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Hold Your Horse Is - You Show Up Digital Single Released 12th July
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...
Delay Trees - Cassette 2010 Free Single Download
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...
RCRD OF THE DAY: Crocodiles - Sleep Forever
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...
PREMIERE: White Ring - Suffocation (Los Campesinos! Remix)
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...
Unsigned Band Spotlight: Pop Fosters
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...

William Shatner sings 'Common People', more NHS, Personal Video Recorder (PVR), and Economic Recession Analysis
PARSLEY'S COMMLOCK 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...
The state we're in
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...
Dezerter at the Underworld
PARSLEY'S COMMLOCK 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...

In Pictures: backstage with Pulled Apart by Horses
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...
In Pictures: The Black Keys at London Roundhouse
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...
In Pictures: Dot To Dot Festival 2010
Leah Mason. Photo: © Geoff Kirby Latest pictures from Dot To Dot 2010 Festival in Bristol, Nottingham and Manchester. The Dot To Dot Festival covers cutting edge indie, rock, dance and pop...
In Pictures: Patti Smith at Union Chapel
Patti Smith with Patrick Wolf and Seb Rochford played in London at Union Chapel.
In Pictures: Hinterland Festival 2010
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...

Parsley's Commlock: Primitive Festival Volume 7, Rotterdam
PARSLEY’S COMMLOCKFestival Review: Primitive Festival Volume 7, 02-06/06/10, Rotterdam Holland (www.primitive-festival.nl)I had the great honour of co-hosting the final Primitive festival in...
Parsley's Commlock: Fanfest 2010
PARSLEY’S COMMLOCK Event 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...
Parsley's Commlock: On the road and in the studio with Glassglue
PARSLEY’S COMMLOCKDiary: 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...
Parsley's Commlock: Marketing Week/Insight Show and Mary Portas, Queen of Shops
PARSLEY’S COMMLOCK Show 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...
Parsley's Commlock: Southend Film Festival 2010 and Bobby Jo's 50's diner
PARSLEY’S COMMLOCK Festival 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,...
Parsley's Commlock: The Prisoner (2009)
PARSLEY’S COMMLOCK 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-...
Parsley's Commlock: kobietanawyspie.com and England lose to Germany without penalties
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...
Parsley's Commlock: Sex And The City 1 and 2
PARSLEY’S COMMLOCK Film 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...
Spoon of Music: South London Spotlight: New Cross
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...
Parsley's Commlock: Commlock Special : The Sonics - 2 of 2 : Interview
PARSLEY’S COMMLOCK SPECIAL - THE SONICS #2 OF 2 Interview : The Sonics 04/04/10 After their barnstorming London gig in Great Portland Street as part of Le Beat Bespoke festival, I...

Venue: Victoria Park, London Teaser: Don Blandford reports on the BNP slaughtering event in East London. He’s obviously a bit tempted to take the piss out of Hard Fi, but something tells him that there’s a deeper meaning to the day… First para: Thirty years ago a group of gobby punks stuck two fingers up to the National Front and decided to have a party in...

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Hold Your Horse Is - You Show Up Digital Single Released 12th July

Delay Trees - Cassette 2010 Free Single Download

RCRD OF THE DAY: Crocodiles - Sleep Forever

PREMIERE: White Ring - Suffocation (Los Campesinos! Remix)

Unsigned Band Spotlight: Pop Fosters

Have You Read?

William Shatner sings 'Common People', more NHS, Personal Video Recorder (PVR), and Economic Recession Analysis

The state we're in

Dezerter at the Underworld

Photos

In Pictures: backstage with Pulled Apart by Horses

In Pictures: The Black Keys at London Roundhouse

In Pictures: Dot To Dot Festival 2010

In Pictures: Patti Smith at Union Chapel

In Pictures: Hinterland Festival 2010

Blogs

Parsley's Commlock: Primitive Festival Volume 7, Rotterdam

Parsley's Commlock: Fanfest 2010

Parsley's Commlock: On the road and in the studio with Glassglue

Parsley's Commlock: Marketing Week/Insight Show and Mary Portas, Queen of Shops

Parsley's Commlock: Southend Film Festival 2010 and Bobby Jo's 50's diner

Parsley's Commlock: The Prisoner (2009)

Parsley's Commlock: kobietanawyspie.com and England lose to Germany without penalties

Parsley's Commlock: Sex And The City 1 and 2

Spoon of Music: South London Spotlight: New Cross

Parsley's Commlock: Commlock Special : The Sonics - 2 of 2 : Interview

THE VIEW

THE VIEW Reviews

Follow us on twitter here

Most read

Todays Top Bands

Top 5 Downloads

Have You Read?

Photos

Blogs

Parsley's Commlock: Primitive Festival Volume 7, Rotterdam

Parsley's Commlock: Fanfest 2010

Parsley's Commlock: On the road and in the studio with Glassglue

Parsley's Commlock: Marketing Week/Insight Show and Mary Portas, Queen of Shops

Parsley's Commlock: Southend Film Festival 2010 and Bobby Jo's 50's diner

Parsley's Commlock: The Prisoner (2009)

Parsley's Commlock: kobietanawyspie.com and England lose to Germany without penalties

Parsley's Commlock: Sex And The City 1 and 2

Spoon of Music: South London Spotlight: New Cross

Parsley's Commlock: Commlock Special : The Sonics - 2 of 2 : Interview

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