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News: The Jesus & Mary Chain sign to Fuzz Club Records; announce reissues and promise of new music
We’re incredibly excited here at Backseat Mafia HQ that the seminal Jesus & Mary Chain have signed with London based independent (and consistently brilliant) label Fuzz Club Records, and have announced that new music is in the works. Added to that, Fuzz Club are reissuing two of the bands albums; 2017 studio album ‘Damage and …
News: Interpol announce UK / EU, and North American tour dates; see sneak peek recording session video
Emerging from Battery Studios in London where they’ve just recorded their seventh album with producers Flood and Moulder, Interpol have announced a run of US and UK/UK shows, including a second date at London Roundhouse on June 15th in support of it. It’s accompanied by a short clip featuring footage shot during the recording sessions, …
TRACK: Crows return with new track ‘Slowly Separate’ plus announce new album and tour
Crows are a force of nature live. Gathering a loyal fanbase since forming in 2015, they are set to release their second album Beware Believers on 1 April 2022 via Bad Vibrations Records and have announced tour dates in UK and Europe in support of its release. In advance of this they have released new …
News: Yves Tumor announces extensive 2022 tour dates
Genre hopper and all round hot ticket in whatever town you happen to be in Yves Tumor has announced a slew of 2022 live dates across Europe and the UK, the US and Canada. His recent US shows caused rather a stir, with praise given for his incendiary and frenetic performances. Tickets are on sale …
News: Jack White announces Supply Chain Issues Tour; Tickets on general sale from Friday
With news filtering that Jack White is to release not one but two albums next year – Fear of the Dawn, out via Third Man Records on April 8th 2022, being followed by Entering Heaven Alive on July 22nd, he’s followed it up with news of an extensive world tour. Live Nation are producing the …
News: Stiff Records reveals new range of Merchandise, on sale from Friday.
Iconic label Stiff Records, home to the likes of Elvis Costello, Ian Dury, Wreckless Eric, The Adverts, Motörhead and others since their inception in 1976, have announced a brand new range of official merchandise featuring their infamous slogans alongside their instantly recognisable logo. Emerging onto the UK music scene, the label was driven by an …
News: The Enemy announce 2022 reunion tour dates
Oh, 2007 was a year. Especially for The Enemy, who blasted out of Coventry to become one of the biggest new bands in the country, with their debut album ‘We’ll live and die in these towns’ going straight to number one, and be certified platinum. Across another two top ten albums, a couple of top …
News: She Drew The Gun announces February 2022 Panopticon tour dates
On the back of the release of her much lauded album ‘Behave Myself’, singer-songwriter Louisa Roach aka She Drew The Gun has announced a new UK tour, named the Panopticon tour, that will take place in February next year. It will be a chance for her fans to see her notoriously powerful and affecting live …
News: Pillow Queens sign to Royal Mountain Records, share video for ‘Rats’
Dublin’s all raging Pillow Queens have just revealed that they have signed to Royal Mountain Records. To mark this momentous news, the band are sharing the rambunctious “Rats,” alongside a video directed by Michael Maxxis (Orville Peck, City and Colour). Of the filming, much of which was taken from one of the bands sold-out Dublin shows prior …
News: The Charlatans reveal music box in support of ‘The Music Venue Trust’
Who doesn’t love those little wind up music boxes of yesteryear, and also The Charlatans anthem ‘The Only One I Know’. Well certainly not us here at Backseat Mafia, and in our offices (well, house), I have a resplendent Richard Hawley music box on the shelves, and my battered 12” of The only one I …