indie tracks
Track: Wet Leather – Secret Preference
If anxiety pop is a real thing, as NYC’s Wet Leather describe their music as, then we here at Backseat Mafia are immediate converts. Secret Preference is their new single, and it’s as if Girls Just Wanna Have Fun has been dragged to a party, got horribly drunk, and been laid out on a car …
Track: Riley Flood – Sunshine
Coming out of the ashes of the band he was with, Nylon Lyonn, Sacramento, California singer songwriter RileyFlood realised the best way to get his music out there was to do it alone. Judging by his new single Sunshine, it might be about the best decision he’s made. Sunshine takes its roots at classic rock, …
Track: The New Up – Future Is Now
San Francisco’s The New Up have just revealed a new track – Future is Now, taken from their as yet untitled (at least as far as we know) album, which is out in November. The band have a real DIY spirit, building their own studio to record in and recording everything between there and a …
New Music: Kevin shields remixes The Undertones: Get over You, plus reissue news
Dublin punks The Undertones were there right at the start of things, so it’s perhaps fitting that as this year marks the 40th anniversary of both the band and punk rock itself, Union Square music has announced that they are to remaster and reissue on vinyl the bands first two albums – 1979’s self titled …
Track: Prides – Are You Ready?
Prides have returned with a brand new single, ‘Are You Ready?’, ahead of an intimate tour of the UK, reintroducing themselves to the world with unforgettable music to soundtrack the best night you’ll ever have. It’s the second offering in Prides’ new chapter – teasing us with ‘Rome’ back in May – as they write …
Track: Tim Presley – Long Bow
Tim Presley is one of the premiere singer/songwriters working today. In his many musical incarnations such as White Fence, Drinks, Hair, and Darker My Love he’s proven to be one of this generation’s invaluable purveyors of deconstructed, fractured pop. Presley is now readying the release of The WiNK, which comes out September 16th on Drag …
Tracks: Picture Atlantic – Billy Banker
San Francisco quartet Picture Atlantic have released their new single Billy Banker, the second single taken from their forthcoming new album, Assouf. The song itself is described by singer/guitarist Nikolaus Bartunek as being “…the satirical archetype for all the young A&R and label reps we’d meet or had met in the past. It’s not so …
Track: Fire Fences – Eastern Avenue
For an unsigned quartet hailing from Bridgend, South Wales, Fire Fences have some pretty impressive names behind the recording of their new song, Eastern Avenue. Recorded in Los Angeles at 4th Street Recording, it was produced by Sejo Navajas, engineered by Chase McElhaney and mixed by Jose Alcanter (Interscope Records) before being mastered by Brian …
Track: Magic Trick share two tracks from forthcoming album Other Man’s Blues
Ahead of the release of their forthcoming album Other Man’s Blues, out on August 26th via Empty Cellar, San Francisco’s Magic Trick have released a couple of tracks from the record, ‘Forest of Kates’ and ‘First Thought’. The record is a loose, largely improvised affair, written by the bands songwriter Tom Cohen, and features a …
Track: Saint Motel – Move
“Move” feels like it should definitely have an exclamation mark at the end, such is its joy and energy and as a brand new comeback single, it positively hits its stride each time it reaches that triumphant chorus. The track gets under the skin within just a listen or two, with its laid-back verse and …