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Metric Remix Contest
RCRD LBL is home to many great remixes, but, in conjunction with Indaba Music, Topspin and the band, Metric, we’d like to offer our rad readers the chance to get their work up on the site. Pick your favorite song off of Metric’s album Fantasies and refit it as your own jam. The band will choose their favorite remixes, one of each from the album’s ten tracks. The winners will...
Metric / Wolf Gang at Shepherds Bush Empire 24 May 2010
Wolf Gang       Off to Shepherds Bush Empire on a hot summer evening. Having had multiple bad experiences here before (poor sightlines, worse sound) we decide to stand on the left hand side of the auditorium. We are thus well placed when Max McElligott in his guise as Wolf Gang takes the stage to deliver a sumptuous set that is almost flawless. Not remotely original, but...
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RCRD OF THE DAY: Metric - Front Row (Acoustic)
(Photo: Justin Broadbent) Reworks don’t get much more vulnerable than this acoustic version of Metric’s "Front Row," swapping lo-fi grit and glammed-up feedback for breathy vocals which ride a lone, strummy march into the night. For the ‘studio’ slick version, hit up the Canadian rockers’ latest (and self-released) Fantasies, which incidentally just...
Freeland & Alex Metric get gritty
  Air Obama got a tidal wave of exposure after the inauguration which obviously meant that Adam Freeland got some creds too as a pretty solid producer. Now the man’s back with an equally solid project cleverly named Freeland. The group consists of members from Spinnerette and DEVO as well as Twiggy Ramirez of Marilyn Manson’s iconic band. Solid!   Below is a link to...
The Daily Graboid
Lots of notable albums out this week, which include a couple of highly anticipated releases from Silversun Pickups and Metric. I’ve listened to the Metric record a few times, and I’m still not sure what to think about it. It still sounds a lot like Live It Out, which I didn’t care for at all.  I look at what Yeah Yeah Yeahs did with It’s Blitz! and that’s...
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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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  • Lion Child

    I like Lion Child.  Fans of Life Without Buildings and Wetdog may like them too. Angular punk pop with intriguing lady vocals - like a less wired Kaito. Download their tune Closer...

  • Interview with White Denim

    white-denime.jpgAR:Hello White Denim. What are you doing right now? Or right before responding to this email... WD:We're on tour, getting ready to leave the hotel and head in the treacherous snow to Des Moines!

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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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