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NEWS: The Wedding Present announce album of lockdown versions and more – see the stripped back ‘Crawl’

ALL THIS viral mess around us: it’s meant musicians have had to lock and load, get going as the going got tough. Plates, stepped up to. New ways adopted. New…

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NEWS: The Lathums’ one-only 7″ ‘The Snake’ raises £4,000 for the Latics

BACK in September we reported on Wigan’s indie chosen few, The Lathums, and the equal parts excellent and fun fundraising idea they’d got going in order to raise funds for…

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NEWS: Gazelle Twin & NYX announce March album – hear their distention of The Wicker Man’s ‘Fireleap’

GAZELLE TWIN: love her or baffled by her, you cannot deny the deep, artful, playful, pranksterish, eerie, sheer damn potency of her work. The creative extension of composer Elizabeth Bernholz, her…

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NEWS: Martha Ffion to play live-streamed session this week – see “Rosalie”

LOST MAP’s smoothly sweet singer-songwriter Martha Ffion is pleased as punch to announce (as should we be) a live-streamed session this week. The live sesh has been commissioned by Lost…

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TRACK: Phoebe Bridgers releases EP of orchestral reversions; hear ‘Kyoto’

LA’S lovely Phoebe Bridgers releases a new four-track EP, Copycat Killer, on Dead Oceans on December 4th; it features all-new recordings of songs from her critically acclaimed album Punisher from…

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NEWS: TAAHLIAH makes history, scooping twice at the Scottish Alternative Music Awards

THE ELEVENTH Scottish Alternative Music Awards (SAMA) ceremony was held – with the privations of the virus this year – online on Wednesday gone, November 18th. This year’s virtual ceremony…

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TRACK: Hear the pastoral loveliness of Louis Philippe & The Night Mail’s ‘The Mighty Owl’; live-streamed performance announced!

MASTERFUL musician Louis Philippe, él Records aesthete and scribe of the beautiful game, has been away far, far too long; which is why here at Backseat Mafia we’re damn excited…

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SEE: The trippy visuals for Lost Horizons’ ‘One For Regret’; London date announced

LOST HORIZONS, the project of Cocteau Twins’ Simon Raymonde and Richie Thomas, of former 4AD labelmates Dif Juz, are set to release their new ultra-collaborative double album, In Quiet Moments, on…

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SEE: Josephine Foster’s take on Daniel Blumberg’s ‘On & On’: reinterpretations album next month

YOU HAVE to say, Daniel Blumberg is one of the absolutely most interesting, unconventional songwriters to emerge on the British scene in many a long year. His album from a…

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NEWS: London Jazz Festival moves online – schedule updates

LIKE the music itself, the London Jazz Festival, which runs from November 13th to 22nd, just refuses to be silent. A month ago we brought you news of the ambitious…

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