If Stephen Malkmus had formed fIREHOSE with Mike Watt and George Hurley, they may have made music akin to Glasgow's COVERGIRLS. Yes, they're that good.
Fans of THE VIVIAN GIRLS would do well to check out similar yet superior home grown talent HOTPANTS ROMANCE.
Looks like SXSW has just announced a few acts that will be appearing at the 2009 Music Festival.
Hello. You don't need to know much about me, apart from I'm a music industry stooge, and I say what's on my mind. Generally about the music industry.
This one’s for you folkies out there. I was introduced to Blind Pilot this week through 3hive and I fell in love right away with the band’s genuine and mesmerizing acoustic compositions.
I've been banging on about the AVETT BROTHERS for a while. Drenched in critical acclaim and fan frenzy in the US, they remain relative unknowns in blighty. Which is a damn shame, as no one does earnest, heartfelt Americana like these guys.
Vulture cites Nancy Drew and Lewis Carroll (and the gallery’s PR name checks Hitchcock, too), but to me, Holly Andres’ Sparrow Lane photos drip with a fantastic nostalgia for suburban Cold War terror.
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ELECTRIC OWLS is a new project from Andy Herod of The Comas with contributions from members of his band, Archers of Loaf and Band of Horses. None too shabby it is too - as this mp3 from RCRDLBL will testify.
As names go, Ming Ming and the Ching Chings is pretty questionable. I think it's the fact that it manages to be similar to both The Ting Tings and Joe Lean and the Jing Jang Jong that makes it grate so.
DEMO OF THE WEEK:
THE FANCY DRESS PARTY
Rich: I think this band is the most exciting thing we've heard since we got here, including all the week's singles. It's recorded really well - obviously quite lo fi, but...
I didn't think the media's obsession with female body weight could have got much worse, when I'd been taken aback by it 12 years ago. How wrong I was.
Or, maybe I'm just more aware of what's going on...
Excellent slice of full on old school rock from The Binges. Recommended by our readers, it's now a firm favourite in the artrocker.com office.
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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...
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"...
We've cooked up 60 minutes of premium ArtROCK, with the emphasis on the rawk.
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THE COVERGIRLS
Best new band in Glasgow, by a mile!
...Francis Bacon
Any more snooker cliches?
...Q65 “Revival”
Second track sounds like a more snarly mid-60s Who. Excellent.
...Q65 “Revival”
First one sounds like Sean Ryder having a flashback but second track is a killer.
...Only By The Night
once you've drunk a bottle of Maker's Mark in Copehagen?
...Francis Bacon
The more I watch it, the more I like it.
...Only By The Night
Sex on Fire is good once you've drunk a bottle of Maker's Mark in Copenhagen
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