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DOWNLOAD: Grieves - Against The Bottom
(Photo: Jason Tang) Seattle-based rapper Grieves has been on the move since 2007 when he self-released his debut album Irreversible. In between studio time, he’s toured extensively, currently performing dates on the Vans Warped Tour and opening shows for Atmosphere. The Chi-Town native (born, Benjamin Laub) has musical roots in jazz/blues, which he’s effortlessly fused with hip-...
DOWNLOAD: Woven Bones - I've Gotta Get
After playing record label musical chairs for the past year or so, corrugated garage-rock hellions Woven Bones have finally gotten hitched. The lucky party? Seattle’s Hardly Art, a fine home for a band that sounds like The Cramps welding stuff with The Flinstones. "I’ve Gotta Get" is the a-side to their first HA 7-inch, and it makes us feel like we need a bath of hand...
Death Cab opens for the Seattle Mariners, plays indie version of “Take Me Out to the Ball Game”
Death Cab for Cutie continued their ascension into the post-mainstream by opening for the ultimate band of all–the Seattle Mariners, a major league baseball team from the Seattle Area. This seems like it is just the next step in their ascension towards playing the Super Bowl with Vampire Weekend in 2k14 (after the Kings of Leon in 2k13). Do u know if Cool Dads are into baseball? Feel...
Pollens: Not To Be Sneezed At
Do today’s new bands still want the same things out of their chosen profession side-project-reluctantly-funded-by-a-dreary-office-job as they always have? Or are their aims now different? Take a quick look at the tour blog of Official Friends Of ANBAD, The Bedlam Six, and you’ll be soon be able to decide if the rock life is for you. It’ll mainly hinge on whether or not...
DOWNLOAD: Unnatural Helpers - Sunshine / Pretty Girls
  (Photo: Kelly O) A lot of people would ask for nothing more than these titular subjects, but Unnatural Helpers’ Dean Whitmore just doesn’t care. And armed with a handful of chords and a sub-two-minute running length, it’d weird if he was singing about anything other than happily destroying his body and shunning expected pleasures. Side note: Seattle really doesn...
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The Game Needed Me From: Cheltenham, United Kingdom Named after a track by Seattle’s Minus The Bear Cheltenham’s The Game Needed Me don’t only wear their influences on their sleeves they include them in their name! Although if you check Tooth Diaries (see below) you’ll wonder why they didn’t call themselves The Nancy Boys such is the lead singer’s vocal...
Snake Bite (Tiny Vipers)
Tiny Vipers From: Seattle, Washington, United States The year may still be in it’s infancy but it’s already shaping up to be another year of the electro-pop female. The global success of Lady Gaga , Ladyhawke, Lily Allen, La Roux, Pixie Lott is influencing a generation of female singer songwriters to leap onto the bandwagon like an olympic long jumper on steroids (yes Ellie Goulding...
fake surfers
Song of the night: some enjoyably warped/slightly demented lo-fi pop genius from Seattle’s Intelligence. The incredibly infectious "Thank You God For Fixing the Tape Machine" is taken from the group’s upcoming Fake Surfers LP, which is out May 26 on In the Red (home of Vivian Girls, Strange Boys, Black Lips, etc), and has been on heavy rotation around here over the last...
DOWNLOAD: The Ruby Suns - Closet Astrologer
  (Photo: Amee Robinson) The press release for the new Ruby Suns album, Fight Softly, mentions a few different recording locales–Seattle, a farmtown in Hungary called Szeged, and the band’s home base of Auckland, New Zealand. That the album gestated in these different zones makes complete sense when you hear "Closet Astrologer," a song that almost sounds...
Sound Bites Interview: The Fresh & Onlys
The San Francisco area has no shortage of amazing garage/psych/pop bands. The Fresh & Onlys are one of the latest, having only been together for about a year but have quickly become ones to watch with an onslaught of releases on a variety of labels like Chuffed (Kelley Stoltz’s new label), John Dwyer’s Castle Face, and Seattle’s Dirty Knobby, as well as upcoming platters...
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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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  • jonnythefirth - Modern Fever EP

    Modern Fever – the debut EP offering from one-man-band Jonnythefirth is a five track, distorted western-riffed beastie.

  • REDJETSON

    redjetson.jpgDave Martin recommends the post rock dynamics and baritone vocals of RedJetson

  • 2hot2sweat host Pet Sounds, give away awesome mp3

    Fantastic electro punkers 2hot2sweat are hosting a new club on Weds 17th Feb at The Social.  They promise "A night of animal themed musical mayhem" so appropriately, the night is...

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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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