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Brand New Blog Ahoy: BAD COVER VERSIONS!
A New Band A Day celebrates creativity, daring and cunning. Rock, however, doesn’t do a lot of cunning, and even less creativity. What it does do is a lot of is stupid, as demonstrated by the truly dreadful decisions made when bands start to cover other band’s songs. Evidence? Take Duran Duran, surely one of the more feeble bands to ever attain worldwide adoration...
One Last Wish - My Better Half (Live) [1986]
The brief existence of Washington, D.C.’s One Last Wish—a band composed of former Rites Of Spring members Guy Picciotto, Brendan Canty, and Edward Janney alongside former Faith and Embrace guitarist Michael Hampton—still rendered an album (1986, co-produced by Ian MacKaye) that I think is the most constantly overlooked gem of the Dischord discography. Named after the year it...
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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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  • Sea of Bees - The Woods EP

    After another night of going to bed a bit-too-late, I woke up to the sharp ringing of the electric door bell announcing the arrival owwwf the postman. In any other circumstances I would have...

  • The Soft Pack - The Soft Pack

    Along with a number of other bloggers, I did my fair share of hyping up The Soft Pack last year. And their debut album justifies all that enthustiastic frothing - because it is fucking ace. It...

  • 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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