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Live Review: Laura James & The Lyres, Captives On The Carousel & Genevieve Carver, The Shakespeare, Sheffield – 9.11.14

It’s not often I end up being so completely captivated by a whole evening but this was one of those rare events where each performance captured the entirety of my…

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News: The Handsome Family – UK & Ireland Tour 2015

What a year this has been for Rennie and Brett Sparks. Before Matthew McConaughey and Woody Harrelson starred in one of the most exciting and talked-about TV series of recent…

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Album Review : Language of Shapes :: Mother Mountain

Language of Shapes inhabit a musical world all their own. Not that they don’t allow certain musical influences to seep into that world and show themselves now and then, but…

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See: José González releases video for ‘Every Age’ / announces 2015 tour dates

Here’s the basics. Its José González’s first solo album in Seven Years, its called Vestiges & Claws and its out via Peacefrog records on 16th February. From it he’s releasing…

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Not Forgotten: The Waterboys – A Pagan Place

Post-punk in a vaguely similar way that U2, Simple Minds and Big Country were post-punk, in the early 80s The Waterboys were a band laden with potential, fronted by an…

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Premiere: Rich Stephenson releases new visuals for ‘Sometimes’

Backseat Mafia is proud to present the video exclusive of ‘Sometimes’ by Rich Stephenson. Beautiful is an understatement when it comes to this song, presenting an intricate construction of guitar…

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See: The Belle Brigade announce new album news, watch “Back Where You Began” video

There’s some good genes at work in the new music from LA duo Belle Brigade. The siblings, Barbara and Ethan Gruska’s father songwriter/composer Jay Gruska while their grandfather is esteemed…

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See: Nat Johnson releases video for “Not Now, Horse”

I have a couple of confessions to make. Firstly, I wrote some of the brass parts for this song for Sheffield singer-songwriter Nat Johnson – I’m pretty sure that reviewers…

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Live Review: Ras G, Low Leaf and Zeroh @ Electrowerkz

The continuing popularity of Kiss as a live act demonstrates that live music is about a whole lot more than music, it’s about performance as well. On the London date…

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Album Review: Roo Panes – Little Giant

Debut album from West Country folkie that can’t quite break its slow, soft shackles to reach the heights. Roo Panes has been building up to this moment for a…

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