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Guest top 10: Hatcham Social and Grizzly Owls

by Stephen McLeod on Sun, 2010/01/03 - 7:18pm

Photo: Nick Gough

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

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Top 100 Records of 2009: 60-41

by Dave on Sun, 2009/12/06 - 1:14am


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.

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video: dum dum girls | "hey sis" (live)

by gorillavsbear.net on Sun, 2009/07/05 - 4:15pm

Dum Dum Girls perform "Hey Sis" at their first ever live show, yesterday afternoon at the Captured Tracks/Woodsist Festival in Brooklyn. Featuring Frankie Rose (Crystal Stilts, ex-Vivian Girls) on drums, Mike Sniper (Blank Dogs) on bass, and Brandon Welchez (Crocodiles) on guitar:


  

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Saturday Morning Videos

by Pop Tarts Suck Toasted on Sat, 2009/05/23 - 2:00pm


Tortoise - "Prepare Your Coffin"; Looking at the cover of the new Tortoise album Beacons of Ancestorship and then watching this video makes complete linear sense. On the album cover you have a series of lines that create shapes and in this video we are given a character who races around capturing photos of the shapes of our world. Perfect symmetry right there, and neatly fitting with the music here.
Grade: B+

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gorilla vs. bear's songs of 2008

by gorillavsbear.net on Sat, 2008/12/06 - 2:20pm

As if arbitrarily ranking one’s favorite albums of the year isn’t an absurd enough task, we leave you for the weekend with our favorite songs of 2008. Check David’s list at the bottom of the post…

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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...
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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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