DaveArtrocker
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This
is a good idea.
I read the title
of this article, and thought Scottish band The Kaisers were touring. Which made me think:
a) Yipee!
b) Odd that this is getting a mention on DiS home page
If
this record gets even close to the sheer awesomeness of Tres Hombres, it will be album of the year hands down.
I hope it does...
"Diddley doting heyday" is a truly shit description of that record by the way.
boring
Don't they just sound like the boring bits of Black Mountain songs?
Give me Blitzen Trapper over these chaps any day.
Good beards though.
I edit artrocker.com
and I found Tom's editorial in the magainze embarrassing. To be honest.
We're a 'broad church', to borrow a cliche, so it's his own opinion. But it did seem astonishingly luddite, and a bit unnecessary.
I also think it was ludicrous to stop publishing Delia's column - which is the reason I started reading artrocker in the first place, back in the day of the original mailout.
Those site stat figures are wrong by the way - we don't participate in that scheme, and they say themselves that they have 'little data' about us. Our figures aren't amazing, but they're better than what is reported there.
Plus, I enjoy reading DiS. When I've posted, I've generally had some positive and encouraging comments, rather than just bitchy crap.

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I'm glad this album made the RT 50
Because it is very very fine indeed.