It’s nice when you pick up a new drummer and actually return to form, the fortunate fate of the Vivian Girls as evidenced on new single "I Heard You Say." The group’s third album and first after Ali Koehler booked it for Best Coast, Share The Joy (Polyvinyl) is a title that playfully jabs at the sad and sultry crooning that makes these girls so great. More akin to the rough...
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In their typical ramshackle, purported punk Shangri Las-meets-Ronettes-meets-New Wave pop fashion, one of my favourite Brooklyn exports, Vivian Girls (named after outsider artist Henry Darger’s 15,000+ page space fantasy novel) have unleashed a new song. Released under Almost Ready’s Volume 8 of The World’s Lousy With Ideas 7″ series, the song kicks off...
20. Amadou and Mariam - "Sabali"; I never really pictured myself as someone who enjoyed worldly music but bands like Konono No. 1 and Amadou and Mariam have gone a long way toward stripping me of any of those reservations. This song in particular knocks down any barrier an African musician might face through it’s powerful vocals and pop like sounds.
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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.
Shots of North Carolina’s folk-rocking Avett Brothers’ stop in Glasgow - 22.08.11
Read the review of the gig here.
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...
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.
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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