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Top 100 Records of 2009: 40-21
Those Darlins Here’s the next batch of our favourite albums, singles and downloads of 2009. We’re hurtling towards the top 20, as today we give you our selections from 40-21.   40: Yeah Yeah Yeahs - It’s blitz New York trio’s guitarless innovations strike just the right kind of chord on their third LP. Check out the Yeah Yeah Yeahs on...
Violent and Obscene - a tribute to GG Allin
This sounds pretty awesome - Italian Beach Babes are releasing a 7inch featuring some of the finest bands around playing GG Allin covers. There’s Male Bonding, Fair Ohs, Graffiti Island and Pens all paying tribute to the filthy individual / punk rock legend Stick in your pre orders at Italian Beach Babes Not sure who GG Allin was? Take this opportunity to nip over to Wikipedia...
delia's london gig guide: 24 Nov
Hmm. Tonight Alvin Stardust is playing…..verrrrrrrrrrrrrry tempting…but i think maybe Telepathe/Pens/chew Lips are a good bet too…hmmm. hmmm. hmml pick n mix your own pops… Telepathe! Mon 24th Nov Lexington – Pop! Quiz! – starts 8pm - £1 per person to enter – up to 6 in a team. Not up it’s arse indie but a mix of questions about queen...
Street Chant - Scream Walk video
Great vid for brilliant new single from Street Chant.  Fans of Pens & The Vivian Girls likely to be into this. Order your tasty split 7inch of ‘Scream Walk’ from the Cheese on Toast website Check out Street Chant on myspace
One small step for a Dude one giant leap for Dudekind
Congratulations goes out to our bro-dudes MALE BONDING for signing to SUB POP. They are a fucking amazing band who slay way hard live. Anyways high five to them. Also our good pals PENS have a sweet’n’trippy new video. They’re also about to embark on a US tour with Graffiti Island and Crocodiles. I am insanely jealous, but very happy for them. Exciting times.
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NEW DOWNLOAD: Pens - Freddy
Spent the weekend trying to find something to dislike about Pens. No dice. The London trio, on tour in California this very week, is the first band in ages to really recall the energy of early-’80s Rough Trade groups (and their ilk) without merely trying to mimic their moves—as in, they are amateurish young punks with cheap gear, but they aren’t just celebrating amateurism as...
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PENS. What can I say about PENS? I use one every day and I don’t really have any feelings or emotions for them. That was, until, I discovered a band who share the name of said writing instrument device: PENS. Now what do I think of PENS? They’re fucking awesome. Period. Consisting of 3 girls; Melia, Helen and Steff, PENS must be the first all-girl lo-fi noise power pop band I’...
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Nice bit of scuzz rock inhabiting the same segment of the audiosphere as Times New Viking and Wavves. Infact, Pens are doing some gigs with Wavves in February. Pens are a bit more lo fi than the two aforementioned bands - if that’s possible -  and a bit easier on the ears.  And a bit Vivian Girls. Maybe I wasn’t listening to them loud enough. Download Yeah baby I...
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PENS - Hey Friend What You Doing?
PENS- Hey Friend What You Doing? 8/10 Charmingly ramshackle and wonderfully youthful, London trio PENS create sweet scuzz thrash punk with a psychedelic twist. Opener ‘Horsies’ will have your head spinning with its repetitive keyboard riff and elliptical vocals. Swathed in even more noise, ‘I Sing Just For You’ is a coyly sweet ode once you get used to the distortion...
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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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  • Good Weekend Festival

      Here’s a festival that looks likely to live up to its name - Good Weekend in Hampshire, which is on 22-23 July.  It boasts an excellent ecclectic line up, including Art Brut, Hot...

  • Commlock Special : The Sonics - 2 of 2 : Interview

    PARSLEY’S COMMLOCK SPECIAL - THE SONICS #2 OF 2 Interview : The Sonics 04/04/10 After their barnstorming London gig in Great Portland Street as part of Le Beat Bespoke festival, I...

  • The High Numbers - Ooh Poo Pah Do

    New old song of the day, courtesy of The High Numbers. It’s the pre-Who, recorded live at the Railway Hotel in 1964, back when people weren’t afraid of using words like ‘poo...

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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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