Damn You! My town's not got gigs as good as these...
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Mike_Diver has written the following articles:
passage, telephone jim jesus at London Spitz, Wed 10 Nov
Part of me simply expected more, y’know? Don’t be a hater.»
Blood Brothers tour dates confirmed
Blood Brothers tour dates. Hopefully they're right...»
YYYs: second show with ace supports
Yeah Yeah Yeahs play another London show. Support bands likely to kick their asses.»
Lisa Scott-Reality TV
MTV goes reality. Dire Straits overheard returning their satellite dishes.»
The Blood Brothers - Crimes
'Crimes' opens with the sound of archaic machinery being switched back on for the first time in a hundred years. It groans, pops and fizzles, before exploding.»
Mercury Rev - A Secret For A Song
'A Secret For A Song' reminds you what all the fuss was about once they'd ditched their drugs and switched their scope from scoring to stellar.»
Trail Of Dead. UK. Do the maths...
Texan rock monsters Trail Of Dead are playing two shows before laying waste to Pontins.»
Public service planned for Peel
DiS readers wishing to pay their respects to John Peel can do so at a public funeral next week.»
28 Costumes - The Fake Death Experience
There’s something special here – a spark that just needs a little encouragement to roar into an uncontrollable inferno – and we need to take it back to the source.»
Chemicals to drop more beats in January
The Chemical Brothers will release their new album, 'Push The Button', in January 2005.»
Death From Above 1979: UK tour dates
Bombastic duo Death From Above 1979 tour the UK in the New Year.»
Head Automatica tour cancelled
You may have read about this on our boards, but we've now had official word from Warner Bros HQ that Head Automatica have had to cancel their UK tour with Lostprophets and their headline show at the Mean Fiddler in London this month.»
Rising Times - All The Way
It swaggers where records by Oasis and their offspring have before, and the band look like NYC castaways, desperate to ride a trend wave or two back to shore.»
Pro Forma - Pro Forma
Pro Forma have teeth big enough to chew through the charts. Of course, it’d be the very coldest day in Hell before such an event happened, but one feels they wouldn’t have it any other way.»
Robbers On High Street - Fine Lines
A full-length based on this thoroughly acceptable first skirmish would be a massive hit with weekly music rag readers. A nice introduction to a potential household name.»
Nirvana: Box Set Specifications, Tracklist and UK Release Date
The much-hyped and long-delayed Nirvana box set will be released in the UK on November 23rd.»
Jason And The Astronauts - The Mourning After Math
The record's rough edges give JatA's debut long player a DIY feeling unmatched by their glossier contemporaries from across the sea. This isn’t acid house, it’s the house on haunted hill...»
Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Tell Me What Rockers To Swallow DVD
A lengthy live performance that'll satisfy fans old and new it may be, but certain essentials - simple atmosphere for one - are lost in the translation from in-the-flesh and in-your-face to 14" portable TV.»
Tom Vek - If You Want
In time Vek will no doubt find his own voice, but for now 'If You Want' is a safe but worthy introduction to a talent that may soon blossom.»
Bear Vs Shark cancel European tour
Michigan-based punk rockers Bear Vs Shark have cancelled their European dates.»
The Eighties Matchbox B-Line Disaster - The Royal Society
Spoon out your pumpkin heads and torch your pretty indie corpses, the undead hordes are here for a hoe-down.»
You've got that McVibe - R Kelly serves burgers
R&B superstar R Kelly surprised drive-thru customers at a St Louis McDonald's when he popped up at the wondow to take their orders.»
Death From Above 1979 - Romantic Rights
Consider this an aphrodisiac for desperate youth, and the natural, evolutionary conclusion of the two-piece r’n’r thang.»
The Earlies - Morning Wonder
A sprawling, rambling low-Earth-orbit space-rock adventure filtered through whatever quasi-alt-country contraption that cosmic crusaders Grandaddy and Mercury Rev frequent so often, 'Morning Wonder' is, well, wonderful.»
Lenny Krapitz - singer's toilet blockage causes "catastrophic damage"
The ghost of Hendrix will be laughing tonight as his wannabe reincarnation managed to tick off neighbours of his Manhatten home by blocking his bog.»
Head Automatica play one-off headline show in addition to Lostprophets dates
Wanna catch superb pop-savvy act Head Automatica but can't stomach those nu-metal twerps Lostprophets? Behold - salvation!»
The Hunches at London Metro, Tue 19 Oct
There’s mania in the air. This is music for bus crashes. What isn’t destroyed will be pulverised by this unholy force of rock and roll. Believe in it, for it is the truth.»
Honey, I got rhythm - Sunday all-dayer promises the ROCK
Sundays can be a slog, can't they? That final day of rest before the grind of the 9-to-5 rears its head once more, to inflict suffering upon you for yet another five days. Go to this show and ease those blues...»
The Murder Of Rosa Luxemburg, Challenger, Minus The Bear at Camden Underworld, Camden Town, Wed 20 Oct
There is no better band in the world right now at this game – splicing genres with such ease, it’s like Minus The Bear have been doing this for 20 years rather than the two and a bit that they've been together for.»