Little Joy Latest News

Where do musicians hang out? What do their nests look like? Can they use a washing machine? Adam Green, the Jewish James Dean, he of The Moldy Peaches who changed orbit to crooner last year for his Big Band Bacharach solo project, has decided to answer some of these questions for us. He has started a blog  called The Lake Room for the German Newspaper DIE ZIET. It is not in German, but he...
Stroke’s drummer Fab Moretti’s team-up with Rodrigo Amarante and Binki Shapiro has lead to one of our absolute favorite albums of 2008. Little Joy’s self-titled debut is just so simple and perfect in so many ways. They’ve released a new video for No One’s Better Sake…(via) Little Joy - No One’s Better Sake
Syndicate content

Little Joy MP3s

A couple weeks ago, we brought you an exclusive, new Adam Green track, "Rich Kids," in which Green strums comically about "life and Codeine with the tonality of a burnt-out bluesed-out uncle of Nick Cave." This week, to change it up a bit, we had Mr. Green craft a playlist of his favorite RCRD LBL artists. His RCRD LBL selection has a light, optimistic air to it, comprised...
Little Joy- Little Joy 9/10 “Everything’s so fun and carefree in Little Joy, it’s like a party you never want to leave, a movie whose lead characters live your ideal life, or the best ginger cake you’ve ever sampled.”- Sarah    Deerhunter- Microcastle/ Weird Era Cont. 9/10 “It makes you feel sentimental, sway around, sing along, daze...
Syndicate content

Top 5 Downloads

  • 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...

Have You Read?

  • SXSW10 - first line-up announcement

    It’s subject to change, but SXSW have made the first line up announcement for their 2010 shindig. From a quick glance at the full list below, it seems like it’s the usual mix of up...
  • Baddies - Do the Job

    Baddies must be sick of hearing the obvious parallels being drawn between themselves and Futureheads, QOTSA, Talking Heads and to throw my hat in there, Bad Religion, with their post-punk,...
  • Unsigned Band Spotlight: Bank Of Joy

    Avid Artrocker followers may recall that sometime last year we spent a wild weekend in the company of Reading indie-kickers Yer Beauties. As part of that, the trip took us to an old pub called the...

Photos

  • 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...

Blogs