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Top 100 records of 2009: 20-1
Street Chant So here is our top 20 records of 2009 list. I use the word ‘genius’ a lot on this page, but I’m not going to apologise for it. Because it all is.     =20: Todd - Riot Season Brilliant, complex and joyous ear-battering LP from Todd. A noise lasagne - layers of brutal sound served up with a special sauce of audio surprises. Plus they...
Top 100 records of 2009: 100-81
 Grammatics Choosing a top 100 records of 2009 may seem a little excessive but it has been a fucking awesome year for music.  No question.  We’ve mixed together albums, singles and individual tracks in our list, because we can.  The first batch is our top 100-81 and even though they’re at the lower reaches of our countdown, they’re all still amazing....
Guest top 10s: The Zookeepers
The Zookeepers biffed out our number one record of 2009 - Ballin’ Outrageous. Think of all the amazing records this year - there is a shitload of them - and in our opinion Ballin’ Outrageous is better than all of the rest of them. Here are The Zookeepers favourite albums of 2009, handily arranged in alphabetical order. Good to see they’re not afraid of including their...
Show Worthy 7/27 - 8/2
Benjamin Nelson on Rare Frequency via Monday, July 27 Benjamin Nelson & Brandon Terzakis at Weirdo Records (donate, 8:00, all ages) Nelson + Terzakis = prepared guitar + chord organ = sign me the fuck up Quits Friday, July 31 Magic People, Life Partners, Quits at Jacques Cabaret ($10, 8:30, 21+) Magic People are fucking weird. But in a totally awesome way. Industrial minimal punk doom...
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The Zookeepers: Gazing Into The Void, Laughing
Imagine the internet – all the insanity, all the zillions of disparate thoughts, all the ridiculous fetishes – condensed into song, and you will have an idea of The Zookeepers. Perhaps they’re among the first bunch of real Internet Bands: shaped not by the content, but its buzzing, ever-altering nature. The Zookeepers craft a shuffle of too-short songs and spun-out ideas...
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Sassy raps and clusterfucks of synths reign on an icey scape of click tracks that stutter the same as the vocals. Cooing vocals swathed in echo and delay curve over throbbing magma that tinkles with little keyboards. As if The Unicorns metamorphosed into a hip rap group with nerdy synths and drum machines, actually, kind of like what Nick Thornburn of The Unicorns does sometimes (jamming with...
The Zookeepers - Darling
Here’s a great video from The Zookeepers, from their new Elmer’s Paste Land LP. The video features fireworks and instrument destruction - two fine ingredients for a clip. They’ve already biffed out one fantastic record this year - Ballin Outrageous - but clearly, that wasn’t enough for them. Elmer’s Paste Land is a buffet of out takes and jokey jams - but even...
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The Zookeepers - Good Looking Out
Not content with sitting on their laurels after we awarded them our number 1 record of 2009 for Ballin Outrageous, the Zookeepers have returned to the studio and biffed out another LP. Holy shit. I guess when you’re on a roll… I must admit, part of me wanted to find something to dislike with their new LP - Good Looking Out. If I wrote another glowing review, perhaps people...
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The Zookeepers - Ballin Outrageous
I’m happy to report that The Zookeepers are back with a completely brilliant new LP.   You can stream it for a limited time, but if you have any ounce of sense you’ll want to purchase it for the measly sum of four American dollars. That way, you get to own it, do what you will with it and pay your respects to a talented bunch of musicians who deserve a small glop of your...
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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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  • Capstan Shafts

    CAPSTAN SHAFTS are giving away 6 of their tracks for free on archive.org. Seeing as the 6 song EP, Cretin Flowers, is one of the best I’ve heard this year, you’d be foolish not to...

  • Viking Moses

    viking-moses.jpgGary Corrin recommends the 'bohemian electro folk" of Viking Moses

  • Win tix to The Good The Bad EP launch @Whoreditch

    The Good The Bad are launching their nut-clenchingly fantastic debut EP on 13 November at new club Whoreditch.  They play amazing ‘new surf flamenco’ with tonnes of rock n roll...

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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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