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Robert Smith 'goes solo' from Crystal Castles, plays solo shows with new band called 'Cure'
Link: http://www.brooklynvegan.com/archives/2011/11/the_cure_played_3.html Robert Smith, better known to indie fans as ‘Bob Smith’, is best known as a member of the popular bleepbloop band Crystal Castles. He sang on the hit song "Not In Love." However, many speculated that his addition to the band would lead to the downfall of the band. Both Ethan Kath and Alice...
ANBAD’s Best Band Of 2010: Youthless // INTERVIEW
Isn’t it nice to be nice? Isn’t it nice to find out your favourite band of 2010 is nice? Thus, prepare to feel appropriately festive as you are smothered with pleasantries in this exclusive, nice, and exclusively nice, interview with ANBAD’s Band of 2010, Youthless. To prove that they are such good sports, they answered all of my overwhelmingly facile questions with...
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...
REVIEW // Shockwaves NME Awards Tour
Today, a rarity:  an ANBAD live review. It’s one of an interesting gig for those interested in new bands, though: the NME Awards tour, which provides a helpful snapshot of what is deemed to be now in the UK by both the NME and the teens that treat it as the music bible. The Shockwaves NME Awards gig at Manchester Academy drew curious punters from across the social spectrum,...
The View From… Glasgow
James was in a band called Juno, who, being a great new band once, were featured on ANBAD. Then, just before their name would have been a perfect tie-in with the movie of the same name, they split up. To get over the trauma, James writes an article painting a rosy picture of the music scene in one of the UK’s traditionally most exciting musical cities... Glasgow as a city speaks...
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Million Dollar Blip Alex Yabsley’s music was once described as “drum & bass that sounds like making violent love to a Commodore 64.” That’s a kind of far-out explanation for what is essentially a mix of circuit bent Gameboy cartridges and abrasive drum machine beats. Alex is the Australian king of chiptune, a bizarre musical genre made up of artists who manipulate...
Crystal Castles: new album
///////TRUST///\\US\\\\ Further news of Crystal Castles’ sophomore album hit the web a couple of days ago and already a bunch of new tracks (apparently from a demo copy of the album) have hit the blogs. You can stream about half the album on Hype Machine, linked from a number of different sources. From listening to the few songs made public it sounds like Crystal Castles...
Gentle Friendly - Ride Around Shining
London duo Gentle Friendly’s DiY pop has needed to be lo-fi so long you fear discomfort in slicker sonic surrounds, fascination with Sizzurp-quaffing Lil’ Wayne or not. Still, there’s something oddly poignant and ceremonial about "Ride Around Shining", which starts off sounding like Yoni Wolf’s Why? and ends up loitering somewhere between Crystal Castles’...
DOWNLOAD: HEALTH - Die Slow (Tobacco Remix)
HEALTH’s “Die Slow” really flaunted the band’s trademark haunted melodies over spine-breaking beats*, so we’re rather impressed with Tobacco’s transmogrifying remix in which slapping on a gritty ‘90s era balm and turning down the screws resulted in this slowish, hip-banging anthem. Ever dance underwater? Try it below. The oft-lauded Crystal...
i (heart) these songs
download all the pretty songs in a zip file: A.M. 180: top 30 tracks of 2008 get them while they’re hot (or, you know, before they get deleted) 30 Jeremy Jay - “Beautiful Rebel” And so my list begins with a sigh. “Beautiful Rebel” is ghostly and reverent, and I love how important the actual words sound, like an incantation, or a summoner’s song. 29...
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Lollapalooza 2009 - Recap and Day One Photos
The last Lollapalooza of the this decade is in the books and despite, what on paper, looked like a less than impressive lineup, it turned out another weekend of exciting and memorable moments just as in years past. Every year going at Lolla, one is expected to battle oppressive heat, but on Friday this year, Mother Nature decided to throw in a little something extra - a rain storm that only...
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Band name: CRYSTAL CASTLES Label: PIAS Teaser: Susie Wild takes us undercover with the debut record from Crystal Castles - where she discovers misleading mellowness, references to dead lovers, and all sorts of sinister electro-riot goodness… Pull quote 2: These mischievous 8-bit misfits will slay you with their viciously emotive music… First para:...
Crystal Castles, These New Puritans, The Teenagers
Venue: Goldsmiths College, London Teaser: The phrase ‘rock ‘n roll riot’ feels a bit Topshop these days, so what better way to re-aquaint ourselves with the real thing than to witness some preening scenesters having their kecks removed and their hairstyles shat on by a punk rock band? Matt Dyson reports… Pull quote 2: they come armed with enough...
HOVE FESTIVAL PART TWO
Venue: Hove, Norway Teaser: It’s day two at Norway’s Hove Festival, and our correspondent Richard Davis is becoming increasingly strange and twisted. In today’s report he encounters fascist rallies, psychedelic haircuts and the dancing habits of rival music magazine hacks… Pull quote 2: they happily slip into every nu-metal stereotype in the holy book...
CRYSTAL CASTLES
Venue: Digital, Brighton Teaser: Nathan Westley catches up with our recent magazine cover stars in Brighton, where they’re scuzzy synth pop is going down a treat. But are the band taking less risks than they did with the early live shows? Read on and find out… Pull quote 2: the distorted synths hit you with so much force that if you weren’t paying attention they...
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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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  • 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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