Matmos unveil 'fun' new LP
Electronic experimentalists Matmos are to release their new album, The Rose Has Teeth in the Mouth of a Beast, through Matador in May...»
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Harcourt's Dead Dog: single and album news
Boozy troubadour Ed Harcourt returns to record store shelves this coming May with a new single, Visit From The Dead Dog', lifted from his forthcoming long-player, The Beautiful Lie...»
Look at her breasts they're... um... massive, actually
Columbian songstress and certified not-all-there type Shakira is to have a likeness of herself erected in her hometown of Barranquilla...»
Bez and co set new maracas record
Bez and Shaun Ryder were among the 406 individuals that set a new Guinness World Record for maracas shaking...»
DiScover: Jason Collett
The what�s now obvious: Collett is a singer-songwriter, a troubadour always ready to regale those before him with songs of whiskey-stained memories and on-the-road recollections. The why, as in why you should care considering the saturation of such musicians in today�s folk�s-cool-again climate, is Idols Of Exile, Collett�s special third long-play release...»
BoC hit the Highway
Boards Of Canada are to release an EP this summer, presumably as some kind of album stopgap, by the name of Trans Canada Highway...»
Weezaaaah: Rivers to wed
Happy Days are here again! Limp call it quits and now we've news that serial loser in love - in his records at least - Rivers Cuomo of Weezer is to tie the knot this summer...»
Split Bizkit
Limp Bizkit are as good as over, according to MTV...»
Editors edited: singer loses voice at SXSW
Editors were forced to cut their South By South West set short on the first day of the music conference, as singer Tom Smith lost the tool of his trade. That's his voice, by the way. Not his penis...»
Final Busted third makes live appearance
Matt Willis, he of Busted that hasn't yet released a record via another act, is to break his silence with a debut solo album, Up All Night...»
Anti-piracy raids lead to multiple arrests
Following a six-month investigation, seventeen addresses around Merseyside and Lancashire have been raided by police, who discovered five major CD duplicating factories...»
DiScover: Eiger
After a few months of sporadic e-mail contact, I finally adjusted my arse to the correct gear and fired off some DiScover questions, certain that you, too, would want to hear the last band � the last totally unknown band � to completely stop me in my tracks...»
KaitO, Liars at London ULU, Thu 16 Mar
Angus Andrew’s trousers are around his ankles...»
Wrap yer peepers round this: Patton's new record's ready
Robbed wholesale from elsewhere, we're pleased (?) to provide you with a fancy tracklisting for Mike Patton's latest adventure into the realm of the long-player...»
Dance, Dance! But not to this, surely?
"Shoooogaaa we're goowiiin daaaaan" et fucking cetera: mainstream-conquering masters of all things mediocre Fall Out Boy have a new single winging its way chartwards...»
Manson goes solo but Garbage don't split
Shirley Manson has been speaking to Billboard about her forthcoming solo record, stressing that Garbage are far from broken up...»
Back in Black, in Black: Francis does double CD
Frank Black is to release a double-disc album this June, entitled Fastman/Raiderman, through Cooking Vinyl...»
Silver Rocket + DiS = megafun Fridaynight tomfooleryandjapes
It's so nearly Friday, good people of DiS. That being the case, what better a time is there than now to tell you about one standout event of fantasmaorgasmic sexiness this coming weekend...»
Sov signs with Def Jam
Chav-rapper Lady Sovereign has put pen to paper on a deal with Def Jam, making her the only non-US act on the label...»
Gangsta wax: Tupac gets Tussaud treatment
Notoriously deceased gangsta rapper Tupac Shakur - "in the city, oooh oooh oooooooh" - is to be immortalised in wax as part of an exhibition celebrating his life...»
Say You'll Be There? No chance say Sporty and Posh
The Sun has reported that Mel C and Victoria Beckham have vetoed a possible Spice Girls reunion tour, scheduled for November...»
Thunder, all through these nights: Lightning Bolt on tour
YES! In a nutshell, these here, below, down there, are the Lightning Bolt tour dates. Hot off the press (officer). Get in and get down, foo's...»
Ordinarily, such a fella wouldn't get on the radio
Hot off the rumour mill (or not quite, actually): The Ordinary Boys singer and Heat magazine pin-up Preston is, apparently, to become a radio DJ...»
Kanye do it? Yes he can: rapper moves into movies
Kanye West is to venture into the world of movie making. Currently up his sleeve is a wee project about... wait for it... himself... »
Mudhoney - Under A Billion Suns
Under A Billion Suns leaves the most significant impression its authors have made for some fifteen years, an incredibly commendable feat in these heady days of rock and roll recycling...»
Guillemots announce May tour
Birmingham-based on-the-up outfit Guillemots have announced a May tour. And a date in June. Yeah...»
Bono does Bond, perhaps
Reports suggest that U2 could record the next James Bond theme, for the upcoming Daniel Craig debut Casino Royale...»
Oxford's Arts Festival: first details
Oxford's Arts Festival, run in conjunction with the city council, is to be held on Friday 26th and Saturday 27th May across a host of venues...»
Glastonbury headliner for 2007 will be "a big surprise"
Michael Eavis - he of running Glastonbury, the festival, fame - has told Xfm in London about his plans for next year's event, stating that one of the headliners will be quite a surprise...»
ReDiScover: The Blood Brothers
The Blood Brothers formed in 1997, although their debut, This Adultery Is Ripe, only emerged in 2000. Four albums in four years (a fifth has been delayed, no doubt by members’ side projects) is some standard of productivity, and the quality’s only increased from record to record...»