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glass shark + THE sycamores + ipony

by Lewis Hingston
Lewis Hingston witnesses the Cornish invasion of Camden, as a stream of West Country acts arrive to entertain the Saturday night football fanatics…
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broken records, tokyo police club and more - singles for THE week beginning april 21!

by Rory Carroll
Still minging from the Camden Crawl? Let Rory Carroll sooth your paranoid and irrational fear of impending doom, with his run down of this week’s singles…
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toy guns, THE electric city, hungover stuntmen and more

by Lewis Hingston
Lewis Hingston hits the London Fly to check out a bill that’s erupting with new talent for our mass consumption. No artrock fodder apparently - but plenty of ‘skankable’ indie anthems… read on!
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prinzhorn dance school - prinzhorn dance school

by Graham Turner
Graham Turner gets his head around the latest DFA signing Prinzhorn Dance School, and finds that ‘different’ doesn’t always mean ‘good’…
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latitude festival

by Abigail Outhwaite
Abi reports from Latitude, the festival that “shuns the blood, sweat and rock ‘n roll ethos of the Carling Weekends, and instead presents a smaller, cheaper, and more accessible version of Glastonbury.”
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adventures in THE beetroot field: filthy dukes, surkin, xerox teens, friendly fires and late of THE pier

by Abigail Outhwaite
Abigail catches a gaggle of guitar driven electro acts at Fabric, and wonders whether Xerox Teens are worthy of the top-ish billing they’ve been getting lately…
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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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  • 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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