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Droppin Knowledge: New Album Review: Nappy Nina: 30 Bag
Nappy Nina has a way with words. The way they stretch and roll off the tongue. The way they can jumble together in a rush of emotion, or the way they can emerged clipped, like shots fired from a gun. Any artists who works with words understands their import and the importance of word selection. …
Premiere: Tuff Sunshine releases new video for ‘Mask away’
Essentially the project of Brooklyn-based singer/songwriter/guitarist John Leitera, we’re delighted to premiere the new video for Tuff Sunshine’s track Mask Away right here on Backseat Mafia. Taken from their album Dig Deeper, Peanut, which dropped last year via Declared Goods, Mask away is essentially stripped down rock and roll, like Jack White doing the Rolling …
News: Sean Cronin’s Very Good Issue ‘Ghost Warning’ Prior to ‘Adulthood’
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 …
Track: Crumb – Fall Down
With their self-released debut album Jinx only a couple of weeks away, Brooklyn’s Crumb have released a new track in the shape of Fall Down. It follows the release of Ghostride and Part III, and follows similar paths of being this stripped back woozy slice of psychedelic pop. Full of drop dead gorgeous synth chords …
Track: Crumb – Ghostride plus tour dates
If you’re in the mood this evening for a leisurely, almost lounge-esque track to ease you into the upcoming weekend, Brooklyn collaborators Crumb is exactly the easy, relaxed group of artists for that. Their single, “Ghostride”, is laid-back, dreamy number taken from their forthcoming album Jinx, scheduled for release June 14th. A sanguine piece from the quartet, the …
Album Review: Barrie – Happy to be Here
Barrie’s single “Tal Uno”, released last year, was for me one of the stand out singles of 2018 (along with Fontaines D.C.’s ‘Boys in the Better Land’). Their follow up singles, off the EP ‘Singles’ further enhanced my love of the band. Smooth clean jangly psych pop with the most elegant harmonies and the indelible. …
Track: Barrie – Geology
Ahead of thw release of te=geur debut album ‘Happy to be here’, out next Friday (May 3rd) via Winspear, Brooklyn five piece Barrie have released a new single ‘Geology’. Of the track, he band’s frontwoman Barrie Lindsay commented: “I wrote this song in 2015, a few months after I bought my first guitar. I was listening …
New Tracks: Barrie – Clovers/Darjeeling plus album and tour news
Barrie produced, for me, one of the stand out singles of 2018, Tal Uno – a perfect slice of pop heaven from the EP ‘Singles’. They have now announced a much anticipated album – ‘Happy to be Here’ due for release on 3 May 2019 as well as a tour that will take them across …
Say Psych: Album Review: A Place To Bury Strangers – Fuzz Club Session
For over a decade Brooklyn’s A Place To Bury Strangers have been dealing in pure sonic destruction. Famously lauded as the loudest band in NYC, their thunderous noise-rock has seen them pick up a cult following and shatter many unsuspecting eardrums across the globe. With no release or live show like the last, APTBS have continually twisted their malevolent sonic …
News: Flatbush Zombies announce European tour dates
Following their genre-transcending, future forward debut 3001: A Laced Odyssey, FLATBUSH ZOMBIES have returned to cement their position as hip-hop’s most exciting asset. The Brooklyn trio have announced a European headline tour throughout October 2018, tickets on sale here. Meechy Darko, Erik Arc Elliott and Zombie Juice prove themselves with every release; consciously separating themselves …