Backseat Mafia

Album Review: Bright Light Bright Light – Choreography

Could ‘Choreography’ be the perfect title for Welsh electronic singer/songwriter Rod Thomas AKA Bright Light Bright Light’s third album? Why? Well first of all it goes perfectly with the gloriously…

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Classic Album: Dire Straits – Brothers in Arms

That’s the trouble with first love – it only ever happens once. While some of us finally find what we are looking for later in life, you can never turn…

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Album Review: Monarch : Two Isles

Ahh, Southern California sure knows how to mold and shape guys and gals into laid back, jammy musicians. There’s this breezy, hazy vibe that comes from a city like San…

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Say Psych: Album Review, High Collider by Melting Hand

Melting Hand describe themselves as a ‘psych dirge’ super-group which sort of leaves me in a binary quandary; because to me ‘psych dirge’ sounds just excellent. But super-group? I’m immediately…

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Blu-Ray Review: Andrei Rublev

Andrei Rublev was considered to be one of the greatest Russian medieval painters of Orthodox frescos and icons. His authenticated work was all carried out in the 15th century and…

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Blu-ray Review: Burroughs: The Movie (Criterion Collection)

William S Burroughs was one of the leading players of the Beat Generation. Along with Allen Ginsberg, Herbert Huncke and Jack Kerouac they changed the narrative around 1950s America for…

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Tour News: Michael Kiwanuka

Most people will first have become conscious of singer-songwriter Michael Kiwanuka when he topped the BBC’s sound of 2012 poll. His rousing lead single ‘Home Again’ took him into the…

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Track: Dr. Meaker – Dirt & Soul + exclusive Interview

Dr. Meaker are a Bristol based eight piece band, live instruments, samples, studio electronics and big voices create some heavy underground drum and bass covered in liquid deep soul. ‘Dirt & Soul’ is…

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Album Review: Various Artists – Chris Sullivan presents The Wag – 4CD remastered

David Bowie, Keith Richards and Joe Strummer were just a few of the big names to frequent Londons Hotspot club of the 80’s ‘The WAG’, a ‘haven for misfits’ that would…

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News: Veteran punks Anti-Pasti to release first new album in 35 years

Eighties punks anti-pasti are set to release their first new material in 35 years with an album – Rise Up, out via Westworld Recordings on Friday 5th August. Set to…

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