garage rock
See: Brian Jonestown Massacre release ‘Pish’ video
Never one to sit idle, Brian Jonestown Massacre’s Anton Newcome continues his/their prolific output with the release next month of a mini-LP ‘Mini Album Thingy Wingy’. The mini album features 7 brand new and exclusive tracks recorded by Anton in his studio in Berlin in 2014 & 2015. Alongside new songs penned by Anton himself, the …
See: Drenge release new video for “The Woods”
Drenge put out a new video for “The Woods” from their second LP Undertow – and its every bit as idiosyncratic as ever. Shot on 16mm at Hope Valley Cement Works, it’s brilliantly of Drenge’s own uniquely dark and strange style, blending Wes Anderson oddness (Eoin standing awkwardly in his yellow parka almost exactly like Bob Balaban and …
News: Damaged Goods to release Thee Headcoats singles compilation
Formed by the irrepressibly prolific Billy Childish out of the ashes of his previous band Thee Mighty Ceasars, Thee Headcoats – Childish (Git/Vox) Bruce Brand (Drums) and Johnny Johnson (bass), formed in 1989 they’d already released something like 6 albums and 15 singles by 1992. Continuing at a pace, they released handfuls more records – …
Album review : Holly Golightly – Slowtown Now
The queen of British garage music is back! Holly Golightly has a new solo album, taking a break from the Brokeoffs, and the recent country-tinged sound that came out of the backwoods. Instead “Slowtown Now” is a pop album, albeit retro tinged 60s pop. Think mini-skirts and go-go boots, but accessorised with guitars and reverb. …
Album Review: The Rubs – The Rubs Are Trash
If, after you’ve listened to Hard Enough, the opening track on Chicago Garage Rockers The Rubs (essentially the solo project of a certain Joey Rubbish, in that he sings, writes all the songs and plays all the instruments on the record), then you’re a better person than I. Surrounding himself with Chicago’s finest DIY Garage …
Meet: Drawing Blood, A Talk With Table Scraps
Every once in a while you come across a band that legitimately rocks. There’s no posing or jumping on the bandwagon. There’s something honest and visceral about the music. Something genuinely scary, too. Scott Vincent Abbot and Poppy Twist of Birmingham’s Table Scraps can be very scary. And they rock. Table Scraps take that boy/girl rock …
Track: The Dead Ships – Big Quiet
Here at Backseat Mafia, we can never get enough of the kind if Garage Rock that made something of the Strokes, and continues today in the shape of The Black Keys, Alabama Shakes and the like. So step forward LA-based trio The Dead Ships, who’s new EP, EP1 contains, certainly on the evidence of ‘Big …
Meet: We meet the legendary Anton Newcombe
Barely a year has gone by since the Brian Jonestown Massacre’s fourteenth (!) long player hit the stores like cloud of dense mauve smoke. Revelation was the first BJM record to have been recorded entirely in Anton Newcombe’s Berlin studio, yet it displayed sonic characteristics already familiar to many long-serving fans: elongated, repetitive structures; layered …
See: Love Buzzard release “Give It Some Range” Video
Love Buzzard are about to release their debut four track EP, so to warm up the crowd they have teamed up with Dalston illustrator Russell Taysom to bring you a video for the EPs opening track ”Give It Some Range’ With their adrenalin fuelled Garage/Psych and Taysoms nightmarish animated imagery its pretty full on: Raining eyeballs, spinning skulls, demon crows and …
See: The Wytches – ‘Gravedweller’ a Hallowe’en treat!
“Gravedweller, make sure you bury me next to the family who resemble me.” [Unashamedly re-hashed from the Backseat Mafia vaults for Hallowe’en] Imagine you’re taking a stroll round a graveyard. It’s dark. It’s misty. But there’s no need to be scared, because Dick Dale is with you holding your hand. Before you, two figures …