Album review : Holly Golightly – Slowtown Now
The queen of British garage music is back! Holly Golightly has a new solo album, taking a break from the Brokeoffs, and the recent country-tinged sound that came out of…
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Album Review: The Rubs – The Rubs Are Trash
If, after you’ve listened to Hard Enough, the opening track on Chicago Garage Rockers The Rubs (essentially the solo project of a certain Joey Rubbish, in that he sings, writes…
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Meet: Drawing Blood, A Talk With Table Scraps
Every once in a while you come across a band that legitimately rocks. There’s no posing or jumping on the bandwagon. There’s something honest and visceral about the music. Something genuinely…
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Track: The Dead Ships – Big Quiet
Here at Backseat Mafia, we can never get enough of the kind if Garage Rock that made something of the Strokes, and continues today in the shape of The Black…
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Meet: We meet the legendary Anton Newcombe
Barely a year has gone by since the Brian Jonestown Massacre’s fourteenth (!) long player hit the stores like cloud of dense mauve smoke. Revelation was the first BJM record…
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See: Love Buzzard release “Give It Some Range” Video
Love Buzzard are about to release their debut four track EP, so to warm up the crowd they have teamed up with Dalston illustrator Russell Taysom to bring you a video for the EPs…
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See: The Wytches – ‘Gravedweller’ a Hallowe’en treat!
“Gravedweller, make sure you bury me next to the family who resemble me.” [Unashamedly re-hashed from the Backseat Mafia vaults for Hallowe’en] Imagine you’re taking a stroll round a…
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See: Ming City Rockers release new video for Twist It
We’ve long been fans of the scuzzy rock and roll of Immingham’s Ming City Rockers. fusing together elements from Chuck Berry to Link Wray and the MC5 via New York…
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Discover: Baby In Vain.
Denmark, home of Vikings, bacon and, allegedly, the happiest people in the world. It’s also the stomping ground of all-female rock trio, ‘Baby In Vain’. Since forming in 2010, Benedicte…
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Track: Wave Pictures release new single Missoula, plus Jan/Feb tour dates
I have this pair of trainers (or sneakers for our American readers) the I’ve had them for years. The reason I can’t bear to let them go, is that firstly…
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