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Album Review: Big Top Heartbreak – Deadbeat Ballads

Opening with a brief stacked choral and minimal piano number like “Dogs Can’t Play Cards” displays a certain amount of confidence. Do Big Top Heartbreak deserve this level of self-asurdness…

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Tracks: Bayonet – Weekend

Bayonet are Vince, Lewis, Danny and Sam – a dashing group from Sheffield who I once described as being “an indie band designed for posters on teenage girls’ bedroom walls”…

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See: The Raveonettes release video for This Is Where It Ends

As part of their ongoing rolling monthly commitment for a new track a month, or as they call it “RAVE-SOUND-OF-THE-MONTH”, comes the latest from The Raveonettes “This Is Where It…

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Meet: Hannah Peel on her new album ‘Awake But Always Dreaming’, plus new show details

Hannah Peel, 2/3rds of Magnetic North and acclaimed singer songwriter, has released one of the years most lovely, intimate, emotional and beautiful records of the year in Awake but always…

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Premiere: Stop Drop Robot – For the Day

One of the first ever articles we ever wrote on Backseat Mafia was about Sheffield proto-indie rock group Stop Drop Robot, so when they announced it was the end of…

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Not Forgotten: The Hold Steady – Boys and Girls in America

By September 2006 The Hold Steady had already released Almost Killed Me and Separation Sunday, two of the finest rock and roll records of the millennium, and were poised to…

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Album Review: The Wedding Present – Going, Going…

In 1994, my irrepressible* psychedelic band (*back then, rip-off promoters, total lack of press or record company interest, and poor quality drugs were seen as challenges, compared to today’s climate,…

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Album Review: Cymbals Eat Guitars – Pretty Years

I can remember hearing “…And The Hazy Sea” for the first time back in 2009 and being completely floored. Cymbals Eat Guitars had created this musical world that encapsulated all…

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Promo image of Honeyblood band for Sea Hearts

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New Music: Honeyblood – ‘Sea Hearts’

Honeyblood take us for a ride on a wave of invincibility with new song ‘Sea Hearts’. In the wake of their storming comeback with ‘Ready For The Magic’ – the…

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Promo image of Hinds band for release of Bamboo video

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See: Hinds release new video for ‘Bamboo’

Hinds, as you’ve never seen them before, become thieves in the video for their breakthrough single ‘Bamboo’. The charm of Hinds is inescapable – I fell for them when I…

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