indie interviews
Meet: System Corporation
System Corporation has just released their debut single ‘Dismal Universal Hiss’, giving us the first look into what’s coming from this New Zealand rock outfit on their debut album ‘Fiction Dept.’, slated for release in late 2017. System Corporation began in 2011, based on a conversation between Phil Somervell (The Datsuns) and their long standing engineer Scott …
Meet: TULIPOMANIA
We recently discovered a band from Philadelphia, called Tulipomania. They already have quite a lot of music out there and plenty of award-winning videos to go with that, but the progressive art rock outfit will soon be releasing a new maxi-single. Following up their fourth album ‘This Gilded Age’, released last year, they are offering three …
Meet: Interview with QUIET DOMINO
Quiet Domino recently released the debut single ‘Metropelium’, drawing inspiration from new musings on a hometown city. Founded in San Francisco, this is the new project of singer-songwriter-reckoner Mark Nelsen. His unpredictable live shows and knack for writing and producing genre-blending songs led him to create his debut single as Quiet Domino. Over the past …
Meet: A Shoreline Dream
Colorado’s A Shoreline Dream will soon be releasing their new single ‘Room For The Others’ via Latenight Weeknight Records. This is the fourth single from their ever-evolving new album, which is being released digitally one track at a time, before the full vinyl-only album is finally ready. A Shoreline Dream, comprised of Ryan Policky and …
Meet: Dama Scout interview, plus listen to new track ‘Paper Boy’
Dama Scout are the kind of band I tend to prefer. A band that it’s hard to pigeon hole. A band that as soon as you think you’ve worked them out, they twist another corner and throw you slightly off course. There’s an underlying feel of Stereolab about them, but that in itself is only …
Meet: Aimee Mann
Aimee Mann has been a constant on the music scene for many years. From her beginnings with her former band ‘Til Tuesday, she has carved out a long-lasting solo career, with nine albums to date. Her latest is the more stripped-back sounding ‘Mental Illness’. We caught up with Aimee the week before she released the …
Meet: Greys – Shehzaad Jiwani On Community, Art, Music and More.
Greys are a fantastically loud, original and irrepressible four piece from Canada. Exposed to a wide span of social and cultural experiences and musical influences from Sonic Youth to Talking heads. With phat bass grooves of the revolution, thrashing shearing guitars, ear popping feedback and punk’y grunge’y percussion. Their music ranges from the raw in …
Meet: Methyl Ethel’s Jake Webb on New LP ‘Everything is Forgotten”, World Tour, Art, & Music
In Australia, between the places where the Swan River meets the suburbs and sandy beaches meet the shoreline, lays Perth. A cultural centre and the sweeping city that is the capital of Western Australia. Perth is not only home to the state ballet, opera companies, theatre, art galleries and museums. It is also home to …
Interview: Natives, Leeds O2 Academy, 21/2/2017
Making waves recently after emerging from the New Forest in 2014 with their debut album Indoor War, Natives embody a huge alternative sound, with an abundance of colourful vibes, positivity and world music influences in tow. Backseat Mafia caught up with Jack Fairbrother, guitarist for the band, before their show in Leeds supporting Busted! BM: …
Meet: Chris Damms of The Clear, ahead of the vinyl release of debut album Patchwork
I do it all the time, but The Clear have twice been the cause of me going the wrong way. Not once, but twice I heard their woozy, soft focus psych take on classic pop on the radio as I drove around at work, and twice ‘Maria Browne’ (for that was the song) caused my …