The full line up for Truck 13 has just been announced and it’s looking as choice as ever. One of our favourite festivals, Truck scores points for keeping it ecclectic without compromising the quality and for allowing their local vicar to sell ice creams. Rock n roll!
The line up includes acts of genius like Pulled Apart by Horses, Fists, Future of the Left and Redlands Palomino...
[Photo Credit: Bart Pettman]
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Leeds quartet Pulled Apart By Horses have posted a new track on their Myspace page — "EC = MC Hammer." Check it out, it’s good times.
As usual, the band will be on the road this spring, supporting Blood Red Shoes, doing gigs with "We Versus the Shark," and appearances at Live at Leeds and the Great Escape. Another reason...
Too late to be an album review, so it’s now a gig review. A couple of weeks ago I went to Brighton to see Lovvers and Male Bonding. The gig took place at the hip hangout The Cowley Club. Seemed like the Brighton version of The Smell or something. I got the impression it’s like a secret club when there’s not a gig there, and they have a book section and they have food available...
I wanted to post about this band a year ago but couldn’t find any mp3s. Now thanks to our good friends over at Better Than Sex I have ‘Boytoy’, my favourite 100% Wool track. The Toronto two piece is Vivi on vocals/drums and Serge on vocals/bass, both combine to add keyboard parts. Together they make music that captures and reconstructs the sound of bands like Blood Red Shoes...
[Photo Credit: Tom Beard]
Myspace // "Carry Knots" [Audio]
A band that we have covered ad nauseum since their very early days, Brighton duo Blood Red Shoes are in the studio hard at work on their second album, which as far as I know has no release date or title. They were nice enough to record two video diaries which will give you a peek into the process. For more updates, check...
[Photo Credit: Tom Barnes]
Myspace // "Scabs" [Audio]
I’ve spent a lot of time going back and forth on these guys and I’ve finally come to the conclusion that they’re good, although I have to be in the right frame of mind for them. It’s stuff that I went wild for when I was 17, but every now and then, the right band like this comes along that I can get down...
Venue:
Kings College, London
Teaser:
There’s a riot going on, mamma! And artrocker.com is in the thick of it, as Blood Red Shoes let rip to a central London college on the eve of their debut LP. Read on for words (Don Blandford) and pictures (Sally Saveall)…
Pull quote 2:
…Laura-Mary shouts, “I can’t concentrate on anything at all!!”
First para:
It...
Band name:
Singles for the week beginning Febuary 4
Label:
various indie schmindies
Teaser:
The band get stuck into reviewing the likes of Blood Red Shoes, Biffy Clyro and many more innocent victims. Warning: if you’re a member of The Cavaliers, you might want to skip this article…
Pull quote 2:
In the light of the last record we heard, this wasn’t so...
Venue:
The other Hove, the one in freaking Norway
Teaser:
Richard Artrocker is led astray by Blood Red Shoes, given free beer tokens, and left to ponder the very obvious size difference between Jack White and Beck. Who would win in a fist fight between those two? I know who the smart money would be on…
Pull quote 2:
We are able to ascertain two things. One, that Jack...
Band name:
BLOOD RED SHOES
Label:
V2
Teaser:
Upon submitting his review of the terrible twosome’s debut LP, Rory Carroll wrote at the top of the email: “HEAVILY, HEAVILY RECOMMENDED!!” What possessed the man? Find out here…
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they’ve also got the annoying luxury of being young, talented and rather good looking…
First para...
Last time I reviewed this lot, I was impressed by their "double b-side" EP. Listening to their digital single ‘You Show Up’, which is out FREE tomorrow (12th July), I’m...
Their tag line reads ‘tender pop songs that will melt your ears’, and that pretty much sums it up perfectly. I could just leave you with that and a download link, but that wouldn’t...
Crocodiles’ swimming-in-space garage-pop met an interesting foil in the making of their new album, Sleep Forever–James Ford, one-half of Simian Mobile Disco and producer to artists...
To be real for a minute, it’s kind of hard to navigate the ever-blurring lines marking witch house, drag, and plain old sludgy electro. And genre-busters White Ring aren’t making things...
Where would we be today without the simple, scuzzy way of our punk fore-fathers? We certainly owe a great debt to their spikey hair and sneers.
Despite the faded cries that the genre is dead, there...
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Web tip : William Shatner sings 'Common People' on Jay Leno (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eISBTBwWKeE)
I'm still reeling from the fact that this hysterical song came out over 3...
2008. The year the music industry went into melt down. For the past few years there have been murmurs about the illegal downloading of music killing the music industry. We'd been there and seen that...
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Concert Review : Dezerter, Underworld, Camden 13/04/08
These days I'm very ungenerous with my time. I only really want to see bands I know I'm going to like, like the Len Price 3...
Following on from our time spent with the magnificent Pulled Apart By Horses on their album release tour, we’ve got a full photo gallery of delights from Stephen McLeod to give you an insight...
One of our favourite bands at Artrocker.com has always been The Black Keys. Currently promoting their new album Brothers, we’ve got these exclusive pics from last night’s show at London...
Like a lot of the newer smaller urban festivals springing up, Glasgow’s Hinterland Festival had a great selection of new acts, marking a change from the usual hitlist of random big names and...
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(www.primitive-festival.nl)I
had the great honour of co-hosting the final Primitive festival in...
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Review: Fan Fest 2010 Review (24-25/04/10)3
months ago the London Film Museum played host to an ambitious array of
Bond girls, Bond villains, film technicians and...
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On the road and in the studio with Glassglue (myspace.com/glassglue)
On hearing that my friend
Matthew’s band Glassglue were going to do some recording in Germany
I was...
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Review : Marketing Week/Insight Show, Olympia 29-30/06/10Popped
into this ‘four shows in one’ marketing event to see what was new.
First I went into one...
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Review : Southend Film Festival April/May 2010Not
sure who reasoned that a seaside town with occasionally nice weather
might be worth holding a film festival at,...
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TV Review: The Prisoner (2009)
Caught up with the 3 starting episodes of this courtesy of my friend Tony Reeve. God knows the world needs more opportunity for paranoid self-...
Sports Review : Germany 4, England 1, 27/06/10
It was with some shock that I discovered that I was going to be in Germany during England’s world cup game against Germany. In recent years I...
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Review Double Bill: Sex and the City 1 and 2Some
people are concentrating on problems with our modern life: Are we
destroying the planet? Is there corruption in the...
That ‘short lived’ New Cross scene that helped spawn Art Brut, Bloc Party, The Violets et al with thanks to that now famous Angular Records Sampler wasnt so short lived…the media...
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Interview : The Sonics 04/04/10
After their barnstorming London gig in Great Portland Street as part of Le Beat Bespoke festival, I...
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