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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...
Inevitable End Of Year List #1, Part 1
An outsider would think that music bloggers the world over conspire at the end of each calendar year to produce a myriad of list-based posts merely to confirm the suspicion that music bloggers are anal, facile and childish. These outsiders would be absolutely right. A minutely-tinkered list tells two stories: one of care, fastidious attention and deep love - and one of too many lonely nights...
New Tunes: The Soft Pack
For whatever reason the act of changing a band’s name has always annoyed me. You start to get to know a band as one thing and then all of a sudden they’re something totally different. It sucks and it really fucks up your iTunes cataloging! In the case of the band formerly known as The Muslims I think I can make an exception to the rule. Let’s face reality and realize that...
FEATURED: Coachella Playlist
Coachella is this weekend, which means the summer festival season is officially upon us. Also, for some, an excuse to get naked and pretend you’re a wizard. If you can’t make the desert sojourn, you can at least recreate the experience elsewhere via this playlist (minus the oppressive heat and general dishevelment). Contained within are fifteen songs from Major Lazer, Phoenix, Hot...
The Soft Pack - Fences (Phoenix Cover)
  There’s something questionable about a deadpan San Diego punk band covering one of the most pants-wettingly melodic groups in existence, but considering we ride for both Phoenix and The Soft Pack (née The Muslims, lest you forget) we indulged this one out of curiosity–and it’s pretty good! Sounds like Lou Reed if he’d just been released from prison (or ever...
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Deastro
pic by Jeremy Deputat Twenty-two-year-old Randolph Chabot first began writing songs when he was a pre-teen, in an attempt to construct the sounds of his dreams. Superheroes, lost souls, star-crossed lovers and aliens all inhabit his fantasies, so naturally his stagename creates a kind of alter ego for his performances. Famously flamboyant on stage, Deastro’s colourful, ambient,...
Cymbals Eat Guitars
Out of all the new band’s I’ve heard this year, I think Cymbals Eat Guitars have the best shot of making it big.  Charles Bissell from the Wrens, who knows a thing or two about this kind of thing, agrees.  He recently said of the New York band that they “will end up indie famous within the year” and he liked the band enough to produce their first album, Why There...
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Laneway Festival 2010: Review
Laneway Festival February 1, 2010 Britomart Square, Auckland Last week our Melbourne friends told us that the Laneway Festival is one of the least respected festivals in Australia, we were surprised, but it meant we entered the first Auckland Laneway festival with a hint of scepticism. We’d been told stories of forty minute-queues to see bands, poor facilities and an even poorer...
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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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  • WILDLIFE: NINE LIVES

    Wildlife likes other creatures, especially Super Furry Animals. As such I was happy to get a telegram from SFA headquarters today letting me know that they are in Cardiff working their hairy paws...

  • Mamma Mia!

    PARSLEY'S COMMLOCK Film Review : Mamma Mia! Mamma Mia! was one of the first stage musicals linking together the songs of one artist (Abba in this case). It has become a franchise, with other versions...

  • Guest top 10s: Billy Talent

    BILLY TALENT’s very own Ian D’Sa steps up to tell us about his picks of 2009.

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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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