SOAD man embarks on side project
Daron Malakian, guitarist in bonkers political punkers System Of A Down, has announced that he is to pursue a side project during SOAD downtime...»
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Bon Jovi narrowly avoid aeroplane demise
Popular-with-your-mum rockers Bon Jovi were this close to being blown to ittybitty pieces on Saturday (21 January), when their private jet skidded off the runway upon landing in Hamilton, Canada...»
Loose Lips returns after lengthy hiatus
The sixth issue of the much-celebrated Loose Lips Sink Ships, the music/photography magazine helmed by Stevie Chick and Steve Gullick, is to be released on January 30th...»
Charlotte Hatherley quits Ash
Indie-boy poster gal Charlotte Hatherley has called time on her Ash career, reports NME.com...»
October All Over, Comanechi, Damn Arms at London Metro, Thu 19 Jan
Comanechi live where grunge went to die; in some barren, dusty part of the world where few men fear to tread (without a plaid shirt and shoulder-length hair, anyway)...»
Mogwai hit back at NME through website
Mogwai, recently dealt a bad hand by the NME in a review of forthcoming single 'Friend Of The Night', have hit back at the music weekly through their website...»
Arctic Monkeys give TOTP the cold shoulder; gear up for album release
NO! To Top Of The Pops. YES! To the fastest-selling rock record EVER...»
Former N*SYNCers to get real(ity)
Former NSYNC stars Lance Bass and Joey Fatone are to live together for a new reality television show, provisionally titled Out Of Sync. See what they did there?»
Wilson Pickett pegs it
Soul singer Wilson Pickett has died of a heart attack, aged 64...»
Childs plays: Euros on tour
Gorky's' frontman Euros Childs is touring like some kind of bat out of deepest Wales in March to promote his forthcoming solo record, Chops...»
Cat Power - The Greatest
Chan Marshall could sigh her way through the side of a cough medicine box, each polysyllabic chemical name sounding sexier and sexier as she draws hard on a cigarette she doesn’t need for effect, and it’d be worth your free listening time...»
Meet up for the Break Up: The Research do small shows
Yorkshire glum-poppers The Research celebrate the release of their quite splendidly sombre, albeit in a top-poppin' way, debut album Breaking Up with a series of small shows in London and Leeds...»
Get made up, again: Make Up release live record
Seminal art-punk types The Make-Up are to release a live record next month...»
Axl reckons album's almost done, plus Vines and Placebo new record news...
Guns N Roses mentalist Axl Rose has told Rolling Stone that the long-delayed Chinese Democracy WILL be released this year...»
Monsters of Rock returns
The UK will hold the Monsters Of Rock festival this summer for the first time since 1996...»
Ampop, The Beautiful New Born Children at London 93 Feet East, Tue 17 Jan
The Beautiful New Born Children aren’t from around here – they persistently ask the crowd – every member of which has taken two steps back from the bespectacled frontman with the fiery eyes – to guess where they’re from...»
Digital Hardcore go it alone: label breaks from distributors
Digital Hardcore has elected to go it alone in 2006, and will now distribute their own records in a totally DIY fashion...»
The really magic Numbers on tour
San Fran' weirdo-pop punkers Numbers head our way in February for a whole bunch o' dates about the country...»
2005's Grand Stakes: those that fell aren't forgotten
The last twelve months robbed music fans of many an unique band; of many a favourite, whatever the level of exposure afforded them. Here, Mike Diver picks out five bands that parted company in 2005, but that still warrant investigation by those that never had the chance to hear them...»
West Country rockers roll into town for a Friday night noisefest
Like we'd address Mr Mourinho if he were here in our ivory DiS tower, we're calling this coming Friday's DiS-associated evening of Silver Rocket-booked rock action The Special One. If you're from Bristol way, you might want to check the line-up... »
Clap Your Hands Say Yeah! - Clap Your Hands Say Yeah!
There’s just a single, glaringly-obvious-from-a-first-listen obstacle preventing the listener from fully immersing him or herself in this debut album: ‘singer’ Alec Ounsworth can’t sing, at all...»
ATuPdate: new bands, fresh excitement!
Not a week can pass right now without our DiS inboxing pinging to the sound of further ATP additions. Today, we've had word that Lightning Bolt have been added to the twin-weekend event. So, with that in mind, here's a summary of who's playing what day, so far... »
Go see the 'Gwai: tour dates and ticket info in full
Scottish guitar army types Mogwai tour these fair isles through March and April, following their sell-out run at London's ICA...»
The Beautiful New Born Children - Hey People!
Brief encounters are rarely so fleeting: at less than 25 minutes long, Hey People! (exclamation mark essential) is as brash and trashy an introduction to Domino’s latest (j)angular punk-rockers as anyone could’ve secretly hoped for...»
The Secret's out: massive Machine tour in March
Proggy-rockers The Secret Machines have announced a whopping tour for March/April, to promote their forthcoming album Ten Silver Drops. A 12", 'Alone, Jealous And Stoned' is released this week...»
Sir Paul rejects Brit Award honour
Sir Paul McCartney reportedly turned down the Brit Awards' Outstanding Contribution to Music gong for fear of seeming past it...»
Whispers, moans? The Gossip play a pair of capital gigs
Struttin' punks The Gossip are to play a brace of shows in London to announce the arrival of their quite splendidly rocking new record, Standing in the Way of Control...»
Saddle up: Two Gallants in town
Really quite folk-rockin' duo Two Gallants return to the UK next month to support the release of What The Toll Tells, out through Saddle Creek on February 13th...»
The Independent gets indie: new supplement coming
The Independent is to follow in The Observer's footsteps by including a supplement focusing on music - particularly 'independent' music, read on - four times a year...»
Radiohead to headline V Festival?
Gigwise.com is today reporting that Radiohead are to headline this year's V Festival...»