Music
News: Preview – Reverence Festival, Valada
On August 27th, 28th and 29th Reverence festival returns to Valada, Portugal, to offer up another weekender of quality psychedelia. This monster line-up showcases the very best in stoner, grunge, shoegaze and doom, with more acts to be announced in the coming weeks. Heady, hazy sounds offer the perfect summer soundtrack to the beautifully picturesque setting of Valada …
Interview: Sonic Jesus
On experiencing ‘It’s time to hear’ for the first time, the warm embrace of it’s sweeping grandeur and haunting imagery had me gladly and willingly sealing my “Faustian Pact” with Sonic Jesus. A pact that the intervening 18 months has rewarded with two spellbinding live performances, at Eindhoven Psych Lab last year and the London launch party for …
Album Review: Act – Love and Hate – A compact introduction to Act
One of the blink and you’ll miss it bands from the time of synth-pop revolution, Act flashed and burnt out, pretty much before anyone noticed. The duo, Thomas Leer and ex-propaganda singer Claudia Brücken, convened after Propaganda fell apart over their contract with label ZTT, the band and Brücken (then Mrs Paul Morley, ZTT co-founder) …
News:Second ‘Beat:Cancer’ LIVE event set for November 2015
Fans of darker and harder sounds might want to clear their calendar for November as Beat:Cancer LIVE puts on a night of Industrial EBM Noise to remember in Manchester and London. Taking place Friday 13th November at Zoo in Manchester and Slimelight in London Saturday 14th November the night is set to feature a host …
Album Review: Albert Hammond Jr – Momentary Masters
Albert Hammond Jr’s artistic work flows through his new material called Momentary Masters to be released in July 2015. The LA lead guitarist attended a Swiss boarding school during his younger days where he met the future Strokes singer Julian Casablancas (an absolute gem) and later attended New York University’s film school during the 90’s. …
Track: Touch Sensitive – Pizza Guy / Show Me
You might recognise the title of the song Pizza Guy. Released by Touch Sensitive aka multi-instrumentalist / producer / synth freak Michael Di Francesco back in 2013 in his native Australia -the track became the 3rd most played track on Triple J (the countries no.1 radio station) and has currently racked up over 2 million …
Track: Sextile – ‘Flesh’
We introduced you to LA post-punk-noir outfit Sextile a few weeks back (click here for interview) after we were instantly blown away by their debut release ‘Can’t Take It’. Well in no time at all they’re back with another number from their forthcoming debut album ‘A Thousand Hands’. Again it’s a beautiful, dark, slice of …
News: Baby Godzilla forced into name change by Japanese Cinema Giant
One of our favourite new bands here on Backseat Mafia has been Nottingham noise rock / punks Baby Godzilla, following on from an amazing performance we caught them at at last years Tramline Festival. Sadly, they’ve come under the scrutiny of the Toho Co. Ltd, who own the Godzilla name, and who persue with some …
Album Review: Gwenno – Y Dydd Olaf
It’s always tricky to review an album where the lyrics are primarily in an unknown language, especially in Gwenno’s Welsh mother tongue. Yet with ex-Pipette’s solo debut, Y Dydd Olaf, the music really speaks for itself. Branded as a concept album focusing on politics and science fiction, the album seems to shy away from its …
Track: PiL – Double Trouble
Apparently Mr Lydon has been rowing with the missus about plumbing !?! Not quite sure what the issue was, but it lead to a discussion about relationships and concluded with John been so inspired he conjoured up this little gem… ‘Double Trouble’ is the opening track from PiL’s 10th studio album ‘What The World Needs Now…’, …