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Track: The Finalists release new single ‘Learn to Live Without You’ and announce news of album ‘First’

Sydney group The Finalists follow up their earlier single ‘Ignore All The Hate (On Your Telephone)’, premiered here on Backseat Mafia, with a bright jangly sixties-infused track ‘Learn to Live…

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News: METZ Announce ‘No Ceiling’ Video, LP Launch Shows, European Tour

Following hot on the heels of the critical acclaim that greeted the release of their fourth album ‘Atlas Vending’ on Friday, Toronto noise punk stalwarts METZ have dropped another new…

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Film Review: Vicious Fun

There is, undoubtedly, a disgraceful lack of diversity within genre cinema. Despite the range of characters who contribute to horror films, the only voices we generally get to hear of…

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Droppin’ Knowledge: Behind The Boards With Farma Beats

In 2018, Brooklyn spitter Rome Streetz released one of the best collections of hip hop that year, Street Pharmacy. The album is filled with hard-hitting street stories, told with precision…

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Track: Spaza release new track ‘Xolile Mosi’ ahead of album

You know that jazz never goes away- it ebbs and flows in profile and popularity. But over the last five years or so jazz music has reached out, edged its…

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Album Review: The Loved Drones – Conspiracy Dance

I confess I’d not heard of this Belgian psych-pop band before now but it’s immediately clear I’ve been missing out in a big way! The band’s improvised spaced-out style blends…

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Premiere: Jaco releases new video for ‘In The Sea’

following on from the release of his new album Dose, which dropped last Friday via Cornelius Chapel Records, Jaco (aka Jake Waitzman) has released a new video for the track…

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News: L.A. Guns new album ‘Renegades’ now available for pre-order

L.A. Guns release new album ‘Renegades’ on 13th November, out on Golden Robot Records and is available for pre-order now. If there was a band synonymous with the infamous Sunset Strip it…

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EP REVIEW: Shida Shahabi – ‘Lake On Fire’: eerie post-classical beauty for short film

Lake On Fire is eerie post-classical beauty for the short film of that name: evocative and chilling work from a real talent

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ALBUM REVIEW: Kevin Morby – ‘Sundowner’: simple acoustic truths deliver great profundity

Sundowner is a much more bucolic work than last year's Oh My God. in Kansas he's explored the simple complexity of the 60s' folk-troubadour aesthetic and pulls it off, admirably. It's a damn lovely record.

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Track: The Finalists release new single ‘Learn to Live Without You’ and announce news of album ‘First’

News: METZ Announce ‘No Ceiling’ Video, LP Launch Shows, European Tour

Film Review: Vicious Fun

Droppin’ Knowledge: Behind The Boards With Farma Beats

Track: Spaza release new track ‘Xolile Mosi’ ahead of album

Album Review: The Loved Drones – Conspiracy Dance

Premiere: Jaco releases new video for ‘In The Sea’

News: L.A. Guns new album ‘Renegades’ now available for pre-order

EP REVIEW: Shida Shahabi – ‘Lake On Fire’: eerie post-classical beauty for short film

ALBUM REVIEW: Kevin Morby – ‘Sundowner’: simple acoustic truths deliver great profundity