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FOE at Bull and Gate - 3 January 2012
FOE Thank god for Twitter. A chance search reveals that my intended gig for tonight (returning veterans Artery and feisty young pups Cold In Berlin plus others) has been postponed because the ageing headliners are 111. Sorry, they are ill. Thanks to Les Dawson for that joke. I divert across town to the Bull & Gate for the first night of a Fortuna Pop records residency. Even this event is...
Call Of The Wyld- Review of 2011
  The Good Natured - C.O.T.W. Band of the Year So that’s 2011 then. Another year packed with excellent performances. Back in January I first made contact with Insect Guide, a marvellous bunch who made a tiny room above a Camden pub into a very privileged place to be…. In February I negotiated my way to a very run down part of East London to see P J Harvey perform her...
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...
HOLY – The Wrong Side
Holy is a FUCKING AWESOME shouty screamy hardcore punk from Milano, Italy. Lashings, of tough old-school styles meets Level Plane records screamo vocals. Short, fast, loud – 8 furious songs recorded pretty over the course of a few days in a hot rehearsal studio in Italy. Their self titled ep is coming out January 23rd via the Berlin / Italian label, Hell, Yes.  You will recognize Hell...
The Blood Arm, Paris Suit Yourself, Great White Shark at Madame JoJo's - 18 October 2011
Paris Suit Yourself by Sebastien Dehesdin   I’m not sure that I like surprises. What has caught me off guard is a previously unforeseen third band on tonight’s bill. This throws the timings out and will have implications later on in the evening. The unexpected pleasure is Great White Shark, who hail from Berlin, but are originally from the UK. They illustrate how times and...
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Cutting Some Shapes
Not Squares From: Belfast, Northern Ireland On debut single ‘Asylum’ (Richter Collective) Irish punktronic (we really do love inventing these meaningless genres !) trio Not Squares sound like they’ve been wired directly into the national grid. It’s a bundle of nervous energy, a frenzied four and a half minute sensory assault that sounds like Liars after a red bull...
Red Rag To A Bull
Matador Records     While searching the world wide web for exotic, interesting, or just plain brilliant bands I stumbled across a free sampler from Matador one of the worlds most exciting, innovative and interesting labels. Seven of the tracks have not been released on MP3 yet, and four of those are from albums that haven’t been released yet. The sampler perfectly demonstrates...
The Sailplanes
Every now and again something I’ll run across something that I instantly love. Coming up with new content for here on a daily basis means that I post a lot of stuff that I like, but don’t have that immediate connection with. The ones that do tend to be the bands that end up being part of our Great British Hopes series. Assuming that they are British of course. The Sailplanes...
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Album Review: Cold In Berlin - Give Me Walls
So we’re just into the New Year and you’ve still got some iTunes vouchers that you got for Christmas. What to do? HMV and other high street record retailers are gradually going the way of the dodo and you feel like one last nostalgic mooch round the shelves before the doors shut for good. What to do? You feel that your daily commute to work will be enhanced by an iPod earful of...
White Noise Supremacists - Shadows EP
An artist with the name of ‘White Noise Supremacists’, based in Berlin – and a solo female one at that? Surely worth checking out purely on that basis alone. After seeing the following on her Myspace page: Alright, alright I am obviously against censorship of any kind so I will no longer screen comments. Just don’t be a flaming douche but most importantly don...
So So Modern- Crude Futures
  So So Modern- Crude Futures 7/10 Enduring and endearing Wellington band So So Modern has finally released their debut album after six years and as many EPs. Capturing their energy and enthusiasm, the apocalyptic-themed Crude Futures develops their recent style of long, drawn-out, abstracted and fragmented post punk/math rock songs. The slow buildup of ‘Life In The Undergrowth...
Blood Red Shoes
Venue: Bang Bang Club, Berlin Teaser: Achtung Artrockers! Blood Red Shoes have ‘done an Iggy’ and fled to Berlin, where they’re playing a bunch of intimate club nights. Don Blandord chews the German sausage (words) and Sally Saveall brings down the Wall (pictures). Pull quote 2: Steven offered some “vielen danks” to the uber-cool youths before adding, “I don’t know what else...
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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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