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Walls : Raw Umber/Twilight
Walls have just released this new track taken from their new album ‘Coracle’ out next week. Walls ‘Raw Umber/Twilight’ by Kompakt Walls take to the road during the next month supporting Battles and Fly Lo. 09/29/11 Mercury Lounge, NYC 10/1/11 Cameo Gallery, NYC (headline show) 10/2/11 Royale Nightclub Boston + 10/3/11 Le National Montreal CANADA + 10/4/11...
EXCLUSIVE NEW DOWNLOAD: Wild Yaks - River May Come (Live) + Blood Red Field
Wild Yaks sound like the breakage of many things–bottles, stages, wood, guitar strings, sax reeds, whatever. They are fantastically sprawling and totally wasted. Their new album, 10 Ships (Don’t Die Yet!), just came out through Ernest Jenning and contains the below two jams and others like them. They are playing in Boston tonight and apparently there will be free Maker’s Mark...
I've been dreaming about creatures, coming from dunes on foggy beaches
For a supposed Blogger, I don’t really spend a lot of time exploring the Blogosphere these days. When I do, though, one of the sites I return to is Bradley’s Almanac, a busy, streets ahead of the pack blog based on the Boston music scene. I envy the selection of exciting gigs he seems to have ranged in front of him every weekend and the time he appears to have to go to them all. He...
DOWNLOAD: Bodega Girls - Primetime SexCrime
If we had to break down this song from Boston’s Bodega Girls into an equation it would be this: MC5 + Jackson 5 + LEN = "Primetime SexCrime." Also, we would advise against Googling this song title unless you want Chris Hansen hollering at your door or something. T.G.I.F. WE’RE OUT.   _RLT.render('58c5c42c7151ebc502a3aded78c4cb3d'); Bodega Girls - Primetime...
NEW DOWNLOAD: Daniel Johnston - I Had Lost My Mind
(Photo: Tim Broddin) Daniel Johnston is known mainly for two things: having Kurt Cobain as a famous fan, and having spent a good portion of his life dealing with schizophrenia. His immense catalog of songs — tender, honest, direct and weird, often all at once — somehow gets short shrift. Take “I Had Lost My Mind,” a brief, wildly catchy tune from Is and Always Was (...
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Spelling Bee
FUCK! It’s like all my childhood past caught up with me in the form of one random unassuming email by a seemingly unassuming band. This is the kind of stuff that I like to be surprised by.  Spelling Bee is, on APOP, the same label TwoDeadSluts OneGoodFuck is on. Speaking of TDSOGF, these crazy bastards from Boston pretty much destroyed my childhood with their electronic grindcore...
How Now So Cow?
It was a total High Fidelity moment. I was hanging out at Academy Records Annex, getting my fingers dirty flipping through used records something came over the speakers that instantly made me prick up my ears. Low-fi pop, a bit shambly, but in the best way and every song was super-catchy and there was a clever wit going on too. They had by by the third song and I went up and asked what was...
The Whip - Divebomb
Rarely does the US release of an already-available foreign record seem like a true second chance, but kudos to Razor & Tie for picking up The Whip’s X Marks Destination for release on March 3rd because it’s a solid album that got overlooked in oh-eight’s deluge of post-Klaxons dance bands. The Mancunian foursome do the full-band electro-house thing and do it well, drawing...
The Best Things In Life Are Free
The Hush Now From: Boston, Massachusetts, United States Boston indie-popsters, The Hush Now, are releasing the second single, Contrails, from their upcoming, sophomore album, Constellations which is due out February 16th. The Hush Now’s ivy league, indie-pop-rock sound is reminiscent of early Weezer and Wilco with the muscle of shoegaze’ s glory days thrown in for...
The Daily Graboid
Lots of great stuff this week, as the new album Middle Cyclone from Neko Case certainly comes out on top with having both excellent songs and equally good cover art.  Honestly, she could release an album of her just reading from a phone book and I would probably buy it.  I’m sure we can all agree on this one. A couple of other albums that I would personally recommend have...
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Psychic Ills, Prince Rama Of Ayodhya, Lord Jeff, Truman Peyote, Manners at Pierre Menard Gallery
Prince Rama Of Ayodhya Lord Jeff Truman Peyote Manners More photos can be seen on my Flickr. This was a great show. But I have a feeling everyone else enjoyed it a lot more than I did. First of all, I had an excruciating headache that no amount of Excedrin would eliminate. And then there was the whole lineup changing thing. You see, it’s not very easy for me to get into Boston...
12 Tales From Winter City
Band name: The Young Republic Label: End Of the Road Records Teaser: The Young Republic have been dropping gems on our desks for a while now, so we rubbed our hands together with glee when we heard that this debut LP was on the way. The Sonic Reducer brings us this review… Pull quote 2: it’s the sheer quality of the songwriting and the gusto of the playing...
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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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  • MANDA RIN ON THE MEDIA AND FEMALE BODY IMAGE

    cellulite_2.jpgI didn't think the media's obsession with female body weight could have got much worse, when I'd been taken aback by it 12 years ago. How wrong I was. Or, maybe I'm just more aware of what's going...

  • Fresh Legs - Julian EP

    Fresh Legs are an art pop band from Portsmouth who by all accounts set alight the Red Bull stage at this year’s Bestival with their twisty riffs and gold spandex. They’ve just released...

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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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