Harlem’s Free Drugs;-) LP is one of our top 40 records of the year (without wanting to give the game away, we’ve only reached 41 in our countdown so far). So I was excited to hear a snippet from their forthcoming LP Hippies, which you can download after the break.
I promise I will stop featuring vintage-inspired, lofi, garage-rock soon. I'm sure I will be tired of it by the end of the year, but in the mean-time my speakers are spilling over with fuzzy, jangly rock. My current garage crush is a band from Austin, TX named Harlem, not to be confused with the Shaking variety. Their debut LP, Free Drugs:) was a huge local success. So much so that a re-press was demanded. Their casual and loose approach to the genre brings about infectious and memorable songs you can't help but tap your foot to. In an ever-flooded niche, Harlem's tambourines seem to float to the top.
Austin’s Harlem takes on Devo’s "Come Back Jonee" for the 4th installment of their covers of the month club. According to the band:
"people are probably going to think that we are trying to capitalize on the fact that devo is coming here for sxsw but before we even knew they were playing we had decided to a cover of come back jonee. i guess we would be pretty stoked if devo heard it but then again they might tell us it sucks or hire a team of lawyers to sue us for all the leftover beers in our fridge."
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For the latest installment of Harlem’s increasingly weird and awesome Covers of the Month Club, the dudes offer up their version of "Sea Snake," from Detroit techno legends Drexciya. According to the band:
"we are late on everything. our van broke down. all the dishes are dirty. curtis is drunk. but we finally got to finish our cover of the month! its a cover of sea snake by drexciya. drexciya is this awesome techno band that wrote songs about an underwater sea community populated by aliens and pregnant slaves thrown overboard on the way to america."
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Here’s the second installment from Harlem’s "Cover of the Month Club," in which the Austin group offers up this relatively faithful and straightforward lo-fi take on Q Lazzarus’ "Goodbye Horses." I posted about the song’s mild resurgence a few months back, but if you’re unfamiliar, you might recognize it from this scene, which scarred me for life at age 13.
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...
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