Artrocker start the year at break-neck pace with a whole week of gigs presenting a selection of some of the bands most likely to be causing a stir in the underground scene and most likely to ‘break out’ of the underground at some point in 2009.

In previous years, the ARTROCKER ANNUAL Festival has presented the likes of Good Shoes, Bombay Bicycle Club, The Maccabees, Young Knives, Ipso Facto, Foals, So So Modern, Hot Club De Paris, Johnny Foreigner, Art Brut, Thomas Tantrum amongst many others.

Artrocker checks the pulse of the underground and finds it to be alive and kicking hard.

6 nights of unmissable new-ness from the Smiths pop of Official Secrets Act to Darkrock’s S.C.U.M and noise-rock riff monsters Pulled Apart by Horses end in celebratory style with

 
New York’s influentially noisy ‘No Wave’ music scene is thought to have been named, at least in part, in rejection and mockery of the ‘New Wave’ pop that was pushed on them by the media of the time.
 
Therefore, if the NME’s past genre inventions were to be taken seriously, would that mean that Kasms and S.C.U.M etcetera should be referred to as ‘No Rave’?

The Maurice Einhardt Neu Gallery is proud to present ‘SEEN:’ (Curated by Sean McLusky & Martin J Tickner.)

Each Thursday throughout the month of November, the now talent from music and art (including artistes du jour S.C.U.M) will collaborate on a series of

Here’s two great ways to spend your evening tonight.

1/ Head to Soho for White Heat and catch one of our favourite bands, ULTERIOR, fresh from their support slot at the Astoria on Saturday. Here’s what White Heat have to say about it…

“So we booked Le Tetsuo but then hit a bit of a blank and Faris was all like ‘I’ll sort out some