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Seemingly made for backwater American boozers and debauched frat parties right down to its shockingly Eighties, i.e. abysmal, pseudo-metal-cum-mystical cover art, Chariots On Fire is a don’t-take-it-seriously blast from the past with enough brains to know the future’s gonna be biting at its ass in no time at all...»
South coast splattercore rocketeers Help She Can't Swim are to plug their latest single, 'Midnight Garden', with a trio of instore appearances. We suggest you get along and shake it like you own it...»
San Diego-based punkers Some Girls hit Britain like a battleship bumping a ramshackle raft in April, i.e. it'll be messy, and probably wet...»
X-Factor losers Journey South - brothers Andy and Carl Pemberton - will release a self-titled album next month...»
Mr Jack White of famous two-piece rock types The White Stripes is hacked off with the hacks that are charged with covering his each and every release...»
Fightstar release their debut album, Grand Unification, through Island on March 13th. DiS has five copies of the album to give away to our readers...»
Further acts have been added to the bill for this year's Oxegen Festival, held at Punchestown Racecourse on July 8th and 9th...»
The line up for the sixth Triptych Festival, held in Glasgow, Aberdeen and Edinburgh from April 26-30, has been announced...»
Ashworth deadpans furiously: he never sings, really, but the emotion in his voice is so heavy, so sincere, that his whisper could surely have statuesque, shield-bearing guardians of solid steel shedding mercury tears...»
Canadian top-poppers The Organ are to tour in support of their forthcoming debut album, Grab That Gun, due through Too Pure on April 3rd. A single, 'Brother', is released on March 30th...»
The Russian Futurists, aka Matthew Adam Hart in his bedroom with a few noise-making toys, have penned a deal with Memphis Industries that'll see the label release both a single and a compilation album in May and June respectively...»
Following the release of their quite frankly excellent debut single 'Wishing Stone' yesterday, Bella Union-signed and DiS-approved Aussie rock types Howling Bells are to tour 'til they're spent in March...»
TV On The Radio have taken the major-label plunge in the US, signing on the line with Interscope. They'll remain on 4AD in the UK, for now...»
DiS braves kick-out time on London's shopping mecca of Oxford Street to spend fifteen with Saddle Creek's 'folk-punks' Two Gallants. We find them burnt out by the February blues, about ready to call time on the UK's doom and gloom... »
Mr Barat's post-Libs project Dirty Pretty Things will release their debut single - amazing how a tour can sell out without a release on the shelves, isn't it? - on April 23rd. 'Bang Bang You're Dead' received its first radio play last night on Steve Lamacq's Radio 1 show...»
Michael Winterbottom's film about the notorious Camp X-Ray, at Guantanamo Bay, has revealed that the US often uses music by Eminem to 'entertain' their prisoners. In other words, they use it to torment them into talking about whatever it is the powers that be think they're keeping secret...»
As a standalone record, Azita’s latest is likely to be of little interest to anyone but the most fervent of existing fan. A third full-length proper is in the works too, though, so casual acquaintances may wish to wait until that’s released before rekindling relations with Youssefi and her skewed pop creations...»
Coldplay's recent performance at Abbey Road, recorded for Radio 2, might have landed the BBC in hot water: the studio has no live entertainment licence... UPDATED!...»
Jason And The Astronauts are high-tailin' it outta Dodge, aka Tunbridge Wells, for a few shows in March. Do go, won't you? This band = The Good...»
DiS is quite, quite excited to tell you, oh readers of ours, that we've a wad of tickets to give away for Joan As Policewoman's upcoming UK jaunt...»
The Futureheads embark on a 'secret' tour tomorrow. So secret everyone knows already...»
Popular indie-rockin' types Bloc Party have been talking to US entertainment rag Rolling Stone about their second album...»
The recording of Maximo Park's second album has hit the skids following guitarist Duncan Lloyd breaking his arm last week...»
Brit winners Kaiser Chiefs are perfectly content with their domestic success, stating that they're not keen on pushing their wares across the Atlantic a la so many other homegrown talents that have subsequently failed to break the US market...»
DiS meets Berlin-based avant-rockers Liars in a strange London hotel: the hallways are chilled to penguin levels, while strange monitors flicker with computer-generated landscapes and scratches-on-a-negative static and fuzz. We're uncomfortable from the moment we stroll through the building's automated revolving door, but we find the band calm to the point of slumber...»
Battles' multi-instrumentalist Tyondai Braxton is to release a solo record through Warp towards the end of this year...»
You'll have to forgive the vagueness of this post - the information comes almost exclusively from the boards of Southern Records - but the fact of the matter is a simple one: 90 Day Men have broken up...»
Kylie Minogue may make her live comeback after time off receiving treatment for breast cancer at next month's Commonwealth Games...»
Radiohead will be the subject matter of a covers album this April, featuring versions by the likes of Mark Ronson, the Cinematic Orchestra and Rjd2...»
Ryan Jarman of The Cribs worked his merry drunken way to hospital and back twice last night, following his high jinx at last night's NME Awards, so sayeth NME.com...»
