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Photos

  • In Pictures: Planningtorock

    PTR_mirrorhelmet.jpg Some photos of one of our favourite artrockers - Planningtorock. She’s worked and toured with The Knife and put on the best performance of anyone we saw at Barcelona’s Sonar...
  • In Pictures: Liars

    liars.jpg Liars site has a characteristically enigmatic post from Andrew Angus and speculation about a new album/the end of the band abound… "In Los Angeles…coaxing out the pearls and threading them...
  • In Pictures: Gay Against You

    gay against you.jpg Some great pictures of Glaswegian keytar playing noise-pop-midicore duo GAY AGAINST YOU consisting of Joe Howe aka GERMLIN & Lachlann Rattray aka YOKO OH NO! Total mashup caught at Club...

Have You Read?

  • Heather Mills and the Infernal Racket Radio Show

    PARSLEY'S COMMLOCK TV Review : Heather Mills:What Really Happened, C4 22/04/08 Heather Mills is amazing. From what I learned in this programme she actually managed to make me feel sorry for multi-millionaire Paul McCartney. A friend of hers reported that...
  • THE MACCABEES demo kitchen

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    THE MACCABEES UNSIGNED ACT OF THE DAY: THE SHAME

    FELIX: Orlando has some kind words for this band.

    ORLANDO: Yes I do! i thought it was pretty good. I'm not usually into screamo, but this one sounds pretty good.

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  • Alfonzo's Demo Kitchen VIII: hosted by Davros

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  • Bullying at work, and Newsnight on the Archbishop of Canterbury

    PARSLEY'S COMMLOCK Employment Law: Bullying at work Recently I've had cause to help someone with their complaint of bullying in the workplace. I have to say that it has been a very demoralising experience for me. ...
  • Delia's Gig Guide: 10 December

    Monday 10th December Bush Hall – Noah & th eWale KCLSU – Future Of The Left Notting Hill Arts club – Piney Gri’s Country roadshow, Galias’ Dad The Forum – Sun 0))) And Boris, Earth ...
  • COCKSUCKER BLUES REVIEWED

    cocksucker1.jpgWe don’t exactly tend to ‘do’ nostalgia at artrocker.com, but the other day a strange thing happened. A man wearing a horses head knocked on our door, and dropped off a mysterious DVD. We cautiously unravelled it, only to...
  • Delia's gig guide: 17th Feb

    Sunday Feb 17th Amersham Arms – Beans on toast, eliza dolittle, dan smith, devin tuffy 100 club – hatcham social, neil’s children, electricity in our homes, scum Mon Feb 18th ...
  • New CD by The Masonics & St Pancras International station

    PARSLEY'S COMMLOCK CD Review : Royal and Ancient - The Masonics (Circle Records) If you like your drum kits Ludwig, your guitars Burns, and your amplifiers Vox AC30's, then this rock & roll album is going to be a sure-fire...

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  • Broke Down Turntable: Ask A Policeman

    Quick. Name a band from the Isle of Man. Situated in the Irish Sea between Eire and the UK the island is mostly know for its furry mouse eating...
  • Proper Songs Podcast #003

    1. Alela Diane ‘White Diamonds’ (MP3) 2. Woman ‘Black Rice’ (MP3) 3. Morton Valence ‘Falling Down The Stairs’ 4. Dark Captain Light Captain ‘Robot Command Centre’ 5. North Sea...
  • blog radio :: most likely to succeed 2K9

    For today’s special edition of Blog Radio, Sirius asked us to count down the top 5 artists that we think are most likely to succeed in 2009. Of course,...
  • Welcome To The Future - It's 2009

    The Devil wishes all his readers a Happy and Independent New Year. And what better way to see the new year in than a glass of something alcoholic, a...
  • The Leaf Library : New Year

    The Leaf Library ‘New Year’ Free MP3 download from Soundcloud | Myspace | Direct download The Leaf Library started out in Reading in 2004 after the demise of guitarist...
  • i (heart) these songs

    download all the pretty songs in a zip file: A.M. 180: top 30 tracks of 2008 get them while they’re hot (or, you know, before they get deleted) 30 Jeremy...
  • Mayors of Miyazaki

