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Guest top 10s: Does It Offend You Yeah?, Bonus Eventus and Let's Wrestle

DOES IT OFFEND YOUYEAH?

Dan from Does It Offend You, Yeah?, Bonus Eventus and Let’s Wrestle give us their picks of 2009 as we near completion of our Guest top 10s.

Guest top 10: Hatcham Social and Grizzly Owls

Photo: Nick Gough

We finally wave bye bye to 2009 with our final two wonderful guests - Hatcham Social and Grizzly Owls

Top 100 Records of 2009: 60-41


Fever Ray

Our top records of 2009 countdown continues, with our favourite singles, albums and downloads of the year. We’re now at numbers 60-41.

Guest top 10s: Bonus Eventus

Bonus Eventus give us a stripped down and svelte top 5. Be sure to check out their fantastic debut album released on Dinosaurs in Vietnam

Which indie artists will be selected as ‘The Best _____ of the Year’?

As yall know from the popular website calendar.blogspot.com, the year 2k9 only has 2 months left. The annual music cycle is ‘officially over’ and will be dormant until the first major indie album release in 2k10. This means ‘we’ as an altosphere need 2 do our best to reflect on the year that we just lived, and try 2 analyze which album/artist/mp3 we want to be the embodiment of 2k9. Each alt website has a responsibility to select a ‘best’ artist, which may not actually ‘be the best’, but instead will represent ‘how they think 2k9 should be remembered’, and convince u 2 ’stay on board with us, cuz our perception of the indiesphere is really genuine and down2earth in a hi-level kinda way.’

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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...

Have You Read?

  • ALBERT HAMMOND JR MASTERS HIS ART

    ALBERT2.jpgArtrocker.com: It’s been a fast turn around of albums for you. Does it come easy? Albert: Nothing that’s good in life comes easy - but it’s a process. It’s something that I have to do, so I...
  • The Hells - He's the devil (but I love him so)

    Video still by Kelda Hole Once upon a time, nostalgia fans, Artrocker was a record label that put out a few fine releases by a handful of fine bands. One of the best of these, was The ...
  • Burning Buildings - The Sleep Tapes

    First up, I attached a picture of my dog to this email, as she’s very cute, but very old, so I’m sending her picture out with all of my emails, in the silly but legitimate attempt to get...

Photos

  • 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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