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SXSW Beginner's Guide - #2 THE BEST LETTER OF THE ALPHABET THAT IS 'B'
Continuing my selfish self-reference guide to finding some actually good music to watch at SxSW continues with THE BEST LETTER OF THE ALPHABET. Why is ‘B’ the best? Well coz it’s curvy, has the best sound (BUH! for B!) and my initials consist of two of the fuckers. So, it’s with some excitement that I delve into SxSW’s current list of B’s who have been pretty...
Blast from the Past: Hüsker Dü's Zen Arcade
Late last week word came down that Bob Mould had recruited No Age to perform a set of Hüsker Dü tunes it warmed my heart to know that the second best possible version of the band would indeed be hitting a stage. Sure, it may not be Mould, Grant Heart, and Greg Norton, but it will be the first time Hüsker Dü songs are played in a live setting in a few years and I’m...
Preview: ATP NY '09 Day One
Damn near the last minute I was given a chance to attend this year’s ATP NY (I’ll be covering it for Gothamist all weekend) and I have to say I don’t think I’ve been this excited about a musical weekend in ages! With bands like The Flaming Lips, Deerhunter, and Animal Collective all on tap and crazy concoctions like Bob Mould with No Age (performing as Hüsker D...
Spiral Stairs gets a dog; prepares solo album
Poor Scott Kannberg. He’ll forever be “the other one” when it comes to any discussions of Pavement, which is a little unfair given his vital contribution to that band. Malkmus may be the one everybody knows, but it was largely the combination of the two of them that made it work. He’s dabbled around a bit in the ten years since Pavement split, releasing a couple of...
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Does it make more sense to start a shitty band that goes viral, as opposed 2 wanting 2 change the world with ‘good music’?
I recently saw this video by the Christian Rock band Final Placement.  At first, the internet music fan is ’sucked in’ because it sounds like Pavement/the Dirty Projectors, but then it degenerates into post-Modest Mouse post-Lifehouse Nickelback hopefulwave Christian High School rock.   It seems to have ‘gone viral’ because it is ’so terrible’ and...
Not Cool
Gang of Three Scuzzy 21st century post-punks, these Londoners are destined for fame. Creating a raw, energetic, screeching belch of guitars, oily drum beats and a cloud of dusty bass lines, Not Cool take cues from the likes of Gang of Four, Pavement and Dinosaur Jr. Not since the Arctic Monkeys’ debut record has a British band displayed the charisma and shimmering dissidence needed to...
Cymbals Eat Guitars
Out of all the new band’s I’ve heard this year, I think Cymbals Eat Guitars have the best shot of making it big.  Charles Bissell from the Wrens, who knows a thing or two about this kind of thing, agrees.  He recently said of the New York band that they “will end up indie famous within the year” and he liked the band enough to produce their first album, Why There...
The Phantom Band / Sir Yes Sir at The Borderline - 4th November 2009
  Phantom Band New York socialite Dorothy Parker once said of Katharine Hepburn that “She runs the gamut of emotions from A to B”. Miaow! I feel the same watching jovial guitar janglers Sir Yes Sir. Somewhere I have a recording of the Wedding Present playing ‘Box Elder’ by Pavement. So, I would wager, have SYS. Not that there is anything wrong with that, to...
Record Store Day 2009 Roundup
Despite news to the contrary, there are still record stores in America. Chains, less and less but, at least in New York, the good ones are still going. April 18 was the third annual Record Store Day, a "celebration of the unique culture surrounding over 700 independently owned record stores in the USA, and hundreds of similar stores internationally." Or, an excuse to get people to go...
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Victorian English Gentlemen's Club + 4 or 5 Magicians + The Duke Raoul
Venue: The Hope, Brighton Teaser: Nathan reviews recent Artrocker cover starts - The VEG’ as I like to call them - in Brighton. Pull quote 2: It begins with drummer Emma wandering through the audience, ringing a bell of the type normally suited to town criers. First para: Naming your stage persona after a character in a book that has connected with a lot of...
The Loon
Band name: Tapes n Tapes Label: Rough Trade Teaser: This is one of those albums that is officially released on 24th July, but you can already easily get as was self released and I think put out on another label in the US. Anyway, it’s excellent. Pull quote 2: Like most of the tracks, you think you know what you’re listening to until you’re surprised with...
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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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  • Gary Glitter back in the UK, Team GB, Mangal II and Spanair flight crash

    PARSLEY'S COMMLOCK Home News : Gary Glitter back in the UK I find myself breathing a sigh. I wonder if the rabid lynch mob that proclaim themselves to be protectors of our morality (as they kill a...

  • BAND SWAP: JUBILEE TALK COLLABORATION

    jub3_emilie_elizabeth.jpgFeaturing the combined talents of Aaron North (Nine Inch Nails, Icarus Line), Michael Shuman (Wires On Fire, Queens Of The Stone Age) and Evan Weiss (Wires On Fire), Jubilee is a new project born of...

  • Example Interview: Straight Benoodles

    Half way through a headline UK tour; already having touched down in Manchester, Bristol, Nottingham, London and Leicester; I spoke with Fulham’s most notorious export since Barry George about his ca

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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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