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Arcade Fire sings "Take Me Out to the Ballgame" at Chicago Cubs game
On Saturday, Will Butler and Marika Anthony-Shaw sang "Take Me Out To the Ball Game" at a Chicago Cubs game. U know know who they are? Oh yea, they are some of the least famous members of the popular band the Arcade Fire. I guess the entire band thought this opportunity was too meaningless/trivial to show up. I feel kinda sad because Win Butler and Regine Chassagne didn’t...
It’s not for the cock, it’s for album of the decade #7
The latest album in our best of the decade series is undoubtedly a masterpiece and the way it carved itself an alarmingly unique and powerful corner within music will surely make it one of the most talked about albums for years to come. After its release in 2004, the musical world has taken on a much more epic and grandiose look ever since.  The album is Funeral and the band...
Rock Paparazzi: The Arcade Fire
Scare MY Daughter! but Shes ok now ;-) £0898505050
It’s not for the cock, it’s for a review of the decade
The Recession, 9/11, The Internet, Terrorism, George Bush, July 7th 2005, Big Brother, Reality Television, Social Networking, Celebrity, Tony Blair, Online Shopping, The First Black President, The Smoking Ban, I-Pods, Borat, Banksy, Chavs… In no chronological or logical order, these are just some of the things that the decade dubbed “the noughties” may be remembered...
Will 2k10 be the ’shittiest year’ in the history of music/indie music?
I feel worried about 2k10. It seems like 2k9 is a year that we should feel ‘ashamed of’, and 2k10 is a year that we will sort of just emotionally ‘pull back’ our interest in tastemaking. I feel like 2k9 has had some ‘good products’, but maybe it was just a year where we are learning ‘how 2 use the internet’ when it comes to consuming music. It...
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The Force Is With Them
Photons Genre: Indie / Alternative / Rock From: San Francisco, California, United States When did size become so important for North American and Canadian bands? I’ve been trying to convince Mrs Devil that size ain’t important and now it seems that you can’t be in a band if it’s got less members than there...
Supernatural Tricks From...
Magic Me Genre: Rock From: Oakland, California United States I know very little about Oakland’s Magic Me. Their Myspace site is not particularly informative and doesn’t include any pictures of the band and google is not much help either.     My diligent research has managed to confirm that Magic Me are a quintet featuring members of The Jim Yoshii Pile-up, and...
My Favorite Albums of 2008
Photo Illustration by Nick Duncan. Click for hi-res version. 2008 is taking it’s final bow and a what a year it has been. While ‘07 was dominated by a slew of  indie rock heavy hitters releasing awesome albums (Spoon, Of Montreal, Arcade Fire, Wilco,  Radiohead) this is a year where new talent seems to be garnering the most attention.  For me at least,...
Tigers That Talked
Myspace // "23 Fears" [Audio] // "23 Fears" [Buy] This is a Leeds group that has flown under our radar until very recently, but it seems as though all of the right people in England have been paying attention to them. Their recent single "23 Fears" has received nods of approval from Steve Lamacq, Zane Lowe, Radio 1, and Q Radio while the band is busy prepping...
Pony the Pirate
[Photo Credit: Britt Merete Aase] Myspace // "Walk the Shame" [Audio] One of the problems with writing about bands from other countries is the lack of biographical information in English. Listening to bands sing in another language may be a different story — good music is good music, but if I can’t educate my readers about a band, then I have a little problem. There are...
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The National / Owen Pallet – Live @ The Pageant
This has really been a breakthrough year for The National. After years of quietly putting out great records, they’re have really arrived. They’re now sitting comfortably in that elite class of top tier indie rock bands with High Violet hitting #3 on the album charts and the band selling out large-sized theatres (including legendary venues like Radio City Music Hall) across...
Fanfarlo - Reservoir
Fanfarlo are a band that have been kicking about on the fringe of the hype machine for a while and now, after a recording session stateside in Connecticut, their debut album Reservoir is finally unleashed. The album starts with “I’m A Pilot” which is the perfect statement of intent. The song begins with loud, confident foot stomps and progresses into a piano-led anthem-...
Latitude Festival
Venue: Henham Park, Southwold (Suffolk, UK) Teaser: Abi reports from Latitude, the festival that “shuns the blood, sweat and rock ‘n roll ethos of the Carling Weekends, and instead presents a smaller, cheaper, and more accessible version of Glastonbury.” Pull quote 2: Cue the Arcade Fire and a subsequent onslaught of fireworks and flying lanterns....
The Antlers - Hospice
Allow me to forge a fair warning: The Antlers’ Hospice is not an easy record to sit through. With the right focus, in the right mindset, this album is as powerful on the soul as climbing a mountain is on the body. This album will crush you if you don’t know what to expect. Hospice is at once the simplest and most immense album of the year. Its music is made of small melodies,...
Jakobinarina, Arcade Fire, Timbaland and more
Band name: This weeks singles Teaser: Ric reviews this week’s singles, including new releases from Jakobinarina, Arcade Fire, Tiny Masters of Today, Turbo Fruits and more. One of them is, apparently, ‘as commercial as a shrivelled penis’. Can you guess which one? Pull quote 2: Top marks for not taking themselves too seriously… First para:...
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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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  • Fabulous Penetrators/Luxury Condo, Sweeney Todd & Human Mind Capacity

    PARSLEY'S COMMLOCK Concert Review : Fabulous Penetrators/Luxury Condo, Bloomsbury Bowling Lanes 16/08/08 Looking for a decent night out with my friend Paul, we were drawn to my friend Jim Bishop's...

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    PARSLEY'S COMMLOCK Concert Review : Gilbert O'Sullivan, Brighton Dome, 11/11/07 My brother was an avid record collector before I was born, and whilst we did occasionally split duties (he got The...

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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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