Album, Single & Live Reviews

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

The Savage Nomads @ Original Penguin, Stratford
Liam Lidbetter catches Artrocker New Blood winners The Savage Nomads as they hook, riff and kick their way into people's affections...
Filed at 9.49am on 26 October 11 in Live Reviews | By Liam Lidbetter
Heaven 17 @ The Roundhouse, Camden
Liam Lidbetter reports from the Camden Roundhouse, where Heaven 17 are spanning two evenings and opening the classic songbook up to interpretation...
Filed at 12.30pm on 25 October 11 in Live Reviews | By Liam Lidbetter
Singles for the Week starting 24 October!
Tribes, The Leisure Society and Beaty Heart come in for scrutiny in this week's singles roundup...
Filed at 10.23am on 24 October 11 in Single Reviews
Gary Numan / Dead Son Rising
Gary Numan has delivered one of the great conceptual dystopian rock albums of all time, according to conceptual dystopian rock expert Ric Rawlins
Filed at 10.19am on 24 October 11 in Album Reviews | By Ric Rawlins
Reeperbahn Festival 2011
Sam Breen investigates the fight for the soul of Germany's red light district, with a rock festival providing some handy metaphors...
Filed at 9.45am on 24 October 11 in Live Reviews | By Sam Breen
Spectrals @ The Water Rats, London
Rory Carroll dons his bow tie for the 1950s high school prom, as Spectrals - aka Louis Jones - bring their retro Americana to London
Filed at 12.49pm on 20 October 11 in Live Reviews | By Rory Carroll
Bombay Bicycle Club @ 02 Academy, Birmingham
We sent Artrocker competition winner Brit Dawson down to witness Bombay Bicycle Club mania in Birmingham, and here are her findings!
Filed at 10.59am on 17 October 11 in Live Reviews | By Brit Dawson
True Widow, Teeth of the Sea, Lasers From Atlantis @ NHS, The Macbeth
LP Lovecraftian space rock and flaming bass grooves await Ric Rawlins as he steps into London's New Heavy Sounds club...
Filed at 9.42am on 17 October 11 in Live Reviews | By Ric Rawlins
The Bristol Reggae Explosion 2: The 1980s
Mark Cousens heads for the west country circa thirty years ago, to discover a little-known but fully blossoming reggae scene...
Filed at 8.59am on 17 October 11 in Album Reviews | By Mark Cousens
Pepe Deluxe, Bombay Bicycle Club & more: Singles for the week starting 17 October
Pepe Deluxe lead this week's singles review with "the most preposterous song ever conceived"...
Filed at 8.47am on 17 October 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!