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Seven Songs: She Keeps Bees
She Keeps Bees like to keep it brief. The 11 tracks on their latest album Nests clock in at less than 27 minutes, so it’s clear that they’re not pissing about. It’s this brevity that’s part of their appeal. No flab, just straight to the point bluesy rocking that ought to have Jack and Meg looking over their shoulders. Songwriter and guitarist Jessica Larrabee’s...
Questionable Corner: The Antlers
For months I have been listening to The Antlers latest record Hospice and couldn’t share it with anyone as the band shopped it around before ultimately deciding to self release it. On Tuesday the record was finally released and at long last I can chat about it and share my thoughts with everyone about how great Hospice is. Last week NPR totally agreed with me naming it the best album of...
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Tuesday's Recommended Release
For the past two years Peter Silberman and his merry band of Antlers have diligently worked at putting together their latest release, all the while playing a never ending string of shows in and around New York and gaining steam as more and more fans and bloggers took notice of what Peter and The Antlers were doing with their sound. On the band’s last release, the epic In the Attic of the...
DOWNLOAD: Sharon Van Etten - I Wish I Knew
If a song could sound diaphanous, this would be the one. Sharon’s silky, melancholy vocals weep over loose acoustic strumming, imperfect yet immaculate, lonesome yet soothing. “I Wish I Knew” effortlessly whisks you away from the big city onto an austere, Icelandic plain, barren of human hullabaloo. On Van Etten? The Bushwick-based songwriter has played with Wildbirds and...
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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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  • Pulled Apart By Horses - Captain's Rest, Glasgow - 15/12/09

    I can’t get enough of this band. Seriously. Part of me feels that I should probably shut up about Pulled Apart By Horses before everyone else gets sick of the sound of them. Infact, maybe that...

  • Tenth Wickerman Festival Lineup Revealed

    Photo: Stephen McLeod/Artrocker.com It’s been a festival that we’ve been to the past four years and had a great (albeit drunken) time, even if the music isn’t always to...

  • The High Numbers - Ooh Poo Pah Do

    New old song of the day, courtesy of The High Numbers. It’s the pre-Who, recorded live at the Railway Hotel in 1964, back when people weren’t afraid of using words like ‘poo...

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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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