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The Devil's Round Up 30th October
  This week’s round up of the tracks that I haven’t had the space to post… SimplesongsFrom: Antwerp, Belgium Contact/Impact is a serious, sombre stripped back ballad for a serious sombre stripped back world. Go Try 05 Contact Impact 1 by SimpleSongs The Black Hand Gang From: Glasgow, Scotland After the sombre tones of SimpleSongs the Black Hand Gang serve...
One of your Five a Day
United Fruit From: Glasgow, Scotland If you like your music smooth with all the rough edges filed away then you may as well leave now and go and indulge in the dubious pleasures of SmoothFM or Simply Red’s back catalogue. If however you like your music raucous, discordant and so loud it makes you dizzy then keep reading because United Fruit are on a mission to destroy your brain cells and...
The View From… Kilburn // London
T his is the third look at local music scenes in London, after Camden and North-East London, and if it reminds us of anything, it’s that London is a) VAST and b) all things to all people. Cat Dal‘s blog, www.catsbandcrushes.com, is run from Kilburn. She also ‘does’ new music ‘stuff’ for a national newspaper, and as such, is in a perfectly poised to comment...
DANANANANAYKROYD Splits Up!
Got this new 3 days ago, sad times. DANANANANAYKROYD has announced that they will split up after their upcoming (and last) tour. The Glaswegian band will also digitally release a single for the last time on 7th November. It’s called Think & Feel taken from their 2nd album, There Is A Way, produced by Ross Robinson in LA. You can hear it here. Was it the extensive promotion, touring and...
DOWNLOAD: Mogwai - San Pedro
After I told our Operations Manger, Omar McFarlane, that we’d have some Mogwai up on the site, we both nerded out about spending a few years of lives listening almost exclusively to the Glasgow band. We both realized that we had a pretty difficult time defining their post-rock to people who wouldn’t except we weren’t talking about the creatures from Gremlins. Nope, it was...
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The Paraffins From: Knockentiber, Scotland Scottish mavericks The Paraffins (first featured on the Devil’s blog back in 2009, Waxing Lyrical) have released a new EP recorded for the Way Of The Tomb night at the Flying Duck in Glasgow. It contains a skweee-tinged take on John Leyton/Joe Meek and a funereal Pet Shop Boys cover and it’s really rather good. It’s also completely...
Great British Hopes: Dananananaykroyd
Talk about your unwieldy band names. Getting the right amount of anananana is bad enough, but then there’s the double header of Aykroyd not being the simplest name to spell either. The funny thing is that the music fits the name. If you’d asked me beforehand what I’d think a band called Dananananaykroyd would sound like, I’d go with loud and fast. And that’s exactly...
Haiku Review: A Sunny Day In Glasgow - You Can't Hide Your Love Forever Vol. 1 (Geographic North, 2009)
A Sunny Day In Glasgow - (Cult of) The Cemetery Flowers (Mandolins version) A Sunny Day In Glasgow You Can’t Hide Your Love Forever Vol 1 /lightest weight shoegaze/ /wtf is she saying?/ /i just wanna dance/
The Martial Arts: A One-Inch Punch Aimed At Early Middle Age
I interviewed Egyptian Hip Hop the other night,and happily, they proved to be thoughtful, intelligent and as excruciatingly talented as they were excruciatingly young. Being facile of mind though, I spent most of the interview trying to guess exactly just how young they were – and here’s the answer: young enough to make me feel like an unhip uncle meeting nephews at a wedding...
Pod Fodder (Volume Thirty Three) - new Tiny Masters of Today single inside
Download Here 1. Pocketbooks - Fleeting Moments (How Does It Feel To Be Loved) Taken from the bands debut album "Flight Paths" which will be released in June. 3rd April - Brixton, Jamm 11th April - Hull, Adelphi 12th April - Newcastle, Fake Indie Label @ Head Of Steam 25th April - London, How Does It Feel To Be Loved @ The Luminaire 28th April - London, Carrot & Stick @...
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FOE - King Tut's, Glasgow - 2nd October 2011
FOE: the musical project of one Hannah Clark; the one woman hurricane who has stolen our hearts with her unique musical sensibilities made her first venture north of the border on this latest UK tour. It’s perhaps a symbol of just how formidable a reputation the band have garnered - even before they set foot on a stage together - that they made their Scottish debut at none other than...
Avett Brothers - Glasgow, 22nd August 2011
Photos/Words: Stephen McLeod Folk music often gets a bit of a bum rap from those in the more traditional rock world, dismissed as soft, samey and un-imaginative. In truth, more often than not, those that grasp the banjos have got more authenticity and passion than most guitar-based bands will ever be able to achieve… even when attached to a major label like Columbia. The Avett...
United Fruit - Faultlines
United Fruit are the latest band to have been gathering some steam and attention round the alt-music scene in Glasgow, garnering some decent support slots along the way. Infact, it was when they shared the bill with Artrocker friends Mojo Fury that we first spotted them in person.     Their album is dirty, fuzzy and well put together. It’s got the potential to appeal to...
Will Hanson - Moving A Body
Will Hanson’s hop from his hometown of London, to New York, to Glasgow is one that is rather intriguing. Why on earth would someone ditch the Big Apple to head for a relatively tiny Scottish city? I mean, no arguments from me about it being one of the greatest places in the world, but on paper it doesn’t make much sense. Whatever the motive, Will has received both financial...
Unsigned Band Spotlight: Will Hanson
Responding to our call for unsigned music on Twitter the other day, Will sent us over his atmospheric double A-side Deathbed Conversion/The View from Ebury Bridge, which we’re happy to feature for him here. A native Londoner, Will has made his way to Glasgow, via. New York. It’s no coincidence that we picked another Glaswegian resident to feature: the vast bulk of those who...
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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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  • 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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