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The Bowery Riots, and OH MY GOD, MORRISSEY
Last night I met a man in a bar who really likes Morrissey. There are bands that I really like – for example: by a combination of accident and desire, I’ve seen loveable scamps Art Brut a moderately unhealthy seven or eight times. Which, it turns out, is nothing. This man has managed to take the concept of ‘to like’, folded it like the most intricate origami you...
DOWNLOAD: The Bundles - Pirates Declare War
  (Photo: Sarah Cass) The Bundles are a supergroup for the low-brow indie set, anchored in the friendship of former Moldy Peach/Juno soundtracker Kimya Dawson and New York anti-folk luminary/comic book artist Jeffrey Lewis. Lewis and Dawson initially started working on music together in 2001, though years of path-crossing never resulted in anything more than a handful of unrecorded...
SXSW Beginner's Guide - #1
This is a misleading title (that one up there ^) because I’m actually a beginner. I’m guiding myself so it’s of little use to youze out there. Besides you’ve all been at least twice and I’ve NEVER BEEN so stop showing off yeah?! So my idea is to try to listen to all the bands in one letter category every time I post about Sxsw. So here goes A in REAL TIME. Aa (...
VIDEO Footage & Critical Reaction to Animal Collective’s Guggenheim Art Show
Link: http://www.self-titledmag.com/home/2010/03/05/1mm-if-there-was-ever-any-doubt-that-animal-collectives-our-grateful-dead-the-following-fan-photos-just-proved-us-all-wrong/ After Animal Collective’s art show at the Guggenheim, the Alt Report tracked ‘how it was covered’ by internet outlets. While most internet outlets have mastered how they will cover Animal Collective...
SXSW Beginner's Guide - #2 THE BEST LETTER OF THE ALPHABET THAT IS 'B'
Continuing my selfish self-reference guide to finding some actually good music to watch at SxSW continues with THE BEST LETTER OF THE ALPHABET. Why is ‘B’ the best? Well coz it’s curvy, has the best sound (BUH! for B!) and my initials consist of two of the fuckers. So, it’s with some excitement that I delve into SxSW’s current list of B’s who have been pretty...
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Talking Tiger - My Tiger My Timing interview
Anna from London popsters My Tiger My Timing has taken time off from exercising her vocal chords to give the Devil’s blog an insight into her influences, the strangest place the band have played and her tips for saving money. The Devil: Why My Tiger My Timing? What other names did you ponder before deciding on this? Anna: ‘My Tiger, My Timing’ is a song by the New York...
De La Hoya
I’m feeling rather inspired tonight so I thought I’d write a post on one of my favourite bands of all time you’ve probably never heard of. I’m not trying to come off as a “massive hipster” when I say that, and you probably know frontman Aaron Scott’s latter bands and projects if you’re in to decent punk rock anyway, but what you may not know is the...
No Age covers Bjork… and more covers
Taken By Trees does Guns N’ Roses Victoria Bergsman just released one of the most beautiful albums of 2009 so it’s no surprise that this cover of Guns N’ Roses’ ‘Sweet Child Of Mine’ is equally as stunning. She released the song last year on 7″ vinyl. Bergsman is no stranger to recording covers, her previous band The Concretes recorded excellent...
Grooms
Ride The Frightening   Grooms (née Muggabears) from Brooklyn create the kind of hedonistic fantasy grunge that Sonic Youth and Pavement did in their heyday, combining powerful, churning guitar lines and intelligent basslines merging blissfully in a mélange of shimmering, powdery drums and whiny adolescent vocals. ‘Dreamsucker’ is an immediate favourite, with its...
NEW DOWNLOAD: Andrew W.K. - Hoboken Toffee
We’ve recently run a few exclusives from Viva Radio’s Me + You program, all of them as intimate as lingerie, and on Tuesday, the show released The Best Of Me + You, a pseudo-Greatest Hits comp with interviews and performances from Amazing Baby, Growing, Sebastien Tellier, and many others. This is Andrew W.K.’s contribution–a brief, mildly funny, obviously off-the-dome and...
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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...
Yeah Yeah Yeah's "It's Blitz"
EDITORS NOTE: About once a month the writers of the RSL get together and look through new projects, drink the finest of wines and shoot our mouths off about music and politics. (And have a pretty damn decent time, I must say!) We recently hosted a debate about the new album from the Yeah Yeah Yeahs. What follows is the review of our own Nick Parker…. He defends the dramatic shift in sound...
T in the park festival 2009. Day Two
Dumfries boy Calvin Harris was one of the first on the Saturday mainstage, as the sunshine began to burst out from behind the clouds that had been looming overhead. I’ve seen a lot of Calvin around festivals and gigs, and sadly it wasn’t all that interesting. Maybe it was the lack of lights, or the lack of drive that was there in the early performances – at the cusp of success...
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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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