Music
Album Review: Abbath – Abbath
Everyone’s favourite croaky voiced badger lookalike is back with his first solo album since leaving iconic Norwegian black metal group Immortal. Those not aware of Abbath’s previous work should certainly check out albums like Sons of Northern Darkness and Battles in The North as they epitomise the cold, frostbitten sound Abbath and Immortal are best …
Premiere: darkdarkhead – Falling Upwards
We’re delighted to premiere the new, second single titled Falling Upwards, to be taken from darkdarkdarkhead’s new EP Strange Weather, which drops on March 25th via Saint Marie. Already having been the subject of a retrospective via Captured Trakcs, the band have continued to make slightly psychedelic shoegaze despite the band’s singer leaving in 2009. …
LIVE: The Used, Debut Album Show, Leeds O2 Academy, 20/2/16
This tour is set to be a pretty special one for the Used. In fact, it’s pretty special in terms of tours, period; how often does one band play two nights consecutively in the same venue in each city? In the case of the Used, they’re playing the entirety of their debut self-titled album on …
See: Victoria+Jean release new video for Divine Love
Victoria+Jean consist of, unsurprisingly Victoria and Jean. More surprising is that they happened upon each other, Victoria being from Stockholm, while Jean hails from Brussels, where the pair are based. They make this sort of wistful, brooding, almost dreamwave-y indie pop. Taken from their rather wonderful album of the same name, Divine Love displays all …
News: Bureau B to release Box-Set “Cluster 1971-1981” in April
Influential German label Bureau B are to release a 9-album box set on both vinyl and Cd charting the career of groundbreaking electronic band Cluster. Originally called Kluster, the trio – Conrad Schnitzler, Hans-Joachim Roedelius and Dieter Moebius released two albums, before Roedelius and Moebius continued as a duo, replacing the K with a C. …
Track: Adem – By Everyone, plus UK tour dates
One of the first ever articles written on Backseat Mafia was about Adem. It was, back in 2013 sometime, imploring the former Fridge man to make a new record. Sadly, he took no notice of us whatsoever, until now where to be fair, he’s probably still took no notice of us, but he has returned …
Live Review: Cage The Elephant at Unity Works Wakefield
Two songs in and crazed Cage the Elephant frontman Matt Shultz has already plunged into the crowd to have a good natured wrestle down the front with his surprisingly young fans. Matt is like a wild animal onstage leaping around as if processed by the sheer spirit of rock and roll combining the sinuous moves …
See: Minor Victories release new video for A Hundred Ropes
So….. A “supergroup” featuring members of Slowdive, Mogwai, Editors and one of the most promising young video producers around? Yep, we’ll have a bit of that…. So Monday (22nd February) was a busy day for Minor Victories: Rachel Goswell of Slowdive, Stuart Braithwaite of Mogwai, Justin Lockey of Editors and his brother James of Hand …
Say Psych: Album Review How’s Your Favourite Dream by Wooden Indian Burial Ground
Wooden Indian Burial Ground first came to my attention earlier this year when I came across a video of the lead track from this album, ‘Burnout Beach‘. At the time I thought that if the track was in anyway representative of the album then it would be very good indeed and now I’ve heard it …
Live: Tonight Alive – Manchester Ritz, 19.02.16
As the opening lyrics to To Be Free; “Don’t come looking for me, I don’t want to be found, I just want to be free” reverberated around the beautiful Manchester Ritz, Tonight Alive take to the stage to a welcoming roar of a crowd that haven’t seen their return to this city in a year …