dub/reggae
Live Review: The Dualers / Bare Jams – O2 Academy, Sheffield 26.11.2022
By Phil Wright Bare Jams In 2011, school friends Sam and Ollie decided it was time to stop fence jumping at festivals and formed a duo in their garden shed. In 2018 they released their first album which included great songs such as ‘Ebbs and Flows’ and ‘Yesterday Groove’. Bare Jams have toured all over …
Meet: Captain Accident As They Get Set To Embark On Their Bad Press Album Tour – Part 2
With the band all set for the Bad Press Album Tour – Part 2, to support their 4th album ‘Bad Press’, we asked Captain Accident how he writes, what inspires him, and how he went from a bedroom in Cardiff to playing festivals in Europe and jamming on stage with Suggs. Give us a potted …
News: Dancehall legend Beenie Man Announces London Show
Preparing for his first UK shows since, Beenie Man will be heading to the Eventim Hammersmith Apollo on Thursday 22 September 2022. Moses Davis, better known by his stage moniker Beenie Man, will be bringing his timeless music to Hammersmith’s Eventim Apollo this Autumn. The reigning “King of the Dancehall” is a prime example of an artiste never …
Album Review: Aotearoa outfit The Black Seeds deliver depth and sunshine with their long-awaited lockdown album, Love & Fire.
There’s something special about growing up with a band. It seems like only yesterday, we were stumbling across muddy festival fields towards the infectious beats of Keep On Pushing and now here we are, listening to the latest Black Seeds release in between mopping up our children’s vomit and wondering whether we’re ever going to …
Track: Sunny vibes only on Soul Sugar’s new single “Cool Down” feat. Booker Gee and Blundetto
Guillaime Metenier – France’s jazz, funk and reggae organist extraordinaire – unveils his latest Soul Sugar release, Cool Down feat. Booker Gee & Blundetto, and it provides a sun-kissed taste of the upcoming album, due for release in June. The digital-only single was co-produced by Metenier with fellow French artists Blundetto and Blackjoy, giving a …
See: Chronixx’ new track ‘Safe N Sound’ is a controversial but gracious magnum opus; watch the new video, here
Chronixx is a man who needs almost no introduction, a king of the modern reggae and dancehall scene. His name is synonymous with the genre and has been for quite some time, having multiple chart topping singles, EPs, and albums. His new single ‘Safe N Sound’ only solidifies this place among the Jamaican artist hall …
Premiere: J. Chambers releases the brilliant Sirens feat. Dei.3avu
Taken from his forthcoming EP ‘Escape the Kingdom’, a work concerned with being Black and British and out on 26th, ‘Sirens’ is the new single from Manchester poet and hip-hop artist J Chambers, and we’re delighted to be able to premiere it right here on Backseat Mafia today. Already a rising star on the scene, …
See: New Video drop from Gentleman’s Dub Club for ‘Give it away’
We used to live in a flat in London. It wasn’t the biggest block of flats in the world, but there were about twelve flats in the block. We had the ground floor flat and the only noise from anyone we ever heard was from the flat directly above. Every now and again, they would …
Meet: Keida – Dancehall, Jamaica & Me.
I’m pretty sure I saw a glimpse of sun the other day, although I may well have been mistaken. It reminded me (well, sort of reminded me) that I once went (well, twice actually) to the Cayman Islands, and it was there that I really fell in love with Jamaican music. Basking in the hot …