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Willie J Healey – ‘Merry Christmas’: seasonal songcraft to end the year

OXFORDSHIRE songsmith and former amateur boxing champion Willie J Healey is finishing a year of deserved musical resurgence on a seasonal note, as he drops the classicism of “Merry Christmas”…

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News: Lanterns on the Lake announce live dates, plus rescheduled release

“One for the introverts and dreamers, the ones that still find beauty and magic in things” Now, technically speaking, we at Backseat Mafia have already previewed this back in October,…

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SEE: Don Letts’ new video for The Clash’s ‘Magnificent Seven’

COME December 1980, and The Clash brought their all-encompassing ambition to bear on the triple-disc, 36-song Sandanista!, taking in dub, rockabilly, jazz, disco, hiphop, reggae and more. One of the…

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Film Review – The Blackout: Invasion Earth

Whilst most people in the West might not be aware of it, over the past couple of decades Russian cinema has set its sights on rivalling Hollywood. This has resulted…

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Track: Ill Nino – Máscara

Latin metal kings Ill Nino are back with a brand new song, ‘Máscara’ via Break Silence Music featuring a guest performance from AJ Channer of Fire From The Gods. Singer Marcos Leal Says, “I’m…

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Track: Indica Blues Share Title Track From New Album – We Are Doomed

Indica Blues are a four-piece psychedelic doom band from Oxford, U.K. Recently signed to APF records they are set to release their debut album ‘We Are Doomed’ due 12th February.…

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EP REVIEW: Tori Amos – ‘Christmastide’: four originals for the season

A stateswoman of female musical discourse takes the Christmas song tradition and makes of it something thoughtful, intelligent and nuanced

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TRACK: Tindersticks cover the Television Personalities’ ‘You’ll Have To Scream Louder’ – new album next year

NOTTINGHAM’S finest, Tindersticks, are all set to release a new album in 2021 on City Slang, their home for most of the past decade; and they’ve dropped their first single,…

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SEE: Jon Hopkins covers Thom Yorke’s ‘Dawn Chorus’

AS THIS most hellishly viral year’s eyelids droop and it prepares to exit stage left, the masterful Jon Hopkins has brought some beautiful piano catharsis and grace for our troubled…

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NEWS: Evanescence announce release date for their new album, ‘The Bitter Truth’

EVANESCENCE’S first album of original music in a decade, The Bitter Truth, will be released on March 26th next year Sony Music, and pre-orders are now live. The band’s latest…

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Willie J Healey – ‘Merry Christmas’: seasonal songcraft to end the year

News: Lanterns on the Lake announce live dates, plus rescheduled release

SEE: Don Letts’ new video for The Clash’s ‘Magnificent Seven’

Film Review – The Blackout: Invasion Earth

Track: Ill Nino – Máscara

Track: Indica Blues Share Title Track From New Album – We Are Doomed

EP REVIEW: Tori Amos – ‘Christmastide’: four originals for the season

TRACK: Tindersticks cover the Television Personalities’ ‘You’ll Have To Scream Louder’ – new album next year

SEE: Jon Hopkins covers Thom Yorke’s ‘Dawn Chorus’

NEWS: Evanescence announce release date for their new album, ‘The Bitter Truth’