This lolloping, wide-eyed indie-rock effort, pulled from Hot Club de Paris’ new EP, has a very strange name. It has a very strange name because it tells a very strange story - that of "baritone guitarist Paul Rafferty’s scrape with the law whilst attempting the liberation of a 3 metre fibreglass Pterodactyl from a derelict fun fair," apparently. Is that strange? Or is that...
Damn near the last minute I was given a chance to attend this year’s ATP NY (I’ll be covering it for Gothamist all weekend) and I have to say I don’t think I’ve been this excited about a musical weekend in ages! With bands like The Flaming Lips, Deerhunter, and Animal Collective all on tap and crazy concoctions like Bob Mould with No Age (performing as Hüsker D...
If there has been one record making our roomates weary from repeated listens, it would be Handsome Furs’ Face Control. Drowned In Sound touches on its gothic synth-era Springsteenisms in their review today, but to ably show off the sass and songwriting these two lovebirds have put together we need some for real audio. Enter "I’m Confused," one of the album’s "...
My eyes open. Nothing. Last thing I remember I’d been in The Great Eastern off the North Lanes, Brighton and on the way to the floor, still clutching some Corn Whiskey (in the jar)and dimly remembering some kind of A Hawk And A Hacksaw accordian leanings. Now, the place is empty and in white light and on stage there’s a band that seem to be called The Burned Fuses, all dressed in...
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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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...
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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...
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...
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