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News: AT THE GATES – Announce new album.
AT THE GATES – Announce new album “The Nightmare Of Being”; Artwork, release date and first details revealed! Swedish melodic death metal pioneers AT THE GATES have recently completed the recordings and preparations for their upcoming new studio album and can now reveal that it will be entitled “The Nightmare Of Being” and that it will be …
News: Moby gives classical polish to ‘Porcelain’ plus new album and documentary coming in May
Moby announces new album Reprise, which will give a classical makeover to much-loved highlights from the musical pioneer’s 30-year career. Together with the Budapest Art Orchestra, new orchestral and acoustic arrangements see recognizable rave classics and anthems truly transformed. A stellar line-up of guest artists include Kris Kristofferson, Amythyst Kiah, Gregory Porter, Skylar Grey, Mark …
News: Monster Magnet cover Poobah’s ‘Mr Destroyer’ And Ripple Music Are Set To Release A Poobah Anthology Album.
POOBAH’s 1972 anthem “Mr. Destroyer” has been covered by New Jersey’s stoner rock icons Monster Magnet as part of their upcoming covers album ‘A Better Dystopia’. Poobah’s debut album ‘Let Me In’ was just repressed for the fifth time on vinyl by Ripple Music, who also announce the upcoming release of the ‘Burning In The Rain: A Poobah Anthology’ this year. …
See: Muck Spreader drop the shadowy dub riot of ‘Take Flight’ ahead of a July EP; there’s a June tour, too
A CHAOTIC, riotously fun force of nature which – if you believe the myth – came about after lightning struck, Muck Spreader are back with a shadowy, gloriously dub-jazz didactic single, “Take Flight”, ahead of a July EP for Brace Yourself – and a tour in very fine company. The new eight-tracker, Abysmal, follows last …
Track: Western Australian psych exponents Pond return with a blistering single ‘Pink Lunettes’ and announce tour news
The history of enigmatic Western Australian band Pond is inextricably linked with fellow mega star exports Tame Impala, with common members revolving in and out of each others bands over time. As a collective, the band has an impressive resume – eight studio albums with the release of their most critically acclaimed album to date, ‘Tasmania’ …
See: Field Music reveal new video for ‘Not When You’re In Love’, plus Podcast and Tour news
Here at Backseat Mafia we love the brothers Brewis – Peter, David and associates aka Field Music, and any excuse to rattle on about them, we take. As it is, there’s a load of stuff happening at camp Field Music as the band release a new video for their latest single ‘Not When You’re In …
Track: Kat Eaton new single announces her debut album
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See: Throwing Snow unveils a June album for Houndstooth; watch the grainy, generated imagery for the hip-fizzin’ groove of ‘Brujita’
ROSS TONES, the West Country-based practitioner of a very I form of textural IDM, has announced he’s releasing his forth album under that moniker for Houndstooth come the end of June. It’s to be entitled Dragons, and he’s dropped a first sonic enticement in “Brujita”; scroll down, press play, come back up to finish reading. …
News: Masters at Work relaunch MAW Records with a full digital issue; hear their new single, ‘Mattel’
IN THE arena of house music, perhaps never were artists more succinctly and appropriately named: Masters at Work. Masters at work indeed. The creatives behind such generation-defining floor-fillers as Voices’ “Voices In My Mind”, the Latin percussive skip of KenLou’s “Bangin’ Early Theme” and the summer shine of MAW feat. Patti Austin’s “Like A Butterfly …
News: Apotheus release audiobook with digital experience
After the release of their album ‘The Far Star’, Portuguese melodic death metal titans Apotheus release, their first science fiction audiobook ‘The Far Star Mission’. ‘The Far Star’ album was released in 2009, and is inspired by the work of the American scientific and biochemical writer Isaac Asimov. ‘The Far Star’ was released worldwide through Black Lion Records which helped …