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Post Post – Mobius Strips Of Delicious, Pillowy Bliss
Seeing The Coral on Saturday night was a revelatory experience for me. Not the band so much – they were as warm and fulfilling as expected, a bit like getting into a bathtub filled with your favourite winter soup. No, the revelation was that it was my first – and possibly my last – all-seater gig. I’ll say this for The Lowry in Salford Quays: the acoustics are...
Exclusive Interview With Philadelphia's Pop Astronauts, GANG!
Philadelphia definitely has its share of weird and interesting bands. The hip-hop meets electro meets opera meets space disco group known as GANG, may be one of the most interesting. Made up of four friends; Amanda (vocals), Jaclyn (Glockenspiel, Vocals, Percussion), Nicole (Bass, Keyboards) and Tim (Drums), their live shows are high-energy, choreographed mini-spectacles that feel like pep...
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Floating By
I Have Been Floated From: Philadelphia, New Jersey, New York, United States I Have Been Floated, presumably named after the Olivia Tremor Control song of the same name, is an amorphous, shapeshifting band who are called Eye Have Been on their myspace site and claim to have had at least 10 other names. They could easily be called something else today. Their music is also a little...
Golden Ages
Intergalaktisk The good folks at Indiecater Records recently introduced me to Golden Ages, a spatial electronic pop project performed by Philadelphia’s Francis Tseng. Tseng adopted the name just over a year ago, after ditching his previous obsession with dance music and digital remixing to concentrate on what he describes as a “more organic and less plastic” style of music...
The Whip - Divebomb
Rarely does the US release of an already-available foreign record seem like a true second chance, but kudos to Razor & Tie for picking up The Whip’s X Marks Destination for release on March 3rd because it’s a solid album that got overlooked in oh-eight’s deluge of post-Klaxons dance bands. The Mancunian foursome do the full-band electro-house thing and do it well, drawing...
Moving Heaven & Earth
In May Edible Onion, a Philadelphia based collective that releases small run, hand-packaged records, will be releasing a compilation called A Cure For The Broken-Hearted. Each copy of the compilation will come in its very own accordion style book, filled with watercolor illustrations and information about the songs. In anticipation of the release the collective are streaming a different song...
Ones To Watch In 2010 - Part Two
Tonights post is the second of the Devil’s two part predictions of the bands and artists who will breakthrough in 2010. In no particular order the Devil’s second set of tips for 2010 are… Spirit Spine From: Bloomington, Indiana, United States Blissed out looped and layered experimental post-pop from the one man psych machine Spirit Spine. A likely candidate for global...
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Rabbit Habits
Band name: MAN MAN Label: Anti Records Teaser: Strangely for a band from Philadelphia, Man Man sound like Eastern European gypsy punks. Amy Rich downs some vodka and investigates the phenomena! Pull quote 2: full of bearded wonders, proffering their musical wares that transcend pigeon holing… First para: Like a band of raggle taggle gypsies, Man Man...
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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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  • 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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