Backseat Mafia

Album Review: The Wedding Present – Going, Going…

In 1994, my irrepressible* psychedelic band (*back then, rip-off promoters, total lack of press or record company interest, and poor quality drugs were seen as challenges, compared to today’s climate,…

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Album Review: Axis: Sova : Motor Earth

Before hearing Axis: Sova’s newest album called Motor Earth I had no idea who he was. Yes, Axis: Sova is a he. That’s the name Chicago guitarist Brett Sova goes…

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Film Review: The Fencer

Most of our awareness of history doesn’t tend to stretch further than events which directly impacted on our own country. Whilst I consider myself relatively knowledgeable, my grasp of wartime…

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Say Psych: Live, 2016 Liverpool International Festival of Psychedelia

It is doubtful, even in the reified levels of psych music fans, that Keita Ise and Njål Clementsen are two names that easily trip off the tongue. Yet trip is…

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Album Review: Cymbals Eat Guitars – Pretty Years

I can remember hearing “…And The Hazy Sea” for the first time back in 2009 and being completely floored. Cymbals Eat Guitars had created this musical world that encapsulated all…

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Promo image of Honeyblood band for Sea Hearts

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New Music: Honeyblood – ‘Sea Hearts’

Honeyblood take us for a ride on a wave of invincibility with new song ‘Sea Hearts’. In the wake of their storming comeback with ‘Ready For The Magic’ – the…

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Incoming: Under the Shadow

As a mother & daughter struggle to cope with the terrors of the post-revolution, war-torn Tehran of the 80s, a mysterious evil begins to haunt their home. Under the Shadow…

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Promo image of Hinds band for release of Bamboo video

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See: Hinds release new video for ‘Bamboo’

Hinds, as you’ve never seen them before, become thieves in the video for their breakthrough single ‘Bamboo’. The charm of Hinds is inescapable – I fell for them when I…

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Atticus Ross/Leopold Ross/Bobby Krlic : Almost Holy S/T

Almost Holy is a documentary directed by Steve Hoover, and it’s about Pastor Gennadiy Mokhnenko, a rogue man of the cloth that works and lives out of Mariupol, Ukraine. In his city…

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Album Review: Luke Haines – Smash The System

Former Auteurs frontman Luke Haines has had a varied career. As part of his former band he was responsible for some of the best albums of the nineties, including (in…

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Album Review: The Wedding Present – Going, Going…

Album Review: Axis: Sova : Motor Earth

Film Review: The Fencer

Say Psych: Live, 2016 Liverpool International Festival of Psychedelia

Album Review: Cymbals Eat Guitars – Pretty Years

New Music: Honeyblood – ‘Sea Hearts’

Incoming: Under the Shadow

See: Hinds release new video for ‘Bamboo’

Atticus Ross/Leopold Ross/Bobby Krlic : Almost Holy S/T

Album Review: Luke Haines – Smash The System