Emanuel and the Fear is a joyful, 11-piece pop outfit spilling ink on all the right places—splashed across L Magazine, featured in the Voice, playing out sold out shows with David Byrne, TV on the Radio and Miles Benjamin Anthony Robinson in attendance. The band of Brooklynites forms a plush extravaganza below, inflecting Deerhoof with a little Sufjan-orchestra-lite. Then, “The Rain...
Fiction
Fiction are a new four piece collective of musicians from London. Boring part over, let’s now delve into what makes them really quite a fucking exciting band.
Firstly, they manage to feature the combination of the unhinged yelps of the dearly missed Joe Strummer with the sardonic tones of a young, smirking David Byrne whilst, all the while, sounding fresher than a...
A little bit behind the times on this one, and possibly redundant as a consequence, but a new Passion Pit track debuted on Pitchfork the other day. More importantly, it’s actually rather good. And even more insanely, another track appeared online and is also good fun. Such was my shock that I decided to make this blog post rather than post a little [Twitter] update. I really had Passion Pit...
Artrocker: 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...
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.
Shots of North Carolina’s folk-rocking Avett Brothers’ stop in Glasgow - 22.08.11
Read the review of the gig here.
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...
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.
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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