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Soft Crest, and the Great Steve Albini Cook-Off
Steve Albini has a cookery blog. Yup, that Steve Albini. Steve “Big Black/In Utero/Don’t-you-dare-call-me-a-record-producer” Albini. The blog is – guess what – uncompromising and excellently executed. Steve likes yellow cornmeal: “fuck it, polenta is terrific.” Steve serves his chutneys warm, regardless of convention: “fuck me I’...
Big Black - Kerosene (via Kingdom of Style) Have you had your...
  Big Black - Kerosene (via Kingdom of Style) Have you had your Steve Albini today? <3 pvb
DOWNLOAD: First Aid Kit - Hard Believer
The first thing you’ll hear about First Aid Kit, the Swedish YouTube sensations turned legitimately promising indie-folk, uh, sensations, is that they are quite young, which is true—sisters Klara and Johanna Söderberg are 17 and 19, respectively. But songs like "Hard Believer" are pretty far from teenage fodder; even beyond wise, simple lines like "Love is...
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Cacaw
Kill Me With Your Mind One of my favourite music blogs Better Than Sex compared Cacaw to legendary punk band Big Black; a comparison that alone made me pay attention as my flatmate is obsessed with the old punk band. Cacaw is another band from Chicago’s underground punk scene; the same scene that is enjoying a surge in popularity due to it’s DIY ethic and willingness to stay true to...
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FUCK BUTTONS
Venue: London ICA Teaser: Smarter, faster, harder - that’s Fuck Buttons, and Kishan Callychurn was on hand to bring us this review when they brought their digital assault to London’s ICA… Pull quote 2: Intentionally or otherwise, they’re a call to arms, a ‘fuck off’ to bland ‘oooh, please like me’ music that dares to call itself alternative…...
Artrocker Club Classic: Ex Models
Venue: Buffalo Bar of course Teaser: Paul Artrocker reviews another classic club night at the Buffalo Bar, with the ‘incendiary return’ of Ex Models in 2004. Pull quote 2: Certainly from the queue round the block there was a whole new crowd desperate to experience the new noise. First para: The two previous Ex Models gigs at The Buffalo Bar were easily...
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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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  • The state we're in

    dm2.jpg2008. The year the music industry went into melt down. For the past few years there have been murmurs about the illegal downloading of music killing the music industry. We'd been there and seen that...

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Photos

  • 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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