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Guest top 10: Hatcham Social and Grizzly Owls
Photo: Nick Gough We finally wave bye bye to 2009 with our final two wonderful guests - Hatcham Social and Grizzly Owls Hatcham Social Top Ten Albums These are the albums I got most interested in this year and have been playing in my earphones constantly. Not in an exact order as such…more what I thought of as writing…I usually get into a band through a live...
Headless Heroes
Headless Heroes consists of a group of artists working together to create/recreate music for music’s sake. The group’s lead voice is Alela Diane and the mission is to produce gloriously fresh creations of older songs that may have gotten lost in the cracks of time. The group covers a wide range, spanning over forty years, from "Daniel Johnston, The Jesus & Mary Chain and...
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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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,...
Bat For Lashes :: “Daniel”
Photo: The FADER Magazine When we first heard Brighton’s Natasha Kahn of Bat For Lashes back in 2006, we were so taken with her unique vocals, which according to our original post came across as a mishmash of Björk, Tori Amos, and Blonde Redhead’s Kazu Makino…with a pinch of Chan Marshall thrown in for good measure.  Her debut Fur and Gold garnered many...
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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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  • NME's 80s mix tapes to download

    (pic from Little Triggers) Just spotted this tip on Rich Girls - some archivist / nerd / genius has ripped almost every single mix tape that the NME gave away in the 1980s.  It’s a very...

  • Rubber 0 Cement

    rubber0cement.jpgRich Gumbie tells tales of Rubber 0 Cement, featuring avant metal, robot costumes & 7 foot bass javelins.

  • Sunday Nights Are There To Rock

    You know the feeling. It’s a Sunday evening and you reflect on your weekend with the impending working week dangling in front of your nose like a rancid carrot and you think:  ...

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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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