Articles about Art Brut
By Alex Young on November 9th, 2009
Say hello to Everybody Was In The French Resistance…Now!
By Alex Young on October 19th, 2009
Art Brut and Japandroids like them. You probably should too…
By Alex Young on September 16th, 2009
After spending the summer engaged in residences, Art Brut will return to North America this fall for a more extenisve tour.
By Adam Kivel on August 18th, 2009
Chicago seems to want hundreds of music festivals. As if all the neighborhood fests, Pitchfork and Lollapalooza hadn’t wiped us Chicagoans out (both physically and economically) enough already, let’s throw in the Green Music Fest. Held in West Town’s Eckhart Park, and with Art Brut topping the lineup, the new festival is a worthy addition to the rogues gallery of music ventures here in the Windy City.
By Adam Kivel on May 17th, 2009
I don’t know if I missed the election on which band humanity would be sending to take on the dark one, but I don’t think I’d have voted to send Art Brut to take on the big evil guy. Eddie Argos may be a smarmy, charming bastard, but not exactly the kind of death-bringer you’d want to fight Satan. But, luckily, if you ignore the album title for a while, you don’t have to worry about the future of mankind. You can just sit back and enjoy the glammy alt rock and Argos’s heavily accented singing rambling, the goofy-loser lyrics and angular guitars.
By Alex Young on March 27th, 2009
Either Art Brut really only likes a select few U.S. cities, or these tongue-in-cheek rockers aren’t fans of road trips – though the latter idea seems to be canceled out by the proceeding European tour. Whatever the case may be, when the English based outfit stops by America later this year in support of its [...]
By Drew Litowitz on March 3rd, 2009
With Art Brut on the verge of releasing its latest album, the Frank Black produced Art Brut v. Satan (US May 12th via Downtown Records), the angry British post-punkers have offered an early taste in the form of a single entitled “Alcoholic Unanimous,” a song about…pretty much what its title suggests.The angry lament for “bad [...]
By Alex Young on February 12th, 2009
It’s hard to fathom it’s already been almost four since Art Brut somehow managed to both celebrate and poke fun at the music industry with its stellar debut, Bang Bang Rock & Roll. However, at the time, many critics wondered how far the English outfit’s tongue-and-cheek style could take them – after all, pretty soon [...]
By Alex Young on December 4th, 2007
#35 – Art Brut – It’s a Bit Complicated Art Brut continues to churn out albums that are more satirical than anything else. And this is certainly the case of their 2007 release of It’s a Bit Complicated. Yes, the album has Art Brut’s norm catchy rifts and the unique single styles of front man [...]