Ordinary boy(killboy)s do instores.
They're the Next Big Thing, so my televsion says! Boy Kill Boy are promoting their forthcoming single, 'Suzie', with a series of in-store appearances. Like, wow...»
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Jeniferever: massive UK tour, new single details
DiS Records-signed Swedes Jeniferever return to the UK this week for what can only be called an extensive tour. Along the way they play second fiddle to the quite fantastic The Appleseed Cast...»
Clap Your Hands ready second long-player
NYC indie types Clap Your Hands Say Yeah are aiming to release their second album before the year is out; their self-titled debut only officially emerged in the UK earlier this year...»
Latitude Festival news: headliners, et cetera
Sometimes DiS goes out. Yeah, yeah, we have to be back before the sun sets over yonder hillock, but last night we found time enough to pop along to Camden's Proud Gallery to drink free lager and eat finger foods at the launch of a BRAND NEW festival...»
Rip It Up... compilation details
Following the success of his book Rip It Up And Start Again, which analysed in no little detail the acts that have made post-punk what it is today, Simon Reynolds has compiled a companion record...»
King Biscuit Time tour cancelled
It would seem that former Beta Band man Steve Mason has called it quits on his King Biscuit Time project...»
Silver Rocket at London Islington Buffalo Bar, Fri 21 Apr
Lords, y’see, are true masters of their mutant-blues craft, of venturing beyond post-prefixes and into a realm of retrospective yet forward-thinking compositional intelligence... »
Southampton: free festival, this weekend
So you're in Southampton. Bored. Wanting something, anything, to make the day pass that bit quicker. I know, I've been there (why the fuck do you think I left?). BUT, this weekend, there may just be a little something for 'ee...»
Blood Brothers working on new album, US EP news
Seattle-based surreal-punk-thrashers The Blood Brothers are beavering away in the studio, hoping to have their as-yet-untitled new album out in the autumn...»
Music at the movies: INXS and Hendrix film news
News just in from DiS's correspondent over in the Hollywood Hills: Quentin Tarantino is apparently on board to direct a forthcoming film about very-dead rocker Jimi Hendrix, pictured...»
Pink Grease: new single details
Sheffield quintet Pink Grease slide a little something-something shopwards next month, with the release of their new single...»
Snoop taken to the pound
Alleged novelist and successful rapper Snoop Dogg (Calvin Broadus to his mum) was arrested at Heathrow Airport last night, following a little rough and tumble down Terminal 1...»
Okkervil River like their Virgin
Austin-based indie folks Okkervil River have been snapped up on this side o' the pond by Virgin/EMI. The megabucked label will re-release the band's really-quite-great album, Black Sheep Boy, like, soon...»
It's no shame, you get paid: Lemonheads sign to Vagrant
Recently(ish) reformed janglers The Lemonheads have put pen to paper on a deal with US indie/punk label, Vagrant...»
Hush The Many, Akron/Family at London Brixton The Windmill, Thu 20 Apr
Man With Beard sups Guinness, eyes fixed on a television screen displaying moving pictures his mind doesn’t quite understand: there’s running, kicking, John Barnes talking although mercifully not rapping, Pat Nevin. Pat Nevin? Y’know, I’d always assumed he was a Womble in a mask, but anyway...»
Mariah takes a tinkle... on the ivories
Mariah Carey has parted company with over half-a-million dollars, receiving a piano in said cash's place. But wait, do, for this piano is no ordinary piano (well, it is really; it's not like it can fly or anything). This piano was owned by Marilyn Monroe (note picture of said dead person)...»
Diddy talks up final album
P Diddy has been shooting the proverbial about his forthcoming final long-player, due for release around September time...»
Not-so-distant Futureheads gig revealed
The Futureheads - they of north-eastern accents and guitar lines of spiky jolliness - are to play a special, kinda-secret-but-not-really gig on Monday (May 1) in London. That's the capital of England...»
So they didn't go under, after all: Evanescence return
A little whoop whoop*, please, for it has transpired that goth-poppers Evanescence are back, with new material coming your way - yes, I'm pointing at you - in August...»
Brainlove Records begins singles club
DiS's über-indie label of post-punkin' synth-manglin' oddness choice, Brainlove Records, has introduced to you, potential punter-oo, a singles club. We, we get excited by these sorts of things...»
Wake up, Leeds: Chinchilla's this weekend!
Now, so far as I'm concerned you're welcome to your Readings and Vs and all that middle-of-the-road jazz, but should your tastes be a little more - what shall we say? - violent, you could do a lot worse than haul ass to Leeds this weekend for the annual Chinchilla Festival...»
Euros Childs - Costa Rita
There comes a time in everyone’s day where a little sunshine needs letting in...»
WIN! Tickets to The Most Serene Republic, tonight, in London
What, more free stuff for you, oh readers sweet and sexy? Oh heck yes: this very evening Ontario's great sextet The Most Serene Republic bring the sounds of their DiS-approved to the tune of a near-perfect 9/10 score album Underwater Cinematographer to the Barfly, London. AND YOU CAN BE THERE, GRATIS...»
Secondsmile's second single: details, plus tour dates
Really-rather-ace awkward-rockers Secondsmile are to release their second single from their acclaimed Walk Into The Light... LP on June 5...»
Stay tuned to Radio 4: new material coming
NYC's finest political-ranting disco-punks Radio 4 are to return this summer with a none-too-suggestive album title, Enemies Like These...»
Emily Metric to release solo album
Emily Haines, front woman of acclaimed Canadian pop-rockers Metric is to follow in the footsteps of Stars' Amy Millan and release a solo album...»
Lennon seance producer defends show
Paul Sharratt, the producer behind last night's screening of a supposed seance with John Lennon, has defended his show in response to a barrage of criticism from the press...»
New Deftones due September
Californian not-quite-nu-metallers Deftones are to return to record stores with fresh material this September, according to MTV...»
Junkbox - Guru
Art school attendees that have eschewed notions of jerkiness for a raw, practically primordial rock and roll racket, Junkbox immediately achieve a star of recognition for choosing soul over style...»
Mission Of Burma: new album, band film
Revitalised rockers Mission Of Burma are to return with a new studio album and a documentary later this year...»