Music
Track: The Library is on Fire – 1913
Out right now is Brooklyn three piece The Library is on Fire’s new album, Halcyon and Surrounding Areas and third single to be taken from it 1913. The band, Steve Five, Pete Sustarsic and Travin Tonn, make this kind of shoegaze, gothy music that has these dreamy shards of hopefulness, joy even, that sparkle particularly …
Track: Alpha Consumer – Miss Positron
Minnesota’s Alpha Consumer nearly dropped off the radar. But in the end, we couldn’t resist their b-movie indie charm, their forever evolving songs, and their frankly winning melodies. In fact half the reason we’ve taken so long about it is that we’ve struggled to get it off the playlist. Their new track, taken from their …
Track: Vasa – ‘Not A Cop’, plus tour dates.
Contrary to popular belief, and much to the bewilderment of many, I do only have one pair of hands and can still only be in one place at any one given time. This can be quite frustrating at times, especially when you really want to do one thing, but you also really want to do …
Psych Insight: Track – Head On by Dark Bells
We’re are big fans of Dark Bells here at BackseatMafia, and I was gutted that I missed their recent support stint for Temples. The band has now released an impressive string of singles, the latest one, ‘Head On’ being no exception, in fact after a few listens I think it’s their best track so far. …
Meet: Q & A with 3TEETH
3TEETH ,The shadowy Los Angeles four piece making a big sound with their take on industrial, took some time out of their busy schedule to answer a few questions about the process behind writing material, physical media in the digital age and a few other things. 3TEETH seems to be about more than just music, …
See: Thot. release new video for ‘HTRZ’
‘Here mate. Do you fancy a bit of vegetal noise music?’ Don’t know about where you live, but it’s the sort of question we get asked all the time round here. Usual response to the question is ‘Yeah, but only if you’ve got some of that industrial strength stuff.You know the stuff I mean – …
See:: Robyn Hitchcock and Steve Kilbey Australian Tour Dates
When two icons collide, you are up for an evening of rather decent music as well as tall tales and true. The legendary Robyn Hitchcock (The Soft Boys) is touring Australia by himself and as part of a double act with the equally legendary Steve Kilbey (The Church) throughout May and June. Since founding the art-rock band The …
See: Blood Red Shoes; Banned video ‘Speech Coma’
I sometimes wonder why they have buttons on remote controls that allow you to change channels, switch it on or off etc. Why? Because it would appear that some people don’t think you are capable of making that judgement for yourself. People such as MTV who have decided for you that the new video from …
Listen: Cruising ‘You Made Me Do That’ Debut single release 28-04-14
We told you cassettes were making a comeback. Have you been out and bought a cassette player yet? No? Well here’s another reason to do so…. Dublin/Belfast party band Cruising are set to release, what they describe as, a ‘grimy, brooding depraved slice of fucked up distorted subterranean punk’. Or in other words, their debut …
Album Review: Paws – Youth Culture Forever
Not out till June 2nd, Paws’ second album, Youth Culture Forever, sees the result of the Scottish trio decamping to Adam Pierce’s (Mice Parade / Swirlies) studio in the woods just outside New York to try to build on both the sound and the buzz of their debut album, Cokefloat! And to an extent, they …