Backseat Mafia

Album Review: Saltland – I Thought It Was Us But It Was All Of Us

There are some record labels, and Seattle’s Sub Pop comes immediately to mind, where you know that whatever they release is going to be at the very least interesting. Others…

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See: This Friday Alan Braxe DJ’s in London, plus new EP

It was an inauspicious start. It was a Saturday morning at a hall somewhere in the town I grew up in that was usually used by the St Johns Ambulance.…

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New Music: In My Restless Dreams – Single Release – ‘Suck It Jabroni’

Whilst most bands would release an EP teaser and just leave it at that, keeping the fans on a hook, IMRD have always had their fans best interest at heart…

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New Music: Iggy Azalea – Bounce (green lantern remix)

You all know Iggy Azalea, right? She shot out of New South Wales in Australia to become one of the leading hip-hop artists in the world today, signed to legendary…

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Track: Editors new single – A ton of love / The Sting

I went to live in Huddersfield when I was 17, away at this music place. I’d lived in the county pretty much all my life so when I first moved…

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Meet: Gerard Langley of The Blue Aeroplanes, plus new reissue / tour dates

I suppose I would have been about 18. I’d gone along to the Trent Polytechnic (in those days we had such things) to watch my then favourites, The Darling Buds.…

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Album Review: Still Corners – Strange Pleasures

Every once in a while you have to put away the Morbid Angel and N.W.A. and just chill out. It can’t all be bloodlettings and drive-by shootings. Sometimes you need…

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Meet: Keida – Dancehall, Jamaica & Me.

I’m pretty sure I saw a glimpse of sun the other day, although I may well have been mistaken. It reminded me (well, sort of reminded me) that I once…

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Track: Reznor and Nine Inch Nails Return with Come Back Haunted – Hesitation Marks Out in September

So the retirement didn’t last as long as you’d think(you’d think retirement lasts forever, at least in my neck of the woods it does). We’re the better for it if…

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New Music: Lost Ghosts – Tunnels

I remember my debut quite clearly. The first concert I ever played in I was (just) eight years old. Even by eight year old standards I was rather a runt…

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