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Premiere: Tuff Sunshine releases new video for ‘Mask away’
Essentially the project of Brooklyn-based singer/songwriter/guitarist John Leitera, we’re delighted to premiere the new video for Tuff Sunshine’s track Mask Away right here on Backseat Mafia. Taken from their album Dig Deeper, Peanut, which dropped last year via Declared Goods, Mask away is essentially stripped down rock and roll, like Jack White doing the Rolling …
Obituary – Dave Greenfield of The Stranglers 29.3.49 – 3.5.20
Dave Greenfield was keyboard player in The Stranglers, frontrunners in the Punk movement. In a genre where lack of musicality was sometimes seen as a badge of honour, his virtuosity stood out from the very beginning, giving the band a sound that set them apart from their contemporaries. Often compared to Ray Manzarek from The …
See: Destroy Boys release new single and lyric video for “Honey I’m Home”
The San Francisco Bay Area trio Destroy Boys have released their latest single “Honey I’m Home” The song is about feeling trapped. Even if your body is physically free, if something has control over you, that control follows you wherever you go, and you always end up returning to it. “It was written at a …
SEE: PABST share video for new single “Hell”
Berlin’s Pabst have shared the video for brand-new single Hell, a song that openly confronts the darker emotions within one’s self. Drummer Tore Knipping explains: “The song Hell is about the darker feelings inside of you, them returning once in a while and sucking you into a hole. It sounds feasible; enlightenment can sometimes only be found …
News: Backseat Mafia moves into the UK Top 50 Music Blogs via Feedspot
We’re delighted that we’ve been included in the UK’s Top 50 Music Blogs in the UK for 2020 via Feedspot. It’s been quite a journey for us since we started back in November 2013 as a one man show focusing on all aspects of culture. Gradually focusing on music and film over the years, since …
TRACK / NEWS: JIMMY EAT WORLD RELEASES COVER OF CROOKED FINGERS’ “CALL TO LOVE” FEAT. BETHANY COSENTINO
They originally performed the song to conclude their special livestream on April 17th for Stinkweeds Records to commemorate what would have been Record Store Day. Frontman Jim Adkins and the band were joined by Best Coast’s Bethany Cosentino to perform a cover of Crooked Fingers’ “Call to Love”. It has now been released via RCA. “I thought I’d take advantage of the …
Track / News: Lucy Dacus Covers Tom Courtenay as Matador announces Yo La Tengo Electro-O-Pura reissue
Matador Records have announced the latest addition of their ‘Revisionist History’ series is the 25th anniversary reissue of Yo La Tengo’s 1995 album ‘Electro-o-pure’. Vinyl fans will be salivating at the album is now in a gatefold sleeve and has been cut from the 58 minute master. It’s pressed for the first time on two …
Obituary – Tony Allen
Tony Olidapo Allen was born in Nigeria in 1940, and is regarded as the one of the principal founders of Juju and Afrobeat. A self-taught musician, being around Lagos at the right time meant he was engaged by Fela Kuti for his band Africa ’70. A natural percussive genius, Allen had the rare ability to …
News: Oh Sees announce new UK & EU tour dates, plus Autumn North American tour
We all need something to look forward to once this lockdown eventually ends. Cue the best live band in the world (or so they’ve been billed as, and who are we to disagree) announcing their updated UK tour dates. Initially planned for May, the UK tour was postponed due to the cancellations caused by COVID-19. …
TRACK: Deathing released Crash & Burn single and music video!
Finnish Valkeakoski-based death metal band Deathing is set to release their debut EP All Hail The Decay on May 22nd 2020 via Inverse Records. A new single “Crash & Burn” which was released today is a glimpse to the ruthless overachieving of today’s society. Watch music video Crash & Burn: Vocalist/guitarist Marko Mäkinen comments:“The second song from the EP called Crash …