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Premiere: DEWR reveals new video for Serenity
San Francisco singer-songwriter DEWR, aka Brian Dewar is about to release his new single Serenity and we’re delighted to be able to premiere the video here on Backseat Mafia. The song, Dewar told us “….is a song about not being able to have it all. You have a finite amount of energy and attention you …
Premiere: Luke Hogan – Windowpane
Taken from Portland singer/songwriter Luke Hogan’s debut album ‘Thank You Stranger’, we’re delighted to premiere the track Windowpane here on backseatmafia.com Of the single, Luke told us that “I wrote ‘windowpane’ in my tiny bedroom in what will hopefully remain the worst apartment I’ve ever lived in- my first official place in Los Angeles after …
Premiere: Gianni Paci reveals new single and video ‘Another Day in June’
Singer-songwriter Gianni Paci learn the ropes the hard way, touring with The Butthole Surfers, sharing the stage with, amongst others Ace Frehley of Kiss, Steven Adler of Guns N Roses and the late Mike Starr of Alice In Chains and in the studio with the likes of Gail Ann Dorsey (David Bowie, Gwen Stefani), Jon Anderson (Yes, King Crimson) and Mike Keneally (Frank Zappa, Steve Vai). But songwriting …
Premiere: Addie Brik reveals video for Belly
Georgia born but Scotland based singer songwriter Addie Brik is set to release her new album ‘I have a Doctor on Board’ via her own Itza label on June 8th. The ten track album was written in a small room overlooking the Firth of Clyde and is based around a series of interviews Addie had …
Premiere: Listen to an exclusive stream of Rougge’s album ‘Cordes’
French Singer-Songwriter Rougge is on the cusp of the release of his new album ‘Cordes’, out tomorrow via The Gum Club, and ahead of it’s release, we’re delighted to host an exclusive album stream. The work harks back to his two previous solo albums, 2007’s Fragments and its follow up, Monochrome (2016), but he’s re-imagined …
Premiere: Johanna Amelie – Into Blue
Taken from her forthcoming debut album ‘Distance’, co-produced by Gordon Raphael (The Strokes), we’re delighted to premiere the new song from Berlin based singer, multi-instrumentalist and producer Johanna Amelie, Into Blue. Of the track she says “Into Blue is a song about a near-death experience. My idea was to express a contrast of opposites in the …
Premiere: The Shut-Ups reveal new video for Et,Tu? Tomorrow
Taken from their forthcoming fifth album ‘Just Another Generation’, Altanta-Athens quintet The Shut-Ups have revealed a new video for the track ‘Et,Tu? Tomorrow’, and we’re delighted to premiere it here on Backseat Mafia today. Harmony driven but comfortably indie at heart, Et,Tu? Tomorrow skips along (in keeping with the rest of the album) as if …
Premiere: Bromide – Two Song Slot
Two Song Slot is the first single from London noise-pop three piece Bromide’s sixth album I Woke Up. Penned by the bands singer-guitarist Simon Berridge in his car outside Tesco after walking out of an solo open mic slot, it was the line “Elvis woulda stayed.. he would’ve slain them” that came to him first …
Premiere: Johnny Cyrus and His Band of Ghosts – Longevity I (EP)
We are delighted to premiere the debut EP ‘Longevity I’ from Ipswich’s Johnny Cyrus and His Band of Ghosts. Ipswich is a town west of Brisbane, Queensland and you can feel deep in the roots of the music a certain Australian outback theme – dusty desert roads filled with roadkill and killer semi-trailers with hot …
Premiere: Tia Gostelow – Giants
18 year old Australian singer-songwriter Tia Gostelow is about to release her debut EP Status Anxiety, with an album and some global touring in the works in 2018. We delighted to premiere Tia’s next single ‘Giants’ here on Backseat Mafia. It has this indie pop/rock sound that opens with delicate picked guitars and unfurl into …