rock/metal interview
Meet: Legendary Joe Brown ahead of his one man tour
A legendary player on the British (and worldwide) rock and roll scene, it’s always a pleasure to see Joe Brown out on the road, but with his forthcoming tout, Just Joe – expect something different. That’s because it’s literally just Joe (and his guitar and Ukelele no doubt) but no band, just the man himself …
Meet: Virgin Kids + Album stream and tour dates
Following a fairly rigorous rampage around the UK supporting some of the finest garage scenester’s around, London trio Virgin Kids have just dropped their debut album ‘Greasewheel’. A fine collection of pizza and beer fueled garage punk-rock, that throws a cheeky wink back as far as the 13th Floor Elevators, whilst throwing the odd cursory …
Meet: Dead Hormones, and watch the new video for If I don’t make it home
After checking out their new EP, “Nothing, Nothing… then something”, we here at Backseat Mafia were very taken with Hull alt-rockers Dead Hormones. Noisey, full of attitude and able to pull big tunes out of their musical holsters seemingly at will, we needed to jump on their fast moving bandwagon before everybody else did. So …
Meet: Matt Bigland from Dinosaur Pile-Up interview
We’ve been much taken recently with 11:11, the lead single and title track from Leeds rock trio Dinosaur Pile-Up’s third album. A mixture of rock and old school Seattle grunge, the band have built a big following through riff and melody heavy tunes, and well recieved albums Growing Pains (2010) and 2013’s Nature Nurture. We …
Meet: Hardcore band Shots Fired
Shots Fired are a metal band that aren’t too fussed about been slotted into one of the many genre specific pigeon holes that plague todays hardcore scene. This is a good thing – it allows the band to be who they are and frees the listener to concentrate on what matters, the music, as opposed …
Meet: Maria Brink – In This Moment Interview
For In This Moment it’s been a long journey to get to where they are today, for a band that released their first record in 2007, they’ve certainly gone through some changes. After the release of the third album two members left the band and their management dropped them but not everything was downhill. If …
Meet: Idlewild’s Rod Jones
Whilst the first glimpse of Idlewild’s new album Everything Ever Written, titled Collect Yourself was very good when it dropped onto our radar late last year, the bands new single Come On Ghost, is brilliant. Swaying with intent throughout and decorated with grating guitar solo’s and soaring riffs, it shows the band is capable of …
Meet: We interview Alicewell, new Swedish kids on the Rock block
Meet Alicewell; a new band from Sweden. Even though this is the case, take one listen to them and they sound as if they could have stepped straight off the UK rock scene. Alicewell are an unsigned band, but despite this, they have recently released their debut album Wounds, and just finished a tour of …
Rising: We talk with Edinburgh post-rockers Wozniak
We were sort of captured when we heard ‘El Maresme’, the latest single by Edinburgh’s Wozniak. We’ve heard layers of guitars before, but this was something else. Moody, downcast even, but writhing beneath layer upon complex layer of effects laden guitars. Our minds might not be the strongest things out there, but they were well …
Meet: Evile, and news of their new album, Skull
Huddersfield. The home of Rugby League, One of the most successful football teams of the 1930’s. The birthplace of Harold Wilson, twice the prime minister of the country. After that though, you start to struggle. But it’s a town that I love, that I studied in, worked in and lived in. And yes, it …