Indie
See: I Like Trains Share Video For Next Single ‘Dig In’
Following on from the bands previous single ‘The Truth’ (see here) the band have released the second single to come from their forthcoming album ‘Kompromat’ out August 21st via Atlantic Curve. “This one is for those morally bankrupt schemers who have managed to leverage extraordinary power and wealth while never being on the ballot,” explains vocalist David Martin. “For a …
Track: Even As We Speak – Unknown
Even As We Speak are of the most successful Australian musical exports in the late eighties, early nineties – catching the attention of the legendary John Peel and signing to the iconic Sarah Records. Recent years have seen the band reform, and the release of a new single, ‘Unknown’ fills one’s heart with gladness. Off …
NEWS: Red River Dialect’s gorgeous surprise EP, ‘Overabundance’
CORNISH-English folk-rock sextet Red River Dialect have released a surprise three-track, digital EP, Overabundance, book-ending the album from last year, Abundance Welcoming. The EP, which features three tracks recorded at sessions for the album in Carmarthenshire in late 2018, is out on Paradise of Bachelors today (July 3rd). Singer-songwriter and guitarist David Morris writes: “Three …
Premiere: Jo Meares – The Dirty Game of Art
Here at Backseat Mafia we are very proud to premiere the brilliant new track ‘The Dirty Art of Game’ from Sydney artist Jo Meares. This is a stunning and mesmerising song – haunting, poetic and celestial in its tone. Foremost is the rumbling hypnotic vocals that weave an enticing tale of temptation and sin in …
Premiere: Beezewax – Mom and Dad
Beezewax have been pillars of the Norwegian indie scene for over a decade, fading in and out of the scene, as bands do from time to time, but providing consistently energising material throughout. We are privileged to premiere their new song ‘Mom and Dad’ which is in fact a cover of a song by fellow …
Track: Fontaines D.C. -Televised Mind plus tour news
The mighty Fontaines D.C. are warming up to the release of their much anticipated second album ‘A Heroes Death’ on 31 July 2020 (through Partisan Records) with another tasty morsel: ‘Televised Mind’. Providing a thicker more complex sound palette, ‘Televised Mind’ maintains the almost stream of consciousness poetic exhortations of singer Grian Chatten, building and …
Track: Calvin Decline Band – Taxi
Sweden is fast becoming a hot bed of new and exciting underground bands, with a resurgence of new music coming from the older established bands and the new kids on the block, from the likes of Rotten Mind and Beat City Tubeworks to the now resurfaced Calvin Decline Band from their seedy underground bunker/studio in …
Feature: Soundtrack of Our Lives – The Flatmates
THEY came bursting outta Brizzle on the back of one-foot-in-the-Spector-camp fizzbomb pop classics like “Shimmer” and “I Could Be In Heaven”. And this year, a mere 34 years after their first show, Bristol indie-pop-punk band The Flatmates released their eponymous first studio album and official debut LP on their alma mater, The Subway Organisation. The …
Premiere: The Apartments – Pocketful of Sunshine
Sydney’s legendary The Apartments are back with a new album, ‘In and out of the light’, out on September 18th via Talitres Records. Peter Milton Walsh formed his charges in Brisbane back in 1978, and took them from Australia to firstly New York, then London when they were signed by Rough Trade, finally back to …
NOT FORGOTTEN: Edsel Auctioneer – from the Pump Room to the Duchess: life in the 90s’ noisepop scene
In an exclusive look at the 90s’ indie scene, Backseat Mafia interviewed Ashley Horner of Leeds’ The Edsel Auctioneer. Ashley proved warm, voluble and candid about life in a nearly famous British noisepop band in the 90s. It’s a cracking interview. Read on …