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Watch the legendary Frank Zappa documentary directed by Roelof Kiers for Dutch Television. Cigarettes! Mayhem! Flo! That other guy from the Turtles! Vacuum cleaners! (Thru Kill Ugly Radio)
PARSLEY'S COMMLOCK Concert/CD Review : Glassglue - Tate Britain, if I were the sky right now c/w spiral stair Months ago I stopped off at an evening opening of Tate Britain to watch my friend Matthew's band Glassglue in a 2-piece configuration. Glassglue offer quirky tunes, backing the words of Marcel Stoetzler. The words grab & hold your attention. Marcel is striking visually and it's as if...
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The Hot Rats From: The Midlands, United Kingdom The Hot Rats are better known as two thirds of Britain’s much loved Britpop combo Supergrass. Gaz Coombes and Danny Goffey together with world renowned producer Nigel Godrich. Named after Frank Zappa’s album Hot Rats the duo released Turn Ons, an album of cover versions in the vein of David Bowie’s Pin Ups at the end of...
The Stark Palace Genre: Alternative / Indie / Blues From: Borders, United Kingdom One of the Devil’s favourite tracks on the Cherryade Christmas album (find out more at Christmas On Planet Peel) is the wierd, wonderful oddity that is The Stark Palace’s ‘Saw What Your Momma Did’. Sounding like a Beefheart and Zappa inspired take on ‘I Saw Momma Kissing Santa Claus...
Magic Me Genre: Rock From: Oakland, California United States I know very little about Oakland’s Magic Me. Their Myspace site is not particularly informative and doesn’t include any pictures of the band and google is not much help either.     My diligent research has managed to confirm that Magic Me are a quintet featuring members of The Jim Yoshii Pile-up, and...
Well there goes another year and with a new one about to begin it’s a good time to reflect another year over and a new one about to begin it’s time to reflect on the year just gone and consider the top 10 tracks that rocked the Devil’s world. How will history judge the world of 2008? The beginning of the end of global capitalism with the world’s financial system in...
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Venue: Isle Of Wight Teaser: It was always gonna be hard to sum up the multi coloured madness of Bestival, but we thought we’d spike Ric’s drink and send him down anyway - just to see what happened… Pull quote 2: The Rumblestrips are only just upstaged by their mosh pit, which features Ming the Merciless, Bananaman, and Super Mario - who appears to be...
Band name: Rolo Tomassi Label: Holy Roar Teaser: Jonathan Falcone investigates this welcome re-release by the hyperactively creative Rolo Tolmassi… Pull quote 2: Rolo Tomassi are a band about ideas and musicianship: Frank Zappa and Mr Bungle instantly spring to mind as comparisons to their sense of creative insanity… First para: Rolo Tomassi are...
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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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