The Paper Chase's fourth due in May
Are we still doing the whole capital 'A' thing? Yes? No? Bothered... the news is what matters, and the news is this: The Paper Chase have a new record on the way. Oh yes sir, it's gonna be sweet...»
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Help She Can't Swim - Midnight Garden
‘Midnight Garden’ is sure to be Help She Can’t Swim’s most successful single to date, helped in no small part by a support slot on Test Icicles watch-us-fall-apart tour and, simply, because it’s an ace song...»
Kelley Stoltz - Below The Branches
Although its heart beats to the slow strum of folk acts past, Below The Branches is as indebted to the pop-psychedelica of Pink Floyd as it is a bunch of weirdie beardies dancing naked about a fire: many a song is flecked by acid-hued splatters from invisible hands, moulded ever so slightly by powers that Stoltz can’t control...»
Eurovision competition causes rift between Serbia and Montenegro
Already fragile relations between Montenegrins and Serbs in the federation of Serbia and Montenegro have been dealt a blow by the Eurovision Song Contest, of all things...»
Courtney to sell a quarter of Nirvana franchise?
The word on the street - the street in this instance being the internet - is that sometime singer and fulltime nutbar Courtney Love is considering selling a quarter share in the Nirvana franchise...»
K-Fed up: Britney puts hubby on a budget
Pop mum and driving lunatic Britney Spears (it's okay - she had her baby on her lap to raise awareness of child safety on the road... right?) has tightened her husband's purse strings rather, apparently giving him an allowance each month...»
Good gosh! A great Good Friday gig!
It's not all that often we plug a standalone gig in our news section, but this has got this member of DiS, at least, rather moist about the loins...»
Kaisers deny World Cup song involvement
Despite rumours all over the press last weekend to the contrary, the Kaiser Chiefs have said they've no plans to record a song to accompany the England football team's bid for World Cup success this summer...»
Enablers: tour update, Radio 1 news
Y'know, sometimes I feel bad for force-feeding you news on bands I love so very dearly, knowing full well but a fraction of you will care... but when it comes to Enablers, each and every one of you should be opening your ears and unplugging the stoppers on your hearts to taste their bittersweet fruits...»
BLAG! Liars tickets and badges and stuff
Well, we've no stuff to give away, but we do have a pair of tickets to Liars' London date this week - at ULU - to award one lucky reader, along with some nice badge sets...»
Various, Roots Manuva, The Streets, The Cinematic Orchestra, Audio Bullys, Wiley, Plan B, The Mitchell Brothers, Lethal Bizzle, Sway - Kidulthood - Music From The Motion Picture
Like all compilation albums, the Kidulthood soundtrack suffers from highs and lows. Balance, though, is easily maintained, meaning that a peak of no little scale always follows each trough, however small...»
The Modern axed from singles chart
Very ordinary electro-poppers The Modern have seen their hit single 'Industry' booted from the singles charts after it was revealed that certain 'fans' downloaded rather too many copies...»
Towers announce debut album details
The capital's premier cock-rockers are to release their debut album. Blood, Sweat & Towers will be available in all good record stores, and some crap ones, from May 22...»
Kelis back, gets Bossy
Kelis returns to the ways of record releasing this summer with new album Kelis Was Here. The album, due in June, will be preceded by a 12" single, 'Bossy'...»
Cortney Tidwell tours
The quite excellent Cortney Tidwell is to bring her folkishly good tales of love gone awry and life gone absurd to the UK this May...»
Good Shoes - We Are Not The Same EP
We Are Not The Same is so now it’s already yesterday’s forgotten could-have-been...»
Giant Drag (Hearts) rock and roll... and Unicorns
DiS meets Los Angeles rock duo Giant Drag on a cold Camden evening. One's happy to see us, the other looks as if she'd much rather be in bed with some hot honey and lemon and a good Mills & Boon book... »
Ryan Adams file sharers face up to 11 years
Two Ryan Adams fans in the States have been charged with violating copyright laws after they made songs from the singer's Jacksonville City Nights available online...»
"Feed me, Singles!"
The much-anticipated greatest hits collection from Feeder has been given a release date. The Singles (mad love for the thought that went into that title, boys) will hit Virgin Express shelves on May 1st, preceded by a single, 'Lost & Found', on April 24th...»
Franz play for fanz for free
Scottish skinny boys Franz Ferdinand are to play a show to a mere 300 people this Monday (March 13th), at London's Koko venue, Camden...»
MSTRKRFT - Easy Love
release: 13th march - gen
subbed, crab x
MSTRKRFT’s debut single ‘Easy Love’ is a retro-is-the-future disco belter, the kind of bass-thumpin’ blast-from-the-past with its ears in next year that Les Rhythms Digitales once regaled us with so wonderfully...»
Bad Religion release live DVD
Veteran punk types Bad Religion are to release a DVD stuffed full of live material and never-before-seen stuff and gubbins on April 3rd. Live At The Palladium contains footage shot at the Hollywood Palladium in 2005...»
Fiery Furnaces do stuff
Like it says: them bonkers Fiery Furnaces types - when they're not singin' bout their gran they're busy getting single again - are playing some shows and releasing an album. Yes. Indeed...»
Sub Pop signs a band: who'd'a thunk?
Yes! A label has signed a band. A good label. A good band. SWEET...»
The Drones win Australian Music Prize
ATP-signed punk rockers The Drones have won the first-ever Australian Music Prize, the down-under take on our Mercury award...»
Louder Now? Go see TBS live, just to be sure...
Emo types Taking Back Sunday are hauling ass about our land this May in support of their forthcoming third album - their first for the big-money suits at Warner Bros. - Louder Now, released on April 24th...»
Viva CBGB?
It's possible that legendary New York punk club CBGBs will relocate to the bright lights of Las Vegas, following an increase in rent at 315 Bowery...»
The Most Serene Republic - Underwater Cinematographer
Texturally beauteous and boundary blurring in its ambition, Underwater Cinematographer is the soundtrack to a freeze-frame moment of unprecedented perfection that’s but seconds away, if you want it...»
The Like at London King's College, Mon 06 Mar
Tonight The Like are simply forgettable – good, yes, but not memorably so. Perhaps if I’d packed my glasses I’d have come away thinking differently, but this much I do know even through blurred vision: if The Like were three guys, few would give a crap...»
Two Gallants play free acoustic show this Friday
Saddle Creek-signed duo Two Gallants are to bring their ramshackle folk-goes-punk-via-bluegrass rock'n'brawl to The Boogaloo in Highgate this Friday (March 10th). The cost to you, Mr Punter? Nowt...»