Spitz reveals its second Festival of Blues
London's The Spitz venue will again host a Festival of Blues this year, following the success of last year's event...»
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German nutter looking to take a bite outta pop's pretty boys
Not-scary-at-all (um, only he is) German cannibal Armin Meiwes - he who met another man through the internet and proceeded to munch through his meaty thighs... and other bits - has told a court that he'd quite like to sink his teeth into a pair of British pop stars...»
Econoline, An Emergency, DJ Das Gink, DJ CrabbyCrab, Foals, Silver Rocket DJs at Buffalo Bar, Islington, Fri 17 Feb
It’s strange: to look at the four people on stage, shuffling nervously into the positions they’ll maintain for the next thirty minutes, you’d think this was their first-ever show before an audience of paying punters, past ‘gigs’ in front of sympathetic friends and family still fresh in their minds...»
Mogwai on stuff: Damon and Test Icicles
Mogwai seem to be spending more time online, bleating on about this band and that band, than they are constructively promoting their forthcoming Mr Beast record. Oh, wait: this is promotion. Anyway, their regularly updated website currently contains the following tirade against a certain Blur and Gorillaz man. Why? Oh heck, why not...»
Shack back: new album due in May
Shack return to record-releasing ways this year with their fourth album, ...The Corner Of Miles And Gil. Due out on May 15th, the album is being released through the Sour Mash label, owned by Oasis's Noel Gallagher...»
Join the dots: reveal great bands
Nottingham's Dot-To-Dot festival features a quite wonderful line-up this year. The event, held from 2pm 'til 4am on Bank Holiday Sunday, May 28th, features acts playing in four different venues: The Rescue Rooms, Rock City, Stealth and The Social...»
Jenny Lewis - Rise Up With Fists!!
C’mon, face facts: Rilo Kiley really aren’t that great, and their pretty-of-face front-lady Lewis’s solo record – something about rabbits or something – was nothing to write home about, however wonderful the assistance provided by the Watson Twins...»
Alice In Chains: back again
Pop-grungers Alice In Chains, whose Dirt album remains one of the highest-selling and most-loved records of its ilk, are to reform for an Austrian music festival, according to the website of AiC guitarist Jerry Cantrell...»
Bollocks: Test Icicles split fo'real
Love 'em or loathe them, London-based rap-rock-hip-pop three-piece Test Icicles are certainly never boring. It's therefore a little saddening to hear that, after many a rumour, they're splitting for real...»
DiS at the Barfly: It's tonight!
Some of you have questioned, some of you weren't bothered. Well, for those that are coming to the monthly DiS extravaganza at The Barfly, Camden this Friday, here are the need-to-know details...»
Silence for the poor little lamb: Hopkins' daughter plays London show
Abigail Hopkins, daughter of award-winning actor Anthony, last night played to a less-than-capacity crowd at London's Upstairs at the Garage venue, the first act on a bill of four...»
Hilton spells out her influences, public throws up
Recently over-here glamour twiglet Paris Hilton, her of fur-wearing and reality television ways, has revealed the influences behind her music. Yes, music: the hotel fella's daughter is to release an album through Warners later this year...»
François Tétaz - Wolf Creek OST
Wolf Creek OST is a powerful, emotive piece of work, and one that really doesn’t need the addition of bloodstained celluloid to have an effect on its audience...»
The Darkness - Is It Just Me?
Everyone has a favourite Queen song – mine’s ‘Don’t Stop Me Now’ – but nobody has a favourite Brian May song...»
Prison blasted for Pop Idol-style event
HMP Grendon in Buckinghamshire has been slammed for spending some £2,000 on a Pop Idol-style contest, billed as 'Con Idol'. Genius, that...»
YYYs tour in May
Yeah Yeah Yeahs will follow their ATP appearance with a further five British shows, tickets for which go on sale on Thursday 23rd February, at 9am.»
Fiddy's far from doing the right thing
Director Spike Lee, a long-term critic of gangsta rap, has said that 50 Cent should be ashamed of glorifying 'thug life'...»
Ladies love him, but Cool James wants classier women in hip-hop videos
Rapper LL Cool J has said that hip-hop videos degrade women, stating that more often than not they're portrayed as strippers, or worse...»
Cortney Tidwell - Cortney Tidwell
You’ll note there’s no ‘u’ in Nashville resident Tidwell’s first name, and it’s somewhat appropriate: these six songs – her debut mini-album – are all ‘me me me’, and it’s this approach that got her a deal when she was spotted performing entirely alone as a warm-up act to Lou Barlow...»
TEAM on tour, plus download single
Captains of Industry-signed rockers TEAM are to release a download-only double a-side single next Monday, taken from their thoroughly decent second album The Line From A-B...»
Mudhoney announce new London show
Veteran Seattle rockers Mudhoney are to play a London date in addition to their pre-ATP Nottingham show this May...»
DEP: three tracks finished for new record
Dillinger Escape Plan bassist Liam Wilson has revealed that the band have finished three songs for their next record, the follow-up to 2004's Miss Machine...»
God Save The Queen, but not Di or Camilla: Rotten earns his rep'
John Lydon - he of Johnny Rotten/Sex Pistols and celebrities-in-the-jungle reality television fame - has taken a pop at a couple of Royal Family members, one dead, one not...»
Brit Awards 2006 score worst-ever TV ratings
No, we didn't report who won what at this year's Brit Awards, and neither did we get all chest-puffed proud 'cause the Kaisers romped their way to three wee statues (well done guys, seriously), but this is mildly interesting: the television coverage for the Earls Court event scored the lowest-ever viewing figures in its history...»
Wireless Festival takes shape: UPDATE!
This year's Wireless Festival (website) is taking shape, with headliners now announced for the event...»
Errors - How Clean Is Your Acid House?
Labelmates of titanic rockers Part Chimp Errors may be, but this Glaswegian trio’s songs are rooted firmly in the electronica field, albeit then ignored beyond their harvest to rot and, ultimately, mutate through their remaining will power into something strangely rocking, despite its glitch-beats and synthesizer blasts...»
DiScover: The Campaign For Real-Time
DiS talks time travel with C4RT's 'Rory Stark', who just might've enjoyed a former musical life as a member of punk-rockin' quartet Garrison. They, though, talked a lot more sense...»
Battles - EP C/B EP
One man’s passion is another man’s poisson, after all, and while Battles’ on-stage output is rarely worth any less than a maximum star-or-whatever rating, this release isn’t quite...»
Liars begin UK tour next week
Berlin-based trio Liars begin their UK tour next week, in support of their third album, Drum's Not Dead (through Mute on February 20th)...»
A pair of Pretty Girls shows
Seattle five-piece Pretty Girls Make Graves have announced a pair of shows to promote their forthcoming third album, Élan Vital...»