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Goodbye Bread, the new album by rocker-for-life Ty Segall, is the definition of a grower. On first listen, it almost seems too familiar, but as the songs stack and slowly unfold, you realize something special is going on. This is a songwriter at peak strength with great arrangements, surprising turns and the ability to flip something so clearly pegged to sweaty live performances into a studio...
As the year winds down (or up, depending on half-full or half-empty glasses and whatnot), so does this blog. The Top Albums of 2008 countdown is over, and with this final installment, my weekly mix year-end round-up is now finished. This collection of mixes features themes on solo artists, travel, Scandinavia, autumn, 4AD, more synthpop, literature, more dance, more cover versions, Halloween,...
PARSLEY’S COMMLOCK Concert Review: Magazine, The Forum 12/02/09 Before I describe what it was like to be at a Magazine concert in 2009, I feel I should let you in on what it was like to be at one approximately thirty years previously at the Roundhouse in Camden Town. On that occasion I think I was with my brother and we sat in the gallery above the band looking down at them. At my...
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Happy Independence Day to all the Devil’s American readers. Here’s a Canadian band with a topical, if rather disrespectful, name… Fourth July Toilet From: Vancouver, British Columbia Canada Gnomish acid folk band who live like every day’s Captain Beefheart day. Go Try MP3 - Fourth July Toilet - Deep Sea Diver This track is linked direct from the...
Well there goes another year and with a new one about to begin it’s a good time to reflect another year over and a new one about to begin it’s time to reflect on the year just gone and consider the top 10 tracks that rocked the Devil’s world. How will history judge the world of 2008? The beginning of the end of global capitalism with the world’s financial system in...
The Stark Palace Genre: Alternative / Indie / Blues From: Borders, United Kingdom One of the Devil’s favourite tracks on the Cherryade Christmas album (find out more at Christmas On Planet Peel) is the wierd, wonderful oddity that is The Stark Palace’s ‘Saw What Your Momma Did’. Sounding like a Beefheart and Zappa inspired take on ‘I Saw Momma Kissing Santa Claus...
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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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  • Fists of fun

    New label Hello Thor is putting out a single release by band Fists. Why? Because they’re a record label "devoted to putting out incredible music by talented artists. It’s not about...
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  • Sparks concerts 19-21

    PARSLEY'S COMMLOCK Concert Review: Sparks 19-21, Islington Academy 10/11, Shepherds Bush Empire 13/06/08 Back to Sparks for the final 3 concerts in their epic adventure.

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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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