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FOE at Bull and Gate - 3 January 2012
FOE Thank god for Twitter. A chance search reveals that my intended gig for tonight (returning veterans Artery and feisty young pups Cold In Berlin plus others) has been postponed because the ageing headliners are 111. Sorry, they are ill. Thanks to Les Dawson for that joke. I divert across town to the Bull & Gate for the first night of a Fortuna Pop records residency. Even this event is...
DANANANANAYKROYD Splits Up!
Got this new 3 days ago, sad times. DANANANANAYKROYD has announced that they will split up after their upcoming (and last) tour. The Glaswegian band will also digitally release a single for the last time on 7th November. It’s called Think & Feel taken from their 2nd album, There Is A Way, produced by Ross Robinson in LA. You can hear it here. Was it the extensive promotion, touring and...
Questionable Corner: Suckers
A couple of weeks ago Suckers started a month long residency at Pianos and we thought it would be great to promote their four July shows with a nice fun interview. Then life happened and we scored one last interview with Oxford Collapse and one with the far more attractive Those Darlins and suddenly Suckers were pushed to the back of the month. Apologies are probably due all around, to the band...
Listing Ships
Listing Ships From: Oxford, United Kingdom After rocking the local Oxford scene with their nautically themed post rock instrumentals Listing Ships, have set sail for more distant shores with their new EP The 100 Gun Ship. They’ve hoist the mainbrace and lowered the spinnaker (no I don’t know what it means either but it sounds like the sort of things sailors might say) seeking fame...
Slow Club : Lets Fall Back In Love EP
The lovely Slow Club are giving away their ‘Lets Fall Back In Love’ EP at their site slowclub-yeahso.com. The band also have a Mackenzie Crook staring video out for their new ‘Giving Up On Love’ single and an imminent UK tour. MAY 2010 15 - Brighton - The Great Escape @ United Church 25 - Oxford - Academy 2 26 - Swansea - Swansea University 27 - Liverpool - Academy...
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Chad Valley
Raven Child Blipping and tripping like a rave version of the Knife, Hugo Manuel of Oxford’s Chad Valley peaks early in his washed out rave-inspired chillwave pop. His gauzy vocals, glossy percussion and eerie-woodland-creature character wouldn’t be out of place in a Glass Vaults song. Manuel made his mark early on in his game touring Europe and went on to impress the folks on...
Foxes! are another musical casulty of Unfortunate Exclamation Mark Syndrome
Foxes! are an indie pop band formed in Oxford, who are now seemingly from Brighton. Which makes sense I suppose as Brighton has one hell of a music scene; Oxford not so much. They also seem to be another band on the exclamation! mark! trip! which is starting to get just a little annoying. It doesn’t even make them any easier to find on search engines. Hype Machine still kept giving me...
This Town Needs Guns ; Animals
Taking cues from American post-punk "greats" such as Owls or Cap’n Jazz (or anything the Kinsella boys touch, really) hasn’t necessarily been a recipe for mainstream success. Cult followings are all rage now, anyway. This Town Needs Guns, who are indeed a reflection of their entirely erudite stomping grounds in Oxford, England, are a remarkably proficient bunch of...
Pizza Taste: An Interview With Tubelord
On Tuesday 16th June 2009, Tubelord played a gig at a venue called The Cellars - a lovely little pub in Eastney, Portsmouth. Ed, Tom and their counterpart/assistant Leam had the pleasure of interviewing Tubelord before their epic gig. The meeting was arranged for 6, however both parties were late due to us getting lost and Tubelord fixing their bank payments, which set everything back a bit....
Under The Radar : Artists and Albums To Look Forward To In 2009 : Heartless Bastards - The Mountain
The proverbial "change of scenery" is, and always has been, a bit of a cure-all in America. Flunking out of school? Transfer. Highly-touted, overpaid athlete wallowing on the bench? Trade. I’d go as far as to suggest that if I went into work tomorrow and finally decided to treat my boss to a Cattle Catch Neck Crank, some might suggest, correctly, that I would benefit from a...
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Unsigned Band Spotlight: Phantom Theory. EP + Interview
Phantom Theory are a grungey two-piece from Oxford in London that we’ve been keeping our eye on for a while. Hold Your Horse Is gave them a glowing recommendation, and that’s enough for us… although they’re making all the right noises in all the right places, being picked up by BBC’s Huw Stephens, and playing with some other Artrocker favourites onstage. We caught...
iLiKETRAiNS
Venue: Oxford Academy Teaser: Steven Belfrage catches up with our former guest editors in Oxford, where their horror movie history lesson is going down a treat… Pull quote 2: Iliketrains opt for slower, film score-like fanfares over new wave energy… First para: On record, Iliketrains criminally water down their material, opting more for a vocal-led line...
Good Nature
Band name: YOUTHMOVIES Label: Drowned In Sound Teaser: Amy Rich gets her gnashers around the new LP from Youthmovies, an Oxford based group fused from the DNA of Foals’ founding member Andrew Mears… Pull quote 2: it’s not easy or for the faint-hearted - infact it could almost be the precursor to a panic attack… First para: You know those times...
Unsigned Band Spotlight: Bug Prentice
Bug Prentice are a three piece ‘jazz tinged punk’ outfit from Oxford, fronted by the self-admitted musical oddity Ally Craig. They’re no ordinary musical outfit, and not just because of Craig’s unique guitar playing style; holding the instrument vertical in his wheelchair. The track that they’re currently pimping out - ‘Nicholas Ray’ is is a...
Singles for the week beginning May 26!
Band name: Vampire Weekend, Alphabeat, Land Of Talk and more Label: various indie schmindies Teaser: Sink your fangs into this week’s singles review, where a certain Peter Gabriel referencing Noo York band has stolen the affections of our scribe Amy Rich… Pull quote 2: It distracted me from Bosnia & Herzegovina’s entry in the Eurovision. For a moment...
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  • Bully For You

