TEAM halved, hiatus engaged
Leicester's rockin' monsters of all things rifftacular, TEAM, have anchored on the brakes and called a hiatus...»
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Love That Kills - …To Cruel Nails Surrendered
Lowest-common-denominator macho metalcore from Kent, Love That Kills’ debut mini-album – six tracks in nineteen minutes – is a predictable affair: all screamed vocals that lack absolute conviction and drum beats lifted from any similar band of the past five years...»
The Drones - Shark Fin Blues / You Really Don't Care
Worth a punt if the price is right, but if not save those pennies for the next time The Drones are in town...»
Music revenue fell in 2005
Hi. We're The Financial Times...»
Sufjan wins an award. Again.
Silly-talented singer man Sufjan Stevens has won the first-ever New Pantheon Award in the US, awarded to an artist who has sold fewer than 500,000 copies of an album in the States...»
This Et Al take a 'Sabbatical'
Hot on the heels of a brace of sold-out singles, ''You've Driven For Miles...' and 'Wardens', Leeds-based outfit This Et Al are to release their first non-limited-edition single in May...»
E17 in W12: boyband reform
"Everybody, everybody in the" Shepherds Bush Empire...»
Knowing full well what's Glitter isn't always gold, Mariah heads to Broadway
Mariah Carey has announced intentions to create, produce and star in a new Broadway musical...»
Pearl Jam to play UK?
A French radio station has apparently ran a competition for listeners to win tickets to a brace of Pearl Jam shows in the UK... shows that we, in the UK, know nowt about...»
Busta: doesn't like Mr Brains?
"I hate f*****g faggots, man."
The words of Busta Rhymes there, allegedly, after being approached by a gay fan in Miami t'other day (March 26th)...»
Enablers, Woe Colossus at London The Vibe Bar, Wed 29 Mar
Simonelli takes full advantage of the environment, weaving his way through the front few rows once, twice, again, each time finding another’s eyes to meet, another soul to scorch about the edges...»
WIN! Milburn promo goodies
DiS has four copies of the Sheffield-based indie-poppers' 'Lipstick Lickin'' to give away, along with another four copies of their 'Showroom'/'Storm In A Teacup' single...»
Todd - Comes To Your House
...ever since Todd’s Comes To Your House came to your house, you’ve found yourself engulfed by its relentlessness, consumed by its feverishness, duty bound like a soldier to sing its praises to all and sundry...»
K-Fed's on fire! Quick, someone, stamp on him. Or something...
Undercover.com.au has revealed details of Kevin Federline's 'highly anticipated' (by whom?) debut album...»
Arab Strap support act attacked in Seattle
A Whisper In The Noise, the support band on Arab Strap's current tour of the US, were attacked two nights ago at the Seattle leg of the tour...»
Broken Social Scene - 7/4 Shoreline
I’m a steadfast believer in the appeal of stuff, the trinkets and collectables of interest to no one but yourself that accumulate about a lived-in residence à la a Mogwai reproducing once it’s been inadvertently dunked in a reservoir...»
Wait! Shouldn't McFly own this?
The 3am Girls may hardly be Victoria Newton's Bizarre, but nevertheless they've delivered a good today, with the news that Son Of Dork singer-slash-Pokemon-lookalike James Bourne has splashed out on the original Delorean from Back To The Future...»
E.M.ouch! Record company cuts off Ringo's fingers
EMI have doctored the cover of a forthcoming, re-issued Beatles compilation, Capitol Albums Volume 2. The original cover image features the Fab Four having a drag or two to pass the time, but the powers that be, they're not standing for it. Cue: Photoshop in all its glory. Only, they've cocked up rather, slicing two fingers from the hand of drummer Ringo Starr...»
Village People cop busted: irony, much?
Silly faux-policeman man: Victor Willis, the original policeman in The Village People, has been busted by proper cops following his no-show in court for charges including cocaine possession and firearms offences...»
Power up! Chan reschedules American dates
Chan Marshall, aka Cat Power, has rescheduled her previously postponed American tourdates following a spell away with health issues (specifics are still far from forthcoming)...»
Download-only release could make number one
As previously reported on DiS, download single releases are now counted by chart compilers regardless of whether or not a physical version of the song in question is available in stores. This week, Gnarls Barkley's 'Crazy' could be the first song to reach number one before it's properly released on CD et cetera...»
Razorlight, full of themselves? New record's a "classic", apparently...
Razorlight have offered fans an insight into the recording of their second album...»
Elle Milano, Silver Rocket DJs, Victory At Sea at Brixton The Windmill, Lambeth, Thu 23 Mar
No, this isn’t a band mad for sadness at all; it’s a band high on the lows of life, and one truly worth celebrating...»
Walsh surprised at Westlife's success
Louis Walsh is amazed that Westlife have remained popular across the course of seven albums, according to BreakingNews.ie. Yes, the boyband really have released seven albums...»
The Skeleton Crew: DiS meets Yeah Yeah Yeahs
On the eve of the release of his band's second album, Show Your Bones, DiS meets up with Yeah Yeah Yeahs guitarist Nick Zinner in a stupidly extravagant London hotel. We feel out of place, he looks out of place, I really fancy plaice for tea. But first...»
Another Sheffield success: Milburn fly high in midweeks
Regularly compared to the Arctic Monkeys they may be, but that's no recipe for guaranteed success. Milburn, though, are making tracks of their own, climbing to number thirteen in the midweek singles shart with their 'Send In The Boys' single...»
Art Brut ink US deal
Roughly a year after its UK release, Art Brut's debut album Bang Bang Rock & Roll is to be given a proper release in the US through Downtown Records. Downtown's current roster also includes Eagles of Death Metal, which is pretty rad...»
Tool announce New Album 10,000 Days tracklisting
Tool's sixth album, 10,000 Days, will finally be released on May 2...»
FA Embrace indie types for official World Cup song
The official England World Cup song is to be recorded by Embrace...»
Basically an excuse to run a picture of Nadine Coyle, this...
Continuing today's theme of bands not actually splitting, here we've news that Girls Aloud's Nadine Coyle, pictured, isn't quitting the poptastic quintet...»