Channel 4 launches its own chart show
Channel 4 is to launch a chart show, focusing on albums, which'll feature a number of performanced filmed at London's Koko venue...»
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White Rose Moving: rockers on tour
White Rose Movement have many a fan. Can't say I'm one of them, but then again I've never heard 'em. Guess this tour might present me with an opportunity...»
Busta bodyguard killed on video shoot
A security guard watching over rapper Busta Rhymes was fatally shot on Saturday night, while the star was making a new music video...»
Down In The Park: Foo Fighters seek out Hyde show
Increasingly less-rocking four-piece the Foo Fighters are to play a mammoth Kerrang-sponsored show this summer in the grassy heart of the nation's capital.»
Fagging heck: Arctic Monkeys project "wrong image"
Scottish children, beware: buying the new album by the Arctic Monkeys is a risk to your health...»
Incredible live: Chris Brokaw tours
Former Come man Chris Brokaw is to tour in support of his quite excellent Incredible Love LP, released last month through Rock Action, this very month...»
Akron/Family confirm April tour
Michael Gira's favourite 'rock' band around - they're kinda folk, really - Akron/Family are to tour the UK in April...»
The Czars - Sorry I Made You Cry
Those critics that have savaged The Czars’s collection of cover versions – culled from across their ten-year career – have missed the point entirely...»
The Gossip - Standing In The Way Of Control
The core components that make up these ten easy pieces are excellent – vocalist Beth Ditto is unmatched so far as female singers of these musical inclinations go, her deep growls and banshee shrieks as unique in this field as Kate Bush’s in the realm of pop – but a sense of familiarity does wash over, unsettlingly, all of four or five numbers in...»
ctrlaltdelete - mondegreens
This is brilliantly realised, however many stirring facets it lifts wholesale from predecessors’ past endeavours...»
Belle And Sebastian - The Life Pursuit
For their follow up to the inconsistently great Dear Catastrophe Waitress, the perma-charming Belle And Sebastian have roped in Air and Beck producer Tony Hoffer; what’s more, they recorded The Life Pursuit under the Californian sun in Los Angeles. The results are as blindingly bright as the environment they were created in...»
Sufjan PLUGs in and wins big
The PLUG Awards, an independent music event celebrating the best in alternative music across the board, were held last night, and Sufjan Stevens took home the coveted Album Of The Year award...»
Adopt Arnie voice: "It's NOT a rumour." Well, this is, actually...
The biggest girl group of all time, ever, in the history of pop, end of, period, The Spice Girls, are apparently to tour the UK in November. This information is brought to you via the pages of The Sun and my inky fingers...»
Bon Jovi guitarist divorces
Bon Jovi guitarist Richie Sambora is to split from Heather Locklear, actress and his wife for the past eleven years...»
Pumpkins WILL reform: Auf Der Maur makes things official
Melissa Auf Der Maur, bassist with the Smashing Pumpkins following original four-stringer D'arcy Wretzky's departure in 1999, has told MTV that rumours of a reunion are absolutely TRUE...»
Middle-of-the-road overload: Martin hooks up with Stipe for charity
Chris Martin and Michael Stipe, singers in the mightily MOR bands Coldplay and REM respectively, are to team up for a charity record to raise money for Hurrican Katrina victims (anyone see Horizon last night? Shit be messed up)...»
Panic! Las Vegas rockers' album's directed at "kids that talk on message boards"...
Rising poppyemo pretty boys Panic! At The Disco have told MTV that their debut album, A Fever You Can't Sweat Out, is written for the people that populate sites such as this very one - those that post on internet message boards...»
Young, at heart, hates the Brits
Pop Idol winner turned Actual Proper Pop Star Will Young has told a leading daily red top that he has little affection for the industry love-in known to us common folk as 'The Brit Awards'...»
Fall Out Boy - Sugar, We're Going Down
‘Sugar, We’re Going Down’ is unprecedented in its banality – never, ever has a band mixing pop and punk done it with such a disregard for either genre. It’s candy coated, pumped full of E numbers and quite probably will give you ear and throat cancer if you so much as play five seconds of its pointless duration...»
Chinchillafest 4: full details of Leeds' most-rockin' weekender
News just in: DiS has received the line up for this year's quite fantastic Chinchillafest, held at Leeds' Brudenell Social Club on the 28th, 29th and 30th of April. All we can say to this bill is: will someone put us up, please?»
B&S to be made into a comic? No BS, at all...
Belle and Sebastian, whose new album The Life Pursuit is released on Monday (Feb 6th), have been made into comic book characters... kind of.»
Nebula rocket fourth, Apollo style
Supersonic cosmic rockers Nebula are to release their fourth album, Apollo, through Sweet Nothing on March 27th.»
Monkey boy "mega honoured": Ian Brown is a Godlike Genius
Former Stone Roses 'singer' Ian Brown will be awarded the Godlike Genius award at the forthcoming NME bash, for services to, um, monkeying about and doing time, we guess...»
Some Girls - Heaven’s Pregnant Teens
The formula’s simple: some hardcore dudes, playing straight-up, straightforward hardcore, to knuckle-brained hardcore kids looking to punch each other in the face, hard...THWACK...But sometimes simple is all you need...»
Hope Of The States say new album's "Joy Division goes disco"
Hope Of The States have spoken to BBC 6Music exclusively (read their website for the original story) about their forthcoming second album...»
Manson goes through the looking glass
Faux-goth fave Marilyn Manson is to excite little kiddies about the land further still with news that he's looking to direct a film based on the life of Lewis Carroll. What's more, the star is hoping to play the Alice In Wonderland author himself. Nothing like hogging the spotlight, is there?»
Can ANYONE get a record deal these days? Chico can...
Irritating X-Factor loser Chico Slimani - the perma-smiling Moroccan that didn't even make the series final - has won himself a record deal with Sony BMG...»
Pumpkins to reform for hometown show?
Word on the 'street', a.k.a. the internet, is that the Smashing Pumpkins are to return to stage-slaying ways this summer, headlining the Chicago leg of the travelling Lollapalooza festival...»
Download headliners announced
The three-day Download Festival, held between the 9th and 11th of June, will be headlined by Trivium, Bullet For My Valentine and The Prodigy. Well, that's the word on the net, anyway...»
More American festival news: Bonnaroo announces great bill
Organisers of the 80,000-capacity Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival, to be held in Manchester (that's in Tennessee, sorry) from June 16th to the 18th, have announced a fantastic line up...»