Backseat Mafia

Live Review: Pissed Jeans/ Hookworms, Brudenell Social Club, Leeds 04.07.2013

Punk, it appears, is not dead after all. This is the conclusion I came to while driving back home to Sheffield after this gig. Not the 1977 punk aesthetic, but…

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Track / Video

Track: Laura Welsh – Cold Front (Panda Dub Remix)

Although my children are growing up (too fast, I think sometimes) I like it how there’s something magical about a rainbow still. Even for someone as cynical (read, fairly old)…

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Track / Video

Track: Julio Bashmore -Duccy, plus Tour Dates

Some people have to change names, for lots of reasons. I had an English teacher that changed her name from Miss Pratt to, actually I can’t remember, but she was…

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Live: Secret Cinema presents Laura Marling – Cardinal Pole Lower School, Hackney, London

ON A WEEKEND in which some of her fellow folk revivalists were busy dividing opinion at Worthy Farm, Laura Marling was finishing a run of unique, ‘immersive’ nights in a…

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Album Review: Editors – The Weight of your Love Track By Track

Birmingham based five piece Editors have just released their fourth album, The Weight of your love. Not a great deal to talk about then except for that their looking for…

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Tift Merritt and Simone Dinnerstein: Live at the Purcell Room, Southbank Centre

Tonight I’m at the Purcell Room in London to see Tift Merritt and Simone Dinnerstein playing their 2013 album “Night” (plus some additional tracks that we were lucky enough to…

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Not Forgotten – Bradford – Shouting Quietly

It was pure luck really. I was browsing in my local record and cd emporium, The Left Legged Pineapple in Loughborough (R.I.P) and as I delved through the 12” I…

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See: Burning House release new video for Turn Off the Robot

There’s never been a better duo than Morcambe and Wise. Or, as they started out, Earnest Wiseman and Eric Bartholemew. Pushed by Ernie’s mother and honing their skills extensively on…

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Album Review: Dead Leaf Echo – Thought & Language

Technically it’s not new out, but it’s pretty new to us. Brooklyn quartet Dead Leaf Echo released Thought and Language back in the spring, but we were only alerted to…

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From an old record box: Then Jerico – Big Area

On 4 February 1989, the brief career of British rock band, Then Jerico, shone its brightest when “Big Area” reached its highest chart position of 13. The recording I have…

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