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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...
Dum Dum Girls perform "Hey Sis" at their first ever live show, yesterday afternoon at the Captured Tracks/Woodsist Festival in Brooklyn. Featuring Frankie Rose (Crystal Stilts, ex-Vivian Girls) on drums, Mike Sniper (Blank Dogs) on bass, and Brandon Welchez (Crocodiles) on guitar:   
As if arbitrarily ranking one’s favorite albums of the year isn’t an absurd enough task, we leave you for the weekend with our favorite songs of 2008. Check David’s list at the bottom of the post… 50. Karl Blau - Mockingbird Diet 49. CFCF - "Invitation to Love" 48. Crystal Stilts "The Dazzled" 47. Ghosthustler - Someone Else’s Ride 46. Arch M...
Fever Ray Our top records of 2009 countdown continues, with our favourite singles, albums and downloads of the year. We’re now at numbers 60-41. 60: Crystal Stilts: Love is a wave Excellent single on Slumberland, a reverb drenched indie Scott Walker fronting Echo & The Bunnymen at their most optimistic. Download love is a wave Check out Crystal Stilts on myspace 59:...
  Tortoise - "Prepare Your Coffin"; Looking at the cover of the new Tortoise album Beacons of Ancestorship and then watching this video makes complete linear sense. On the album cover you have a series of lines that create shapes and in this video we are given a character who races around capturing photos of the shapes of our world. Perfect symmetry right there, and neatly...
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San Diego’s Crocodiles are about to release their debut album, Summer Of Hate on Fat Possum, and are out on a pretty extensive U.S. tour right now to promote it. The band draws comparisons to Jesus and Mary Chain, Velvet Underground, Spacemen 3 and contemporaries like Dum Dum Girls, Crystal Stilts and Wavves. We’ve pretty much had the album on repeat today. A lot of this...
(Photo: Lauren Bilanko) A new song from the criminally awesome Crystal Stilts, this one a quick, deliriously noisy pop jawn called "Love Is A Wave," the a-side from a pending new single on Slumberland. It’s built on unending tom pushes and a treble-heavy shower of vintage amp gust, which is to say that it sounds about thirty years older than it is and we are not complaining...
Brooklyn’s Crystal Stilts recently recorded a session over at Daytrotter, which along with a few tracks from last year’s debut Alight of Night, also featured two new tracks from the band. Both “Through the Floor” and “Sycamore Tree” are delightful to listen to, that is, if you find a poppier version of Joy Division enjoyable. The latter is even described as...
The wet dream of a moody 80s teenager, New York’s Crystal Stilts have their debut album ‘Alight Of Night’ given a UK release by Angular Recordings. Haphazard 6Ts girl group influenced garage rock meets nonchalant, sombre vocals, resulting in an amalgamation of Jesus & The Mary Chain, Velvet Underground, The Cure and Joy Division. Detached introspection rules, with vocals...
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mp3: crystal stilts :: love is a wave Crystal Stilts’ Love is a Wave 7" is out March 31 on Slumberland. Catch the band next week at SXSW. elsewhere: Our good friend Luke Winn has started his always excellent annual Sports Illustrated NCAA Tourney blog, and he’s once again asked us to curate a free/legal mp3 playlist to accompany his posts. Stay up on that and Luke’s...
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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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    "I think Jedward could unknowingly disassemble the record industry from the inside out like The Clash didn’t." Top 10 Bands of 2009 by Michael M of that band WE ARE THE ...
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    After the tragic death of You Say Party! We Say Die!’s Devon Clifford, the band have announced their intention to carry on, under the name "You Say Party". See the note from the...
  • Tom reviews the new NME format

    nme.jpgReview - The Comic's New Format (that's The NME to you guv). I've just read (!) the new format Comic, purely for the purposes of research you understand, in fact it's the first issue of The Comic I'...

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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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