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Track: Jeremiah Moon – Melusine

Seattle-based singer/songwriter/classically-trained cellist and illustrator Jeremiah Moon has shared a new lyric video for ‘Melusine’, a track off his recently released debut EP ‘Sputnik,’ out now via Enci Records. Read our review here.…

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Live Review: The Scratch / Gaolbyrd – 3Olympia, Dublin 19.03.2022

The Scratch’s show in the 3Olympia Theatre was another highly anticipated show originally meant to take place in the Academy a little under 2 years ago. The show was since…

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Track: A. Smyth returns with the lush and atmospheric single ‘Long Night’ and news of live dates.

Last year’s ‘Lost Animals’ from Dublin troubadour A. Smyth (reviewed by me here) was a gorgeous collection of delicate musings and lush vibrant instrumentation. Smyth is back with a new…

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Track: Foy Vance – Sapling (Feat Rag’N’Bone Man)

Irelands Foy Vance has collaborated with Rag’n’Bone Man on new single ‘Sapling’, taking from Vance’s album ‘Signs of Life’ available via Ed Sheeran’s Gingerbread Man Records. The duet with Rag’n’Bone Man…

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Live Review: Dana Gavanski – The Lexington, London 08.03.2022

I’m afraid the mosh-pit has been cancelled. To the uninitiated the London gig scene may seem hip, cool and above all – dominated by the young and open-minded. Tonight that…

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Live review: This is the Kit, Falmouth, March 4th – West Country meets West Coast and proves a very fine blend

WE’RE not quite there, you know, not yet; not quite. Back to normal, that is. It’s taken me until early March to lose my 2022 gig cherry, mostly because the…

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Live: Emily Barker Returns to a sodden Sydney

Emily Barker and Lukas Drinkwater perform thought-provoking set in sodden Sydney

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Premiere: Alannah Russack (The Hummingbirds, Aerial Maps) invites you to ‘Tend Your Fire’: a slow burning southern-tinged paean to positivity and resilience. Catch her light the fuse live.

It is with the greatest pleasure that Backseat Mafia exclusively brings you the second solo single this year from the singer/guitarist Alannah Russack, an icon of the indie music scene with…

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Album review: Shane Parish – ‘Liverpool’: pulling sea shanties leftfield and forward, forward, ho! for a post-industrial, post-rock generation KICKERS

IF YOU don’t know Shane Parish and his oeuvre – and chances are, unless you’re a regular reader of Wire and the deeper corners of Pitchfork and suchlike, you possibly…

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Album Review: Christopher Coleman and the Great Escape releases the statuesque and breathtakingly beautiful album ‘The Great Tasmanian Escape’, and announces launch date in March.

‘The Great Tasmanian Escape’ can proudly take its place amongst the great Australian albums and songs that beautifully capture the landscapes, skies and very heart of the land. Albums from…

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