EM' lose the Idlewild of their I
Scottish rockers Idlewild have parted company with Parlophone/EMI after almost ten years with the label...»
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Peter's treaters: latest tabloid talk
Peter Andre is the sexiest man in the world I tell ya...»
Britney: swapping sleepless nights for Broadway lights?
Recent mother and full-time popular recording artist Britney Spears is reportedly in talks with theatreworld bigwigs about a starring role in a Broadway musical...»
Link Wray away: power chord man died this month
Link Wray, the guitarist credited with inventing the power chord, died earlier this month. It is thought that he died back on November 5th; a private funeral was held on the 18th...»
KoRn - Twisted Transistor
'Twisted Transistor' (charmingly crap title, that) is an admirably stripped-down take on the band's crunching nu-metal of the late 1990s. It bobs along quite inoffensively for three or so minutes, barking when it needs to and incorporating all manner of odd squelches and squeaks into the predictable-enough archaic riffs...»
Fuck Off Machete - If Gold Was Silver and Silver Was Gold
'If Gold Was Silver and Silver Was Gold' is the Scottish group's first release for the predominantly electro label Highpoint Lowlife...»
Freeze! Madonna's 'Frozen' the product of plagiarism
Bad news for the current queen of the UK album and single charts: Madonna's 1998 hit 'Frozen' is the product of straight-up plagiarism according to courts in Belgium...»
Stevens steps into Billie's boots
The lads mags' favourite pop-musak munchkin Rachel Stevens is to appear in a Dr Who spin-off called Torchwood...»
Bono: U2 will rattle and hum for a hundred years
U2's Bono has told an American television show that his band's music will stand the test of time, and some...»
All that you can leave behind: DiScover Adam Gnade
DiS has stumbled across a fair few talents over the past eleven months, but few have made an impact upon these particular ears in the manner of Adam Gnade’s Run, Hide, Retreat, Surrender. Here, the singer - the talker - explains the stories behind his record, and discusses his literal and metaphysical travels...»
Wives at London Buffalo Bar, Sun 20 Nov
The End requires no elaboration, no particularly purple prose or inspired prefix born of emotive reaction. It is simply what it says, in black and white, read and understood: The End, Game Over, Full Stop, Fade to black, Roll Credits. Wives' end, though, arrives in far from perfect circumstances...»
Aguilera and Bratman, sitting in a tree...
Quite possibly, actually, as the pair are getting married on the edge of a forest...»
Girls Aloud: bunch of arse
Kimberly Walsh of top pop totty (can we say 'totty' here? Yeah? Okay...) Girls Aloud has claimed that band mate Nicola Roberts is obsessed with her behind...»
Guns unload another Greatest Hits; new album nowhere to be seen
Guns N Roses are to release a greatest hits compilation, their second such release in as many years...»
Kelly Osbourne in "rich person doesn't need to work" shocker!
She's in rehab, she's out, she gets a house for her birthday, she's in rehab, her dad flashes his arse and her mum's all moist for some talent-show c*nt... welcome, ladies and gents, to the latest Kelly Osbourne news...»
Beth Orton gets intimate
Beth Orton will preview songs from her forthcoming new album over three nights at London's Spitz venue...»
WIN: Robyn G Shiels albums
Win! A copy of a record! A good record! A really good record! Win!»
Hundred Reasons offer fans-in-bands chance to feature on split single
Hundred Reasons are offering their fans, those that play in bands anyway, the chance to feature beside them on a split single...»
The Nightmare starts here: ATP running order and times in full
DiS isn't usually one to get in a frothy-mouthed frenzy a good fortnight before an event, but ATP's The Nightmare Before Christmas has got us all doo-lally and desperate to spread JOY and SUNSHINE and, um, sweets. D'ya like Skittles? Tough, cos we don't have any...»
Banhart joins ATP curators
Happy-strumming folkie fella Devendra Banhart has been announced as the final curator at next year's United Sounds Of ATP event at Camber Sands...»
How does one write a backwards 'R' on this thing?
Korn are to launch their new album, See You On The Other Side, with a one-off show in London...»
Tour round up: Editors, Test Icicles, Coldcut!
Some tours. That's it. Simple. Not one comment about any act's quality. Or about re-releases. Nope. Nothing...»
Taking it back to their roots: TBS play small(ish) shows
Emo superstars Taking Back Sunday have announced a couple of intimate shows for January...»
Rough Trade reminder: akron/family at 1pm
A quick reminder for London-based readers without a lot on today: akron/family perform at Rough Trade in Covent Garden at 1pm this afternoon...»
Further dates for Josh Pearson - do NOT miss
We're not particularly subtle when it comes to music we like - hopefully you've noticed - so please, pay attention now and do as intructed: see Josh Pearson in the flesh...»
Islands release debut album: former Unicorns ride again
Islands, the new project of one-time Unicorns fella Nick Diamond (alongside J'aime Tambeur), are to release their debut album through Rough Trade in January...»
Mogwai name new record
Mogwai, who recently sold out five nights at London's ICA, have made public the title of their forthcoming fifth studio album (that's discounting the sessions and remixes and extended EPs, the busy wee boys)...»
Vice Gallery opens with Zinner show - WIN FAN-ONLY PASSES
Yeah Yeah Yeahs guitarist Nick Zinner is to play a part in the launch of a new gallery in London... WIN TICKETS...»
Thunderbirds Are Now! - Just A Mustache
Place the positive beside the negative and what do you achieve? Balance, exactly: this is something that Detroit's Thunderbirds Are Now! have learned over their three years as a band, and their first release for the Frenchkiss label, Just A Mustache, is the wonderfully sweet and sour result...»
Robyn G Shiels - A Lifetime Of Midnights
We're made fully aware that this isn't Blunt C(o)untry within the first ten seconds of album opener, 'We Are Of Evil': if the title wasn't enough to imply that Shiels is a man unlikely to sing of the simple, cookies and cream aspects of love and a life spent striving for it, then a handful of bloodcurdling howls and the sound of a drum being kicked down a flight of stairs should stimulate aural receptors into a state of alert...»