You get to the end of a crappy week and what do you know? Someone calls you up and says they’re going to screen all four episodes of Backseat Beat at their film festival on Monday! Yep, all four episodes will screen as part of the GEARS festival at Zeitgeist Bar in San Francisco on [...]

If it’s Friday night and you’re facing a quiet evening at home, perhaps playing Farmville while finishing off the cold second half of the burrito you bought for lunch, then the Downer Party would be the perfect soundtrack. The perfect soundtrack, that is, to burn your ears off with hook-laden tales of whiskey-soaked debauchery, and [...]

After a hard year of acing chemistry, we’re gearing up for summer, digging through our drawers for that bikini we bought last August, maybe a little white lipstick, and our ancient tube of Bain du Soleil. Nothing says summer like kicking back and sipping warm PBR on a blanket while picking sand out of your [...]

Now, we don’t know about you, but back in high school we didn’t have a lot of experience with filled-out rich bitch popularity queens, jocks in corvettes, or vaguely racist portrayals of exchange students. When we were 16, our main priorities in life were pretending we already knew how to smoke cigarettes and trying to [...]

Backseat Beat Episode 10: Hate Factory, part 2 from Brad Robertson on Vimeo. Hate Factory is like that pajama party gone bad — you know the one. It starts out innocently enough, with hair braiding and prank calls. And then few hours after the lights go out, your underwear is in the freezer, your hand [...]

A pair of lady roommates strumming ukuleles and harmonizing sweetly on neo-thirties love songs — what could be more innocent than that? As it turns out, pretty much anything. Don’t be fooled by the doe eyes. Hate Factory turned out to be our girls-gone-wildest ride yet. But then again what do you expect from a [...]