Pitchfork Media is one of the leading music criticism sites on the internet, with their reviews ‘making or breaking’ the careers of many buzzbands. Band of Horses is a band that used to be kinda respected, but now I think they are sorta inconsequential within the modern format of the indiesphere. When a band is ‘no longer useful’ to the indiesphere, it is no longer necessary to ‘cover’ the band and praise it for its products. It seems like when a band becomes ‘too major label’ there isn’t really a reason to ‘praise’
Pitchfork ‘panned’ their new album with a 5.3, which is basically like a 1.0 in a non-2k10 year. It seems like the band / their label / their marketing firm still decided to buy ‘tons of ad space’ on their blogsite, letting consumers know that even if the new Band of Horsebros album is ‘mediocre’, it doesn’t meant u shouldn’t buy it via iTunes.
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Sweden’s masters of attenuated bombast, Shout Out Louds , worked with Seattle producer Phil Ek (Built To Spill, Band Of Horses) on their new album, Walls, which explains the soft Northwesternly rub of the recently leaked title track.
Following the rather lackluster Coachella announcement last week, comes Bonnaroo’s initial lineup for 2009. At first glance, it’s quite the stellar lineup of bands, with the one glaring addition that jumped out at me being the Beastie Boys! The one time I attempted to see them live was back in 2000, when they were set to tour with Rage Against the Machine, but was canceled because Mike D broke his arm or something like that. Even now in 2009, they’re still up there (along with PJ Harvey) as a band I would still love to see.
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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