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Track: heka signs to Balloon Machine and drops the smokey noir of ‘(a) wall’

A MULTIDISCIPLINARY artist by trade and by vocation, comfortable in any number of mediums, Heka is the sonic alias of Francesca Brierley, who’s just signed to the excellent Manchester-based independent…

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News: Tame Impala reveals short film on 10-Year Anniversary of ‘InnerSpeaker’

To mark the release of the InnerSpeaker 10 Year Anniversary Edition, Tame Impala, aka Kevin Parker reveals short film InnerSpeaker Memories. Wonderfully captured by director/photographer Matt Sav and edited by…

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Track: HANYA – ‘Lydia’: Rising Brighton shoegazers bring the power and the punch – they’ve announced an autumn tour, too

BRIGHTON shoegazing five-piece HANYA, whose lovely Sea Shoes EP – an eye-poppingly limited cassette release for hometown label Austerity we fell for here – have dropped a new single, the…

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Premiere: Italy’s shoegaze maestros Clustersun reveal visually stunning video for the brilliant track ‘All Your Pain’, and announce new album ‘Avalanche’ for May

We are very honoured to premiere today the visually stunning new video from Italian shoegaze band CLUSTERSUN for their dreamy single ‘All Your Pain’. And to add to the lustre,…

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News: Garbage announce new album ‘No Gods, No Masters’ and release eviscerating single ‘The Men Who Rule The World’

Legendary band Garbage have just announced news of a new album, ‘No Gods, No Masters’ – their seventh – for 11 June 2021 and, in anticipation, have released the single…

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Premiere: Ead Wood release new video for the brilliant indie rock of ‘Environment’

Bristol band Ead Wood have just released their new single, Environmental, taken from their forthcoming EP Songs in the Quay of Sea, and we’re delighted right here on Backseat Mafia…

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Album: ’68 – Give one Take One

Josh Scogin kickstarted ’68 back in 2013, naming the two-man outfit he modestly undersells as “a little rock, a little blues, a little hardcore” after his father’s old Camaro. Joining…

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See: Patrick Belaga – ‘The Tunnel Is A Tower’: off-kilter ambience in which electronica plays against shadowy cello

AS YOU can pretty much deduce from the photo, Patrick Belaga isn’t your common or garden cellist. Classically trained, natch, he loves to bust out of convention – whether that’s…

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Grimmfest Easter Horror Nights Preview

Grimmfest takes place in Manchester every October and has cemented itself on the UK horror film festival calendar. Given the current ‘situation’, things have been a little different over the…

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Track: Jeshua – ‘IDK (mnlghtr remix)’: classy Scottish dreampop gets a blissful breaks rerub

IT WAS only a month back that we covered the third single drop from rather obscenely talented upcoming Glasgow tunesmith Jeshua, “IDK”; and it was another fine entry in his…

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Track: heka signs to Balloon Machine and drops the smokey noir of ‘(a) wall’

News: Tame Impala reveals short film on 10-Year Anniversary of ‘InnerSpeaker’

Track: HANYA – ‘Lydia’: Rising Brighton shoegazers bring the power and the punch – they’ve announced an autumn tour, too

Premiere: Italy’s shoegaze maestros Clustersun reveal visually stunning video for the brilliant track ‘All Your Pain’, and announce new album ‘Avalanche’ for May

News: Garbage announce new album ‘No Gods, No Masters’ and release eviscerating single ‘The Men Who Rule The World’

Premiere: Ead Wood release new video for the brilliant indie rock of ‘Environment’

Album: ’68 – Give one Take One

See: Patrick Belaga – ‘The Tunnel Is A Tower’: off-kilter ambience in which electronica plays against shadowy cello

Grimmfest Easter Horror Nights Preview

Track: Jeshua – ‘IDK (mnlghtr remix)’: classy Scottish dreampop gets a blissful breaks rerub