MUSIC IS EXCITING, ISN’T IT?
Being on tour for a while makes you forget how fantastic music is. Going to your own shows becomes a strange ritual where you are flung head-first into a vat of Groundhog Day familiarity, emerging a few hours later with a glaze of confusable goo lining the inside of your clothing.
So, last week I went to some ‘live gigs’ and listened to some records...
Sky Larkin - Antibodies from Sky Larkin on Vimeo.
It took me a little while to come around to Sky Larkin’s debut album The Golden Spike. Perhaps it was being a little too familiar with a bunch of the songs, or that the production was rather more polished than on anything they had done previously. Time has worked in it’s favour though, and it now feels like a record that will...
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1. Mr Russia - It’s True (Lens)
Mr Russia are neither a man or hail from the former Soviet Union. In fact they are just three blokes from Chicago who happen to have made a bloody good record. The bands debut album is called "Teething" and will be released on 14th February.
2. Little Comets - One Night In October (Lucky Number)
This is a track from the Newcastle...
Venue:
Brixton Windmill
Teaser:
Beware the moon, my pretties! Sky Larkin are playing the Brixton Windmill - but their drummer is morphing into a strange beast. Don Blandford packs the silver bullets…
Pull quote 2:
Nestor’s been mouthing the lyrics throughout the set - possibly as an incantation to enslave the innocent Campesinos fans…
First para:
Blame...
Venue:
Hill Farm, Oxfordshire
Teaser:
It was flooded, cancelled, and rescheduled - but Truck Festival has bounced back with an unparalleled cast of stunning new bands. In what must be the last festival of the season (surely!) Don Blandford and Sally Saveall bring us these words and pictures…
Pull quote 2:
Some fella had his locks shorn on stage during The Electric Soft...
Band name:
Asobi Seksu, Lightspeed Champion, The Mitchell Brothers and more
Label:
various coolio schmoolios
Teaser:
Japanese space monsters! Garage Rock apocalypse! Messages to aliens! Messages to Michael Jackson! The Age Of Aquarius reimagined! If only real life were as exciting as this week’s singles, reviewed by Ric Rawlins…
Pull quote 2:
It would make a...
Venue:
The Spitz
Teaser:
Wyldman catches a triple bill of new rock n roll at the Spitz, headlined by a refreshingly enthusiastic “seven piece explosion of a band from Cardiff”…
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they are just so gosh golly delighted to be here and playing to an adoring audience that their enthusiasm brooks all criticism
First para:
The one who catches...
"You only get to appreciate what you do when you're not doing it," says bassist Rob Canning, slurping on a tea. "and now we're back, we're buzzing to go."
PART ONE: WELCOME TO 2008
ARTROCKER:...
To all of those who jumped for joy, and a little bit of shock when they heard that Future Of The Left might be supporting Biffy Clyro on their UK tour later on this year, Falco of ‘the Left...
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Concert Review : Mark Mathews and the One T's, Clapham Grand, 07/08/08
My good friend Kieron of The Dilemmas tempted me south of the river to experience singer/songwriter Mark...
Tip Toe Records are releasing an excellent limited edition CD compilation, with only 200 copies being pressed. It’s got a fetching brown cardboard sleeve and is jam packed with indie goodness...
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Obituary News : Rick Wright
Rick Wright a.k.a. Richard Wright was the delicately spoken keyboard player with The Pink Floyd Sound. In 1978 the first keyboard I ever bought was the...
So I tried really hard not to mention the Kanye West / Taylor Swift incident, what with the whole debacle being adequately covered elsewhere - and the both of them being a bit shit. But when...
Legendary rock photographer Steve Gullick has a retrospective at Manchester’s KRAAK Gallery running from March 12th til March 27th, featuring shots taken for NME and Melody Maker as well as his...
To accompany the review of Tune-yards’ Monday gig at Cargo, a few tasty shots of Think about Life, Trash Kit and New England native Merrill Garbus aka tUnE-yArDs.
Read the review of the night...
We have collected some truly heinous examples of recent album covers, from Empire Of The Sun’s Star Wars travesty to the banal evil that is Razorlight’s Slipway Fire. Discretionary...
Album art in this gallery was selected based on several simple traits: strong concept, fine graphics including creative typography and general lushness. The first three of ‘The Best Record...
Ahhhh. I love this.
When Jenny Tuite of the Dirty Dishes emailed us at Artrocker.com, there was no extended press drivel or desperate pleadings for promotion, just a simple "Hey there!...
The Japanese War Effort
From: Scotland, United Kingdom
The Japanese War Effort is a one man band, based in Edinburgh. Martin Moog (surely an adopted name otherwise baby he was born to moog...
There’s a tiny town to the north-east of Paris called Peronne.
It’s in the Somme, so it rains a lot, and both the buildings and surrounding countryside are deeply gashed with marks from...
According to This is Horseflesh (the nom de guerre of Egyptian Hip Hop drummer Alex Pierce) this fantastic ‘reincarnation’ of the band’s own "Rad Pitt" was written to...
Bromheads are continuing their free monthly download singles with a genius reworking of ‘Dedicated to the One I Love’, a song made famous by the Shirelles.
Unsubtle mix tape...
If Wyldman’s recent live review has picqued your interest in Japanese Voyeurs, then you might be interested in their free download track ‘Dumb’. They’re biffing it out...
Forming a rock ‘n’ roll band is one of the more deceptive and fickle actions a group of young men (and it’s almost always young men) can take. It seems so easy: get a self-...
Fantastic electro punkers 2hot2sweat are hosting a new club on Weds 17th Feb at The Social. They promise "A night of animal themed musical mayhem" so appropriately, the night is...
Though it’s slotted last on their new album, One Life Stand, "Take It In" is really Hot Chip at their most essential and distilled–re-contextualizing incredibly intimate,...
The Art Of Confusion
After gushing over Dandi Wind for a very long time I’m only just getting into Fan Death, Dandilion Wind Opaine’s other notable musical project in collaboration...
Not content with sitting on their laurels after we awarded them our number 1 record of 2009 for Ballin Outrageous, The Zookeepers have returned to the studio and biffed out another LP. Holy shit....
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Review : Omen night at the West London Fantasy Film Society 04/02/10I
was back as my brother’s guest at this tiny cinema for enthusiasts of
an old style cinema...
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Technology News: iPad
Two days before the iPad launch, Bill Gates (former chief mekon on Microsoft) was on The Daily Show to promote his charitable work. It was a rather dry...
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Film Review : OSS 117: Rio ne répond plus (Rio doesn’t answer a.k.a. Lost In Rio)
Legendary Mondo Enduro motorbiking mainstay Austin Vince invited several of us...
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Film Review : Molière
Much to my surprise over Christmas I discovered that you can now watch films again on BBC iPlayer. I guess when the beeb buys films now...
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Film Review: Belle de jour (Buñuel)
Gradually moving through the Luis Buñuel box set I arrived at this legendary sexual fantasy film from 1967....
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TV
News: Stephanie Beacham on Celebrity Big BrotherI
confess I was interested to see who was on Celebrity Big Brother, as
my mother watches it avidly, and it’s being...
Nice Nice are currently giving away downloads of their new EP, before its physical release on 26 November.
It’s a fantastic single. The A-side ‘One Hit’ sounds like a kind of...
Vienna Ditto have already got attention from the likes of Huw Stevens, Tom Robinson and er.. the makers of Hollyoaks. Listening to their debut single ‘Long way down’ it’s easy to...
Florida band Surfer Blood seem to be getting a lot of hype at the moment - but from what I’ve heard, it’s well deserved.
They make classic American pop - a kind of shimmery wall of...
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