Album, Single & Live Reviews

Album reviews, singles reviews and live reviews from Artrocker Magazine.

Singles for the week starting 3 October!
The Unkindness of Ravens, Clock Opera and more feature in this week's singles!
Filed at 5.35am on 03 October 11 in Single Reviews
Woven Bird @ Pop, Southampton
Andy-Lloyd Williams gets off on the unconventional but riveting indie of newcomers Woven Bird...
Filed at 10.51am on 29 September 11 in Live Reviews | By Andy Lloyd-Williams
Zola Jesus @ Toynbee Hall, Aldgate
Nervous but confrontational, heralded but playing a small venue, Zola Jesus makes for an interesting bunch of contradictions as she launches her third album, writes Steph Kretowicz...
Filed at 15.08pm on 28 September 11 in Live Reviews | By Steph Kretowicz
Boom Bip / Zig Zaj
Cindy Suzuki salutes the exotic textures and multiple impressive guest stars of the new Boom Bip album...
Filed at 11.43am on 27 September 11 in Album Reviews
The Whip / Wired Together
The Whip have fulfilled their promise with a new album of slam-dunk electro classics, writes Rory Carroll..
Filed at 11.37am on 27 September 11 in Album Reviews | By Rory Carroll
Keith Top of the Pops / Fuck You! I’m Keith Top of the Pops
Ric Rawlins investigates the greatest B-list all star indie band of all time!
Filed at 7.44am on 26 September 11 in Album Reviews
Singles for the week starting 26 September!
S.C.U.M kick up a disco groove while John Cale gets extra playful in this week's singles!
Filed at 7.34am on 26 September 11 in Single Reviews
Iceage @ Islington Mill, Salford
Denmark's latest exports Iceage are delivering the avant-punk in Manchester - but will Samuel Breen be impressed?
Filed at 7.51am on 17 September 11 in Live Reviews | By Sam Breen
Shambala Festival 2011
Shambala might be family friendly, but as Nick Holder reports, the 'other' secret garden party is also a communal blitz of music and psychedelic theatre...
Filed at 8.06am on 16 September 11 in Live Reviews | By Nick Holder
Singles for the week starting 12 September!
Mogwai return to deliver their Earth Division EP this week, while Cymbals Eat Guitars are serving up the slacker rock...
Filed at 8.19am on 13 September 11 in Single Reviews

In The Magazine

ARTROCKER MAGAZINE ISSUE 118 - ON SALE NOW!

We celebrate one of our all-time fave bands and Artrocker friends The Black Keys with an exclusive interview, photos by the legendary Gavin Watson AND a look back at their first-ever cover feature from 2004! Also: The KLF revisited! New photos, new interviews, new mysteries! PLUS - We chat with the top 10 invading Maccabees, while Atari Teenage Riot bring on the revolution - AND Over 100 records reviewed!