Backseat Mafia

Meet: Matt Bigland from Dinosaur Pile-Up interview

We’ve been much taken recently with 11:11, the lead single and title track from Leeds rock trio Dinosaur Pile-Up’s third album. A mixture of rock and old school Seattle grunge,…

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Track: Quantic – Creation (East L.A.) plus album news

We’ve long had a thing for Quantic, aka British born producer Will Holland. He moved through so many areas of electronic music during his years, and has spent the last…

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Track: The Districts – Chlorine, plus Summer festival dates

Coming off the back of a run of UK shows, which included a sold out date at London’s Scala, as well as a contender for an album of the year…

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Exclusive: Backseat Mafia Podcast 005 – Web Sheldon

Web Sheldon is an electronic singer, songwriter and producer originally from Sheffield, now based in London. With a long history of acoustic singing / song writing, the music he writes…

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Album Review: Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin – The High Country

Springfield, Missouri five piece Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin, despite the fantastic name, were a band that had largely passed me by. So reviewing The High Country, the bands…

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Meet: Lisbon – Lead singer Matthew Varty interviewed

One of the North East’s finest, Lisbon, stop off on their first headline tour of the UK to chat to me ahead of their Sheffield gig at The Rocking Chair.…

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Film Review: Station To Station

Cinema can be a powerful medium for artists to use as a tool to explore and examine their own creativity. The lines between film and art can often become blurred.…

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Meet: Marnie from Ladytron on solo gigs, her new album and more

Helen Marnie was studying classical piano in her native Glasgow before dropping out to take a degree in pop music at the University of Liverpool. There she met Daniel Hunt,…

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Track: Why We Run release the melancholic indie of Ignites

We were already mightily impressed by Why We Run’s debut single, ‘Comfortable Lie’, earlier this year and their follow-up release, ‘Ignites’, indicates this Sydney four piece are no flash in…

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Track: Bill Wyman – What & How & If & Why & When

So he may not be in the Rolling Stones anymore, despite doing thirty one years service on the bass guitar slot, but Bill Wyman is a busy boy. Since quitting…

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Meet: Matt Bigland from Dinosaur Pile-Up interview

Track: Quantic – Creation (East L.A.) plus album news

Track: The Districts – Chlorine, plus Summer festival dates

Exclusive: Backseat Mafia Podcast 005 – Web Sheldon

Album Review: Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin – The High Country

Meet: Lisbon – Lead singer Matthew Varty interviewed

Film Review: Station To Station

Meet: Marnie from Ladytron on solo gigs, her new album and more

Track: Why We Run release the melancholic indie of Ignites

Track: Bill Wyman – What & How & If & Why & When