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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...
The Vivian Girls Here’s the next batch of our top 100 records list for 2009. Our favourite albums of 2009, our favourite singles of 2009, our favourite tracks of 2009 - they’re all in here mixed together. Well, numbers 80-61 are anyway. 80: We show up on RadaR - mountain top EP Psychey sunshine pop and cunning acoustic folk from We Show up on RadaR, who released...
Photo: Nick Gough We finally wave bye bye to 2009 with our final two wonderful guests - Hatcham Social and Grizzly Owls Hatcham Social Top Ten Albums These are the albums I got most interested in this year and have been playing in my earphones constantly. Not in an exact order as such…more what I thought of as writing…I usually get into a band through a live...
  Glastonbury Festival 2009   Spotify this bad boy while you read!  http://open.spotify.com/user/g-town/playlist/6ApR9k7FLFzGkJA7Va15He      After a Thursday night spent tragically missing East 17, wondering from field to field in the rain, catching great sets my Kap Bambino and Metronomy and having the news of the King of Pop’s ™...
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Beautiful Things When I first heard London’s Pet Scenes they instantly reminded me of New Zealand band The 3D’s; full of shearing guitar chords and alluring pop-punk melodies. But to be fair to the band, they’ve probably never heard of the NZ noise-punk pioneers, with influences more likely to have come from British Gothic groups like Bauhaus and recent punk revivalists The...
Do you remember Memory Tapes? As Sam Duke said exactly one month ago, whoever’s behind this beautiful, anonymous noise has a 12" out through Loog Records, backed by a remix from The Horrors - this remix from The Horrors. It begins like Ennio Morricone and Mike Oldfield meeting in the midnight rain and ends as a throbbing, yet surprisingly tender, club take on New Order’s "...
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Laneway Festival February 1, 2010 Britomart Square, Auckland Last week our Melbourne friends told us that the Laneway Festival is one of the least respected festivals in Australia, we were surprised, but it meant we entered the first Auckland Laneway festival with a hint of scepticism. We’d been told stories of forty minute-queues to see bands, poor facilities and an even poorer...
Venue: Kentish Town Forum Teaser: Col Greenwood heads to the Forum to see if 60s garage rock legends The Sonics can still cut it. Pull quote 2: So, as the announcer urged us to jump around, get down and general party like it was 1967, the anticipation couldn’t have been higher… First para: Indie clown Pete Docherty was supposed to be opening but was unable to...
Venue: Butlins, Minehead Teaser: Featuring a virtual who’s who of the coolest motherfuckers on earth, this years ATP really went for the big guns. Dominic Simpson brings us this report, starring amongst others, The Horrors, Thurston Moore and a slightly senile Julian Cope… Pull quote 2: Julian Cope appears to be heading more towards senility every day, judging from...
Photo: Charlie Ingham Offset Festival: 2 days in Essex, plenty of bands to see from the unusual No Bra to the headliners The Horrors and everything in-between - Offset has to be the coolest festival this summer. It actually felt that this weekend was the last weekend of summer. Let’s get one thing out of the way first, there was no mud, no rain, no wellies, no rain coats. Although...
Venue: Electrowerkz, London Teaser: Katie Weatherall steps out of her coffin to bring us this report on The Horrors first London gig in 8 months. Top support comes from recent Artrocker club stars Ispo Facto… Pull quote 2: His black t-shirt is seemingly inhaled by his androgynous fans, leaving him to do the remainder of the gig topless. *blush* 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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  • 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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