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It’s not for the cock, it’s for spotted dick magic number three
After a break that may or may not have been more than just a week, Spotted Dick is back once again. The simple and pretty widely used idea is that we’ve built a playlist on spotify of new songs, slightly not so new songs, new discoveries and just plain old bangers for you to enjoy at will. Maybe this here Spotted Dick could also be used to “launch” the new .co.uk side of ths...
VIDEO THRWBCK: LCD Soundsystem - Losing My Edge (2002)
While the song is an obvious favorite, I’d never seen this video until recently, so is it really weird that I quite enjoy watching a younger, slimmer James Murphy get repeatedly slapped for almost four minutes while lip syncing the song? I guess it’s not much to look at, but it fits the whole self-deprecation/kill yr idols theme really well and reminds me of those one-shot...
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Singles for the week beginning Oct 22!
Band name: Young Knives, Ladytron, LCD Soundsystem and more… Label: various indie schmindies Teaser: This week’s extraordinarily large mound of singles sees Mercury nominees slugging it out on the dance-floor, and James Murphy taking on his DFA prodigies Prinzhorn Dance School. Lewis Hingston lets battle commence… Pull quote 2: Wichita’s Los Campesinos! are...
Sound of silver
Band name: LCD Soundsystem Label: DFA/EMI Teaser: LCD Soundsystem follow up their genre defining debut with more of the same. Steven Belfrage commends James Murphy for adding to his ” intelligent scrapbook of house, punk, funk and disco ” Pull quote 2: The record’s opener ‘Get Innocuous’ is colossal, an almost theatrical take on the DFA story so far...
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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...
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Have You Read?

  • News International coverage 6-8/07/11

  • Young Knives interview

    house-of-lords.jpgArtrocker: Your website currently says you’re either too lazy or too rubbish to keep it updated – I doubt it can be the latter, so what have you been up to these last few months? The House of Lords...

  • Brand New - Daisy

    Two years ago Brand New, to the surprise of almost everyone, released something short of a masterpiece in ‘The Devil & God are Raging Inside Me’. Unfortunately however, this was...

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...

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