garage rock
News: Thee Hypnotics release tour details including full supporting bill
Thee Hypnotics have confirmed the full supporting bill for their upcoming UK and European tour. In addition to topping the bill at the Fuzzville Festival in Alicante in Spain, the legendary testifiers will be bringing their devastating live show to Birmingham, Leeds, London, Ramsgate, Southampton and Cardiff. Each date will have a different support act and adding to the ramalama are rockers Black Bombers (Birmingham), Teeside punk’n’rollers Johnny Seven (Leeds), downtuned desert …
TRACK: HANNI EL KHATIB – STRESSY
Hanni El Khatib returns with new music in the form of STRESSY via Innovative Leisure. A while since his last full length outing with 2017’s Savage Times and a step away from the bluesy rock of the likes of You Rascal You. “When I started playing with ideas for the record, I thought it was important …
See: Oh Sees announce new album/tour, tease new tracks
Northern Californian garage rockers Oh Sees have unveiled two songs from their new double LP, ‘Face Stabber’, which is due out August 16th on Castle Face Records. ‘Poisoned Stones’ is accompanied by an interesting video that was seemingly inspired by late 80s/early 90s arcade games. Check it out here. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=el4VQS7Kw88 ‘Henchlock’, meanwhile, is 21 minutes …
EP: The Cosmics – The Cosmics
Out right now is the new self-titled debut EP from Birmingham scuzz pop band The Comics, collecting six of the tracks the band have been playing live and recording them with Test Icicles’ Rory Attwell whose production credits include the likes of Palma Violets, The Vaccines, Yuck, Mazes and Male Bonding among many other up-and-coming …
See: Night Beats reveal
On the back of the release of Night Beats perform the Sonics’ ‘Boom’, their Record Store Day album that dropped digitally last week via Heavenly Recordings, the band have released a new video for ‘Let the good times roll’. Full of echo, and oozing with funk along with plenty of scratchy guitar lines, there’s enough …
Meet: We interview The Paranoyds
LA garage rock four piece The Paranoyds already have the a new two track ep out now digitally, ‘Hungry Sam / Trade Our Sins’ with a 7″ vinyl copy to follow via Suicide Squeeze label on July 12th. Here at Backseat Mafia towers (well, my kitchen anyway) we were totally enamored with the tracks, so …
Say Psych: Album Review: The Pinheads – Is This Real?
Australian 6 piece garage rockers The Pinheads have joined the Stolen Body Records family and are set release their new LP Is This Real? in the UK and Europe with Australian label Farmer & The Owl will take care of the release down under. Born out of friendship, bowling, sci-fi movie marathons and literal brotherhood, The …
Album Review: Knuckle – Life Is Hard When You’re Soft Inside
From the opening riffs of the Spilt Milk, the first track on Huddersfield three piece Knuckles debut album, you’re transported away. Not far, but maybe to a hostelry in the trio’s home town. The sort of place with worn carpets, and woodbines and dominoes, and pints of bitter. A place that’s full of atmosphere and …
Track: The Cosmics – Eyes
Birmingham scuzz/garage rock upstarts The Cosmics have heralded the release of their debut vinyl EP, due out on June 13th, with a single, Eyes. Think that sort of echoey hollow 60s sounding production, over this track that buzzes between swathes of buzzsaw, shoegaze guitars and these eerie rockabilly riffs. Over the top its got a …
Meet: Garage Rockers Knuckle ahead of their debut album release
Huddersfield Garage rock three piece Knuckle are on the cusp of releasing their debut album, ‘Life is hard when you’re soft inside’ via Philophobia Records on May 17th. They’ve been building a solid core of support after playing hundreds of shows across the UK and Europe with the likes of Idles and Barrance Whitfield & …