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See: The monochrome video for Trevor Sensor’s ‘Chiron, Galactus’: an instant classic of mourning, cathartic Americana

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Album review: Chad VanGaalen – ‘The World’s Most Stressed Out Gardener’: an excellent, multifaceted curio of psych and fun

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ALBUM REVIEW: M. Ward – ‘Think Of You’: Portland guitar wonder seduces with Billie Holiday set

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JERRY JOSEPH is a singer who’s been there, got the tee-shirt; hell, got the entire arm-sleeve tattoo. He made his first steps into music after living a little on the wild side as a kid growing up in San Diego and, in order to quell his waywardness, his folks sent him to boarding school in …

BILL CALLAHAN’S ongoing Monday afternoon pledge to gift us a song from his September Gold Record reached its fourth instalment today, with the downhome and evocative porchside “Protest Song”. Today’s is a bluesy, spontaneous and raggy fragment, with the meta-theme of being a protest song about a protest song on the television. “Somebody must stop …

EMILY BARKER, the British-based, Wallander theme-gracing singer-songwriter, has released a beautifully animated lyric video for her track “The Woman Who Planted Trees”, ahead of her new album, A Dark Murmuration of Words, which Thirty Tiger will be releasing on September 4th. And Emily, who grew up in Western Australia, brought an African ecological activist and …

Low Cut Connie have announced that their new double album ‘Private Lives’ will be released on October 13th via Contender Records / MidCitizen Records. In celebration they have released second single – ‘Private Lives’ Released against the backdrop of a global quarantine, Private Lives reminds us that our isolations and connections relate to so much more than the external, physical …

Chuck Prophet, formally of cult 80s new-psych outfit Green On Red, has just released a new single and accompanying video for ‘Nixonland’, taken from his latest album ‘The land that time forgot’, which has been recently pushed back until August 21st via Yep Roc Records. The album will be his 15 solo record, and for …

Folk music seems to be a genre I dip in-and-out of; the multi-faceted style manages to have different elements that have the roots of traditional folk music underpinning those subversions that make it so sprawling. Anti-folk, neofolk, Americana – there is a list that can go on. Be it the earnest, lo-fidelity accomplishments of Willy …

One of the things that strikes you when you look at Neil Young’s extensive discography is just how many live albums he has put out over the years. No matter how much his muse has waxed and waned over the last thirty years, Young has always remained a brilliant live performer and his live albums …

Brooklyn Americana eight-piece Very Good, the brainchild of singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Sean Cronin, have announced their third album, ‘Adulthood’, will be released on October 11th. ‘Adulthood’ is the group’s follow-up to 2014’s simultaneous releases ‘!’ and ‘?’ and was teased by the release of lead single ‘Ghost Warning’ earlier this month, which you can check …

Everything changed for singer-songwriter Tony Harrah about year ago when his wife, and mother of his three children, suddenly passed away. The result of that is a new record, titled Unicorns – the name of the eulogy he gave at her funeral, and we’re delighted to premiere it here on Backseat Mafia. Although written partly …

Chicago Americana/Rock outfit Trickshooter Social Club make the sort of warm, intelligent rock and roll that lumps them in with the likes of Wilco and The Black Keys, although on Boxcar Racer, which we’re delighted to premiere today on Backseat Mafia, there’s also just a whiff of the likes of The Rolling Stones and even …