    Excellent puzzle rock for people who like their angles acute.  Mayors of Mikazaki do the mathS and get an A++.  Sadly, I can’t tip them as ones to watch...
  • Should Auld Acquaintance Be Forgot

    Gallops Genre: Other / Experimental From: Wales, United Kingdom Credit where credits due. The Devil has been a critic of the NME for, among other things, promoting the likes...
  • Actor/Model

    Ride Your Bike Into Town With Camp A Low Hum 2009 boasting 20+ bands from across the ditch, there’s a slight Australian invasion happening towards the end of January/early...
  • Flailing Uterus

    This Missouri scuzz-punk two-piece is an arresting mish mash of influences that will grab your attention instantly. Their emphatic, shouty vocals bring to mind Auckland’s The Bemsha Swing, while...

Blogs

  • Wildlife: EXTINCTION: RIP Ron Asheton

    All of Pinter’s christmases came at once, possibly, in 2008. He couldn’t have left us on a more fitting day. Early January 2009 seems far less fitting for a founding member of The Stooges, but alas, so it has come...
  • New Favourite Band: Mayors of Miyazaki

    Excellent puzzle rock for people who like their angles acute.  Mayors of Mikazaki do the mathS and get an A++.  Sadly, I can’t tip them as ones to watch in 2009, as it looks like they’ve split up.  Or...
  • Parsley's Commlock: Dorothy Padilla and Wall-E

    PARSLEY’S COMMLOCK Hero of the week: Dorothy Padilla My Aunt Dorothy died last week and I was catapulted over to California for her funeral. She was a remarkable woman. During the war she looked after her younger brothers Reg and Sid...
  • Surplus To Requirement: Surplus To Requirement: The Top 10 List of Top Album Lists of 2008

    The Top 5 Top Albums of 2008 Because it’s that time of year, when every publication suddenly decides it has listened to every record worth listening to and compiles them into a numerical list of cultural impact and importance, it seems...
  • History of Art(rock) 1a: An Apology/Seasons Greetings

    Hello, just a wee note to say that the next blog is in the process of being written. I want it to be as well put together as possibleand researched properely, and I’m afraid of not had a lot of...
  • Parsley's Commlock: Edward Scissorhands, Mel Winning and Simon Dee

    PARSLEY’S COMMLOCK Theatre Review : Edward Scissorhands, Sadler’s Wells Continued my Tim Burton education with a trip to Sadler’s Wells for a musical adaptation of Edward Scissorhands. I hadn’t seen the film so I thought it would be interesting to see...
  • Surplus To Requirement: Surplus To Requirement: Musicians Don't Like The Independence They Fought For

    Musicians – you need to get a real job. Sorry. I thought you already knew this? Didn’t you realise that you’ve got it SO much better than anyone before you? Do you think home recording was even possible a few...
  • Wildlife: Wildlife Conservation: Survival

    It’s a jungle out there for musicians. Even if you aren’t being stabbed on stage for playing badly, by your own band mate, you still have a struggle for survival on your hands. A struggle that stretches far beyond...
  • New Favourite Band: Top 5 artrock bands in Indonesia - guest post by Ababil Ashari

    Hi! I’m Indonesian! ^^; Here are our Top 5 Bands + Shorthand Phonetics! by Ababil Ashari Hey, so funny story. I sent this lovely site a press release concerning my new, free awesome, awesome, awesome, FREE, awesome awesome, http://www.yesnowave.com/albums/yesno022.htm awesome, AWESOME,...
  • Parsley's Commlock: Glassglue CD, and the Oberoi Mumbai

    PARSLEY'S COMMLOCK Concert/CD Review : Glassglue - Tate Britain, if I were the sky right now c/w spiral stair Months ago I stopped off at an evening opening of Tate Britain to watch my friend Matthew's band Glassglue in a...