(Photo: Jim Cole)
There’s an ideal rock ‘n’ roll that has been achieved by few. For everybody that touches The Stooges, there’s a million pretenders. Jay Reatard was never a pretender, and "You Build Me Up Just To Bust Me Back Down," from his pre-solo band The Reatards, shows a man that knows how to go all-out. This is the sort of song that created mosh...
In the Red’s profile may have risen in recent years through releases by King Khan & BBQ, Vivian Girls and Jay Reatard, but for years the L.A. label’s been buttering your croissant with permanently cool, stylishly unfashionable garage-rawk like what this here Reigning Sound band makes. Frontman Greg Cartwright (who had the wheel on Shangri-La Mary Weiss’s comeback record)...
The rapid ascension of Brooklyn’s Vivian Girls was an interesting thing to witness in 2008. In that short time they quickly earned the respect of critics and their peers, but have had an up-and-down relationship with some fans. They’ve already played shows with a long list of all-stars and up-and-comers : Yo La Tengo, Deerhunter, Times New Viking,...
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.
Shots of North Carolina’s folk-rocking Avett Brothers’ stop in Glasgow - 22.08.11
Read the review of the gig here.
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...
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.
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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