Music
Meet: Fink: music business is a big gamble
In the world where music is a product of consumption, often cheap, short on nutrition values, and is easy to dispose of when one gets bored of it, finding artists with timeless compositions, gently and with care sewn together, making you leave all your work and thoughts aside and dive deep into the intricate world …
Exclusive Mix: Sebastian Melmoth Datacast
In a shameless bid of self promotion, I thought it would be a good idea to share with avid Backseat Mafia readers an exclusive mix Sebastian Melmoth prepared for a French sound art collective last month. DotData is a small itinerant net label based in Rennes and Paris. Their visual aesthetic blends monochromatic dream sequences with …
Live: Fearless Vampire Killers + support, Sound Control, Manchester, 12.05.2015
In the basement of Manchester’s Sound Control tonight are four bands- two of which are looking satisfyingly macabre, all four of which are providing an undeniably great soundtrack of alternative rock and metal to this chilly Tuesday eve. Off to a ground-shaking start are local band, the Dead XIII- who literally look like they just …
See: PiL – New album and tour news
Even if you only have a modicum of taste, the next sentence should genuinely excite you. Public Image Limited (PiL) are releasing a new album AND going to tour the UK and Europe in September! What more do you need to know other than where and when and how to get tickets … UK Tour …
Soundtrack of our lives: Alex Lowe (Hurricane #1)
Hurricane Number One are back with a new album, a new line up and, following a bout of serious illness, front-man Alex Lowe is revitalised and breathing new life it to the band …” I have been fighting cancer for over a year and had kidney failure – I should be dead at least 3 …
Track: Teenage Wrist – Summer
Ahead of tomorrows (May 19th) release of their debut EP, Dazed, Los Angeles trio Teenage Wrist have released a new single, Summer. The componant parts of the band have form though, with Swing Hero’s Marshall Gallagher joined by Kamtin Mohager (Chain Gang Of 1974), and Anthony Salazar making up the three piece. Summer opens with …
Meet: Interview With Fearless Vampire Killers, 12.5.15
Ever polarising and fascinatingly dark, Fearless Vampire Killers are a testament to the idea of staying true to yourself, in spite of anyone else. Through being told their album wasn’t good enough and splitting with their record label, the band released their second album Unbreakable Hearts last year- confident in the knowledge their fans would …
See: Falling Stacks release video for No Stops
Bristol three piece Falling Stacks describe themselves, at least via their Facebook page, as being ‘Frowncore’. As fans here on backseat mafia of all sorts of ‘core’, it seemed the ideal time to check them out, with the release of their debut album ‘No Wives’ on June 9th via Battle Worldwide Recordings. It opens with …
Track: Victory Jones – Warriors
Warriors, the debut single from New York City’s Victory Jones, is (at least according to her) “…a song about overcoming insecurities, standing for what one believes in, having pure intentions and following one’s path no matter what… it’s about no dream being deferred if one just makes the decision to do it. It’s about courage, …
News: Dead Rat Orchestra announce 18 date UK Tour
Now traversing their second decade, the ambitious post-folk trio, Dead Rat Orchestra, embark on an eighteen-date multimedia performance tour of English public execution sites. The work will comprise of a live soundtrack to James Holcombe‘s new film, Tyburnia. Named after London’s ‘Tyburn Tree’ gallows, the experimental film explores the different social and historical events surrounding …