IDA MARIA Reviews

ida maria, black helium, cut copy and more - singles for THE week beginning july 21!

by Gareth Mytton

Gareth Mytton takes us for a drag race around this week's singles, which include the latest garage rock growler from Death Pop Records - and a multitude of other sins...

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zoo8 festival

by Don Blandford
It’s been hailed as the most miserable music festival to ever take part on British soil. And yet popular culture proves that many British people enjoy misery! Will the twin theories somehow work in harmony to create a fantastic event? Alas no, as Don Blandford reports…
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THE great escape festival

by Nathan Westley
Nathan Westley brings us all the action from this year’s Great Escape in his exclusive report. Read on for good news about XX Teens new material, a damning report on the dastardly Ting Tings, and loads more!
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wolf people, get crucial, lorraine and more - singles for THE week beginning 10th december

by Rory Carroll
This week’s singles are “a bit 1980s”. Which is fine, until you recall that last week’s singles sounded “a bit 1980s”. Hmmm! Is it a conspiracy? Or are “The 1980s” replacing innovation? Rory Carroll investigates…
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good shoes / operator please / ida maria

by Nathan Westley
They’re back! Except they’re better! And they’ve brought some curiously interesting support bands with them! There’s only one man for the job: Nathan Westley brings us this exclusive report from Brighton…
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pete and THE pirates, tiny masters of today, css and more - singles for THE week beginning 1st october

by Rory Carroll
The last journalist who expressed bemusement at the Tiny Masters Of Today received a hurricane of complaints from artrocker.com readers. It is therefore with a strange combination of bravery and insanity, that Rory Carroll submits his review of their latest single…
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Rabbit, Rabbit All Day Long...

Top 5 Downloads

  • Hunters - Acid Head

    I haven’t even come close to headbanging since 1998, but, wow, Hunters are really pushing me back in that direction. This is real rock – heavy, chugging and powerful with grimy...

  • 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...
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Have You Read?

  • Derek Meins

    derek_meins.jpgFelix Maccabee recommends the half crazed performance poet Derek Mains.

  • Greg Whalen - The Councellor Song

    This is a great bit of lo-fi folk from Greg Whalen. Greg is mates with Furhood and Lewis Irvine - both excellent - there must be a cool scene going on up there in Glasgow, where they all ...

  • Akala Interview

    AkalaNews.JPGARTROCKER: I saw you at The Old Blue Last this week, how good does it feel performing in London after being away for so long? AKALA: I love it! I love performing anyway and being in my home town...

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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