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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...
PREMIERE: Flowers And Sea Creatures - At Night
The genesis of Flowers And Sea Creatures’s debut EP, Test Pressing, is basically an updated version of the classic discovery story. Graham Baxter and Kosta Megalos starting writing together in their adopted home town of Montreal when, like countless others, they started seeking the attention of a label via email. One was Ben Watt’s Buzzin’ Fly, whose swift, enthusiastic...
EXCLUSIVE NEW DOWNLOAD: Marina And The Diamonds - Mowgli's Road (Phenomenal Handclap Band Remix)
(Photo: Mark Broissely) Marina has a voice and a face for the bright lights, no doubt, but The Phenomenal Handclap Band have a method, and they’re not about to shake that for some Diamond girl with pretty eyes. So their remix of "Mowgli’s Road" cuts her vocal to ribbons, proceeding in a tight four-four groove that brings to mind the bleeding neon of films set in late...
MGMT plays boring song on Fallon, song surprisingly not from flop album 'Congratulations'
Don’t click on this video, unless you want to fall the eff asleep. Staying true to their latest album ‘Congratulations’, their performance was a let-down, uninteresting, and uninspired. They must have received a paycheck or something, because these days ‘non-album cycle late night performances’ just mean that ur desperate for blog press. At least they put on kewl...
DOWNLOAD: The Besnard Lakes - Albatross
  (Photo: Chris Gergley) Google image search "albatross" and you’ll find a ton of pictures of that white bird flying–nay, soaring–over land and sea. If you play this Besnard Lakes song loudly enough, you can easily imagine yourself doing the same thing, especially at 3:04 when the hammer falls and you start wondering if they found a secret door to guitar...
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The Devil's Round Up 8th May 2011
This weeks round up of the tracks that I haven’t had the space to post… Giraffage From: San Francisco, United States Dreamy dance pop that makes you go all wonky at the knees. Go Try   A Bird In Hand by Giraffage   Snow & Voices From: Los Angeles, United States Snow & Voices amazing, mesmerizing, hypnotizing cover of The Cure’s Disintegration...
The Pains of Being Pure at Heart + caUSE co-MOTION + The Depreciation Guild | Mercury Lounge | 2.07.2009
The word "twee" gets thrown around a lot when talking about The Pains of Being Pure at Heart. They are cute, with tendencies towards la-la choruses and cardigans ("we have three extras just in case"). But what you don’t hear a lot, at least not yet, is how much they rock. Not the way, say, Cheeseburger rocks, but singer Kip keeps his guitar in buzzsaw mode and the...
Chad VanGaalen - City of Electric Light
After putting the finishing touches on his award-winning science fair project, Mr. VanGaalen has found the time to bang out some mighty fine pop music that is now available to the world via Sub Pop. "City of Electric Light" is Exhibit A: elegiac acoustic simplicity garnished with tasteful percussion and xylophone. Chad is heading across the pond to the U.K. and Sweden in the next week...
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...
AIDS Wolf
Howling Ungodly Racket It’s pretty obvious that we love abrasive noise here at EMJ because we’ve featured a number of noise bands recently, including Mutators and The Widow Babies. AIDs Wolf are another band creating inspiring rackety noise with sharp angular guitars and screeching female vocals. Formed in 2003 in Montreal, Canada, the four-piece band has a healthy greed to make...
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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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  • 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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