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Surplus to Requirement: SXSW Coverage - Did you just eat and drink out there or what?
No matter what vitriol pours out of these fingers onto this webpage, they will read like the words of a jealous person. No amount of cajoling and convincing will help. So instead let’s dive straight in. Those journos, bloggers, photographers and other such media lightweights who attended: did you just have a holiday that you decided to write about? Was it an important, year changing event...
Surplus To Requirement: The Top 10 List of Top Album Lists of 2008
The Top 5 Top Albums of 2008 Because it’s that time of year, when every publication suddenly decides it has listened to every record worth listening to and compiles them into a numerical list of cultural impact and importance, it seems appropriate to compile a top five list of top album lists of 2008. Let’s see how relevant, exciting and forward thinking they were. Yes. Fight...
Surplus To Requirement: Musicians Don't Like The Independence They Fought For
Musicians – you need to get a real job. Sorry. I thought you already knew this? Didn’t you realise that you’ve got it SO much better than anyone before you? Do you think home recording was even possible a few years ago? No. No it wasn’t. Your music is being heard for free because you’ve produced it for next to nothing. I mean comparatively. I don’t suppose...
Surplus To Requirement: We Should All Stop Moaning, Now
Hello. You don’t need to know much about me, apart from I’m a music industry stooge, and I say what’s on my mind. Generally about the music industry. Basically, this is another blog that the music industry doesn’t need: it’s Surplus To Requirement. Clever, right? Inspired by a particularly forthright blog by lovely trio Das Wanderlust, I feel it’s time to...
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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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  • Yer Beauties - Brand New Punk EP

    Artrocker chums Yer Beauties have gone and recorded a whole new 4 track EP, much to our delight. In their own words, "it’ll blow your dick off."

  • FAVOURS for sailors - i dreamt that i dreamt that

    Self confessed ‘Becks-fuelled, park-dwelling miscreants’, FAVOURS FOR SAILORS have given us some excellent powerpop in 2008 - ploughing a nice Jags furrow, a la Gentleman Jesse...

  • Mamma Mia!

    PARSLEY'S COMMLOCK Film Review : Mamma Mia! Mamma Mia! was one of the first stage musicals linking together the songs of one artist (Abba in this case). It has become a franchise, with other versions...

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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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