Post to Twitter
Wetdog will be touring the UK in early October with The Slits and together they make a fine pair, blending old-style jams with new unpretentious concrete punk. They’re another noisy post-punk band but fuck it, their music rules.
The band formed about four years ago in London and has been turning a few industry heads with their droney, antagonistic, guitar-driven punk. They’ve featured in Artrocker, Drowned In Sound, Uncut and NME all very positively and have played a recent run of festivals in the UK. Their debut album Enterprise Reversal is magnificent, crafting a fine mix of angular guitars, rolling bass lines and chitter-chatter drum rolls. It’s obvious all three members (Billy, Rivka and Sarah) are fans of The Fall, The Slits and The Smiths, but they’ll stab anyone who dares to criticise their originality.
Of the twenty-one songs on their debut album, ‘Zah Und Zaheet’ stands out as an instant favourite. With a dirty repetitive bass line drilling the song deep into the crusty parts of the brain, it’s a two minute-long, skull-crushing classic. There’s even a subtle Slits reference in there too. All the songs on the album were written over a period of three years, but they all join together relatively easy, filling both sides of the Arctic moss-coloured vinyl they were pressed to.
You can get your copy from the Angular Records store, available in 12″ vinyl as well as on CD and as a digital download.
An extremely welcome surprise in 2011 was Reports From The Threshold Of Death, a throbbing, gauzy dream-rock record from Boston’s Junius (read here). One shitty ma...
photos by Amanda Hatfield Chicago band The Smith Westerns headlined the final date on their tour with Porcelain Raft and Bleached on Saturday 2/4 in Milwaukee, four days ...
Format, Pet Shop Boys' new B-sides collection, shows how clever artists can make pop gold from a single's flipsideThe one-word titles of Pet Shop Boys albums always repay...
Will Smiths son Jaden is set to high-kick his way back on to the big screen in a sequel to his The Karate Kid reboot The teen teamed up with Jackie Chan for the 2010 acti...
Even if you like the right music at the wrong time, there's never a wrong time to discover Joni MitchellI liked all the right music. Just not always at the right time. Bo...
ARTROCKER: How’s it all going?
RHYS JONES: It seems to be going all right I guess. It’s weird. We’re in our own little bubble. We’re away all the time then we come back and people will say 'oh this...
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.
Shots of North Carolina’s folk-rocking Avett Brothers’ stop in Glasgow - 22.08.11
Read the review of the gig here.
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...
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.
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...
Post new comment