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VIDEODROME SERIES: today we take another jaunt down music video row with three flicks featuring the songs from Ontario, Canada three-piece Born Ruffians - who are beginning to make some noise in 2009. This is what you need to know:     "I Need A Life"   "Kurt Vonnegut" (live) NEW THIS WEEK: Born Ruffians frontman Luke LaLonde covers Bruce...
At the beginning of 2k8, I made a post about bands I did not listen to in 2k7. Now it is 2k9, and I will make a list of bands that I did not listen to in 2k8. It is important to understand that you are a consumer in a wide open marketplace. You allegedly have tons of options, with lots of music 2 listen 2. However, it is important 2 recognize that u usually ‘judge a band by itz name...
As the year winds down (or up, depending on half-full or half-empty glasses and whatnot), so does this blog. The Top Albums of 2008 countdown is over, and with this final installment, my weekly mix year-end round-up is now finished. This collection of mixes features themes on solo artists, travel, Scandinavia, autumn, 4AD, more synthpop, literature, more dance, more cover versions, Halloween,...
Following the rather lackluster Coachella announcement last week, comes Bonnaroo’s initial lineup for 2009.  At first glance, it’s quite the stellar lineup of bands, with the one glaring addition that jumped out at me being the Beastie Boys!  The one time I attempted to see them live was back in 2000, when they were set to tour with Rage Against the Machine, but was...
Here’s the last weekly mix of the year - not including the next three Sundays’ weekly mix round-ups of course. It’s also the fifth and last collection of cover versions for 2008. It’s hard to believe this is number 46 already. Without really thinking, this compilation turned out to lean about 50% into the post-punk/new wave direction (I guess that the odds are that...
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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 whole musical career and this new project finally takes up the challenge. In 9 new tracks released free by Scion Audio Visual Khan aggressively rips through a set of psychedelic garage-rock, forcing...
Dish Genre: Indie / Folk / Pop From: Deland, Florida, United States Roberto and Nathaniel Aguilar are brothers. No Jack-and-Meg-White mystery about it. The two members of Dish have bickered on family car trips, fought over bunk beds and cruised the streets of their hometown of Damascus, Maryland their...
If there has been one record making our roomates weary from repeated listens, it would be Handsome Furs’ Face Control. Drowned In Sound touches on its gothic synth-era Springsteenisms in their review today, but to ably show off the sass and songwriting these two lovebirds have put together we need some for real audio. Enter "I’m Confused," one of the album’s "...
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The War On Drugs- Wagonwheel Blues 7/10 Philadelphia prog rockers The War On Drugs originally bonded over a shared love of Bob Dylan and it shows on this, their début record. Perhaps not directly, but the bands channelling of ’70s inspired classic rock sets them on a steady path of success. Wagonwheel Blues is an easy, un-challenging listen, but it’s pleasant enough to...
Band name: Aidan Moffat Label: Chemikal Underground Teaser: Sordid, despicable, miserable… but enough about the iron claw that we rule over our journalists with! Daniel Ross brings us this excellent review of the ex-Arab Strap man’s solo adventure. And it sounds bizarrely kinky too… Pull quote 2: …we’re always assured that it’s...
Band name: Broken Records, Tokyo Police Club and more Label: various multiple labels Teaser: Still minging from the Camden Crawl? Let Rory Carroll sooth your paranoid and irrational fear of impending doom, with his run down of this week’s singles… Pull quote 2: Prepare to be repeatedly singing the chorus in your head until you finally go mad…...
Venue: Clwb Ifor Bach, Cardiff Teaser: Surreal, fucked up, incredible - there are many ways to describe Future Of the Left. We sent our new Cardiff correspondant Richard S Jones down to Club Ifor Bach to think up some more of them. Pull quote 2: FotL are now masters in the art of musical abuse – and they render the very idea of regularity obsolete… 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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    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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