We've cooked up 60 minutes of premium ArtROCK, with the emphasis on the rawk. The first artrocker.com podcast features tracks by Cut Off Your Hands, Besnard Lakes, Grates, Benji Hughes, Mojomatics,... ++MORE++
Excellent track from their excellent new (to the UK) album Forts (released this week, expect review here soon). More urban than their previous Amish-core offerings, this tune thumps along like a p... ++MORE++
Crank up your broadband connection and prepare to download this enormous and quite excellent mp3 from Envelopes. It's from a mixtape - Soup of Germs - that was given away at recent UK gigs. It's p... ++MORE++
The Be Be See give us 'Artmocker' as promised in the current edition of the mag. " Our agenda is to make people dance, think, fight, fuck, laugh and cry" they say. All at the same time?
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Killer blast of pop punk from Auckland's The Sneaks. Stephen Malkmus has left Pavement, recruited Mike Watt on bass, written some songs with Rivers Cuomo and formed The Sneaks. That's what it sou... ++MORE++
Weren't Nelson a soft rock band of the 80s? Am I confused? No matter. Luckily for you guys, this Nelson is a a spry Paris quartet who've provided us with a top notch slice of Joy Division/Animal... ++MORE++
I love this tune. Like Jason Lowenstein fronting The Thermals covering Sweet Jane, with Steve Albini at the controls. In their blurb, they state "we play with passion, and that's all that matters... ++MORE++
The Bumps come highly recommended in the latest Alfonzo Demo Kitchen column. They're rated 'LCD laced sugar cubes' by the moustachioed culinary one. Sounds like slinky farfisa garage pop to me - ... ++MORE++
Uber cool lo-fi drone rocking from ex-Electric Shocks two piece The Deathline. Here's what London Particular had to say about them...
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Fantastic rendition of Stones classic by artrocking pioneer Patti Smith, whose voice sounds as good as ever on this track. It's from a forthcoming album of covers called 'Twelve' which has more gu... ++MORE++
The newest sounds as heard in the Artrocker Office and our Resonance FM podcast.
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