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Listen: Cruising ‘You Made Me Do That’ Debut single release 28-04-14
We told you cassettes were making a comeback. Have you been out and bought a cassette player yet? No? Well here’s another reason to do so…. Dublin/Belfast party band Cruising are set to release, what they describe as, a ‘grimy, brooding depraved slice of fucked up distorted subterranean punk’. Or in other words, their debut …
Track: Canadian DIY indie band Weed release new video for ‘Actual Air’
The far West coast of Canada, especially Vancouver, is home to a massive DIY scene, that has been popping out some great little bands for the past ten years or so; White Lung, Shearing Pinx & Nu Sensae are at least three that you should take the time to check out – but before you …
New Video: The Horrors “So Now You Know”
I am an unabashed fan of The Horrors and already enthusiastically reviewed the first release off their much anticipated fourth album “Luminous”, the seven minute long epic “I See You“. The Horrors have now released a new video for another song off the new album, called “So Now You Know”, a visual epic filmed in a deserted …
Listen: Stillwave ‘Modes of Transport’
You can get bogged down with trying label stuff. But it can also go the other way. Post-punk, new wave, whatever you want to call it, has been a term applied to an ever increasing number of bands, effectively broadening the genre to a point that it becomes almost meaningless (just check out the list …
See: Five Finger Death Punch release video for “House of the Rising Sun”, plus US dates
Let’s get this straight from the start, firstly – yes it is. Secondly – it is nothing like any version you’ve (probably) ever heard. The folk song, famously a hit for The Animals in 1964, but recorded before that by the likes of Josh White and Leadbelly, is given a complete reworking, moved into …
Track: Jamie XX – Sleep Sound / Girl, plus UK dates
Never one to let things lie, and coming towards the end of a run of 25 intimate shows, playing to just 40 people per night at New York’s world-famous Park Avenue Armory with his band the The XX, Jamie XX has somehow found time to record a new single for 12″ vinyl release on May …
New Music: Jack White – High Ball Stepper, plus album news
Oh Jack White you little tease, you. Everybody knows that he is a man who, when he touches things, they turn to gold. He’s released a little bit of the shiny stuff from his forthcoming album, Lazaretto out on his own Third Man Records on June 9th I the shape of a instrumental track, High …
Track: Toy – Conductor (Tom Furse Remix), plus US tour dates
We’ve been fans of Toy here on Backseat Mafia for a long time. Their updated take on psychedelia, with added sophistication and a sprinkle of shoegaze and noise has floated our boat since we first heard of them. We’re not the only ones to fall for the London five-piece and the band are currently preparing …
See: The Antlers release video for Palace, plus new album news
Is been three years since The Antlers much admired long player Burst Apart showed that the band could produce some of the most sparkling and beautiful alt-indie music around. Originally a solo project for Peter Silberman in 2006, which spawned a couple of bedroom produced albums before enlisting Darby Cicci and Michael Lerner, and recording …
New Music: Street Joy – Laurel Hill
We’ve written about Los Angeles‘ Street Joy before, here. The duo, Jason DeMayo on lead vocal, guitar and bass, and Scott Zimmerman on drums and backing vocals, deal a winning hand in old time, feelgood Rock n Roll. It has this whiff of nostalgia about it, the sort that brings to mind those sepia tinged …