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Wildlife Conservation: Survival
It’s a jungle out there for musicians. Even if you aren’t being stabbed on stage for playing badly, by your own band mate, you still have a struggle for survival on your hands. A struggle that stretches far beyond foraging for beans on toast and Supermarket Lager… This week’s Return-from-Extinction Britpoppers, Blur prove that all you need are a few unwise choices, a...
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The Rural Alberta Advantage- Hometowns
The Rural Alberta Advantage- Hometowns 5/10 Re-released in 2009 via Saddle Creek Records after being originally self-released in 2008, The Rural Alberta Advantages’ indie rock debut refuses to let the curtains be drawn on a sound that’s been travelled by many before them. The one difference that sets them mildly apart from a raft of other bands is their drum beats, which on...
singles for week beginning 2nd July
Band name: Seagull Strange, Talk Taxis, Cold War Kids, The Go! Team and more… Label: Various labels of various repute Teaser: King of the singles, Rory Carroll, brings us this report from the 45rpm front line… Pull quote 2: ‘Straight outta Balham,’ doesn’t have quite the same impact as N.W.A’s ‘Straight outta Compton.’ First para: SINGLE OF THE WEEK...
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The Veils - Sun Gangs The third full-length from the Veils finds the band progressing from its folk-influenced beginnings to something comfortably bigger, as if writing anthems was never a stated goal, just an organic consequence. The brains behind the London-based crew is Finn Andrews (son of XTC’s Barry Andrews), who has an uncommonly good voice—versatile enough to sound natural...
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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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