Wireless Festival - more names announced
More names have been announced for this year's Wireless Festival, to be held in London's Hyde Park on the 24th, 25th, 29th and 30th of June.»
Articles
Mike_Diver has written the following articles:
Kids Near Water - Cave Bear Is Flying Panda
This second full length proves doubters utterly wrong. Preconceptions need leaving at the door – dare you bring them inside, expect them to be knocked for six. Here songs are fraught with a previously untapped aggression; vocals confident and consistent; guitars savage and thirsty for blood.»
Happy Tree Friends - Happy Tree Friends: Third Strike DVD
And the lesson learned here? Never let the Teletubbies get their paws inside the kitchen drawer. The crimson-coloured fallout is unimaginably horrific…»
The Blood Brothers at London Astoria 2 formerly Mean Fiddler, Wed 23 Mar
Listen between the lines of chatter – the manic barking of miniature hell-hounds made human – and there’s something discernible, something appropriate:
“You said it’s dangerous to be so intimate.”»
Jonathan King released on parole
Jonathan King will be released on parole tomorrow, after serving less than half of his seven-year jail sentence...»
Motorhead: 30th anniversary 'Bomber' show and winter tour
Motorhead are to bring their Bomber back to Hammersmith this June, and also play Download and a HUGE winter tour.»
Quasi tour in April
Two-piece indie-rockers Quasi return to the UK in April for a short tour.»
Jimmy Eat World at London Astoria, Tue 22 Mar
Two years ago, nobody could have predicted that the recycling - the bleeding if you will - of a successful crossover record could lull the very same first-time fans, be they old-school or otherwise, into a similar state of admiration.»
We Rock Like Girls on tour PLUS free singles for lucky punters...
The all-girl six-legged rock monster that is We Rock Like Girls Don't rolls out for a handful of gigs this month and next in support of new single, 'I Just Wanna Stick My Head In The Bass Drum'...»
Enon - Lost Marbles And Exploded Evidence
Never entirely fitting fickle musical fashions, Enon have operated on the fringes of perceived ‘cool’ for some six years, and if there’s one thing this collection illustrates it’s that throughout that time they’ve maintained a high level of quality.»
Kasabian - Club Foot
‘Club Foot’ is in your face all right, but packs all the punch of a freshly discarded wank rag - the pleasure’s over in seconds, but the stench remains until the offending item is binned.»
Blood Brothers competition winners - here!
Blood Brothers competition winners listed here. If your name's down, sit tight and await an email...»
Patti Smith to curate Meltdown 2005
Patti Smith is to curate this year's Meltdown Festival.»
odd nosdam - Untitled Three
As a curtain raiser for forthcoming full length Burner, this is both initially enticing and subsequently engrossing.»
This Aint Vegas - Escape / The Onlookers Surround
Those ‘in the know’ won’t need telling, but for those that aren’t: this is a must-have release, so go get.»
Prefuse 73 - Surrounded By Silence
...much of this album treads already shallow water, so much so that it’s hard to find critical praise for one-time pioneering distorted melodies and glitch-beats that are now basically recycled.»
A Tale Of Two Trails
DiS gets up close and personal with the frontmen of Texas trailblazers ...Trail Of Dead, Conrad Keely and Jason Reece. In the process we learn about art, eBay rip-offs and the mounting of hearts upon stakes. Us, scared? Sh*tting it, mate...»
Smile Around Your Face: Four Tet returns
Kieran Hebden - better known as Four Tet - returns to record-releasing ways in April with a new 12", Smile Around The Face.»
Towering beauty and titanic tremors: Mono tour the UK
Officially the finest purveyors of emotional instrumental rock music in the world (according to these ears anyway), Japanese quartet Mono tour the UK in May.»
Lil' Kim faces five years in jail after perjury conviction
Lil' Kim has been convicted of perjury following charges that she lied to a grand jury investigation into a shooting back in 2001.»
Dinosaur Jr - Dinosaur / You're Living All Over Me / Bug
Immortality established, reunion imminent; what better time is there for a trio of Dinosaur Jr reissues?»
Love Rhyming? Win Car Wrecks! Blood Brothers giveaway...
DiS has been offered five copies of The Blood Brothers' new EP, Love Rhymes With Hideous Car Wreck, to give away to YOU, our loyal readers.»
Another day, another festival: Carling go 24-hour crazy
Carling are again putting on a 24-hour series of gigs. This time though, they're doing it in TWO (wow, count them...) places!»
The Sound Explodes through March and April
Cheeky young rock 'n' roll scamps The Sound Explosion have announced a whopping tour to coincide with the release of their self-titled debut album, due for release on Match 28th through the ever-excellent Captains Of Industry stable.»
...Bender - Bender
As serene as it is sinister, …Bender’s debut long-play effort will entrance all but the most blighted of souls. Sure there are demons here, each one awaiting a fresh victim, but see them off with vigour and you’ll have yourself one of the most rewarding listens around.»
Dead Meadow at London Camden Barfly, Tue 15 Mar
...we’re in stoner rock territory, and the stoners are making their presence smelt.»
In Da Church: God speaks to Fiddy through ex-Korn man
Recently 'reborn' former Korn man Brian 'Head' Welch has said that he wants to 'save' rapper 50 Cent.»
Cut & Paste: rockin' good fun this Saturday!
Stuck for something to do with your evening this Saturday? Fancy some rock action so severe it'll rip your face off and smear salt water into your exposed flesh? No? Us neither, which is why we're going to the DiS-approved/featuring Cut & Paste instead.»
All You Need Is Luton: airport writes Beatles lyric on its walls
Words from The Beatles' 'All You Need Is Love' are to be written on the walls of Luton airport.»
Queens of The Stone Age - Little Sister
A-grade he may be, but it’s indefinite detention for Homme until he gets his substance-enhanced swagger back, naturally or otherwise.»