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Spiritualized confirmed for Groening's ATP

by Dave on Tue, 2010/01/26 - 7:37pm

Spiritualized are performing Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating in Space in May at Butlins, as part of the Matt Groening curated ATP weekend.  It’s a reprise of the production that saw them sell out 4 nights at the Barbican.

Also featured in the new line up announcement are The Fresh and Onlys and Cold Cave.

Full press release after the break.

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Top 100 Records of 2009: 40-21

by Dave on Thu, 2009/12/10 - 1:21am


Those Darlins

Here’s the next batch of our favourite albums, singles and downloads of 2009. We’re hurtling towards the top 20, as today we give you our selections from 40-21.

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Is The XX a ‘marketing gimmick’ for Dos Equis?

by Hipster Run Off on Fri, 2009/10/23 - 7:11pm
Photo by Chris La Putt

Yall might recognize this bro as the bro from the popular 2k9 indie blogpitchfork buzz band ‘The XX.’ He seems chill, like he is just a bro playing ambient minimalist spacey earnest dark guitar rock. I couldn’t help but notice his soda can tab earring. I went to the store to buy a 6 pack of sodas so that I could make my own [via weekend arts+crafts session].

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     Grammatics Choosing a top 100 records of 2009 may seem a little excessive but it has been a fucking awesome year for music.  No question.  We’ve mixed together albums, singles...

  • The Archive by Sean Dunne

    Excellent short documentary about the biggest record collection in the world, including vinyl from 1881! There were news stories about this dude a while ago as he had to sell up, so this clip...

  • New Meemaw related awesomeness from Infinity Cat records

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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.  

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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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