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Favours for Sailors interview With the credit crunch, the recession, the worst winter for two decades and, probably, the imminent end the world being shoved in our faces and down our throats pretty much relentlessly by the media, anyone creating music in these dark times could be forgiven for coming across a bit bleak and depressing. Not Favours For Sailors though.  ...
Happy new year everyone! Hope you’ve enjoyed 2009 so far. And what better way to start the new year than telling you what will be hot in 2009 looking back at 2008. After we’ve squeezed the last drop of goodness out of 2008, here’s my list of the best tracks. Check out the best remixes of 2008 too if you haven’t done so already. To stay updated with Going Other Places in...
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Imaginary Insomnia Sleeping People, Rumah Sakit and Three Mile Pilot are three of Kenseth Thibideau’s more famed projects, but it’s his first solo album that is creating all the excitement right now. Due for release on July 20, Brooklyn Vegan recently previewed a few tracks. The two songs come across shady and skin tight with a thin Krautrock lining; one spelling M-A-T-H rock with a...
Gallops Genre: Other / Experimental From: Wales, United Kingdom Credit where credits due. The Devil has been a critic of the NME for, among other things, promoting the likes of the Ting Tings and Vampire Weekend whilst ignoring and neglecting more interesting, intriguing, exciting, innovative bands (see the Devil...
Great Eskimo Hoax have had little exposure in the UK considering they have been playing and writing for over 3 years and on the verge of releasing their second ep. However, this is definitely not due to a lack of talent and originality; before Youthmovies and the more danceable Foals came into the spotlight, GEH were pioneering the angular math-rock that has influenced a recent wave of British...
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Band name: The Music, The Subways, Frankmusik and more Label: various indie schmindies Teaser: There are approximately three zillion singles coming out this week, and Rory Carroll has been stroking his chin to each and every one of them. Step this way for K9 kidnappings, techno tantrums and E4 slaggings! Pull quote 2: this is so ridiculously infectious that you’ll be...
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...
Venue: The other Hove, the one in freaking Norway Teaser: Richard Artrocker is led astray by Blood Red Shoes, given free beer tokens, and left to ponder the very obvious size difference between Jack White and Beck. Who would win in a fist fight between those two? I know who the smart money would be on… Pull quote 2: We are able to ascertain two things. One, that Jack...
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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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  • Unsigned Band Spotlight: Casino Zone

    The text accompanying the track ‘Loralie’ that was sent in to explain this bunch of Northwest guitar abusers was ‘Motown Grunge with that Alien Ant Farm vibe’. Eh?
  • Get Smart

    PARSLEY'S COMMLOCK Film Review : Get Smart Well it's an interesting time to be parodying international terrorism and the security services, but if it has to be done then this effort certainly hits...
  • the Dirty Dishes - In the Clouds EP

    Ahhhh. I love this. When Jenny Tuite of the Dirty Dishes emailed us at Artrocker.com, there was no extended press drivel or desperate pleadings for promotion, just a simple "Hey there!...

Photos

  • 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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