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Live Review: Smoke Fairies – Hebden Bridge Trades Club, 26.4.15

After their second album got mixed reviews Smoke Fairies had a crisis of confidence questioning whether they should go on but this confident show made you glad they did. One…

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DVD – Exodus: Gods and Kings

You can’t beat a good Biblical Epic. There are the classics such as The Ten Commandments and Ben-Hur along with the more recent unrelenting Passion of Christ and the unfairly…

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Album Review: Tracey Thorn – Songs From ‘The Falling’

My love for Tracey Thorn goes way back. From those early beautifully mellow ballads she did with Everything But The Girl, to the ultra-cool dance tracks such as ‘Missing’. and…

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Film Review: Wyrmwood: Road of the Dead

Before getting entangled with hairy-footed hobbits, Peter Jackson began his impressive film making odyssey knee-deep in gore with the brilliant Bad Taste and Braindead. There’s a certain Antipodean sense of…

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Not Forgotten – The Who – Tommy

After the witty, but flawed The Who Sell Out, The Who still hadn’t been really accepted as a serious album act. That was it, if they were going to conquer…

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Gallery: The Orielles – Rocking Chair, Sheffield 29.04.2015

Surf-pop trio The Orielles came to Sheffield this week, along with a bunch of other weird bands, to continue their brief headline tour across the UK’s northern cities. Long Limbs…

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Track: Fort Lean – New Hobbies

Brooklyn five piece For Lean return with a new track New Hobbies. They’re a band with a growing reputation,following on from their two early EP’s, and true dates with the…

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Incoming: Unfriended

Ushering in a new era of horror, Unfriended unfolds over a teenager’s computer screen as she and her friends are stalked by an unseen figure who seeks vengeance for a…

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Track: Brontosaurus – Safe to Surface

We’re suckers here at Backseat Mafia for noises duo’s, and so when we discovered Chicago two piece Brontosaurus, aka Nicholas Kelley and Nicholas Papaleo, that mixed up prog, math, chamber…

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Track: Maribou State – The Clown, plus tour dates

Ahead of their debut album ‘Portraits’ release, on June 1st via Counter Records, Maribou State have given people a taste of what to expect, in the shape of a new…

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Live Review: Smoke Fairies – Hebden Bridge Trades Club, 26.4.15

DVD – Exodus: Gods and Kings

Album Review: Tracey Thorn – Songs From ‘The Falling’

Film Review: Wyrmwood: Road of the Dead

Not Forgotten – The Who – Tommy

Gallery: The Orielles – Rocking Chair, Sheffield 29.04.2015

Track: Fort Lean – New Hobbies

Incoming: Unfriended

Track: Brontosaurus – Safe to Surface

Track: Maribou State – The Clown, plus tour dates