Los Angeles
Track: Timcantswim – Breathing Underwater (Vinci & Darrell Remix)
Timcantswim, aka Los Angeles producer Tim Wright, released his electro-house floor filler ‘Breathing Underwater’ last Summer, and Teknofonic Recordings are releasing a new tech-house remix by Brazilian duo Vinci & Darrell digitally on January 26th. It’s got this heavy, deep groove about it, permeated by these old school house stabs and piano led melodic features, …
Track: Mood Robot – Drip
By Ryan Jameson Weaver Los Angeles synth-pop trio Mood Robot (Jenny Helms, Alex Kazenoff, Ben Kazenoff), have been steadily releasing a sleek catalog of one-off velvet gems for the past year or so with each release giving us more awareness to their acuity of making PBR&B saccharine cuts. Their newest single, Drip, furthers this testament …
Track: Vampires Everywhere – Black Betty
It’s been a wait, but finally Los Angeles rockers Vampires Everywhere have dropped some new music, their first since 2012, in the shape of Black Betty. It comes ahead of their forthcoming album ‘Ritual’, due out in the new year. As vocalist Michael Vampire explains,”This song is special to me because it represents a part …
Premiere: Sugarplum Fairies reveal new video for Blues Run The Game
Describing their music as ‘playing melancholic songs on sparkling instruments’, Los Angeles Sugarplum Fairies play gentle, expressive songs that hint at folk and Nico and tears shed over lost loves. We’re delighted here on Backseat Mafia to premiere their new video, for a cover of the Jackson C. Frank song ‘Blues Run The Game’, and …
Premiere: AM Exchange releases live acoustic version of ‘Unreachable’
We’re delighted to premiere the new video from AM Exchange, aka Los Angeles singer and multi-instrumentalist Daniel Jacobs. Its a live acoustic version of his track Unreachable, the second single from his debut EP, released earlier in the year. Essentially a comment on communication, this acoustic version allows the song to breathe a little, and …
Track: Young Brew – OWN
Young Brew, the North Carolina MC has released his new single, Own. Its a joint production by Raleigh’s Hydro Beatz and Montreal’s Yung Drilla, and is hosted by Atlanta DJ Lil Keem. Asked to describe the sentiment behind the track, Young Brew says that Own is about feeling “the only thing that’s stopping you or …
See: TÜLIPS release new video for Perfect Love
Taken from L.A. quartet TÜLIPS recently released album Doom & Bloom which dropped last month via Lolipop Records, Perfect Love is a little under two minutes of ferocious, scuzzed up, messed up, garage pop. There’s plenty of the Riot Grrl about the ethos, but the melody is (almost) anything but – catchy, singalong almost. Just …
Track: Hot As Sun – I can feel your love
LA based songwriter Jamie Jackson, aka Hot As Sun is back with another dose of her 80s laced synth-pop in the form of a new single, I Can Feel Your Love, taken from her upcoming EP ‘Little Friend’. There’s something seductive about the jagged, playful pop, these plopping synth notes and metallic sounding drum beats, …
Track: Travelers – My Fault
Essentially built on this rather plaintive guitar line moving between two chords, with a little added melanchoy, My Fault is the new song revealed by Los Angeles indie rockers Travelers. It has the arid indie pop of a Gomez, but instead with this undeniably catchy shuffle, while over the top the vocal has this misty, …
See: Guides reveal video for “Pictures on Pictures”
Taken from the recently released EP Abstract Mind, comes a new video for the track Pictures on Pictures by Los Angeles post rockers Guides. The song itself has this fizzing, buzzing post punkiness about it, crashing and scything throughout the only Hong that remains in control is the vocal, a rich baritone that adds weight …