Backseat Mafia

NEWS: Leeds band Van Houten release ‘Home Alone’ EP this Friday – hear the title track

LEEDS psychedelic pop outfit Van Houten will release their new EP, Home Alone, via Clue Records this Friday, November 13th. Also out this Friday alongside the EP is beautifully personal single, “Not…

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Exclusive: The Last Morrell records ‘The Party’ for Backseat Mafia At Home Sessions

Following on from his recent EP ‘Sarcasm’, where he really introduced himself, Yorkshire born singer-songwriter The Last Morrell has recorded a version of the stand out single from the EP,…

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Track: Exit Kid – Working Stiff

Documenting the trials and tribulations of life on the road, London’s Exit Kid harness their trademark grunge, Britpop and slacker-pop influences with blistering new cut ‘Working Stiff’, taken from the band’s forthcoming ‘Garden…

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IDFA 2020 Preview

The International Documentary Filmfestival Amsterdam (IDFA) is the world’s largest documentary film festival. Despite the closure of theatres in the Netherlands for the early part of November, there will be…

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Track: Alexandra Hamilton-Ayres reveals the beautifully poignant ‘Dance’

Alexandra Hamilton-Ayres has released “Dance”, the first single from her debut album 2 Years Stranger. The Bristol-based film composer spent two years in her family home while her father lay…

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See: Miynt releases new visuals for ‘Give me palm trees and inner peace’

Stockholm artist Miynt has released a new AA-side single consisting of the tracks “Give me palm trees and inner peace” and “Lovesong”. The songs “address the inexorable digital ubiquity of modern-day human connection”. That sounds…

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SEE: Tele Novella – ‘Words That Stay’: another beautiful, quirky lament

VINTAGE shop owner Natalie Ribbons and rare record collector Jason Chronis had been kicking around in various musical projects in Austin, Texas, but knew they could fashion something pretty special when they…

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TRACK: Cabaret Voltaire – ‘What’s Goin On’: a pertinent enquiry, eerily couched

…. IT’S WELL a question we could all be asking. What, indeed, is goin’ on? Society riven; the ‘rona running riot; politicians brazenly self-serving and at new peaks of mendacity.…

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TRACK: MP Productions – ‘In My Heart’: Global Comms man returns with crisp IDM EP for Warp

A PROPER old-skool British IDM general, Mark Pritchard, the man behind Reload, one half of Global Communications (just buy 76:14, OK? Just … buy it), Harmonic 33, so many other…

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Blu-Ray Review: King of New York

There are few actors working in Hollywood today who are as instantly recognisable and steadfastly loved as Christopher Walken. Whilst he’s had a remarkably diverse and rich career, which includes…

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