New Single and Live News – High Hazels
We love the High Hazels here at Backseat Mafia and have covered their progress with great interest in a number of features over the past year or so. Therefore, we’re really pleased to…
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Album Review: Some Truths – Bliss Abyss
There is a lot that can be said for sobbing acid casualties. What might seem to the Conservative ballot-casting outsider like a drooling comatose corpse slumped in the corner of…
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Film Preview: White God
A cautionary tale between a superior species and its disgraced inferior. Favouring pedigree dogs, a new regulation puts a severe tax on mixed breeds. Owners dump their dogs and shelters…
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Track: Early Ghost – Devils Got Me Now
London five piece Early Ghost are back with a new single, Devils Got Me Now, which is out on March 23rd on both vinyl and digital download. Despite only having…
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Meet: Swervedriver interview
The Stone Roses famously took five years to make their woeful second album but Swervedriver must have set a new record taking a staggering 18 years to produce a new…
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Film Review: Hinterland
British films come in many shapes and sizes, but often don’t get the opportunity to find an audience. The ones which get major exposure tend to fall into two categories.…
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Tom Brosseau – Perfect Abandon
One of the first things I noticed about Tom Brosseau’s follow-up to 2014’s ‘Grass Punks’ is the sound. Sure, all the usual elements are there: Tom’s high, clear voice and…
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Album Review: Bombay Heavy – Bombay Heavy
Reinvention of the self in the music world is nothing new. It’s been done, ad infinitum. Lennon, Bowie, Bono and Beyonce have all adopted alter egos at some stage in…
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Live Review: Wire – Unity Works, Wakefield 20.02.2015, plus gallery
I see plenty of live gigs, but I was especially excited about the prospect of seeing Wire in Wakefield last Friday. For starters, it’s been a while since I’d visited…
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Film Review: Exit
The Western view of Asian cinema is mainly influenced by what mostly predominates our popular culture. The majority of films with big releases over here involve horror, swordplay or kung-fu.…
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