Backseat Mafia

Track: L.A. producer Classixx remixes Preatures – This is how you feel?

It’s that time of the year when everything needs getting done, in our house anyway. I’ve got things to pack for the impending holiday, children to look after, and a…

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Track: New York duo Cardiknox release engaging new single, Hold me down

I never quite got it right in the 1980’s, the bits I remember anyway. There was the case of the elasticated trousers, where my Mother, with money being very tight in…

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See: Ellie Goulding releases new visuals for current single, Burn

Me and royalties are not very close partners. In my pop career, as bassist to (the name doesn’t matter) a band that peaked by scraping into the indie top twenty…

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Track: Zen Death Squad – Oni Valley

Mad Max and Back to the Future. I reckon they were the best trilogies I can think of without resorting to Wikipedia. I suppose it shows my age that the…

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Track: Raashan Ahmad releases new single Music feat. Ty, Sarsha Simone

I almost totally impractical. I can’t change a plug, although I vaguely remember being show how to in my science lessons at school. I can’t put shelves up, and as…

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From an old record box: Cud – Robinson Crusoe

This was an early glory of my burgeoning (or so I thought) record collection and indie cred. They’d been in Peel’s Festive Fifty the year before (I looked that up…

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From an old record box: Grant Lee Buffalo – Buffalondon Live

The early nineties: years of massive change in my listening habits and, really, a first proper awakening to music, fuelled by the powerful indie spirit of both UK and US alternative rock…

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Track: Fat Freddy’s Drop’s Clean the house available on free download

Damn those free offers. There’s always, always a catch. It’s those term and conditions that always do it. You know the bit that says, to the effect of – when…

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Music

Meet: From Florence With Love…The Psych-Pop Sounds of The Vickers

Once in a while you have to look beyond what your know to find that next great album. Sometimes in order to expand your mind you have to say the…

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Meet: Melbourne singer-songwriter/ producer Tom Day, ahead of his collaborative EP with Monsoonsiren

I sat here thinking what I should write for the introductory paragraph to this contribution. I was going to write something clever about how some composers don’t give the listener…

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