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Album Review: Blue Angel – Departures

Fate, it seems played its part with Blue Angel. The first piece of fate happened at rehearsal rooms, the now defunct Backstreet Studios on Holloway Road in London , when producer/Instrumentalist Jason Newton…

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News: Tom Hickox to join Richard Hawley, Band Of Horse and others at Somerset House ‘Summer Series’

In my day it was called YTS. When you wanted to learn a ‘trade’ like plumbing, or typewriting, or being a zookeeper (probably) or a footballer, you signed up on…

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EP: Ty – Kick Snare and an idea (Part One)

I didn’t come from the slums, in fact there’s very little about me that is even remotely ‘urban’. When I was at school we had to do this tracing your…

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Album review: The Handsome Family – Wilderness

You know how it goes: you’re listening to the Gideon Coe Show on 6Music (I have GOT to get some new sources) and The Handsome Family come on. You’re stopped…

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Album Review: British Sea Power – Machineries of Joy track by track

Have British Sea Power really been around a decade? It doesn’t seem that since, shortly after the release of their second album, Open Season I saw them in London, as…

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Album Review: Johnny Hates Jazz – Magnetized

You heard right: Johnny Hates Jazz have a new album out. Radio 2 are playing their new single. It’s technically their third studio album, although only the second with the original…

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Meet: A Hawk and a Hacksaw, and You have already gone to the Other World

There’s something unique, and beautiful about A Hawk and a Hacksaw. In these days of X-Factor and formulaic unit-obsessed drivel, the Albuquerque, New Mexico duo have furrowed if not a…

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EP: Blood Sport reveal new EP ø, and download it for free

One of the things about music is it can create mood. You hear a piece of music and at once it can take you back to a moment in your…

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Meet: Leeroy Powell a.k.a. Sir Vinyl Instinct, a.k.a. Itchy Pig

I went on a scout camp once, and we had this (how could he be anything other?) slightly crazy scout leader, that wore shorts all the time, and usually a…

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Interview: Foreign Talks

Continuing our love affair here on Backseat Mafia with the Vancouver, Washington band Foreign Talks we recently interviewed drummer Kevin Downes and guitarist Tanner Steinmetz. The release of that debut…

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Album Review: Blue Angel – Departures

News: Tom Hickox to join Richard Hawley, Band Of Horse and others at Somerset House ‘Summer Series’

EP: Ty – Kick Snare and an idea (Part One)

Album review: The Handsome Family – Wilderness

Album Review: British Sea Power – Machineries of Joy track by track

Album Review: Johnny Hates Jazz – Magnetized

Meet: A Hawk and a Hacksaw, and You have already gone to the Other World

EP: Blood Sport reveal new EP ø, and download it for free

Meet: Leeroy Powell a.k.a. Sir Vinyl Instinct, a.k.a. Itchy Pig

Interview: Foreign Talks