Kurt Vile Archives - Backseat Mafia

Live Review: Kurt Vile & The Violators/Julia Shapiro – Phantom Power, Millersville, PA 14.10.2022

It was worth the journey from New York to Pennsylvania to catch Kurt Vile on close-to-home turf at a club known as Phantom Power. This unassuming venue with a small…

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News: Verve Records pay tribute to The Velvet Underground and Nico’s seminal album, with tracks from Fontaine’s D.C., Courtney Barnett, Iggy Pop, Kurt Vile and Sharon Van Etten

The Velvet Underground are of course every indie music fan’s favourite band – the band that launched a thousand musical careers. A new tribute album from Verve Records, ‘I’ll Be…

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News: Dinosaur Jr. announce April album for Jagjaguwar; see the animation for ‘I Ran Away’

YOUR favourite alt.rock shredder, J. Mascis – I mean are the guitar breaks in “Freak Scene” the best ever committed to tape? There’s a strong argument – has announced the…

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Track: Mike Polizze – Revelation

Mike Polizze of Purling Hiss and Birds of Maya has announced that his debut solo album ‘Long Lost Solace Find’ is out on July 31st via Paradise of Bachelors, and…

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Track, Video and Album News: Courtney Barnett

Fresh from a brilliant collaboration with Kurt Vile, Melbourne’s iconic Courtney Barnett is not resting on her laurels. She has just announced details of a new album entitled ‘Tell Me…

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Album Review : Courtney Barnett & Kurt Vile’s ‘Lotta Sea Lice’

Maybe you were like me(or maybe you weren’t) that when you heard Courtney Barnett and Kurt Vile were making a collaborative album together it just seemed like the perfect match.…

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Video and News: Courtney Barnett and Kurt Vile, Over Everything

This must be the most perfect laconic, low-fi alt.country indie music match in history – Courtney Barnett and Kurt Vile are releasing an album together entitled “Lotta Sea Lice”, due…

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Les Ardentes Festival, Liege, Belgium. 2016 Edition

Belgium’s Les Ardentes Festival is now over ten years old, so this year it added an extra day, making it a five-day extravaganza. I’ve been to every one, and my…

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