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Those Darlins Here’s the next batch of our favourite albums, singles and downloads of 2009. We’re hurtling towards the top 20, as today we give you our selections from 40-21.   40: Yeah Yeah Yeahs - It’s blitz New York trio’s guitarless innovations strike just the right kind of chord on their third LP. Check out the Yeah Yeah Yeahs on...
Favours for Sailors interview With the credit crunch, the recession, the worst winter for two decades and, probably, the imminent end the world being shoved in our faces and down our throats pretty much relentlessly by the media, anyone creating music in these dark times could be forgiven for coming across a bit bleak and depressing. Not Favours For Sailors though.  ...
Absolutely gutting news as one of our favourite bands and recent tour partners Favours For Sailors have decided to call it a day. They were a fantastic band, as frustratingly shambolic and self-deprecating as they were fist-punchingly awesome, absurdly zany and melodic and as genuinely talented as they come. We will miss them tremendously. You can, of course, still check them out here: http://...
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Favours for Sailors are a band that I’ve liked from afar from sometime. I’ve always heard their songs through other bands they know, or as support to another band live. Their song Erode My Empire is one that I’ve known on and off for three years now, and it’s still doing the rounds. In other bands this could be a sign of a worrying lack of creativity, but it seems...
Myspace // "A Bear A Bison" [Audio] This March will see the release of the debut album, Adventuring, from Calories (ex-Distophia) on Smalltown America, a small record label based in Northern Ireland and London. Despite just playing their first gigs last summer, the band already has a powerful arsenal of math pop-influenced songs. Over the next couple of months, they’ll be...
  While ‘tis the season to be merry’, the overplaying of Christmas songs in December is as deliriously maddening as Chinese Water Torture. (Seriously, if my parents had been smarter, they shoulda locked me in my room and played "Frosty The Snowman" on repeat when they grounded me). Anyway, leave it to the Brits to save our ailing ears. The Brit 3-peice Favours For...
[Photo Credit: Lucy Johnston] Myspace // "I Dreamt That You Dreamt That I Loved You In My Dreams" [Audio] Favours For Sailors may hail from London, but it’s obvious that they were raised on American indie rock. Their tunes recall the likes of Pavement or Weezer, but with a penchant for big pop moments. It’s music that’s made for playing at top volume on the...
Self confessed ‘Becks-fuelled, park-dwelling miscreants’, FAVOURS FOR SAILORS have given us some excellent powerpop in 2008 - ploughing a nice Jags furrow, a la Gentleman Jesse. Via Stephen Malkmus. Genre lovers among you could cram them in the same pigeon hole as Vampire Weekend and Tapes N Tapes - but you’d remain pleasantly surprised by Favours for Sailors...
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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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  • New Action Beat video, tour

    Aces new video from everyone’s favourite noise band from Bletchley, Action Beat. It’s their first ever official music video - "Car Crash Halloween Disco" and is taken from...
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    Lady Miss K Good news for London town folks, as there are two most awesome sounding club nights happening this weekend.  Club Motherfucker celebrates its 7th birthday on Saturday with a...
  • This is the END of Spoon of Music..

    After something around two years, Spoon of Music have been operating at the Windmill in Brixton. That small cosey old man hub of local eccentricites and a horde of enticing new music.

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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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