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Shake It Up Incorporating the ecstasy prescribed by The White Stripes’ early raw blues-soaked rock and roll and the charming glow of ’60s pop warmed through vinyl, Harlem distills that glorious free spirit so many bands are chasing but so few have managed to pin down. Skewing their songs with love and heartache, their jangly party rock and roll anthems bubble with a ghetto trash punk...
Fun Fun Fun Fest has announced a few more additions to its already stellar 2009 lineup, including both Alan Palomo-helmed projects (Neon Indian + VEGA), Fucked Up, Harlem, Yeasayer, Kid Sister, and more. These groups join Death, GZA, Health, Atlas Sound, King Khan & BBQ Show, and many more on the ‘09 bill. More additions coming next week… mp3: neon indian :: 6669 (i don’t...
Goes Cube - "Grinding the Knife Blade"; Well it seems Goes Cube are finally over naming their songs after numbers, which is a definitely a good thing, and this rocking ass track certainly sets the bar fairly high for all the actually titled songs to come. Grade: B Art Brut - "Just Desserts"; This may just be the B-side to their lead single, but Art Brut and Eddie Argos...
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...
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Harlem’s Free Drugs;-) LP is one of our top 40 records of the year (without wanting to give the game away, we’ve only reached 41 in our countdown so far).  So I was excited to hear a snippet from their forthcoming LP Hippies, which you can download after the break.   Friendly Ghost is bouncy and frivilous, a garage pop theme tune for an arthouse Casper movie....
Austin’s Harlem takes on Devo’s "Come Back Jonee" for the 4th installment of their covers of the month club. According to the band: "people are probably going to think that we are trying to capitalize on the fact that devo is coming here for sxsw but before we even knew they were playing we had decided to a cover of come back jonee. i guess we would be pretty...
For today’s special edition of Blog Radio, Sirius asked us to count down the top 5 artists that we think are most likely to succeed in 2009. Of course, success is a relative term, so my list is essentially just the artists I look forward to hearing new material from/want to see live/expect breakout years from in ‘09. The Hipster Runoff radio program kicks things off at 5 PM EST on...
I promise I will stop featuring vintage-inspired, lofi, garage-rock soon. I’m sure I will be tired of it by the end of the year, but in the mean-time my speakers are spilling over with fuzzy, jangly rock. My current garage crush is a band from Austin, TX named Harlem, not to be confused with the Shaking variety. Their debut LP, Free Drugs:) was a huge local success. So much so that a re-...
drexciya For the latest installment of Harlem’s increasingly weird and awesome Covers of the Month Club, the dudes offer up their version of "Sea Snake," from Detroit techno legends Drexciya. According to the band: "we are late on everything. our van broke down. all the dishes are dirty. curtis is drunk. but we finally got to finish our cover of the month! its a cover...
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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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