Music
Say Psych: Album Review, Heron Oblivion by Heron Oblivion
Most of the albums that I post on here are of the variety that could be filed under the general term ‘difficult’. Not as in ‘difficult second album’, but as in ‘a difficult and challenging listen’. Nothing wrong with that, if a band have put in a lot of effort to come up with part …
Live: Cosmosis Festival, Manchester 12.03.16
Myself and the Shoegaze Brigade touched down in Manchester early, ditched the vehicle for safe keeping and headed out of town. Our mission -which we had already chosen to accept – lead us to the Victoria Warehouse and a rendezvous with our newly accredited Cosmic Cadets. Our task, to get them through twelve and half hours …
Say Psych: Album Review, Magical Solutions for Everyday Struggles by Telstar Sounds Drone
I have to admit that I’ve had this album sitting on my review list for quite a while now. There was something about it that made me hesitate and for a good while I could not really work out what it was. As music fans we all come with baggage from our sonic biographies and …
Meet: Ded Rabbit interview
Ahead of the release of their double a-side record “Only Dating” and “Never Gonna Learn”, both of which have been catching our ear here at Backseat Mafia, we’ve managed to catch up with the Edinburgh four piece – four brothers originally from North Yorkshire. They’ve already released a couple of EP’s, garnered airplay on BBC …
Live, The Stranglers, Birmingham 02 Academy, 12.03.16
I don’t really know how to begin. I’ve been seeing The Stranglers live for nearly forty years. There is no band that I have seen more times than this one. I’ve seen The Stranglers be brilliant, and I have seen The Stranglers when they appear to have lost their collective way and fall short of …
Album Review: Killswitch Engage – Incarnate
After Killswitch Engage set the bar incredibly high with their last release, Disarm the Descent, the iconic metal core quintet had an extremely difficult task in living up to expectations. Unfortunately, on this new album, entitled Incarnate, the band have seemingly gone a few steps backwards. To firstly clarify this statement, Incarnate is by no …
LIVE: The 1975, Manchester Apollo, 12/3/16
On this tour, The 1975 are doing something rather special- instead of playing arenas to thousands of people like they so easily could, they’re choosing to do several dates at some smaller venues. London’s Brixton Academy saw the band take to its stage no less than four times last week, while the band are now …
News: The Neighbourhood UK Tour Starts This Week
This week marks the start of The Neighbourhood’s UK leg of their European tour that started in St. Petersburg back in February. The tour is to end at the iconic London Roundhouse on the 21st March and you can see a full list of the UK dates below. After the release of their latest album ‘Wiped Out!’, …
SEE: Bare Knuckle Parade Release New Video And Announce Spring Tour
Rockers Bare Knuckle Parade, hailing from Bath, have released their new single Diamond Eyes, accompanied by a video- as well as announcing a UK tour! Their genre bending, multi-instrument brand of music strikes again in this new song that sounds as if it should be the credits to some kind of TV show shot by …
Album Review: Kano – Made In The Manor
Kano was part of a wave of new British urban artists who came from the underground, and put the UK on the map. Hip hop had always been a genre pretty much exclusively owned by our US cousins. For the first time, we held our ground and matched anything that was being done across the …