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Feature: Merge Records celebrate 30 years – Interview and exclusive playlist

If you follow the brilliant Merge label, you’ll have had some insight into this. They’ve been releasing various limited edtion vinyl to celebrate it, but they’ve been going for thirty…

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See: Gauche reveal new video for “Running”

They say that the green-screen music video is becoming an outdated concept. Gauche would beg to disagree, however. The DC supergroup’s video for “Running” plays up a kitsch production value that…

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Album Review: Ex Hex – It’s Real

Ex Hex defeat the curse of second album disappointment by bringing us more ripping power pop on It’s Real. I’m not going to lie: I’m a few days late to…

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Promo image of Ex Hex for Cosmic Cave single

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Track: Ex Hex – Cosmic Cave

It just got real – Ex Hex are back with punchy new single ‘Cosmic Cave’. It’s a great start to the year when you hear that a band you love…

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Album Review: Tracyanne & Danny – Tracyanne & Danny

Tracyanne & Danny’s eponymous debut album couples unblinking reflections on moments in life – and love – with a wonderfully timeless sound. Tracyanne & Danny brings together Tracyanne Campbell and…

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See: Wye Oak release video for It was not natural, plus tour dates

We’re rapidly falling in love with Wye Oak here at Backseat Mafia. Following on from their successful European tour and the release of their album ‘The Louder I Call, the…

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Track: The Essex Green – Sloane Ranger

Long standing Brooklyn indie trio The Essex Green have broken their long hiatus – taken to (according to the band at least) build houseboats, lead fermentation effort in Vermont and…

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Album Review: Ought – Room Inside the World

On their third album, and first for Merge records, Ought augment their anxious, itchy alt-rock with a wider palette of instrumental colours, balancing the agitated highs of earlier records with…

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Album Review : Superchunk’s ‘What a Time to Be Alive’

Superchunk have been a constant in the indie rock music scene since the early 90s. They helped to define a sound, regionally in the Chapel Hill music scene, and nationally…

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See: Titus Andronicus reveal new video for ‘Above the Bodega (Local Business)’

Titus Andronicus have announced the release of their forthcoming album A Productive Cough, which is out March 2nd on Merge Records, and from it they’ve released a new track ‘Above…

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