Mike_Diver has written the following articles:
Many a newspaper and website reported last week that Kylie Minogue had been given the all-clear by doctors monitoring her progress following treatment for breast cancer; it now seems, though, that said reports were misinformed...»
Searching For The Wrong-Eyed Jesus follows acclaimed alt-country singer Jim White as he rides a borrowed and battered Chevy Impala through the South few care to wander; past the swamps and roadside bars, Pentecostal churches and small-town prisons that lie all of ten minutes or so from the raised interstate...»
Former Belle & Sebastian member Isobel Campbell releases her collaboration with ex-Screaming Trees singer Mark Lanegan on January 30th. Ballad Of The Broken Seas will be released by V2 and is preceded by a single, 'Ramblin' Man'...»
Capsule have confirmed that their SuperSonic Festival will return this year after a bomb scare closed 2005's event early. The two-day fest' will take place over the 21st and 22nd of July.»
Comedy Celebrity Big Brother blonde Chantelle looks set for a crack at the charts proper following her stay in the house, as record companies are reportedly "queuing up" to sign the sole non-celebrity on the show...»
What's this? Two My Chemical Romance stories in as many days? Let's just say we love our Raz...»
Jenny Lewis is to tour her forthcoming solo record, Rabbit Fur Coat, next month...»
The Give It A Name is to return in 2006. What's more, it's going to be expanded to two days of rocking good times. Well, at least we're hoping good times...»
Boston-based purveyors of what their label is calling "funky-electro-pop-dancey-core", Campaign For Real Time, are to embark on their first-ever UK tour next month alongside fellow Big Scary Monsters act Secondsmile, whose new album (pictured) is out on January 30th...»
Michael Jackson is facing a return to the confines of a courtroom as fresh child abuse allegations have crawled their way from his closet...»
Don’t go mistaking this for a lost relic, some treasure from a time capsule dug up from a Detroit Rock City subway this year but dating back many tens: Let It Bloom may sound quintessentially retro, full of jangling guitars and blurry lo-fi edges, but its punk is of a thoroughly modern bent...»
It seems like an age since Written From Negative last graced attentive ears with their jerky, keyboard-strafing polyrhythms; indeed, their last release to attract attention, a seven-inch through Big Scary Monsters, whetted appetites in such a way that any follow-up was almost certain to seem underwhelming by comparison...»
Chris Brokaw did time in both Codeine and Come – but try telling me that either act released records of unbridled joviality and I’ll slap your face silly – so it seemed natural that this solo album would be of a particularly morose mindset...»
LOL at Dave Grohl, 'cause the Foo Fighters fella is set to become a daddy for the first time...»
The One Earth Concert, due to be held on the 28th January at Cradiff's Millennium Stadium, has been cancelled...»
So Brits fever is beginning to spread across England and Wales like some kind of pubic infestation, but over in Ireland they folks don't give so much as a fuck. Y'see, they've their own prize to discuss down the boozer...»
Elfin queen of Icelandic avant-pop Björk has been named the most eccentric star on the planet in a BBC poll. Well, whatever: I love her like fat kids love pork chops and maple syrup.»
Forthcoming grunge compilation Sleepless In Seattle: The Birth Of Grunge has sidestepped two of the genre's most prominent exponents, Pearl Jam and Nirvana...»
They might have only a single album behind their scrawny frames, but Maximo Park are already limbering up for a rarities release...»
I remember it like it were yesterday: the tears, the sodden tissues, at the news that Mutya Buena was leaving the nation's favourite girl group to look after her wee baby. Selective memory loss has taken care of the need to think about her replacement...»
Mighty fine Chicago jazz-rockin' types Tortoise are to release a three-disc collection or rare songs and remixes in April. The release will feature material from the band's last remix effort, Rhythms, Resolutions and Clusters, alongside tour-only singles and other rarities...»
Avant-garde NYC dance-rock loons Battles - they of John Stanier and Ian Williams membership, formerly of Helmet and Don Caballero respectively - are to release all of their recordings to date as a double-disc set through Warp Records...»
Anthony Mikel Gius, former drummer in the East-West Coast dance-punk collective !!!, died last month in a traffic accident, it was revealed today...»
So Fall Out Boy are the next Funeral For A Jimmy Eat Sunday, apparently - the kids, they've spoken, so who are we to deny them the following bounty? »
Poppy-emo punkasses Panic! At The Disco get off to album-releasing ways in the U-of-K next month, as they drop their body-poppin' debut A Fever You Can't Sweat Out on February 13...»
AM Syndicate drink from the same tainted streams as …Trail Of Dead, and their ambition beyond the constraints of what will sell – of what is deemed fashionable in the world they only co-inhabit – is on a level with any long-forgotten prog-rock beast; their minstrels sing a song born of folk’s own lore, too, when it suits them...»
Every subtle intricacy is balanced by the kind of brutality no pub was ever designed for, that no arena could possibly stomach. Here they build a wall of distorted sound that pierces the eardrums like a spear through a Victoria sponge; there they shed the post-rock postures and adopt a violent hardcore stance...»
Fans over 45 years old attending The Rolling Stones' show at Detroit's Ford Field stadium - part of the Super Bowl - will not be allowed down to the pitch to rock with their idols...»
DiS's favourite Seattle pop-punks (we mean that in a nice way) Pretty Girls Make Graves return to album-releasing ways this April with Elan Vital...»
New albums update: in the pipeline are releases by Massive Attack and former Smiths man Johnny Marr...»
