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SxSW Beginner's Guide #8 - Eye, Jay and Kay
I think this is my first SxSW related post since I booked my (bargain) flights to Austin, so there’s definitely no backing out now. Not long til I go either so these posts need to step up a gear. So below are the highlights of the I, J and K pile winging their way to Texas state in March. Let’s dig in and find some excellence shall we? Inhabitants (www.myspace.com/theinhabitants...
SxSW Beginner's Guide #5 - Gee
Gadarene (www.myspace.com/gadarenemusic) Elegant folk-strewn and fiddle led instrumentals. Gay Witch Abortion (www.myspace.com/gaywitchabortion) LISTEN JUST FOR THE NAME. Noisy two piece intent on doing lo-fi Lightning Bolt with less skillz and more controversy. Geeks (www.myspace.com/thexgeeks) Probably isn’t these guys but Korean hardcore punk is brilliant, even if it is generic....
SXSW Beginner's Guide - #1
This is a misleading title (that one up there ^) because I’m actually a beginner. I’m guiding myself so it’s of little use to youze out there. Besides you’ve all been at least twice and I’ve NEVER BEEN so stop showing off yeah?! So my idea is to try to listen to all the bands in one letter category every time I post about Sxsw. So here goes A in REAL TIME. Aa (...
SxSW Beginner's Guide Additions #1 - A-B
As expected, SxSW decided to sprinkle their already well-populated list of artists with a few more undesirables, and therefore I’ve had to trudge all the way back to A and add my thoughts to these newcomers. *sigh* It’s gonna be a long journey. Akina Adderly & The Vintage Playboys (www.myspace.com/akinaadderlyandthevintageplayboys) When did soul and funk become processed,...
SXSW Beginner's Guide - #2 THE BEST LETTER OF THE ALPHABET THAT IS 'B'
Continuing my selfish self-reference guide to finding some actually good music to watch at SxSW continues with THE BEST LETTER OF THE ALPHABET. Why is ‘B’ the best? Well coz it’s curvy, has the best sound (BUH! for B!) and my initials consist of two of the fuckers. So, it’s with some excitement that I delve into SxSW’s current list of B’s who have been pretty...
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SXSW DOWNLOAD: CHEW LiPS - Seven
As it happens, we haven’t written about electro outfit CHEW LiPS since last summer, but it seems fitting that on this first sleep-deprived weekday of Daylight Savings, we’re shaking ourselves awake with another menacing pop ballad from the London trio. “Seven,” is a giddy cut meant to divide the dancefloor, something moody and brooding until Tigs’ soaring voice...
SXSW DOWNLOAD: The Golden Filter - Hide Me
Unlike most folks in Austin, windswept electro-disco duo The Golden Filter actually have legitimate reason to be hoovering Lone Stars: they just announced their debut album, Voluspa (a spa of volume, perhaps?), is coming out on June 15 in the U.S and April 26 in the UK. No word on who’s releasing it Stateside, but Brille will be handling the overseas duties. Tejas residents/visitors...
Acoustic Breakfast - The Heartless Bastards' Erika Wennerstrom
HUNGRY FOR A GREAT ACOUSTIC PERFORMANCE? The Heartless Bastards (RSL Top Three American Live Bands in 2009) are well on their way to becoming many people’s pick as artist of the year at this point. The band released the absolutely must-have album, The Mountain , (review - recommended!) back at the beginning of the month. The Bastards are about to embark on the second leg of their...
SXSW DOWNLOAD: Diamond Rings - All Yr Songs
Toronto partystarter Diamond Rings has been inspiring us both to dance and to hit Sephora for the better part of a year now, all because of one song and one make-up-spattered press pic. “All Yr Songs” is a slept-on favorite, hitting an easygoing stride from the first strum, even as John O.’s gravely vocals ring out like last call at your most beloved haunt. Yes, you’...
sxsw preview :: kurt vile
Kurt Vile’s upcoming God Is Saying This To You 12" (out later this month on Mexican Summer) has been my default late-night jam lately, all hazy, earnest psych-folk that feels intensely lonely and intimate, at times eliciting a stinging nostalgia for an era that I didn’t actually experience. The guy is getting a lot of much-deserved love lately from some good people, 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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  • 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...

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    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.  

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    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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