Street Chant
So here is our top 20 records of 2009 list. I use the word ‘genius’ a lot on this page, but I’m not going to apologise for it. Because it all is.
=20: Todd - Riot Season
Brilliant, complex and joyous ear-battering LP from Todd. A noise lasagne - layers of brutal sound served up with a special sauce of audio surprises. Plus they...
I loved the Chickenhawk track on the latest Dance To the Radio EP and this download from their self titled debut proves it was no fluke. ‘Bottle Rocket’ is from the Chickenhawk album released in 2008 on Sound Devastation and it kicks equal amounts of rock arse.The riffing is immaculate, hairs on the back of the neck stuff, and the track packs the same kind of punch as...
Chickenhawk, pic by Danny North. Now that’s the kind of expression you want from a lead guitarist.
Chickenhawk rule the roost on the latest in Dance To The Radio’s excellent 4x12 series. Kicking off the a-side, this Leeds 4 piece excite the metal tastebuds with a fat riff sandwich of a tune. It’s feisty, it’s shreddy but clichés are avoided. There some...
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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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...
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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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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...
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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,...
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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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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...
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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