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PREMIERE: Ringo Deathstarr - Shadow (Doppelganger Mix)
It’d be rude of me to begin this post without first making the proper introductions. Ringo Deathstarr, as you may already be aware, are the band from Austin who sound like they should be from Manchester circa the early-90s (ie SHOEGAZE). Bar any slight sensations of geographical displacement, that shouldn’t be too hard for you to bend your brains around. What might prove a little...
DOWNLOAD: Ringo Deathstarr - Imagine Hearts
Austin, Texas’ Barton Springs is one of the most freezing cold natural water pools and it’s populated with a ton of little kids, rockers and older folks who admit it never gets easier to take a dip in something so frigid. Listening to Ringo Deathstarr is also like jumping into that body of water—fuzzy shoegaze, iced out vocals, liquid guitars and also rooted in Austin. Only...
American Apparel Finds the best bottom / butt / ass in the world.
Link: http://i.americanapparel.net/storefront/UGCStyle/BestBottom2010/Browse.asp The popular ass “boom boom” from Santo Domingo has won American Apparel’s best bottom competition. She will soon be flown to Los Angeles, home of the Am Appy HQ business campus, where she will participate in an exclusive photo shoot. Do yall think she deserved to win, or is her ass ‘...
The Boxing Lesson
I must say I was swayed by The Boxing Lesson. These 3 (now 2?) folks out of Austin. Their story is this: they got their gear stolen from their apartment, which somehow by the grace of god, managed to find its way back to them with the help of the friendly guys at LAPD. By then they’d moved to Austin, found a lovely house and started writing songs on a 4-track. It stops short of...
The World’s Biggest Lady Gaga Fan: SHANNON GAGA UNCOVERED
Have u met Shannon Gaga? She is arguably the world’s biggest Lady Gaga fan. Shannon Gaga: The Dead End of Western Civilization An In Depth Profile Piece by Carles, freelance journalist and Editor N Chiefs of HRO blog In a previous article of writing, I asked the world, “Who is the world’s biggest Lady Gaga fan?” I wanted to know about a fan who completely...
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Official SXSW College Showcase
Team Clermont & MBV Music present the Official SXSW College Showcase! Team Clermont & MBV Music are partnering to throw the Official SXSW College Party on Thursday, March 18, 2010 at Flamingo Cantina (ya mon). The party runs from 12PM to 6PM and the free drinks will be flowin! They will also be giving away goodie bags to some lucky attendees that will feature original...
evenfall
"evenfall" by agnes montgomery Evenfall is the upcoming LP from Paris’ Sebastien Schuller (out May 25), and the album’s stunning collage cover artwork is by one of my favorite artists, the amazing Agnes Montgomery. You may recall Montgomery’s glorious Pool Party, which graced the cover of Panda Bear’s Person Pitch, and is probably the most uncannily fitting...
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...
DOWNLOAD: Grooms - Acid King Of Hell (Guitar Feelings)
There’s nothing overtly psychedelic or doomy about Grooms’ "Acid King Of Hell (Guitar Feelings)," but the parenthetical bears some insight, since it’s on their loud-quiet-loud amp exorcisms that this one really gets lifted. More squalid shredding can be found on Rejoicer, the Brooklyn threesome’s new album for Death By Audio, and on their current tour out to the...
Harlem - Free Drugs:)
I promise I will stop featuring vintage-inspired, lofi, garage-rock soon. I’m sure I will be tired of it by the end of the year, but in the mean-time my speakers are spilling over with fuzzy, jangly rock. My current garage crush is a band from Austin, TX named Harlem, not to be confused with the Shaking variety. Their debut LP, Free Drugs:) was a huge local success. So much so that a re-...
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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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  • News International coverage 6-8/07/11

  • Young Knives interview

    house-of-lords.jpgArtrocker: Your website currently says you’re either too lazy or too rubbish to keep it updated – I doubt it can be the latter, so what have you been up to these last few months? The House of Lords...

  • Brand New - Daisy

    Two years ago Brand New, to the surprise of almost everyone, released something short of a masterpiece in ‘The Devil & God are Raging Inside Me’. Unfortunately however, this was...

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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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