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Walls have just released this new track taken from their new album ‘Coracle’ out next week. Walls ‘Raw Umber/Twilight’ by Kompakt Walls take to the road during the next month supporting Battles and Fly Lo. 09/29/11 Mercury Lounge, NYC 10/1/11 Cameo Gallery, NYC (headline show) 10/2/11 Royale Nightclub Boston + 10/3/11 Le National Montreal CANADA + 10/4/11...
Toronto’s Kidcity are 21-year-olds Kelly Ann and Caleb whose debut EP is released at the end of May. The duo call their dark pop “clip-hop”, impossibly placed between Enya and Dr. Dre, but they could happily be filed alongside Balam Acab and other drag-happy innovators. ‘Bloody Face’ More at kkidcityy.com.
(Photo: Tim Broddin) Daniel Johnston is known mainly for two things: having Kurt Cobain as a famous fan, and having spent a good portion of his life dealing with schizophrenia. His immense catalog of songs — tender, honest, direct and weird, often all at once — somehow gets short shrift. Take “I Had Lost My Mind,” a brief, wildly catchy tune from Is and Always Was (...
This week’s round up of the tracks that I haven’t had the space to post… The Young Knives From: Ashby De La Zouch, Leicestershire, United Kingdom After a summer of rioting on the streets of London it’s good to have the Young Knives back with their whimsical and oh so English pop. New single Vision In Rags harks back to a simpler, kinder and altogether less...
If there’s one thing that English folks are suckers for is indie anthems made for the festival stages and this is what Wildlife shells out – effectively song after song filled with soaring stadium-ready tracks to wave your skinny arms in the air to. This band is Wildlife from Toronto, not the other band with a similar name and the album I’m talking about here is Strike Hard,...
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Freedom or Death From: Toronto, Canada With a name like Freedom or Death, the war cry for the people of Greece during the 1820’s Greek War of Independence, I was expecting a cacophonous, passionate blast of death metal scorching my eardrums and turning my brain to a soggy mush. I was certainly not expecting the Canadian Coldplay, I was not expecting Radiohead lite! There’s angst a...
We’ll Make A Lover Out Of You       Call them art rock, indie, post-hardcore, punk revival or just make something up… Les Savy Fav is one of the most avant-garde bands in today’s music scene. The original members formed while at the Rhode Island School of Design in 1995 and, with a move to New York City and a few lineup changes (their former drummer, Pat Mahoney...
Slim Twig’s a Toronto-based Renaissance dude that seems to have his thumb in about eight or nine pies all at once. Movies. Music. Shaves and haircuts. He’s not new to these ye olde RCRD LBL, but "Young Hussies," a Suicide-studded electro track from his Contempt LP is below.   _RLT.render('b51b1533f43347b214ebb6d8f41d5597'); Slim Twig - Young Hussies...
Foxes In Fiction From: Toronto, Canada Foxes aren’t flavour of the month in the UK after some unfortunate incidents with urban foxes attacking babies. The music of Foxes In Fiction, the musical vehicle for the hyper talented Warren Hildebrand, is more likely to lull the young of the human species to sleep than to give them nightmare. Warren has released an album of lo-fi fuzzed up...
photo by brittany shepherd www.woodwhirl.blogspot.com             Little Girls Genre: Minimalist / Post punk From: Toronto, Ontario, Canada Toronto-based group Little Girls has only been in existence since January 2009 and this is their second appearance on the Devil’s blog (first...
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I briefly mentioned the murky, lo-fi noise-pop of Toronto’s Little Girls a couple weeks ago, and the group has since made us aware of a couple of impending releases that you should know about. There’s a 7" coming soon on Captured Tracks (home of Blank Dogs and Dum Dum Girls), with a 12" called Thrills to follow on Mexican Summer (Ariel Pink, Marissa Nadler, etc). "...
Band name: CRYSTAL CASTLES Label: PIAS Teaser: Susie Wild takes us undercover with the debut record from Crystal Castles - where she discovers misleading mellowness, references to dead lovers, and all sorts of sinister electro-riot goodness… Pull quote 2: These mischievous 8-bit misfits will slay you with their viciously emotive music… First para:...
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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...

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  • MIGHTY ROARS - Awesome new single, launch party this eve

    I love The Mighty Roars. If awesome punk pop is your bag, then you probably already love them too. So I’m very excited to report that they’ve finished a cracking new album, Zip and...
  • Lovvers - OCD Go Go Go Girls

    The Lovvers album is a sonic assault.  It’s not lo fi exactly - that suggests a kind of slap dash, no care attitude that Lovvers clearly don’t have.  It’s just…...
  • King Khan and BBQ - Invisible Girl

    BBQ and King Khan have released another garage rock gem. Invisible Girl is a rock n roll soul party record - all handclaps, doo wop backing vocals, 12 bar chords and familiar melodies. And quite...

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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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