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Premiere: Austin’s The Western Civilization exclusively unveil evocative new single ‘Fool’ ahead of the release of their first album for eight years.

We are very honoured to bring you a first taste of the new single from Austin, Texas band The Western Civilization ahead of their first album in eight years. ‘Fool’…

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Album cover for Spoon’s Lucifer on the Sofa

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Album Review: Spoon – Lucifer on the Sofa

Austin, Texas rock’n’rollers Spoon have released their 10th album – Lucifer on the Sofa – on Matador Records and it’s a blistering, thumping, rocking album that Spoon lovers will adore and those new…

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Say Psych: Album Review: Holy Wave – Interloper

Holy Wave, originally from El Paso, Texas but now situated in Austin in order to pursue their own vision of Texas psych, they offer sweet melodies dyed in carefully constructed…

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Track / Video

Track: Spoon – ‘No Bullets Spent’

Austin’s rockers, Spoon, have released the band’s first new song since 2017’s acclaimed Hot Thoughts. ‘No Bullets Spent’ has Spoon’s signature sound stamped on the track immediately while silmultanesouly taking things…

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Say Psych: Album Review: Routine Death – Parallel Universes

Separated by 7,000 miles, Routine Death are the husband and wife duo of Lisa (Gothenburg) and Dustin Zozaya (Austin), the latter also playing in psych-pop outfit Holy Wave. They are set to release…

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See: Holy Wave release new video for Adult Fear

El Paso multi-instrumentalists Holy Wave are back with a new album, Adult Fear, which drops on March 30th via The Reverberation Appreciation Society. Ahead of the release they’ve released a…

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See: Watch the new video from Ben Millburn for his track ‘I’ll Go’

If his first EP, Part One – Strange love and consequence, was about a recurring dream, then the latest in a set of EPs entitled ‘The Balance EP’s’ from Louisiana…

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Track / Video

Track: Pale Dian – Evan Evan

If you’re in need of something to drift away to on this wet STurday afternoon, let us here at Backseat Mafia point you in the direction of Evan Evan, by…

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Album Review: White Denim – Stiff

White Denim are one of those kinds of bands that just make you want to drive insanely fast and punch the air with your fists. They make this kind of…

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See: Holy Wave release new video for ‘Minstrel’s Gallop’

Austin, Texas based five piece Holy Wave have released some new visuals for their track Minstrel’s Gallop, taken from their latest album Freaks of Nurture, out now on The Reverberation…

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