#backseatmafia

Hey punks, post-punks, garage punks, art punks and any other sort. We wanna increase our punk coverage, so people who love punk and can create, write, interview, photograph, review gigs, video, make playlists or posts, help out, be enthusiastic or anything else - please dm us, whatever your age, experience or location. Even better share it out on your own channels and socials.

And help let your punk friends and bands and labels and online groups and anyone else know. Old and new, worldwide.

New Mixtape - Go Global Beat with HATFM

New journeys into sound from the House (hosted by Backseatmafia)

Click mixcloud link to catch:

Dundundun/Rebecca Vasmont- Anansi (Vibration remix) from Dundundun EP (Worm Discs)

Keleketla!- Future Toyi Toyi from Keleketla! (Ahead of our time)

Kefaya -Indignados from Radio International (Radio International Records)

 Rachid Taha ‘Mamachi’ from Tekitoi (Wrasse Records)

Abdesselam Damoussi and Nour Eddine ‘Lailaha illa Allah’ from Jedba- Spiritual Music from Morroco (ARC music)

 Bab L Bluz-Ila Mata from Nayda! (Real World)

Tony Allen & Hugh Masekela – We’ve Landed from Rejoice (World Circuit)

Biggabush/Lightning Head- Ilu Baje- Sick State (Geode Remix) from The 13th Version (Tru Thoughts)

Frente Cumbiero- La Era Del GigaHertz from Cera Perdida (Salgaesol & Biche)

Quantic & Nidia Gongora – Que Me Duele? from Curau (Tru Thoughts Records)

 Les Mamans du Congo & Rrobin – Meki from Les Mamans du Congo & Rrobin (Jarring Effects)

Hey all,

So this is an offshoot of our main website, www.backseatmafia.com

It’s one of the top 20 music blogs in the UK, and we have writers, contributors, photographers and people who help us out with stuff from all over the world. At the moment, we’re looking for people to help us with various things that would help us grow Backseat Mafia even further. Maybe if you stumble on this, you could contact us through messenger here or on any of our socials, or maybe mail us at [email protected]

Here’s what we’re really looking for at the moment.

Editors: We’d like people to edit stuff for us, as well as create some content, on: New/Unsigned, Features, Electronic, Jazz, Reggae/Dub, World Music, Latin, Neo-classical, Soul, funk, House, Techno, Grime/DnB, and Pop music

Writers: We’d love writers, particularly album reviewers, on all genres. Particularly we’d like to grow our teams in Hip-Hop, House, Techno, Drum n Bass, Grime, Reggae, Dub, Soul, Funk, Indie, c86, Electronic, synth-pop, goth rock, punk, northern soul, jazz, metal, grindcore, hardcore, Neo-classical, Pop, folk, country, and do interviews, live shows and anything else.

We’d also love to get a few writers from places we’re read the most, such as Australia, New Zealand, Norway, Germany. It’d be great if we could get some people to help us write our features - top 10s, talking to pre-2000 bands about albums, review old albums from your collections,

Creators: We’d love some people to take hold and help us make our playlists, across spotify and beyond, help with our YouTube channel, look after things for us right here on Tumblr, and also our Pinterest, Instagram, Twitter, Facebook and other things. If anyone would like more experience in Video Editing, that’d be brilliant too. We have sessions on our socials that need editing when they come to us.

DJ/Producers: We have currently 3 resident DJ’s on our Mixcloud - We’d love to increase that and have more monthly mixes - anything from Dancehall, to Deep House, to Northern Soul, to Hard House, Ambient, Melodic Techno, Drum n Bass, whatever.

Brilliant interview on the site from @thepassmoresisters on their 1988 compilation ‘First Love, Last Rites’ as part of our Scratch the Surface feature where the band describe the lead up and reaction to one of their albums as well as giving us the lowdown on each track. It’s. Brilliant long read with most of the tracks to listen to as you do so

Read the whole thing at