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Top 100 records of 2009: 80-61
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...
Alfonzo's demo kitchen is now open!
THE GREAT ARTROCKER.COM FESTIE GIVEAWAY!!! **** WIN TICKETS TO SECRET GARDEN PARTY **** GET LOADED IN THE PARK ***** THE LOVEBOX WEEKENDER ****** AND THE END OF THE ROAD FESTIVAL!!! It’s summer festival competition time on Artrocker.com, and this year you’ll be delighted to know that we! Have! Gone! Mad! … and decided to give you the chance to get into not one festie, but...
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The Daily Graboid
Lots of great releases to be had this week, with a few in particular that I personally recommend, which are Camera Obscura’s My Maudlin Career, Cryptacize’s Mythomania, and Pet Shop Boys’ Yes. There are some excellent songs that standout on Camera Obscura’s record, but I’m still not quite sure if I enjoy it from top to bottom. Though, I’ve been playing that...
Brakes - Crystal Tunings
Brakes Genre: Alternative / Indie / Rock From: Brighton UK In a true testament to the power of locality in a globalised world Brighton based indie supergroup (containing previous and current members of British Sea Power, Electric Soft Parade, The Tenderfoot and The Pipettes) Brakes have found a new home on Brighton’s favourite indie label, FatCat Records. The bands two records for...
Brakes - Two Shocks
(Photo: Chris Harris) After a break from incessant touring - writing music in a small barn Oxfordshire and recording - the Brighton, UK band BrakesBrakesBrakes (or just Brakes as they are called in the UK due to legalities) are back with a new album Touchdown, out April 21 on FatCat Records. The band has indie cred seeping out of it – having put out two records on Rough Trade and...
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End of the Road Festival
Venue: Larmer Tree Gardens, Dorset Teaser: Col Greenwood heads down to Dorset for some last-throes-of-Summer fun at the End of the Road Festival with top performances from Brakes, Devastations and the Archie Bronson Outfit… Pull quote 2: Polished doesn’t begin to describe the sonic perfection of Midlake’s performance, but since when was perfection fun?...
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Top 5 Downloads

  • 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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Have You Read?

  • The Prisoner (2009)

    PARSLEY’S COMMLOCK TV Review: The Prisoner (2009) Caught up with the 3 starting episodes of this courtesy of my friend Tony Reeve. God knows the world needs more opportunity for paranoid self-...

  • Hallo... I Love You! - Walk Me To The Sea

    We get a lot of submissions from unknown bands in the artrocker.com inbox. Too many to feature, or even to reply to everyone. There’s also the fact that a lot of them don’t send us any...

  • YOU SAY PARTY - Special Announcement

    After the tragic death of You Say Party! We Say Die!’s Devon Clifford, the band have announced their intention to carry on, under the name "You Say Party". See the note from the...

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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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