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SEE: The video for Ben Harper’s ‘Black Beauty’: a proud, gospel soul rush

“IT WAS an honor to have been asked to write a song for this culturally vital documentary,” says singer-songwriting legend Ben Harper of “Black Beauty”, the song he’s dropped the…

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SEE: John Paul Keith – ‘How Can You Walk Away’: raunchy soul blues lament gets visuals

WE’VE taken a look at this before here at Backseat Mafia, but at that point it was visually denuded as you might say: and given it’s a bit of a…

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SEE: Danny Elfman – ‘Sorry’: high, scouring prog-industrial from soundtrack giant

IT WAS quite a thing when ANTI- secured the signature of globe-straddling modern soundtrack composer extraordinaire Danny Elfman last year; yep, the Sunset Boulevard-based label which brings us Andy Shauf,…

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SEE: Cassandra Jenkins – ‘Michelangelo’: subtle, haunting Americana

NEW YORK folkie Cassandra Jenkins has stepped away from the world of self-releasing on her own Cassandra Complex imprint to ink her signature for Brooklyn’s Ba Da Bing, which imprint…

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SEE: The Telescopes – ‘Strange Waves’: languid, dirty and all the good things

STEPHEN LAWRIE’S The Telescopes are old hands at this beautifully dirty, scuzzy psych-rock game – but don’t think for a second that means they’ve lost an ounce of potency, as…

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SEE: John Smith – ‘Friends’: honey-voiced folk salutes those dear to us

A SIMPLE name, perhaps, but far from simple tunesmithery: John Smith is coming into 2021 with positivity and a grab-bag of songs to beguile you. Essex born but raised on…

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SEE: Tamar Aphek – ‘Russian Winter’: power trio scorcher will thaw your January

SHE’S pretty much already Tel Aviv’s favourite guitar-wielding daughter, Tamar Aphek; and if you like your power trios full of flame and energy and neo-psych atmospheres akin to the Jimi…

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SEE: Jon Mueller – ‘Welcome’: glorious drone textures from Wisconsin

WISCONSIN musician? Sound artist? Explorer? Curator? – all of these things, Jon Mueller is always seeking new confluences of thought and sound. He may be best known to you as part of…

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SEE: Cathal Coughlan – ‘Song Of Co-Aklan’: Cork’s devilish genius is once more to the breach

CATHAL COUGHLAN, the devilish genius behind such acts as Microdisney and The Fatima Mansions, has always been a joyous thorn in the side of Irish alternative music; erudite, scathing, never…

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SEE: The monochrome video for The Lathums’ ‘Foolish Parley’

BE SURE: if 2020 didn’t stop ’em, it’s pretty unlikely that whatever weird curveballs 2021 has to bowl at us, this year won’t trouble the rise of Wigan’s new favourite…

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