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Premiere: Kool Stuff Katie release video for Hard Girl To Know
Oh, this is good. This is really good. Portland Oregon duo Kool Stuff Katie, aka Shane Blem and Saren Oliver, make this kind of primal garage punk/blues that infects your ears and almost bursts out through your chest, its that exciting. Amazing really then that it was their first attempt at collaborative songwriting. Taken from …
Premiere: Death Rattle – ‘Shell’ + Interview
The first time I heard Death Rattle was just over 3 years ago in rural France when Chris (one half of the duo) played me and my band “something new me and Helen have been working on…” ‘The Dig’ turned out to be Death Rattle’s first single and a portent of things to come, a …
Premiere: Nervous Nellie release video for Cat Like Figure
Swedish quartet Nervous Nellie have a dream. Several actually, and a few nightmares thrown in as well. The two sets of brothers have documented them, as best they can, in a new album, When The Nightmare Gets In, which drops in December. The album, which is divided into three chapters based on the bands nightmares …
Premiere: First release on Ghostly Figures records – Stay/ Ocean by Two Skies
Here at Backseat Mafia we pride ourselves in the fact that we don’t just regurgitate or cut and paste press releases, there are plenty of other sites that do that and that’s fine. We write for the site because we love music and want to promote it when we hear it, and we want others …
Premiere: Will Joseph Cook releases video for “July”
Without trying to be stalkers of Will Joseph Cook, we are becoming slightly obsessed with the Tunbridge Wells singer-songwriter, as so its rather a treat for us here at Backseat Mafia to premiere (a slightly posh word for doing nothing more than previewing it, before it goes live on his own media, but you know, …
Premiere: Will Joseph Cook – Daisy Chain video (Sofar sounds)
We’re pleased to bring you the premiere of the latest from the brilliant Sofar Sounds, a session with upcoming Tunbridge Wells singer-songwriter Will Joseph Cook. Joined by his band, its a version of a new song, Daisy Chains. Here at backseat mafia, we loved his rather beautiful debut single Catalyst, and it seems that Daisy …
Premiere: Geno Carrapetta releases new video for ‘Éternité’
We’ve been loving London psych-upstarts for sometime now, so we are very excited to premiere the video for ‘Éternité’, the lead single from the drummer of Gentlemen, Geno Carrapetta., He has a new solo record coming out next month, and it shows on his own he’s able to create this rippling, slow-moving piece of cinematic …
Exclusive: Benny Maths makes Valentines Mix for Backseat Mafia
On this, the prequel to the most romantic of days, we’ve managed to secure Sheffield (vinyl only) beatmaster Benny Maths, and tie him down to an exclusive mix. as we all arrive back from hushed visits to clothes/cards/tat emporiums, or Asda, so we need that perfect soundtrack for the given outcome of the day, whether …
Exclusive: Dan Clayton records Backseat Mafia a bespoke DJ Mix
There’s something about House music that I find so attractive on a Friday night. Of course in the dim and distant past when I was not too old to look vaguely embarrassing in a night club, I went across to the Hacienda in Manchester, and Passion and outside raves and……ahem, Johnny’s in Huddersfield. And it …