Electronic rock
Gallery & Set-list: Clan Of Xymox / Scattered Ashes – Whelan’s, Dublin 01.04.2023
Its only taken 40 odd years for it to happen, but dark-wave pioneers Clan Of Xymox finial made it to Irish shores, I reckon they got lost on the Irish sea for some time and suffered from some Loneliness and then drifted a shore (see what I did there, ok getting my coat) also it …
Gallery & Set-list: The Hardkiss – The Academy, Dublin 13.03.2023
Ukrainian Alt rock/metal band played to a full venue in Dublin as they tore up The Academy and the mainly Ukrainian crowd lapped them up. There was no support on the night and the band played for an hour and a half, most of the songs were sung in Ukrainian, but not all. That didn’t …
News: Le Tigre Have Reunited & Announced a Tour
Eye of Le Tigre – they’re back after 18 years and they’re coming for you!
Live Review: Gary Numan / I Speak Machine – 3Olympia, Dublin 24.05.2022
Gary Numan hit Dublin’s 3Olympia for his Intruder tour with support from I Speak Machine after doing a string of UK dates and now heading into Europe. Opening the night was I Speak Machine, an experimental music act and audio-visual project of musician Tara Busch, playing alone on stage you can hear (well I could) …
Premiere: In Violet reveal new video for Cathedral Thinking
There’s not many people who like industrial, post-techno, electronic rock music like we do, so we are beyond delighted to be able to premiere the new video from such a outfit in the shape of In Violet, and their new single Cathedral Thinking right here on Backseat Mafia this morning. Since their last record some …
News: Enter Shikari announce charity t-shirt collab with St Albans FC, alongside lockdown video
Electro-rock titans Enter Shikari have announced a t-shirt collaboration with their local hometown football team St Albans City FC. All profits from the sales are being split between the St Albans & District Foodbank in Hertfordshire, and the Fans Supporting Foodbanks charity in Liverpool, Merseyside. From the beginning of our partnership with SACFC, the main focus …
Track: Gary Numan Shares title track for new album – Intruder
Legendary Gary Numan has revealed the title track from his forthcoming 18th solo studio album, ‘Intruder’ due May 21st. Numan explains: “‘Intruder’ looks at climate change from the planet’s point of view. If Earth could speak, and feel things the way we do, what would it say? How would it feel? The songs, for the most part, attempt to …
Track: AK/DK Share A Perfect Slice Of Disco Punk With Track ‘Feeds’
AK/DK’s new single ‘Feeds’ is taken from new album ‘Shared Particles’ due 16th October 2020 via Little Miss Echo Recordings Taking a cheeky sideways swipe at social media, the band offer their thoughts on ‘the scroll that never ends’: “Even before the terrible events of this year, it’s as if a lot of us were already feeling …
Track: Voltage Black – Get your Iron Aligned
I thought I liked to invent genre’s. So far since I started this blog, only some seven months ago but sometimes it seems like a lifetime, the amount of time I (and the rest of the brilliant contributors we have here at the moment) spend keeping everyone updated with musical and artistic musings. I’ve sandwiched …