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Premiere: Unruly Girls – Black Love (Video)
Backseat Mafia is very honoured to premiere today the phenomenal new video by Italian band Unruly Girls. ‘Black Love’ is off their recently released album ‘Epidemic’ – an album I rated a 9.1 out of 10 – and is a typically unhinged, anarchic and thundering production, yet is antithetically tinged with a sense of poignancy. …
Premiere: Yaglander to release new video for The Straight and Narrow
We’re delighted to premiere the new video this morning from North London’s Yaglander, for his single The Straight and Narrow. It’s taken from his EP of the same name which is out on 22nd May. The straight and narrow mixes up left-field indie/synth pop, akin to the likes of Cate Le Bon, but throws in …
Premiere: Silverkord – Halcyon
London rock band Silverkord have a new single coming tomorrow, and we have the first view of their massive new track ‘Halcyon’. Taken from their upcoming debut album, ‘Halcyon’ is a swirling mass of rock, grunge and prog. Crushing riffs and soaring vocals sit atop a rock solid rhythm section, altogether framing a dynamic sound …
Premiere: Marveline – Savoury-Toothed Tiger
Marveline is basically the solo work of Pete Marley – a stalwart of the Sydney music scene and go-to bass player for a number of seminal local acts including The Nature Strip (see our review of their last album) and Fallon Cush. We are honored to prmiere Marveline’s debut album – amusingly titled ‘Savoury-Toothed Tiger’ …
Premiere: The Corner Laughers – The Calculating Boy
Californian indie pop bands The Corner Laughers release their latest single, The Calculating Boy on May 15th, taken from their forthcoming album Temescal Telegraph, due out June 5. We’re delighted to premiere the single today here on Backseat Mafia. The bands frontwoman Karla Kane says of the track “’The Calculating Boy’ takes inspiration from 17th-century witch hunts, …
Premiere: Kúlu release new live session video for Seeking
Danish indie rock band Kúlu released their latest single Seeking last month, proving again their able to blend in echoey, shoegaze guitars and dark, melancholic melodies together in the way that the likes of Editors do. Only, somehow Kúlu seem to be able to leave you feeling uplifted as well, and we can’t work out …
Premiere: Katie MAC – No Fun
Kansas born, Nashville based pop scenester katie MAC is releasing her new single No Fun, and we’re delighted to premiere it right here on Backseat Mafia today. It follows last years debut album ‘Tears like Glitter’ which racked up 500k plays within a few months. Of the new track, katie exclusively told us “No Fun …
Premiere: Joell Jordi – Living For Tonight
Taken from his debut EP, due out later this month, we’re delighted to premiere ‘Living for Tonight’ by 26 year old Manchester singer-songwriter Joell Jordi. Of the track, he says “Living for Tonight is what it says on the tin, it was written about living life for the moment and had a thought behind it …
Premiere: Air Drawn Dagger – Hexed
Sheffield rockers Air Drawn Dagger Started out in the back of a cake shop when guitarist Lewis and vocalist Maisie started writing songs almost immediately after meeting. Fast forward to a honed, and much more experienced Air Drawn Dagger who are releasing the single Hexed, which we are delighted to Premiere tonight on Backseat Mafia. …
Premiere: KARMA SHE releases new video for MAKE ME KITTENS
Berlin- based multi-disciplinary artist Carmel Michaeli aka KARMA SHE, is gearing up for the release of her debut album MY NAKED DEVOTION on May 8th, which includes a full UK release including cassette format via Martin Hossbach, and we are delighted to premiere her new video For MAKE ME KITTENS here in Backseat Mafia this …