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Lou Reed's Metal Machine Trio: European Tour
photo: © Amy-Beth McNeely   It’s was the ultimate fuck you statement when Lou Reed handed his mastertapes of Metal Machine Music to his record company - four sidedsof noise that was released on a gatefold vinyl double LP. The album disappeared within weeks after its release, but proved to be highly influential. Ulrich Krieger, member of the Berlin avant-garde ensemble...
Call Of The Wyld: Live Review Of The Year - 2009
The Farrs - Band Of The YearAs ever it has been a busy year. Many gigs attended, many strange sights seen. Most of it has been documented on this site, but incredibly, some of it hasn’t, such as a breathtaking show by The Decemberists at the Forum.The band played their ‘Hazards of Love’ album in full, with guest vocalists, a version of ‘The Rakes’ Song battered out on five drumkits, and even the...
Yearner Babies, Narration, Kaputt, Sketches - Upstairs at Garage, 5 November 2009
        This is a guest review from Clive, one of the Call Of the Wyld regulars. The views expressed are his own, but ones that I am happy to endorse. "I’m off to see Kaputt, as apart from them being one of my favourite bands over the last few years I bumped into lead singer Silke at the weekend and promised to see her at their next gig. This is the third time at...
It’s not for the cock, it’s for some artists…
Not content with eating cheese and doing the washing up, my Christmas holidays have already led me to write a blog post on a couple of bands and artists I’ve been sweating happiness over recently. These guys aren’t particularly new and have no real string of affiliation connecting them, other than they’re all absolutely fantastic and should get on with 2010 like a house on fire...
ANBAD = Santa: Betty Steeles
More Christmas joy of the traditional, tinkly sing-song type today, from London songstress Betty Steeles. Naturally, that doesn’t mean that it’s some sort of Bing Crosby snooze-fest, but is in fact - whisper it - a lo-fi/lo-tech mash-up (indeed) of What A Wonderful World and a song of her own making. Don’t let the M-word put you off: it’s an undeniably curious treat....
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Ones To Watch In 2010 - Part Two
Tonights post is the second of the Devil’s two part predictions of the bands and artists who will breakthrough in 2010. In no particular order the Devil’s second set of tips for 2010 are… Spirit Spine From: Bloomington, Indiana, United States Blissed out looped and layered experimental post-pop from the one man psych machine Spirit Spine. A likely candidate for global...
Fervours (Passion Play)
Fervours Genre: Alternative / Rock From: London, United Kingdom Hailing from Blur’s old stomping ground of Colchester and with a lead singer that looks like Jarvis Cocker’s younger brother I was kinda expecting Fervours to be a sardonic son of britpop type of band. I couldn’t have been more wrong....
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...
Ones To Watch In 2010 - Part One
Predictions of who will make it big are always liable to provide a journalist with more egg on face than Humpty Dumpty’s renologist. The history of music is littered with band’s who were destined for greatness and disappeared without leaving so much as a smudge on the window of the music world. It’s even harder for bloggers like the Devil because, by our very nature, we deal...
Wild Palms
Heretic Descendant Taking cues from The Fall and Bauhaus, London’s Wild Palms are rendering a new strain of aggressive, post-industrial postpunk. Their trademark staunch, mechanical bass and guitar scrape away any superfluous decorations for a suitably dreary, industrialised sound. Wild Palms have been touted as a band to watch by NME, and listening to their debut single, the oddly...
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The Twilight Sad, London Scala - 29/10/2009
Having been at Kings Cross’ Scala just two days previous for what may have been the most fun gig of the year (Dananananaykroyd), it was a strange feeling to be returning knowing that the bands of the evening were of a considerably more depressing nature. I knew it would be a strange contrast, but it would be worth it; though melancholic, The Twilight Sad’s use of layer and texture...
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The Veils - Sun Gangs The third full-length from the Veils finds the band progressing from its folk-influenced beginnings to something comfortably bigger, as if writing anthems was never a stated goal, just an organic consequence. The brains behind the London-based crew is Finn Andrews (son of XTC’s Barry Andrews), who has an uncommonly good voice—versatile enough to sound natural...
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...
Camden: then and now
It was the Camden Crawl at the weekend. I wasn’t much interested in this year’s festival, but it’s the perfect time to mention a CD I found the other day when clearing out a bunch of old stuff. The free Camden Crawl compilation from 1997. Things were different then. No big-name headliners. No cider sponsorship or BBC backing. No long queues to get into venues. Just a...
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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...

  • In Pictures: Tune-Yards, Trash Kit and Think about Life

    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...

  • In Pictures: Worst Record Covers of the Year

    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

    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...

  • RCRD OF THE DAY: Hot Chip - Take It In

    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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