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Offset Festival Day One - 04 September 2010
Teeth!!! (photo Wyldman)     This is not going to be a definitive report on the 2010 Offset Festival. For starters, over the two days I saw over fifty acts that I LIKED to varying degrees. And I couldn’t be everywhere, despite trying my best. Things get off to a rollicking start on Saturday with Hull’s The Neat on the Main Stage. Much angular guitar and the first instance...
Has Chillwave Gone TweenStream?
Yall might be familiar with the popular tween Disney sensation ‘Demi Lovato.’ She is basically the ‘latina Miley Cyrus’, meant to appeal to the Disney tweens who have minority bloodlines, giving them a reason to ‘dream’ that one day they can be kinda white & famous, just like Miley/HannyMontanny. Recently, I saw her tweet about her new favourite song...
Dum Dum Girls / A Grave With No Name at The Lexington 26 February 2010
Dum Dum Girls It’s a tempting offer. “Come upstairs, we’re playing Neu!” Ok, we were going to the gig anyway, but it’s nice to see some enthusiasm from the promoters. Once we are in the cooler, quieter room above, the gentle rhythms of classic Krautrock tick along pleasurably and we await the first band. Who are A Grave With No Name. And not A Place To Bury...
The 9's Have It: Historical Reasoning Why 2009 Will Be A Great Year for Music
Inspired By Tim Duffy 2008 was a shit year for music. With the economy falling down around us, the music industry continued to crumble under the pressure of the internet…falling down, down, down and barely even pulling in a cent (or so they would like you to believe). Bands inspired by the few cash cows we have left aped and copied their way through records. Folks were led to believe...
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Singles: 15 Feb 2010
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!...
Bootleg download: Pixies - Hollywood Palladium, 5th November 2009
Part One   Part Two   1. Intro 2. Dance The Manta Ray 3. Weird At My School 4. Bailey’s Walk 5. Manta Ray 6. Debaser 7. Tame 8. Wave Of Mutilation 9. I Bleed 10. Here Comes Your Man 11. Dead 12. Monkey Gone To Heaven 13. Mr Grieves 14. Crackity Jones 15. La La Love You 16. No 13 Baby 17. There Goes My Gun 18. Hey 19. Silver 20. Gouge Away 21. Wave Of Mutilation (UK Surf)...
DOWNLOAD: Dum Dum Girls - Jail La La
(Photo: Lauren Dukoff) Richard Gottehrer–co-writer of "My Boyfriend’s Back" and "I Want Candy," co-founder of Sire Records with Seymour Stein, and producer of albums by Blondie, The Go-Gos and many others–produced the upcoming Dum Dum Girls LP, I Will Be. That’s pretty much the ultimate co-sign for a girl group-inspired garage-rock band. And...
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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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  • Top 12 albums of the year so far

    Last week, I declared The Zookeepers record to be "the album of the year so far, hands down". I was then chatting to someone earlier this week about the merits of doing a ‘...

  • Los Campesinos! There are listed buildings - new vid

    There Are Listed Buildings from Los Campesinos! on Vimeo.

  • Festival Spotlight 2010

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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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