Jets embark upon a not-so-mysterious repeat journey
West London indie oddballs Mystery Jets are to re-release their darn decent single of last year, 'You Can't Fool Me Dennis', on May 15...»
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Get behind me, rumours...
Jack White - he of The White Stripes fame, now finding similar critical acclaim with The Raconteurs - has doused the rumour flames rather by stating that The White Stripes are not to split. To be honest, we hadn't heard anything along the lines that they were...»
Monkeys don't believe their own hype
Popular indie boys Arctic Monkeys are to beat the boo-boys at their own game by releasing a song to precede the all-too-inevitable backlash...»
Refused Are F*cking... giving away prizes!
Guitarist Kristofer Steen documented Refused's breakdown, and the results of his editing and re-editing of footage old and new can be yours come April in the form of a DVD, entitled Refused Are Fucking Dead (released on April 24th). If you can't wait 'til then, though, we might just have something that'll interest you...»
Dinner's Always On Time: Ja Rule does cookery show
Rodent-faced rapper Ja Rule is among a selection of celebrities that have signed up to appear on a new cookery programme in the US...»
Madonna's Confessions set world record
Madonna's current album, Confessions On A Dance Floor, has set a new world record for chart topping...»
Very (An) Emergency: Exeter punks on tour
So yeah, the headline's a play on The Promise Ring, but Exeter's An Emergency are, if anything, closer in spirit to the frantic punk-rockin' inventiveness of Q And Not U; indeed, I recall that they supported the now sadly defunct DC trio not so long ago. Anyway, the very recommended trio break into an on-tour sweat come April 11th, and we suggest you're there to mop their brows...»
Les Savy Fav release STUFF
Les Savy Fav - probably the best (live) band in the world - are to release a couple of goodies to whet the appetite for possible future stuff. Well, we say 'to release', one such morsel is already out...»
Get Cape. Wear Cape. Fly... to Atlantic
Get Cape. Wear Cape. Fly has, as expected, signed to Atlantic Records...»
Polly Jean to release debut DVD
PJ Harvey's first-ever DVD is to be released in May. Please Leave Quietly follows the singer on her 2003 tour for last album-proper Uh Huh Her...»
Cotton claws another rock fella
Fearne Cotton - telly presenter and MySpace 'friend' of DiS's own Sean Adams - has apparently bagged herself another rock 'n' roll man in the shape of The Kooks' Luke Pritchard. He's only 19. BAD FEARNE...»
April tours: We Are Scientists, Kula Shaker
YES! KULA SHAKER! OMG! ROFL! And whatever else you kids are dropping like science these days...»
Rolling Stone and MTV plan Critic Idol-style show
Plans are afoot in the US to create a show featuring aspiring music writers competing for a staff writer position at Rolling Stone magazine. Anyone else feeling a little deja vu here? Didn't a story like this crop up a while back? Anyway...»
The Oscillation - New Way To Feel
It staggers groggily to a muted close, never really reaching the combustive climax suggested throughout, and the needle fails to return to its place of rest, trapped instead in a loop of silence...»
Fickle Public - Bucko
A long time coming, or at least it feels like it, Bucko is nevertheless far from over-egged, something of a personal fear when the album arrived in my possession. Regular gigging alongside commercial successes hasn’t led to a compromising of this quartet’s unparalleled bi-polar on-record personality: mercilessly jagged meets plateau smooth, mighty foam-topped waves crash into plain sailing seas of shimmering turquoise...»
Hearts on sleeves, please: Hundred Reasons and Fightstar albums assessed
March sees two British bands of no few column inches release their latest long-play wares; indeed, both albums in question – Fightstar’s debut Grand Unification and Hundred Reasons’ third album Kill Your Own – are available from your local contemporary phonographic emporium at this very minute...»
London primed for Overkill II: ADAADAT and co do Electrowerks
On Friday April 7th, London's Electrowerks venue in Islington will play host to the second Overkill night, Overkill II, organised by Littlebig, Adaddat and Wrong Music...»
Bubba Sparxxx - Ms New Booty
Forever on the periphery of critically commended commercial hip-hop, southern state rapper of a particularly pale complexion Bubba Sparxxx finds himself debuting his forthcoming third long-player alongside the gormless-sounding Ying Yang Twins...»
Bands we like on tour together: Econoline and Projections
Y'know, sometimes good bands play shows to not so many people. That, that makes us sad. Sometimes, fuggin' excellent bands play shows to not so many people. That, that makes us really sad. So, forgive us this plug of sorts for a pair of our favourite bands, who just happen to be hitting that road together very very shortly...»
Roadrunner acts do that touring thing: Fear Factory, Dresden Dolls
Roadrunner acts Fear Factory and The Dresden Dolls hit the highways of Britain this Spring as part of what we're now calling 'tours'. Yep. FAR OUT...»
Datsuns sunny with being Stuck Here For Days
New Zealand garage rockers The Datsuns are to release an EP before their third album...»
Oooh, win Black Heart Procession goodies
So taken are we by the Black Heart Procession's forthcoming fifth album The Spell - due in May through Touch & Go - that we've pestered the powers that be into giving us a copy of the blighter to give away, along with a copy of the band's single, 'Not Just Words', released on April 24th...»
DiS @ Barfly: Come, rock, dance, drink, fall over...
Oh, boys and girls of DiS, do we have a jolly green giant of a Friday night up our baggy sleeves for you. After much pulling and pushing, groping and bribing, we've landed at this: DiS @ The Barfly, March Edition...»
Xfm Manchester announces free gigs
As our readers up t'north may be well aware of, popular London-based radio staion Xfm recently opened a Manchester branch. By way of celebration, the station is to put on a series of FREE shows in the city in April...»
Burn your mind: Wolf Eyes tour
Sub Pop-signed noise-bastards Wolf Eyes hit the UK like some kind of missile from Mars this Spring. You'd be foolish not to get along and let them mould your mind into the shape of a bacon buttie before chomping on it like hungry pigs do drugged and bound men...»
Mother's Day chart attack: X-Factor losers slug it out
Andy Abraham and north-east duo Journey South - better known to millions nationwide as X-Factor losers - are battling it out to top the album chart when sales are calculated this Sunday, Mother's Day...»
Brit buys majority stake in Benicassim
One-time Mean Fiddler main man Vince Power - who sold his company to Clear Channel last year - has purchased a majority stake in Spain's Benicassim Festival. He's called the three-day event "Reading Festival but with sunshine"...»
Radiohead announce May dates
So I played The Bends on the way in to work, and when I arrive there's news of a Radiohead tour... coincidence? I THINK NOT. Tomorrow I'm gonna listen to Endtroducing and Siamese Dream, just in case...»
A folk album for the future: Roddy goes solo
Idlewild singer Roddy Woomble is to release a solo album in July...»
Deerhoof do one-off London show
The San Francisco-based four-piece, whose Runners Four record was a personal highlight of 2005 to say the least, are to perform at London's Scala on Monday 27th March. That's a week from today, truefact...»