    Gorgeous Bully From: Plymouth, United Kingdom The more sanitised, synthetic and computerised mainstream music becomes the more the discerning music lover yearns for something a little more...

  • Johan Reinhold - Shoot Me Down Remix EP

    Having already garnered quite a following in his native Sweden, Johan Reinhold is introducing himself to our ears with his indie-electro-pop sensibilities in the form of a remix EP. Music after the...

  • Corpse Lights: A Curdled Churn

    Woe betide any unfortunate soul who suddenly has a flash of inspiration and records one of the most brilliant songs of the year in mid-December: it simply won’t even get heard amongst all...

  • The King Khan Experience

    I Love The Way You Howl King Khan recently retired The Shrines and The BBQ Show and started a new project – The King Khan Experience. He’s been getting compared to Jimi Hendrix his...

  • Secret Diaries: Parcel Delivery

    Secret Diaries have one of those supremely satisfying band names that make you wonder why no-one has thought of it before. I love it when that happens. And speaking of ‘supremely...
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  • Picasso Kids Innocence;

    yokoohno.jpgLachlann Rattray’s work, both in his solo project “Yoko Oh No!” or his main band “Gay Against You” (a duo with his high school friend, and now flatmate, Joe Howe), is summed up beautifully in a quote...

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    What we know about Justin Vernon: he’s a fantastic songwriter with a soulful voice, which has slowly but surely found widespread acclaim with Bon Iver. We also found out from the Blood Bank EP...

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  • In Pictures: FOE

    Photos from a recent FOE gig - a friend of our friends Hold Your Horse Is - she’s gonna be big!!! Read the gig review after the jump.

  • In Pictures: Avett Brothers

    Shots of North Carolina’s folk-rocking Avett Brothers’ stop in Glasgow - 22.08.11 Read the review of the gig here.

  • In Pictures: Latitude Festival 2011

    Take a look at the acts and art on offer at this year’s Latitude Festival in Suffolk. Included are the likes of Fight Like Apes, Lykke Li, Sea of Bees and Seasick Steve. Photos from our own...

  • In Pictures: Bad Guys at the Old Blue Last

    Good time with Bad Guys. Photos from the May 29th gig at the Old Blue Last. Read the review by the Bad Guy himself, Stuart London after the jump.  

  • In Pictures: White Lies and Crocodiles at Shepherd's Bush Empire

    Artrocker.com exclusive: for fans of White Lies and Crocodiles we’ve got some fresh pictures from their UK show at the Shepherd’s Bush Empire earlier this month, courtesy of Alessandro...

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