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As much as I’d like to be able to ignore it, the Brit Awards are an all-invasive part of British life right now, in spite of – or perhaps because of – their overwhelming, bone-china blandness. The only honest way to react to a celebration of  such mundaneity is to produce yet another facile list, and so here’s the ANBAD Alternative Brit Awards 2010:...
I already did a fairly comprehensive rant about last year’s Brit Award nominations, and when I first saw the Brit nominations for this year, I just expelled a huge sigh and asked myself, why bother wasting my energy again over a year that clearly mirrors last year’s nominations and many of the preceding disappointing years? Then I had another think, and figured "because it...
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While I’m going round telling people that this week’s Brit Awards were an embarrasment to British music, Kieran’s going round telling people that Enter Shikari are an embarrassment to British music. See below for further details. Words: Kieran Toms Los Campesinos! - Romance Is Boring This is a proper sing along, nay shout along track. Typically eloquent Los Campesinos!...
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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...

Have You Read?

  • Victorian English Gentlemens Club - Love On An Oil Rig

    There’s been so many bloody great albums released this year that it makes me fearful for the future, and a possible drought. Along with Future of the Left’s ‘Travels With Myself...
  • Greenbelt Festival 2009

    I’m amazing, and lovely. Or so say the three bright eyed young girls who bounded up to me, with stickers to remind me later on. Not really normal festival behaviour, but at Greenbelt, it...
  • Album review: Dan Sartain: Dan Sartain Lives!

    Low down? Dan Sartain wisely chose Liam Watson’s Toerag studio to record his new LP - Dan Sartain Lives. Dan’s rumbling, voo doo shaking rockabilly suits Toerag’s special line in...

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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