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The Vivian Girls Here’s the next batch of our top 100 records list for 2009. Our favourite albums of 2009, our favourite singles of 2009, our favourite tracks of 2009 - they’re all in here mixed together. Well, numbers 80-61 are anyway. 80: We show up on RadaR - mountain top EP Psychey sunshine pop and cunning acoustic folk from We Show up on RadaR, who released...
Matt Bigland from the mighty Dinosaur Pile Up takes his turn to give us his take on the top 10 (err, well.. 9) acts of 2009. 1. Well I discovered Torche this year, and they’re the only band in a long while that have totally blown my brain wide open. Like the melvins but more driving. Kicking drums, really heavy, neanderthal vocal harmonies. Amazing. Torche Myspace 2....
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DINOSAUR PILE UP Reviews

Gaining momentum like an impending freight train, Dinosaur Pile-Up are to release a second single ‘Mona Lisa’ both digitally and as a 7" on the 27th of September. This comes one week before their veryvery anticipated album - ‘Growing Pains’ - which is due out on October 4th. Singer Matt Bigland gives the following description: @font-face { font-family...
I knew this would happen. I had the chance to go and see ‘Dinosaur Pile Up’ a number of times this summer whilst doing the festival rounds, and every time I did, I managed to find an excuse - whether it be that it was raining, or that I needed to fill up my bottle of Whisky, or that the damn T Break stage was just so far away from the press tent, and now I get a hold of their...
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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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  • An Introduction to History of Art(rock) 1A

    The purpose of this blog is to investigate the origins and development of the genre known as Artrock.
  • NME's 80s mix tapes to download

    (pic from Little Triggers) Just spotted this tip on Rich Girls - some archivist / nerd / genius has ripped almost every single mix tape that the NME gave away in the 1980s.  It’s a very...
  • jonnythefirth - Modern Fever EP

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

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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