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DOWNLOAD: Red Fang - Number Thirteen
Portland metal band Red Fang’s most recent effort, Murder The Mountains, came out earlier this year via Relapse and followed the group’s 2009 self-titled debut. The album offers heavy yet accessible songs that fit well with the band’s current tour mates Mastodon, pairing moments of guttural sludge with rousing metallic riffs. “Number Thirteen” is an epic album cut,...
RCRD OF THE DAY: Black Lips - Best Napkin I Ever Had
  (Photo: Beryl Fine) Sadly not a Black Lips Drake parody, "Best Napkin I Ever Had," is the Atlanta garage hellions’ contribution to new split with Portland’s Pierced Arrows for Scion A/V. It sounds, unsurprisingly, like Howlin’ Wolf doing shots of Tabasco with the MC5. Some bands never change for the better. Stay gully, Black Lips.   _RLT.render('...
White Fang – Sweat, Crunch and Rockin’ Soul
White Fang: Colourful hats A New Year, a new agenda. So here’s the first new band of the new year – and they’re a band with an agenda, though they’d never admit to it. White Fang’s songs, their image, their approach to music – it could all be paraphrased in a single, 20-foot-high flaming Hollywood-hills sign spelling out the word ‘WHATEVER...
Walls : Raw Umber/Twilight
Walls have just released this new track taken from their new album ‘Coracle’ out next week. Walls ‘Raw Umber/Twilight’ by Kompakt Walls take to the road during the next month supporting Battles and Fly Lo. 09/29/11 Mercury Lounge, NYC 10/1/11 Cameo Gallery, NYC (headline show) 10/2/11 Royale Nightclub Boston + 10/3/11 Le National Montreal CANADA + 10/4/11...
The XX does a boring / weird dubstep remix of a boring YACHT song
Stream: http://dfarecords.com/main/archives/548 From what I understand, Yacht’s latest album was a disappointment, since it yielded mediocre results critically and commercially. Apparently, they had the dude who plays the fake drums in the XX do a remix for them, along with some other people, but I think the XX probably can ‘get the most blog hypemachine twitter action....
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Nurses
ORANGE is the new RED After the success of their debut album, 2009′s Apple’s Acre, Portland’s Nurses have jumped to a new dimension of psychedelic pop music, adding percussionist James Mitchell to bulk out and accessorise their sound. On the band’s new single, ‘Fever Dreams’, it’s clear what direction they’re heading in, using Mitchell’s...
How Now So Cow?
It was a total High Fidelity moment. I was hanging out at Academy Records Annex, getting my fingers dirty flipping through used records something came over the speakers that instantly made me prick up my ears. Low-fi pop, a bit shambly, but in the best way and every song was super-catchy and there was a clever wit going on too. They had by by the third song and I went up and asked what was...
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...
The Ocean Floor
Summer Comes Every Year   Those of you who are jealous of the Northern hemisphere which is right now bathed in glorious sunshine can lie back and indulge in some sultry, sunny American folk music. The Ocean Floor is a band from Portland, Oregon, associated with the Electricity/Lust record label, home to other warm hearts like Polka Dot Dot Dot and Jordan O’Jordan. If you have a little...
Starfucker :: ‘Jupiter’
One of the more surprising debuts that made their way down the pipe last year happened to come from Portland, Oregon quartet Starfucker.  It came about rather late into the year, so I imagine that is why they weren’t mentioned as frequently around the blogosphere. Seemingly right on the heels of that release comes the announcement of a mini-album (EP/mini-LP or whatever you...
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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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  • Wickerman Festival 2010

    There’s not too many music festivals around that have a single idea or event as their central focal point. More often that not it tends to be a case of the bands on the main-stage being the...

  • The Bridport Dagger - Dangling Man

    pic by Stew Ruffles Here’s an excellent tune for you to download from The Bridport Dagger. Recorded live at the Windmill Brixton, Dangling Man is a Nick Cavey/Gretchen Hofnery 50s flecked...

  • Jack of Heart - Only Seven Inches for your Girlfriend?

    Gratuitous Jack of Heart endorsement from Jared Black Lips, pic from Falsestuff Don’t let the terrible title put you off. ‘Only Seven Inches For your Girlfriend?’ is a compilation...

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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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