punk/post-punk news
News: Wet Nuns announce charity fundraiser
If you’re a long term reader of Backseat Mafia, you’ll be well aware of Wet Nuns. The hell raising Sheffield duo were favourites of ours pretty much throughout their existence, and we bowed before their gritty, occasionally gruelling link blues and worshipped. Sadly, first e band snarled and growled to a halt, leaving behind only …
News: FIRST FLUFFER PIT PARTY with GOD DAMN, Baby In Vain, Eighteen Nightmares At The Lux, Dressmaker
1 SECRET WAREHOUSE. 4 BANDS. NO STAGE. Sounds like a whole heap of fun to us. Cult underground record label Fluffer Records who first brought you the likes of Slaves, Cerebral Ballzy and God Damn are launching a new series of nights in partnership with Clash Magazine to shake up the underground music scene called, …
See: Vulgarians release new video for “Wet Juice”, plus Tour dates
Hull post-punk outfit Vulgarians wagon has picked up momentum and doesn’t look like its set to stop rumbling until they’ve brought the intensity of their fuzzed out, reverb rich noise to every inch of the UK. Their live set, along with leaked demos, “Autocratic” and “Naturally Nothing” started attaracting attention earlier in the year, and …
See: Chastity – “Saliva” + Tour dates
Canadian band Chastity have just unleashed their latest track “Saliva”, it’s a pretty damn savage tune, that is more than capable of standing out among the plethora of punk music out there at the moment. But when you get the track played alongside the video, you get one of the most powerful, thought provoking, and …
See: PROM Reveal new music video for ‘Touch Me’ + LIVE DATES
Seedy back street London punks PROM follow up their self-released debut 7” ‘Celebrate’ / ‘Cry Baby Cry’ later this month with another AA single – ‘Touch Me’/’I’ll Teach You’. Taking inspiration from Nine Inch Nails ‘March of the Pigs’, the band have just released the video for ‘Touch Me’. Directed by Katia Ganfield and shot entirely on …
News: Fluffer Records Second Birthday Party All Dayer
Fluffer Records Second Birthday Party All Dayer: Best in new Psych, Garage and Punk The Shacklewell Arms, London October 3rd, 12-3am Fluffer Records, the visceral London based label that not only bought us a host of unforgettable live music nights featuring the likes of Slaves, God Damn, Cerebral Balzy and Bad For Lazarus, but are also responsible for …
News: Ruts DC announce Psychic Attack UK tour for October
Legendary punk band Ruts DC have announced a run of tour dates across the UK in October, including a night at the Jazz Cafe in London. Now consisting of two of the original members Segs Jennings and Dave Ruffy, along with Leigh Heggarty to excel on guitar. With an extensive back catalogue from their original …
News: Edsel to Reissue five Comsat Angels albums with extras
Sheffield quartet The Comsat Angels were perhaps always the bridesmaids, never the brides. Whether it was that their brand of Post-Punk was always that little to bleak, and the angst contained within was a little to heartbreaking for the wider public, that instead latched onto the likes of U2, the Bunnymen and The Teardrop Explodes …
News: Stranglers to tour Black and White album in 2016
The Stranglers Spring Tour has become something of an institution over the last few years. Successive outings have seen the band play to fuller and larger venues, as the they take their unique blend of intelligent, aggressive and down-to-earth sound around Britain. Sometimes the band have a new album to showcase, something an anniversary to …
See: The Garden release “All Smiles Over Here :)” + album and tour dates
The Garden are all set to unleash more of their ‘vada vada’ on the world. October 9th see’s the Orange County thrift store pin-up punks release their first album proper, ‘Haha’ via Epitaph/Burger Records. In support of the release, the Shears twins will also be taking to the road for 23 date European tour. The Garden …