Exclusive: New takeover mix from Rainbow Tipi label boss and producer Linear B
Kent producer Linear B has recently dropped his new, seventh, EP, Finding Rainbows on his own Rainbow Tipi label. Treading the line between house and techno has always been the way Linear B has operated and in the past he’s had support from DVS1, Truncate, Noncompliant and others. The four track EP opens with the …
Premiere: Grasscut reveal new video for ‘Human Estuary’; see it first, here
Brighton duo Grasscut have recently followed up their 2015 album ‘Everyone Was A Bird‘, with another spoken word exploration of Britain with the mini-lp Haunts, out now on the ever brilliant Lo Recordings. From it, we’re absolutely delighted to be able to premiere the video for Human Estuary right here on Backseat Mafia today. The …
Rising: Meet La Bonte, and watch his new video for Don’t Let This Define Me
Ahead of the debut album under the moniker La Bonte, Don’t Let This Define Me, comes a single of the same name from the Southern Californian troubadour Garrett La Bonte, and it’s out today. For all of the sunshine of California, there’s something of the grey about the song, beautifully melancholy in a sort of …
Scratch the Surface: Urusei Yatsura – We are Urusei Yatsura (1996, Ché Records)
If you long for those messy days of the mid-90s, where Glasgow seemed to be a melting pot of angular, noisey, and messy indie rock and roll and pop punk, inhabited by Bis and Mogwai and the likes, then this is the Scratch the Surface for you, as it features fine purveyors of such things …
Track: The Vogs release the glorious 60s influenced French soul of Cette Lettre Là and Pour que tu ne m’oublies pas
French Soul crew The Vogs have returned with a new line up, and a couple of new tracks – both out now on digital and glorious 7inch vinyl via the brilliant Q-Sounds Recordings, which runs on the old format of recording, producing and even playing the tracks with their in house crew. Opening up with …
Feature: Gizelle Smith gives us the lowdown on her new album, Revealing, track by track
We’ve fallen for Gizelle Smith somewhat here on Backseat Mafia. The daughter of late Four Tops songwriter Joe Smith and vocalist of German funk ensemble The MIghty Mocambos, Smith recently released her new album Revealing via the much lauded Jalapeño Records label. It’s an album that never strays wholly away from that classic Soul/Funk sound, …
Premiere: Andrew Rinehart covers Arthur Russell rarity with ‘More Real’
We’re delighted to be able to premiere the new single from Louisville, KY born singer-songwriter Andrew Rinehart – More Real right here on Backseat Mafia today. It’s a cover of a Arthur Russell song, done by a band, The Necessaries, with whom Russell played alongside Ernie Brooks of the Modern Lovers and Jesse Chamberlain, who …
Track: Chicago’s Grey Fields release new single, Weather The Storm
Chicago’s Grey Fields, aka Alex Dzamtovski (vocals/guitar/keys) Adam Repp (bass/vocals) and John Polischuk (drums), have returned with a new single ‘Weather the Storm’. It’s a follow up to the bands recent single Every Now and Then and Always, and features Yoed Nir (Regina Spektor, Rufus Wainwright) on Cello, and is taken from their second album …
Exclusive: Scott Matthews records Wait in the Car live in session for Backseat Mafia
Singer-songwriter Scott Matthews is the latest to join us for our At Home Sessions with this acoustic performance of Wait In The Car. Matthews shows off his impressive vocal range in this stripped back rendition perfectly accented by the guitar playing. The Ivor Novello award-winning songwriter released his seventh studio album New Skin back in …
Premiere: Lucky Lo reveals new video for ‘Supercarry’
We’re delighted here at Backseat Mafia to be able to premiere the new video from Swedish musician Lo Ersare, aka Lucky Lo today, for her second single ‘Supercarry’, the follow up to much lauded debut ‘Heart Rhythm Synchronise’. On the impetus behind the song, Ersare says In Scandinavia we have an incredible safety net. We …