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INTERVIEW: Best Coast and WAVVES share their opinions on HIPSTER RUNOFF
Link: http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/music_blog/2011/01/on-eve-of-co-headlining-tour-wavves-nathan-williams-interviews-best-coasts-bethany-cosentino.html Best Coast and WAVVES are both alternative celebrity fuzzy buzzy bands who are in a relationship (might not actually be in a relationship) but they are on tour 2gether just to capitalize on the meme that is their relationship. I haven’t...
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...
Dinosaur Jr. - I Want You To Know
(Photo: Brantley Gutierrez) True story: when we turned "I Want You To Know" on this morning, J. Mascis’ thick fist of fuzz came out of the speakers and used our eardrums as speed bags. It was something very close to painful. We cribbed the volume knob back a little bit and familiar things came into picture: Neil Young-ish chords smeared in amp waste, slacker hero mumbling,...
DOWNLOAD: All Leather - When I Grow Up, I Wanna F**k Like A Mixtape
  San Diego’s All Leather release their album When I Grow Up, I Wanna F**k Like A Girl today, so, uh, gird your loins! Coinciding with the melee is this mixtape, which they’ve titled, naturally, When I Grow Up, I Wanna F**k Like A Mixtape. Thirty-five minutes spanning twenty-seven songs that seem to share a theme of "partying abrasively," including cuts from...
NEW DOWNLOAD: Daniel Johnston - I Had Lost My Mind
(Photo: Tim Broddin) Daniel Johnston is known mainly for two things: having Kurt Cobain as a famous fan, and having spent a good portion of his life dealing with schizophrenia. His immense catalog of songs — tender, honest, direct and weird, often all at once — somehow gets short shrift. Take “I Had Lost My Mind,” a brief, wildly catchy tune from Is and Always Was (...
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DOWNLOAD: Grooms - Acid King Of Hell (Guitar Feelings)
There’s nothing overtly psychedelic or doomy about Grooms’ "Acid King Of Hell (Guitar Feelings)," but the parenthetical bears some insight, since it’s on their loud-quiet-loud amp exorcisms that this one really gets lifted. More squalid shredding can be found on Rejoicer, the Brooklyn threesome’s new album for Death By Audio, and on their current tour out to the...
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...
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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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  • MIGHTY ROARS - Awesome new single, launch party this eve

    I love The Mighty Roars. If awesome punk pop is your bag, then you probably already love them too. So I’m very excited to report that they’ve finished a cracking new album, Zip and...

  • Lovvers - OCD Go Go Go Girls

    The Lovvers album is a sonic assault.  It’s not lo fi exactly - that suggests a kind of slap dash, no care attitude that Lovvers clearly don’t have.  It’s just…...

  • King Khan and BBQ - Invisible Girl

    BBQ and King Khan have released another garage rock gem. Invisible Girl is a rock n roll soul party record - all handclaps, doo wop backing vocals, 12 bar chords and familiar melodies. And quite...

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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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