Live: THE SELECTER – Brudenell Social Club, Leeds 8-3-15
“Are you ready to have a good time?” It’s a question that Pauline Black knows the answer to before it’s left her lips. The Selecter are in town and it’s…
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Track: The Dead Ships – Big Quiet
Here at Backseat Mafia, we can never get enough of the kind if Garage Rock that made something of the Strokes, and continues today in the shape of The Black…
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Live: The Unthanks at Leeds Irish Centre
It seems unfair these days to label The Unthanks a folk band when they have clearly moved way past the restrictive traditions of that genre which all too often puts…
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Film Preview: Suite Française
Set in 1940s France and based on the international best-selling work of Irène Némirovsky, Suite Française follows beautiful Lucile Angellier who awaits news from her husband, a prisoner of war…
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DVD Review: Swimming To Cambodia
The Killing Fields was a powerful and moving work of cinema which brought the horrendous actions of the Khmer Rouge to a mass audience. Writer and actor Spalding Gray played…
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Live Review: Halestorm / Nothing More / Wilson – O2 Academy Leeds 05.03.2015
Wilson would definitely win the award for the oddest yet greatest entrance of the night. Vocalist Chad Nicefield enters the staged dressed as an oversized toy solider wielding a marching…
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Track: Portico – 101 feat. Joe Newman, plus UK tour dates
Now minus the quartet, London trio Portico return with a new album ‘Living Fields’, out on 30th March (a week earlier than originally planned) through the constantly brilliant Ninja Tune…
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New Music: Altadore – Clearer
Dropping immediately after the melodic battering ram of ‘Bar Lights’, Altadore’s new single was always going to sound slight by comparison. But once you’ve settled into its loping rhythm, the…
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EP: Vince Watson – Eminesence
Out right now on Osunlade’s legendary Yoruba Records comes Glasgow producer Vincent Watson’s new EP, and first for the label, Eminesence. He’s not a newcomer though, having produced music for…
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Meet: Arejay Hale – Halestorm Interview
Halestorm are a band you have to see live to truly understand what they are about. The Grammy award winning hard rockers have been through the whole sweaty, dingy club…
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