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See: I Like Trains Share Video For Next Single ‘Dig In’

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Track/Video: Belle and Sebastian – We Were Beautiful, plus tour news

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Lisbon - Khaleesi

Lisbon, Whitley Bay’s finest, have made no secret of their love for all things Westerosi and as inspired by popular culture as many bands are, it seems that “Game of Thrones” has become synonymous with the band. Around the time of the popular HBO fantasy show’s fifth season finale, Lisbon announced the forthcoming release of …

Photo credit:  Alice Baxley Listening to Du Blonde’s recent LP “Welcome Back To The Milk”, it’s obvious that she’s come a long way in the three years since her debut ‘Yours Truly, Cellophane Nose’ (released under the name Beth Jeans Houghton and The Hooves Of Destiny).  Her sound has become more raw, more varied and …

Perhaps one of Sheffield’s most mysterious bands, Hey Sholay have walked a curious path, disappearing for months before enchanting a festival crowd and disappearing once more. It’s been two years since they’ve officially released any music; their Cloud, Castle, _____ EP was the highlight for many back in 2013, but now the peculiar band have finally returned with …

If you’ve been a regular reader of Backseat Mafia, you’ll have found Emma Kupa popping up throughout its history, specifically as lead singer of the much lamented (especially by us) Standard Fare. Happily, a move to Cambridge allowed Kupa to recruit bassist Mark Boxall and Drummer Tom Barden and form Mammoth Penguins. The brilliant Fortuna …

Taken from their recent Sun Drug EP, the LA four piece of the same name are releasing a new single taken from that EP, Wildman, out on August 7th. From the outset it manages to mix up a range of styles, with the bass prominent and elements of electro and shards of this almost post-punk …

Ahead of the release of his fifth album, The Boombox Ballads, out on August 14th through Moshi Moshi, Sweet Baboo aka Stephen Black has released a video for his latest single, Got to hang on to you, which comes out the same day as his album. Black describes Got to hang on to you as …

Munich indie poppers Kytes, aka Michael Spieler (Vocals/guitar), Timothy Lush (Drums), Kerim Öke (Guitar/synths) and Thomas Sedlacek (Bass), mark their arrival with a debut single ‘Inner Cinema’, self released on June 15th. Written last summer and recorded earlier in the year, drummer Lush describes it as “an uplifting song, with a driving beat, one that …

We’ve written about Chester/Ellesmere Port quartet Hooton Tennis Club before, and they’re certainly a band on an upward curve. Named after (suprisingly enough) a Tennis Club in nearby Little Sutton, then band grew up together and played in a number of similarly improbably named bands. Whilst studying at college they met up to record some …

One Eyed Wayne are back with a new track – ‘Various Artists’ is a Duryesque stomper about what could easily become a sad lament to a real life endangered species, the unsavoury pub dweller. It’s another slice of what we affectionately referred to as streetcore, a blend of punk-poetry set to a catchy street wise beat …

With their two drummers, intricate lines of post rock mashed with electronica and arresting live shows we were always likely to like Maiians, and following their debut Tokyo EP and a string of sold out headline shows, the Oxford five piece are back with a new single, Sionara. Opening with these hazy synth lines, and …