Backseat Mafia

Not Forgotten: Warren Zevon – Life’ll Kill Ya

It’s tempting to retrospectively view Warren Zevon’s final three albums as a loose trilogy based around the theme of mortality. While the post cancer-diagnosis musings of My Ride’s Here and…

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Film Preview: Appropriate Behaviour

For Shirin (Desiree Akhavan), being part of a perfect family isn’t easy. Acceptance eludes her from all sides: her family doesn’t know she’s bisexual, and her ex-girlfriend, Maxine (Rebecca Henderson),…

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Album Review: Taylor Locke – Time Stands Still

A few notes of electric piano and semi-distant slide guitar stamps Time Stands Still with the hallmarks of a West Coast album with a whole heap of promise. The opening…

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Psych Insight: Album Review – Shadow of the Sun by Moon Duo

The first time I listened to this new Moon Duo album I have to admit that I was rather dismissive of it. I didn’t think it was that different from…

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Track: Folk troubadour Sam Lee releases new song, Blackbird.

Travelling the UK, Sam Lee has collected and reinvented folk song and story. His creations are inspiring a new generation of folk musicians to explore, adapt and experiment with folk and sound.…

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Film Review: Life of Riley

Until his passing last year, French director Alain Resnais had a celebrated career spanning seven decades. Undoubtedly, his most fertile period was in the late ’50s/early ’60s. However, he continued…

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Film Preview: Chappie

From the director of District 9 and Elysium comes Chappie, starring Sharlto Copley, Dev Patel, with Sigourney Weaver and Hugh Jackman. Every child comes into the world full of promise,…

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Meet: Lola Colt – A Psyched up interview

Lola Colt provide such a rich deep vein of sound and vision to tap into that it’s almost too tempting to overdose the adjectives and comparisons. It’s Psych-edged, carefully honed…

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Live Review: In This Moment – Leeds Beckett University – 01.03.2015

Looking like lost characters from the Mass Effect videogame franchise, openers Starset intertwine rock heavy riffs with hard hitting electronics. The roaring choruses of Carnivore and My Demons prove the band are much more…

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Track: Cannibal Animal release carnal new single, ‘Followed’

Sirens call out the new song from Hull trio Cannibal Animal until rhythmic drumming and a fraught, frantic utterly filthy bass line start off proceedings. Previous track ‘Pavement Jungle’ set…

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Not Forgotten: Warren Zevon – Life’ll Kill Ya

Film Preview: Appropriate Behaviour

Album Review: Taylor Locke – Time Stands Still

Psych Insight: Album Review – Shadow of the Sun by Moon Duo

Track: Folk troubadour Sam Lee releases new song, Blackbird.

Film Review: Life of Riley

Film Preview: Chappie

Meet: Lola Colt – A Psyched up interview

Live Review: In This Moment – Leeds Beckett University – 01.03.2015

Track: Cannibal Animal release carnal new single, ‘Followed’