The Wildhearts – 21st Century Love Songs

The follow up to 2019’s ‘Renaissance Men’, sees Ginger Wildheart, CJ, Rich Battersby and Danny McCormack back in the studio to drop another tub-thumper of a record. The fact these guys…

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Album Review: Rituals – Awake EP

Newcastle metal band Rituals have been teasing audiences for a while now by dropping various singles over the last couple of years. Now the band have dropped their EP Awake…

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Album Review: Elaine Palmer – The Land Between

Elaine Palmer hails from an isolated village up on the North Yorkshire Moors but travels back and forward to her family in Phoenix Arizona. Growing up in an old Watermill…

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Premiere: The Daydream Club release new video for Endgames

Out tomorrow is the new a single from The Daydream Club, taken from the duo’s forthcoming album ‘All our born days’ out on November 5th via Poco Poco Records and…

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Premiere: Sophie Mahon’s sparkling dedication to devotion, ‘Bogart’s Eyes’, is a rich and luscious tapestry.

The rich and luscious sounds on Sophie Mahon‘s ‘Bogart’s Eyes’, premiered here in Backseat Mafia today, transports one to the eighties: there is a palpable new romantic shimmer and an…

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Premiere: Sydney’s Pluto Jonze releases double sided psychedelic singles ‘Moonmaking’ and ‘Dot’: two dollops of sweet ethereal goodness.

We are very proud to premiere the double sided single release from esteemed Sydney-based artist Pluto Jonze (Hey Geronimo). ‘Moonmaking’ and ‘Dot’ are two sides of the same sparkling coin:…

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EP Premiere: Fair Visions – Modern Kids

We’ve got a midweek treat for you on the site today, in the form of New Yorker Ryan Work’s new EP. As Fair Visions, he released his debut EP A…

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Film Review: Yakuza Princess

In the real world your life chances are influenced, to a large degree, by who your parents are and where you’re born. It’s not so straightforward in the movies. We…

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News: Johnny Marr announces new EP ‘Fever Dreams Pt 1’ and unveils video for anthemic and effervescent track ‘Spirit Power & Soul’

The winner of the best guitarist in the universe and nicest chap alive (by me anyway), Johnny Marr, has just announced the release of a new EP entitled ‘Fever Dreams…

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News: Heligoland’s Karen Vogt announces new collaboration with ambient experimental composer Pepo Galán and unveils the glorious single ‘The Dark Opens the Way’

Album Review: The Wildhearts – 21st Century Love Songs

Album Review: Rituals – Awake EP

Album Review: Elaine Palmer – The Land Between

Premiere: The Daydream Club release new video for Endgames

Premiere: Sophie Mahon’s sparkling dedication to devotion, ‘Bogart’s Eyes’, is a rich and luscious tapestry.

Premiere: Sydney’s Pluto Jonze releases double sided psychedelic singles ‘Moonmaking’ and ‘Dot’: two dollops of sweet ethereal goodness.

EP Premiere: Fair Visions – Modern Kids

Film Review: Yakuza Princess

News: Johnny Marr announces new EP ‘Fever Dreams Pt 1’ and unveils video for anthemic and effervescent track ‘Spirit Power & Soul’