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NEWS: Kidneythieves kickstart 5th album “THE MEND”.
Alt rockers Kidneythieves (aka Free Dominguez and Bruce Somers) are hitting Kickstarter for their fifth album “THE MEND”, the follow up to “The Invisible Plan” EP and their first full length release since 2010’s “Trypt0fanatic”. The campaign features various rewards from as little as $5 to $7,500 if you want Kidneythieves to write a song …
Track: Mount Moriah – Cardinal Cross
Mount Moriah have released a new track “Cardinal Cross” ahead of their upcoming 3rd album “How To Dance”, follow up to the well received “Miracle Temple” from 2013. Their sound over the last 2 albums has been led by the plaintive vocals of Heather McEntire, and her haunting lyrics about regret and heartache playing over …
Premiere: Sugarplum Fairies reveal new video for Blues Run The Game
Describing their music as ‘playing melancholic songs on sparkling instruments’, Los Angeles Sugarplum Fairies play gentle, expressive songs that hint at folk and Nico and tears shed over lost loves. We’re delighted here on Backseat Mafia to premiere their new video, for a cover of the Jackson C. Frank song ‘Blues Run The Game’, and …
Not Forgotten: Mick Ronson – Play Don’t Worry
Mick Ronson was perhaps the ultimate limelight grabbing sideman. Be he by the side of Ian Hunter, Bob Dylan, John Mellencamp, or, most famously, David Bowie, Ronno always gave whoever he was backing up a certain amount of legitimacy and added star power. Quite why his own solo career consisted of merely two mid-70s efforts …
Premiere: AM Exchange releases live acoustic version of ‘Unreachable’
We’re delighted to premiere the new video from AM Exchange, aka Los Angeles singer and multi-instrumentalist Daniel Jacobs. Its a live acoustic version of his track Unreachable, the second single from his debut EP, released earlier in the year. Essentially a comment on communication, this acoustic version allows the song to breathe a little, and …
News: Merry Christmas From Slam Dunk Festival!
The folks over at Slam Dunk Festival have only gone and designed a downloadable Christmas Card (which you can find here) for you to give to the festival lover in your life this holiday season, complete with tickets for next year’s Slam Dunk! While the date for ordering tickets to ensure they’d arrive by post before …
Album Review: Kate Rusby – The Frost Is All Over
Kate Rusby is undoubtedly one of the big names in the recent revival of British folk helping rescue the genre from silver tankard wielding traditionalists to create a more contemporary sound and this is her third Christmas album. This time Rusby has just not delved in the songs of her South Yorkshire festive roots, but …
Live: Nothing More, SHVPES, In Search Of Sun – Manchester Academy 3, 7.12.15
It’s brisk December and In Search Of Sun hold the task of warming the crowd up for the evening. There’s only about 20 people in the room by the time the band take the stage but if you didn’t turn around to look at the gaping empty floor you wouldn’t know it given the intensity …
Not Forgotten: Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers – Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers
The first thing that strikes you about Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers ’ debut album is how rough it sounds compared to the slick and streamlined made-for American roadtrips that their reputation has hung upon. With this in mind it’s perhaps not surprising that they were initially mistakenly considered to be part of the punk …
Say Psych: Meet, Flowers Must Die
It is almost a standard opening paragraph about how strong the Swedish ‘psych’ music scene is at the moment, but when you have a list of bands that includes Hills, Goat, Les Big Byrd, The Janitors, Yuri Gagarin, and numerous groups on labels such as PNKSLM it is not something that can really be ignored. …