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Queer (as Queen) at The Pipeline - 4 February 2012
Queer   There’s a weird atmosphere in London. The weather forecasters have promised an icy apocalypse for later in the night. From the tone of the warnings it is not clear whether we will get one inch of snow and some minor disruption, or whether this is indeed the end of the world and any poor souls caught outside will have to devour each other like members of the Donner Party. I...
Givers, The Shivers at XOYO - 08 November 2011
Givers   I walk down the stairs of a chilly XOYO to be confronted by the fascinating and aptly-named-in-the-circumstances New York duo The Shivers. Although confining themselves to guitar and keyboards, the band conjure an impressively wide range of music. Keith Zarriello is pugnacious and direct and looks as though he might be useful in a fight, yet posses a voice that is sometimes a...
Trailer Trash Tracys - We're Trash You and Me
Trailer Trash Tracys From: London, United Kingdom Q. What do you get if you cross the theme from Twin Peaks with the more melodic tracks in the Jesus & Mary Chain canon? A. You Wish You Were Red by the American sounding but London based quartet Trailer Trash Tracys Go Try Trailer Trash Tracys - You Wish You Were Red by DominoRecordCo and as if to prove that they’ve...
Call Of The Wyld- Review of 2011
  The Good Natured - C.O.T.W. Band of the Year So that’s 2011 then. Another year packed with excellent performances. Back in January I first made contact with Insect Guide, a marvellous bunch who made a tiny room above a Camden pub into a very privileged place to be…. In February I negotiated my way to a very run down part of East London to see P J Harvey perform her...
Razika, LCMDF, Sykur at Hoxton Bar & KItchen - 29 September 2011
Razika   It’s the end of September and quite unexpectedly, the weather in London has turned as hot as hell. No one expected this, certainly not the bands playing here tonight. Tonight’s entertainment is bought to us courtesy of Ja Ja Ja Music, purveyors of top Nordic pop fun. We start off with Sykur, who hail from Iceland. They are three young guys called Halldór, Stef...
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Pet Scenes
Beautiful Things When I first heard London’s Pet Scenes they instantly reminded me of New Zealand band The 3D’s; full of shearing guitar chords and alluring pop-punk melodies. But to be fair to the band, they’ve probably never heard of the NZ noise-punk pioneers, with influences more likely to have come from British Gothic groups like Bauhaus and recent punk revivalists The...
The Devil's Round Up 8th May 2011
This weeks round up of the tracks that I haven’t had the space to post… Giraffage From: San Francisco, United States Dreamy dance pop that makes you go all wonky at the knees. Go Try   A Bird In Hand by Giraffage   Snow & Voices From: Los Angeles, United States Snow & Voices amazing, mesmerizing, hypnotizing cover of The Cure’s Disintegration...
Christmas Wrapping
Summer Camp From: London, United Kingdom The countdown has started, the tree is decorated, the gifts are bought and, if you’re organised, wrapped and your probably on the verge of exhaustion. Well sit back with a glass of mulled wine and a mince pie and enjoy Summer Camp’s cover of the Waitresses christmas classic courtesy of those nice people at Moshi Moshi. Go Try MP3 - Summer...
Mozart Parties
George’s Stanza Imagine a Mozart party! Big curly white wigs, velvet and long socks, and piano jams? Perhaps. Anyway, I digress. 23-year-old Lake District by-way-of-London musician James Bennett definitely earns his extensive blog love of late with his project, Mozart Parties. Strong, defiant bass lines lead soft vocal melodies, crunchy distorted guitar and distant tin can drums,...
Total Slacker interview
Thrashin’ There’s something about the whimsy and spontaneity of Total Slacker‘s fun-loving ethos and rocking out songs that makes a lasting impression. Their post-grunge pop, from shifty to boundless to creeping to outright thrashing songs, keeps the flame for energetic creation without necessarily having hordes of expendable energy. The New York trio come off as exuding both...
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Will Hanson - Moving A Body
Will Hanson’s hop from his hometown of London, to New York, to Glasgow is one that is rather intriguing. Why on earth would someone ditch the Big Apple to head for a relatively tiny Scottish city? I mean, no arguments from me about it being one of the greatest places in the world, but on paper it doesn’t make much sense. Whatever the motive, Will has received both financial...
On the road with: Hold Your Horse Is
On tour with Hold Your Horse Is. Words/Photos: Stephen McLeod Following the release of their 3rd EP, we joined up with the formidable Hold Your Horse Is as they toured the UK to promote their latest EP "Rammin’ it Home’ in a haphazard zig-zag fashion with Shoes and Socks Off, aka Toby Hayes. This was done in a rusted-up van that had already gone 342,000 miles on its...
French For Cartridge - Liquorice
A fair while ago we had a preview of some indie-upstarts French For Cartridge, and they’ve followed up the single release with a full-blown album. It’s been sitting in my to-do pile for far longer than it should have been. I never did like liquorice, unless it was cherry flavoured. I like this though. Since I was familiar with the opener ‘oooh!’, I skipped...
Wayter - Twenty
The slightly off-kilter, wobbly guitar lines that open ‘Twenty’ by Wayter remind me of the incredible Rapider Than Horsepower, and so instantly get a big thumbs up. I’d been putting off featuring these guys for a while, given the avalanche of other things racking up on the to-do list, but I’m glad I didn’t just skip over them, as I’d have missed out on what...
Yer Beauties - EP Release
This is Indie the way it should sound. Not total crap. I have to take my hat off to this lot from London - they’ve managed to pull off the enviable feat of sounding a lot like you should already like them, but having something fresh at the same time. You’re looking at a group firmly planted in the world of fast-strummed, bouncy guitars and sing-song vocals of...
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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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  • Capstan Shafts

    CAPSTAN SHAFTS are giving away 6 of their tracks for free on archive.org. Seeing as the 6 song EP, Cretin Flowers, is one of the best I’ve heard this year, you’d be foolish not to...

  • Viking Moses

    viking-moses.jpgGary Corrin recommends the 'bohemian electro folk" of Viking Moses

  • Win tix to The Good The Bad EP launch @Whoreditch

    The Good The Bad are launching their nut-clenchingly fantastic debut EP on 13 November at new club Whoreditch.  They play amazing ‘new surf flamenco’ with tonnes of rock n roll...

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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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