Those Dancing Days, Metronomy, Blood Red Shoes and more / Singles for the week beginning July 7!

Cryogenically frozen for a thousand years, Mat Beal wakes up in the year 2008 to discover a musical world gone insane. Can he recapture the past to save the future? Only one man knows: him! Step this way for his review of this week's singles...

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BIFFY CLYRO / Singles 2001-2005

Rory Carroll takes a trip through the secret history of Scotland's Biffy Clyro, whose early releases are charted here in all their speed-grunge glory...

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GRAMERCY ARMS / Gramercy Arms

It's supergroup time in New York, as Nada Surf, Joan As A Policewoman, Guided By Voices and multiple others hop into the pot and stew their juices together. But you know what they say about too many cooks? Emily Kendrick reviews...

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SIGUR ROS

Steven Belfrage reports from the surreal confines of Westminster Central Hall, where the "battle drums" of Icelandic cinema-rockers Sigur Ros are threatening to collapse the ceilings...

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THE SUGARS / The Curse Of the Sugars

Sam Crawford is the essence of the diplomatic critic as he delicately tells us why the new record from The Sugars is a little bit pants - despite it's diverse take on White Stripes style blues...

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Win tickets to the Mighty Boosh festival

We have two tickets to give away to the very fine sounding Mighty Boosh festival. But you have to be quick - it's on Saturday.

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NEW RHODES

Bristolian four piece New Rhodes are taking their cue from The Smiths to show how they're planning to escape the dreaded 'second album syndrome'. Maria Le Frink was at their recent London show to report...

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GLASTONBURY 2008 - PART ONE

Our armpits smell like barbecue sauce, our beards have grown over our eyes, and our legs feel like they've been amputated. That's right - Artrocker.com has been at Glastonbury, and now we must suffer the consequences. But fear not! Because you can read all about it - sans post festival trauma - here!

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GLASTONBURY 2008 - PART TWO

The madness continues, with reviews of Los Campesinos, Alphabeat, Leonard Cohen - and the seagull attack on Neil Diamond's audience!

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VILE IMBECILES + AWESOME COLOUR

Tabby Kinder brings us this report from Brighton, where the sinister "death jazz" of Vile Imbeciles is infiltrating the minds of innocents...

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