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TRACK: Garcia Peoples – ‘One At A Time’: cool, bluesy East Coast rock: new album in October
RUTHERFORD, New Jersey’s autumnal rock outfit Garcia Peoples are following up their live cassette from earlier in the year with a new album, Nightcap At Wits’ End, on October 9th; and they’re teasing that release with the brilliantly trippy little animation for lead track “One At A Time”. Have a watch of it with us, …
NEWS: Bob Mould announces definitive post-Hüsker Dü box sets
IF YOU’RE a fan of Hüsker Dü man Bob Mould and you fancy spending some big, definitive bucks, then lookee here: Demon Music have announced that on October 2nd, they’ll be releasing Distortion: 1989-2019, a chronicle of both his solo career and that of his band Sugar. This massive anthology will, for the first time, …
News: New permanent mural in Brixton pays homage to lost rapper Ty
Here at Backseat Mafia we were upset when we heard that London rapper Ty had died, a man we had written about quite a bit on the site, and interviewed as well. So we were delighted to receive the news that there is a new permanent Brixton mural pay homage to himafter he passed away …
News: Elvis Costello reveals new album ‘Hey Clockface’ plus releases new single.
The legendary Elvis Costello has confirmed his welcome return to the music scene with the announcement of a new album ‘Hey Clockface’ on 30 October 2020 as he releases a new single ‘We are All Cowards Now’. Of the album itself, Costello says: I wanted the record to be vivid, whether the songs demanded playing …
TRACK: Pole – ‘Röschen’: Berlin textural ‘tronica legend is back; new album in November
BERLIN’S Stefan Betke, digidub mastering legend and masterful glitchtronica/deep groove recording artist in his own right as Pole, has announced details of his new album for Mute, and has also shared the first teaser for it in the shape of “Röschen”: listen with us, it’s embedded below. His eighth straight studio set – leaving aside …
EP: Johnny Hunter – Early Trauma plus tour news
‘Early Trauma’, the new EP from Sydney’s Johnny Hunter is quite simply brilliant. It is a sweeping, cinematic and statuesque release filled with five close to perfect pop songs that have theatricality and pomp and an elegance, leavened by a satisfying post-punk gothic darkness. Bowie-esque vocals swerve into a Joy Division sombreness and Bryan Ferry …
Track: sweater curse – All the Same plus EP news
Brisbane’s very exciting sweater curse have just release a brand new track and video as well as announcing the much anticipated release of an EP entitled ‘push/pull’ on 25 September. This follows the release of single ‘Close’ earlier this year which we enthusiastically reviewed. ‘All the Same’ has a heavier feel than earlier material with …
TRACK: Tanya Donnelly and the Parkington Sisters – ‘You Will Be Loved Again’: album release listening parties on Friday
TANYA DONELLY, who’s forged a career of alt.pop brilliance through Throwing Muses, Belly and just as Tanya herself, is set to release a seductive LP of close-harmony bluegrass covers with the Parkington Sisters tomorrow, August 14th called simply Tanya Donnelly and the Parkington Sisters. Listen below to the gorgeous harmonising, the simple, heart-stealing beauty of …
News: Fontaines D.C. announce further 2021 UK tour dates
The Dublin-based band, after receiving well-deserved praise for recently released A Hero’s Death, have announced another set of tour dates in Edinburgh, Nottingham, Bath and Liverpool. This follows the quintet’s immensely popular return to live gigs, albeit virtual ones, with an audience peaking at 4000. Their newly announced dates come after several previously announced sold …