A single day's London Holiday for Her Space's Bianchi
Marc Bianchi's Her Space Holiday play a one-off show in London next month following European dates with The Go! Team...»
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New label Reveals all at launch gigs
Reveal Records of Derby have launched their own record label...»
Festival buses raise £10k for charity
Music fans that used the shuttle bus service at this year's Leeds Festival have played a part in the raising of £10,000 for charity...»
Beck set back: Guero remix delayed
The remix version of Beck's Guero has been delayed until the new year...»
Constantines at London Camden Barfly, Sun 13 Nov
Fists are pumped and hands are clapped with a kind of joyful enthusiasm rarely seen at London shows – few present assume the Crossed Arms, Unimpressed Frown position favoured by the standard gig-goer round these parts...»
Chaser shots and polka dots: on the p*ss with The Pipettes
An afternoon spent necking premium lager alongside accommodating cohorts has ensured that our meeting with The Pipettes is both delayed and characterised by the smell of our own breath. Newcomers to our company would assume we'd spent many of the preceding hours on a drink-all-you-like brewery tour...»
Check this Sh*t, again: comp' and tour news
The plucky punks at Play Dead fanzine have released another compilation, cunningly entitled The Sh*t Volume 2. What's more, there's a tour to coincide with the release...»
Wives leave Britain in divorce: LA trio split
LA-based punks Wives, whose 'Erect The Youth Problem' is one of this DiS writer's favourite records of the year (only behind Saul Williams in the grand scheme of things), have called it quits...»
Deftones - B-Sides and Rarities
This double-disc release – one CD, one DVD – could not have been better timed: Deftones have been quiet throughout 2005, their raucous racket silenced in the wake of front man Chino Moreno’s Team Sleep project, but there’s a new studio record on the horizon, and Christmas stockings to fill. If that makes B-Sides and Rarities sound like a stop-gap buck-spinner, then good: it’s precisely that...»
Nirvana - Sliver: The Best of the Box
Ignore this and the legacy will survive, at least temporarily, with some credibility intact. Kurt knew his way about a pop song, but there's simply not enough substance to such writing to warrant this needless re-packaging of nothing much in the first place...»
Cinema shooting sees 50 Cent movie pulled
A 30-year-old man was shot dead at a cinema in Homestead, Pennsylvania on Wednesday night (November 9th), leading to the multiplex's management pulling 50 Cent's film Get Rich Or Die Tryin' from their screens...»
65daysofstatic, Komakino, Mohair, Misty's Big Adventure, Emmy the Great at Islington Academy, Islington, Thu 10 Nov
Others will tell you that 65daysofstatic’s time is now, but I disagree: their achievements to date are commendable and no mistake, but there’s another echelon or two to their sound yet to be revealed...»
Durst: "mistakez are blessingz"
Fred Durst has said that he's not so happy with the release of Limp Bizkit's new compilation, Greatest Hitz. Apparently he'd rather have released one of the band's already finished new records. Yes, that implies there's more than one. Be afraid...»
Kathy Cash unhappy with dad's bio-pic
Kathy Cash, daughter of the late Johnny Cash, walked out of a screening of the forthcoming bio-pic Walk The Line claiming that it portrayed her mother in a less-than-favourable light...»
Gabriel talks up Genesis reformation
Former Genesis singer turned Sledgehammer-rocking clay man turned oddball beardy in a giant bubble, Peter Gabriel, has told Rolling Stone that there's a real possibility of the old Genesis line-up getting back together...»
Bring the noise: all-dayer info, WIN TICKETS
Just how much rock can a single pair of ears take on a Sunday afternoon? We can't say for sure; all we know is that this line-up is likely to test even hardened listening gear... »
Monsters get merry, too Scary for Santa?
Much-rockin' label of choice Big Scary Monsters throws a series of parties this festive season, calls 'em a tour, and makes up a nice CD to boot. What luverly folks...»
Matt Pond PA play debut UK shows
Acclaimed Philadelphia-based quartet Matt Pond PA arrive in the UK later this month for their first British shows...»
Further celebrity bitching: Waterman vs Doherty
YES! Silver-haired pop gnome Pete Waterman has finally confirmed what many of us had feared: Pete Doherty is a bit rubbish...»
Champ dates in full: get there, rock out
Rock action cometh to select towns this winter with the arrival of San Fran super-riffers The Fucking Champs...»
Jenny Lewis gets (Rabbit Fur) coat, goes solo
Silky-voiced front lady of Rilo Kiley, Jenny Lewis, is to release her solo debut in January 2006...»
Nada to do? Watch band, download single...
Indie-poppers Nada Surf begin their UK tour this week, and have announced details of a download-only single...»
Chaotic? Nah, just mixed up: Britney's new record
Britney Spears, currently lighting up Sunday afternoons with her Chaotic 'reality' show, is to release a remix record... or is she?»
Pink: loves Osbourne, loathes J-Lo
Pink's not been in the press for a while... I wonder what she's up to... oh...»
Justin Darkness buys own album to plug potential leak
The Darkness front man Justin Hawkins has splashed out some £350 for a copy of his own record to stop the new songs leaking to the public...»
Noel blows off, again: British bands are shite
Another week, another A-lister taking swipes at those beneath them... or something: Noel G has told an Aussie radio station that British bands are rubbish...»
Oxes - Oxes EP
Oxes carve out what could be considered math rock in its basic execution, but strip the genre of its more tiresome confines, prioritising amplification and fun over any strict timekeeping...»
Fans mob Green Day at DVD premiere
Green Day were surrounded by screaming fans at the premiere of their new DVD in Leicester Square yesterday evening...»
Madonna returns to her Palace
Madonna will plug her new record, Confessions On A Dancefloor (pictured), with a one-off show at Camden's Koko...»
Gervais bags Bowie and Martin... maybe
Ricky Gervais has roped David Bowie and Coldplay's Chris Martin into appearing in his second series of Extras....»