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PREMIERE: The Ricos – ‘What Comes Next?’: the big question posed as a righteous noise-pop surge

RISING Philadelphia indie outfit The Ricos, who we last touched base with on these pages when we took a look at and really, really liked their Spirit State EP back…

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PREMIERE: Modern Hinterland – ‘California (August 16th 1998)’: some much-needed Americana sun

CHRIS HORNSBY’S Americana outfit Modern Hinterland are all set to release their new album, Diving Bell, on January 29th – almost a year to the day since their last, The…

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PREMIERE: Farmer Dave & The Wizards of the West – ‘Right Vibration’: Beachwood Sparks man right back in the psych saddle

FARMER DAVE SCHER may be better known to you from the string of excellent bands he’s both been in and collaborated with down the years. He was a member of…

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PREMIERE: Post Moves – ‘Bob’s Peace In West Texas’: exploring the distorted bliss of the pedal steel

IF YOU’RE an avid reader of these pages, you’ll have come across Sam Wenc only recently in connection with RON, the very fine textural ambient twosome he forms exactly one…

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PREMIERE: See the video for KJ & The Fox’s ‘Never Gone Hill’

KJ & THE FOX is the glimmering, shimmering indie project of Keith Johns Adams, who’s been releasing fun and beguiling, raw ‘n’ folksy indie tunesmithery for a while now as…

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PREMIERE: Nancy Gaffield and The Drift – ‘Song Of The Shingle’: Kent’s High Weald evoked in music and poem

THERE’S been a little upswell in recent times of interesting and brilliantly evocative collaborations exploring the spoken word and the poetic, and how that plays against music. Slowly unfolding atmospheres,…

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PREMIERE: Kazumichi Komatsu – ‘Orca’: textural dreamstate IDM

KAZUMICHI KOMATSU is a Japanese electronicist and multi-media artist who you can place quite firmly in a grand tradition of sonic playfulness and interrogation that also includes microsound artist Ryoji…

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Premiere: Dumb Whales release chiming indie pop single ‘The Great Divide’

We are honoured to premiere the new single ‘The Great Divide’ from Melbourne-based indie band Dumb Whales. It’s an absolute thumping track: chiming, razor-sharp guitars carve their way over a…

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PREMIERE: Gefahrgeist’s ‘Graceless’ is a soaring, twinkling debut

WE LOVE new and upcoming bands here at Backseat Mafia. It keeps us going, looking for that next band or song that just stops you dead and totally rearranges both…

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PREMIERE: Lloyd Miller – ‘Dystopia Wind Dance’: spiritual beauty from master of Persian jazz

LLOYD MILLER is a polyglot, fluent in English, French, Persian and Dari, that being the Afghani Persian tongue; getting by in German, Swedish, and a few other languages; a multi-instrumentalist,…

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