Pens

The Bull Pen Pep Band is a 45-member musical group that performs at all home games for the Houston Texans franchise of the National Football League. The band plays at home games and various other marketing, promotional and community outreach events sponsored by the Texans throughout the year. The band is located in the Bull Pen section of Reliant Stadium.

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Top 100 Records of 2009: 40-21
Those Darlins Here’s the next batch of our favourite albums, singles and downloads of 2009. We’re hurtling towards the top 20, as today we give you our selections from 40-21. <!--break-->   40: Yeah Yeah Yeahs - It’s blitz New York trio’s guitarless innovations strike just the right kind of chord on their third LP. Check out the Yeah...
Violent and Obscene - a tribute to GG Allin
This sounds pretty awesome - Italian Beach Babes are releasing a 7inch featuring some of the finest bands around playing GG Allin covers. There’s Male Bonding, Fair Ohs, Graffiti Island and Pens all paying tribute to the filthy individual / punk rock legend <!--break--> Stick in your pre orders at Italian Beach Babes Not sure who GG Allin was? Take this opportunity to nip...
delia's london gig guide: 24 Nov
Hmm. Tonight Alvin Stardust is playing…..verrrrrrrrrrrrrry tempting…but i think maybe Telepathe/Pens/Chew Lips are a good bet too…hmmm. hmmm. hmml pick n mix your own pops… Telepathe! <!--break--> Mon 24th Nov Lexington – Pop! Quiz! – starts 8pm - £1 per person to enter – up to 6 in a team. Not up it’s arse indie but a mix of...
Street Chant - Scream Walk video
Great vid for brilliant new single from Street Chant.  Fans of Pens & The Vivian Girls likely to be into this. <!--break--> Order your tasty split 7inch of ‘Scream Walk’ from the Cheese on Toast website Check out Street Chant on myspace
One small step for a Dude one giant leap for Dudekind
Congratulations goes out to our bro-dudes MALE BONDING for signing to SUB POP. They are a fucking amazing band who slay way hard live. Anyways high five to them. Also our good pals PENS have a sweet’n’trippy new video. They’re also about to embark on a US tour with Graffiti Island and Crocodiles. I am insanely jealous, but very happy for them. Exciting times.
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NEW DOWNLOAD: Pens - Freddy
Spent the weekend trying to find something to dislike about Pens. No dice. The London trio, on tour in California this very week, is the first band in ages to really recall the energy of early-’80s Rough Trade groups (and their ilk) without merely trying to mimic their moves—as in, they are amateurish young punks with cheap gear, but they aren’t just celebrating amateurism as...
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Pens. What can I say about PENS? I use one every day and I don’t really have any feelings or emotions for them. That was, until, I discovered a band who share the name of said writing instrument device: PENS. Now what do I think of PENS? They’re fucking awesome. Period. Consisting of 3 girls; Melia, Helen and Steff, PENS must be the first all-girl lo-fi noise power pop band I’...
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Nice bit of scuzz rock inhabiting the same segment of the audiosphere as Times New Viking and Wavves.<!--break--> Infact, Pens are doing some gigs with Wavves in February. Pens are a bit more lo fi than the two aforementioned bands - if that’s possible -  and a bit easier on the ears.  And a bit Vivian Girls. Maybe I wasn’t listening to them loud enough. Download...
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PENS - Hey Friend What You Doing?
PENS- Hey Friend What You Doing? 8/10 Charmingly ramshackle and wonderfully youthful, London trio PENS create sweet scuzz thrash punk with a psychedelic twist. Opener ‘Horsies’ will have your head spinning with its repetitive keyboard riff and elliptical vocals. Swathed in even more noise, ‘I Sing Just For You’ is a coyly sweet ode once you get used to the distortion...
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  • In Pictures: Steve Gullick retrospective

    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...

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    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...

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    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...

  • In Pictures: Best record covers 2009

    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...

  • In Pictures: Placebo

    Placebo pictures: just in - some photos of Placebo and Brian Molko from last week’s gig at the Glasgow SECC. Also check out the review here

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  • the Dirty Dishes - In the Clouds EP

    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!...

  • Turning Japanese

    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...

  • Mondrian, Cakes, Pastries and Mille-Feuille

    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...

  • EXCLUSIVE NEW DOWNLOAD: Egyptian Hip Hop - Round Pot (This is Horseflesh's Rad Pitt Reincarnation)

    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: Dedicated mp3

    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...

  • Japanese Voyeurs new single, track giveaway

    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...

  • Sissy And The Blisters, and The Folly Of Rock And Roll Adoration

    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-...

  • 2hot2sweat host Pet Sounds, give away awesome mp3

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    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,...

  • Fan Death: New EP

    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...
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