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Dukes fall victim to tour hazards: Glasgow off
Bad news for Glasgow-based Marmaduke Duke fans: the semi-mysterious roock outfit have cancelled their show in the city (November 19th). »
We Fink this'll be good: Orenda and Mayday on tour
Former Azure Ray singer Orenda Fink is to tour her solo material alongside fellow Saddle Creek-ers Mayday in December...»
Picastro care, metal or not: tour forthcoming
Avant-folkies Picastro follow the similarly musically inclined Akron/Family to the UK this month, even appearing on the same bill as the Young God Records outfit...»
Kylie cleared for Christmas homecoming
Doctors in Paris have given cancer-troubled singer Kylie Minogue clearance to return to her native Australia for Christmas...»
Fiddy flick posters pulled after complaints
Posters advertising 50 Cent's forthcoming motion picture debut, Get Rich Or Die Tryin', have been pulled from billboards in Philadelphia following multiple complaints...»
Join the Family: Akron on tour
Highly acclaimed weirdo-folk four-piece Akron/Family tour the UK this month in support of their new split LP with Angels of Light...»
Goldfrapp: big trap
Alison Goldfrapp, currently at number nine in the singles chart with 'Number 1', has badmouthed Madonna, being the difficult target she is and all...»
Mi and L'au - Mi and L'au
Truly music best experienced alone, Mi and L’au is a work of wonderful understatement and subtlety, but one that needs its breathing space to exist beyond any short-term artist-audience relationship...»
Messer Chups - Crazy Price
Messer Chups may hail from the epic expanse of Russia – or Germany, the press release is a little confusing – but their sound is as indebted to the madcap metal histrionics of Fantomas as it is the b-movie horror-cum-sci-fi flicks that they plunder their vocal samples from....»
Early Man - Closing In
Originality? Pah, who needs that pretentious artsy shit when rocking's as good as this?»
Itch, One Toy Soldier, Caterpillar Ghost at London The Betsey Trotwood, Thu 03 Nov
Time is running out and there’s a mighty problem brewing: the majority of tonight’s crowd is loitering about the venue’s cramped but comfortable bar, yet the bands – fifty per cent of Swedish headliners Caterpillar Ghost aside – are conspicuous by their alarming absence...»
Bourne still milking the Busted angles
Silly-haired singer of Son Of Dork James Bourne, he of former Busted fame, has yet again had a go at former bandmate Charlie Simpson, so sayeth The Sun...»
Hold (Shots) Fire(d): win albums, don't buy them
WIN! The debut album from Kansas rockers Shots Fired...»
Part Chimp, Bullet Union, Comanechi at London Cargo, Mon 31 Oct
Call them a one-trick pony of you will, but I won’t be there to back you up when Part Chimp's mates come by and break your nose. Toffee apples, too, are a considerably more difficult proposition when you’ve no front teeth to speak of…»
Thunderbirds are here!
Synth-punk buzzband Thunderbirds Are Now! hit the UK at the end of the month, bringing their hip-shaking good times with 'em (we assume)...»
Josh T Pearson at London Buffalo Bar, Thu 27 Oct
A shuffle, a sigh, another quip; then, song. Silence spreads from front to back as chatterboxes close for business: out to lunch, back in 30 minutes, do not disturb...»
Giant Drag - Kevin Is Gay
A nasal whine with a simple fuzz-guitar backing is hardly rocket science - weren't we here in 1992? - but 'Kevin Is Gay' doesn't require any noticeable originality to succeed in charming the listener...»
Roots Manuva - Awfully De/EP
Dear The Uninitiated, please hop on here...»
Know your Enemy: Chuck and company tour
Legendary rap outfit Public Enemy are to tour the UK in the spring of 2006, following a one-off show at the Forum in London on 16th November 2005...»
Awesome: B Boys drop fan-filmed flick
A Beastie Boys documentary is to be submitted to the Sundance film festival, in the hope of raising the project's profile prior to any widespread release....»
Make Believe - Shock Of Being
Members of the indier-than-most club should already be up to speed with this particular project: Make Believe are Joan Of Arc with different songs, basically, and the difference between Shock Of Being and last year’s JoA effort …Mark Twain… is absolute from the outset...»
Fleeing New York - Hollywood Bowl
Worthwhile word-of-mouth flavour of the last Lord-knows-how-many months, or needlessly praised toilet circuit veterans undeserving of critical salvaging? Until 'Hollywood Bowl' lit up the stereo like the Blackpool Illuminations (or maybe St Marys ladies' rouge-tinted front windows, considering the act in question), these ears forever followed the latter latitude...»
Bovaflux - Where There Was Nothing
That Eddie Symons a.k.a. Bovaflux spends his nine-to-five bolt upright in front of a monitor crafting video games is no surprise whatsoever...»
Numbers - We're Animals
Here's a little review brought to you by the numbers four, eleven and three, as well as the letter N...»
Minus The Bear, Darediablo at London Camden Underworld, Wed 02 Nov
That Seattle’s Minus The Bear find their Evening’s Highlight status usurped by a four-eyed guitar maverick and a brace of drum-thwacking and organ-mashing comrades is a strange occurrence indeed...»
Eels - The Trouble With Dreams
Mr E's retellings of his very lowest lows should've worn tiresome and translucent by now - some years after the manic depression of Electro-Shock Blues, Eels' comedy/tragedy USP, by all rights, should be the stuff of self-parody.»
Lightning Bolt - Hypermagic mountain
It's madness, but you want - nay, need - it to consume you wholly. Lightning Bolt no longer trade in any other currency; their dollar bills are stained neon and purple, psychedelic and royal, thoroughly twisted and yet, at their core, just another lofty part of the establishment.»
Peculiar pop 'til we drop
"Shut up!" hollers a voice from the front of the crowd, perfectly vocalising the annoyance of a few hundred Deerhoof fans trying to enjoy a typically peculiar set of skewed pop over a din of persistent bar-side chatter. A few hours earlier three members of Deerhoof - Satomi Matsuzaki, Chris Cohen and John Dieterich - sit around a table with DiS, talking pavements and Dungeons & Dragons...»
The Past Presents: Spider Bites, Intense Fans, Polish Grammy Winners
"The first version of the new record just sounded like a bad R Kelly record."
DiS catches up with Her Space Holiday mainman Marc Bianchi, but has to traverse London's sweltering public transport system first...»