“we don’t necessarily want to play an hour of two-minute songs. it’s exhausting for the band and it’s exhausting for the audience as well. it got to the point that if we needed to play for an hour at a festival we’d be playing 23 songs which is just… that’s how many songs radiohead plays when I go and see them for two and a half hours...”
More / (20.08.10)
“there are moments where my nerves are gone and all i am is grateful, but there are times too when i can’t help it and it just catches up with me...”
More / (15.07.10)
“when we started it seemed positively revolutionary to want to make indie rockers dance, now it seems a bit... i don't know, i certainly don't wanna read an interview with some indie rockers banging on about wanting to make people dance...”
More / (22.06.10)
“we wanted to create something that would be as powerful as a beyonce song on pop radio..”
More / (31.03.10)
as part of ‘rfbx’ – rockfeedback’s 10th birthday celebrations, continuing all september – we’ve commissioned a host of great musicians to contribute to our ‘it’s genius, i swear’ column, offering insights in to their favourite obscure or underrated records. we start with paul smith of maximo park’s eulogising of pullman’s ‘turnstiles and junkpiles’, a coming together of members of tortoise and slint for a record of acoustic guitar instrumentals.
More / (02.09.10)
fred mikardo-greaves continues his quest to convince us he’s the biggest hip hop fan in surrey by rightly bigging up new efforts by lil wayne and kanye west, but can’t help but let his indie tendencies slip through by also giving nods to songs from summer camp and a whole 22 track sub pop sampler, all available to download for free. rockfeedback – the equal opportunities music snobs.
More / (25.08.10)
“i’ve been putting on d.i.y. gigs for the last few years and have noticed a lot more happening recently. i’m not trying to take any credit for this, it just seems like we have a lot more interesting artists and a much stronger scene than in the past few years....” – jen long invites i am hope, hyener, the muscle club, drains, cut ribbons and tiger please to trash her house. idiot.
More / (24.08.10)
resident glasgow hack rachel bolland uncovers the good work of the instinctive racoon label, the one creative scotland collective and bands such as three blind wolves, french wives, washington irving, midnight lion and suspire in the first of her dispatches from a peculiar town where irn-bru outsells coca cola.
More / (06.08.10)
“in advance of his dj set at our mammoth 'rockfeedback x' event next month, bloc party's russell lissack has teamed up with jamie ellis - under the respective monikers of pin me down vs co-pilots - to bring a brand new piece of electronic music for your ears...'”
More / (27.08.10)
sitting nicely alongside his rockfeedback tv debut this week, colin macleod of the boy who trapped the sun offers us a highly admirable collection of his favourite tunes of the moment, directly to your ears. if you meet him in the pub, you can talk to him about pavement. things like that are always good to know.
More / (17.08.10)
“the team behind the film seem set upon depicting sex as loss - the physical as a divided mutually exclusive from sentiment. F**king loneliness, in the literal sense of that moribund word...”
More / (27.07.10)
in celebration of their new career-retrospective compilation, sara and nadia from young & lost club records have put together this eight track mixtape exclusively for rockfeedback, featuring contributions from lunar youth, exlovers, cheatahs, lord auch, and a brace from noah and the whale (including a tom waits cover).
More / (29.06.10)
the site starts a month-long run of unique articles to celebrate our tenth anniversary with maximo park’s paul smith telling us about his favourite obscure record, plus we look forward to this weekend’s offset festival by chucking a load of esoteric, difficult and witty guitar music (just the way we like it) on the telly player – hyrst, o.children, good shoes and kong do the honours.
More / (02.09.10)
rockfeedback are off to host a stage at the leeds festival this weekend, and as such we dedicate the telly player to some choice artists appearing on the bill – dizzee rascal, mumford and sons, the mystery jets, los campesinos! and the drums all treating us to an array of sessions and on stage antics before the week is out. tom also has a bit of a reminisce about his first reading festival experience, gets teary.
More / (24.08.10)
thanks to a brainwave in the fractions of one office, you can now help some of the most unfortunate people on earth by buying awesome music – making purchasing this comp a bit of a no brainer.
More / (19.08.10)
the boy who trapped the sun, beth jeans houghton and steve mason (the latter with an exclusive session) make up a week’s worth of rockfeedback tv thrills from ‘don’t-call-them-singer-songwriters’, whilst we continue to look forward to rfb x: ten years of rockfeedback – our huge tenth birthday party next month.
More / (19.08.10)
as thorough a round up as ever of the recent weeks’ goings on in the world of dance, dubstep and electro, this instalment of doldierocks and audio’s ever entertaining dancefeedback podcast features contributions from the likes of arthur baker, massive attack, primary 1 and more.
More / (28.06.10)
the fourth instalment of goldierocks and audio’s dancefeedback podcasts – keeping the rockfeedback faithful aware of everything going on in the worlds of dance, electronica, urban dubstep... things that don’t involve skinny boys with guitars, basically – features everyone from yoko ono to major lazer.
More / (19.05.10)
in their third podcast, goldierocks and audio treat us to exclusive remixes the pair have delivered for the likes of ou est le swimming pool, as well as a taste of the commendable work four tet, bonobo, akira kiteshi, diplo and calvatron are putting in at the moment. the bloody troopers.
More / (07.04.10)
lend your ears to goldierocks and audio’s run through the best remixes, white label cuts and dancefloor hits of the moment, and thereby become the most clued up kid in the indie disco.
More / (25.03.10)
recent band of the week and bella union faves mountain man are playing at st. giles in the field church near oxford circus, london on september 2nd. the kind folks at the label have given us some tickets to offer as part of our rockfeedback x celebrations. Want some?
a whole host of super rare stuff that comes in a super cool bag in celebration of the new compilation released by the ever-excellent young & lost club records