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There must be something in the air. As well as offering you lot tickets to this year’s The Great Escape festival down in Brighton – click HERE to get in on that action – we’re also giving you the chance to win a fancy VIP booth for you and a load of mates at this Saturday’s Be @ Proud night, in Camden (May 10)»
Hey you! People who aren’t doing ATP on May 16-18. People who like music and the seaside. Wanna go to a festival for free? Wanna go to The Great Escape in Brighton for free? Read on»
DiS hearts Black Lips, and Black Lips hearts DiS right back: the product of this union, something tasty for you to win»
Seattle post-hardcore quartet These Arms Are Snakes - who toured the UK alongside Pelican last year with DiS as a sponsor - have signed to local indie Suicide Squeeze for their third LP after two albums and an EP for Jade Tree»
Bella Union seems a very natural home for Our Broken Garden, the solo project of Danish singer Anna Broensted, as Lost Sailor recalls both Devics and Beach House with its elegiac arrangements»
Black Lips’ Cole Alexander and Jared Swilley assess a smattering of the week’s new singles. Check out the video for their forthcoming ‘Bad Kids’ and UK dates HERE. Their Single of the Week: Scarlett Johansson»
A Bank Holiday Monday it may be but that doesn’t mean the music industry grinds to a halt, oh no… Between peeks at the telly to check on the progress of Mike, Pele, Sly and their mates in Escape To Victory DiS here presents a very curt Chart round-up»
Barry Adamson is a British legend. High praise, backed up by experience: the Manchester-born musician has been a member of both Magazine and Nick Cave’s Bad Seeds. And now he's making us a mixtape»
Dampened though DiS’s shoes and socks most certainly are, we’re refreshed by the breezy brilliance of so many of April’s new releases, among them: Portishead, dEUS, Crystal Castles and The Fall»
With hooks less the size of anchors, more the size of battleships, Torche's second LP Meanderthal is sure to be an album of the year contender amongst critics experiencing the early stages of tinnitus»
From May 6 - that's TODAY! - DiS's UK tour is go. Here we take a look and listen at our three participating acts: The Mae Shi, Johnny Foreigner and The Lionheart Brothers... PLUS WIN TICKETS»
At home in California, Howlin' Rain's Ethan Miller is trying to kick his brain into gear to discuss his new Magnificent Fiend LP, the band's first since the curtain came down on his previous concern, the mighty Comets on Fire»
Sam Sparro is the 24-year-old pop phenomenon whose ‘Black & Gold’ single has stormed the UK top five. With his debut album doing the business too, we play the DiScover Q&A game with the LA-based singer»
With Rival Schools set to tour this summer, both in the UK and in Europe, time seems right to look at a number of key releases - alongside the New York band's pictured United By Fate - from emo's Golden Age, 1997-2001»
Following news earlier today that Coldplay were to give away their new single, in a move comparable to that Radiohead thing of last year, now word reaches DiS - via Wired's blog network - that Metallica are considering dishing out the rock for nowt»
Seriously, it's gross. Don't watch this if you've just eaten your dinner - Triclops! will bring it right back up»
Indie-pop kids in cardigans Vampire Weekend have been forced to postpone their forthcoming show at the Manchester Academy 2»
Clearly no loser given his superstar profile, oddball pop pixie Beck is to play a pair of UK shows ahead of his set at the Wireless Festival at London's Hyde Park on July 4»
Daniel Johnston is to tour in July, backed by some very special musicians»
Album chart-topping quirk-pop trio The Hoosiers head out on their second headline tour of 2008 in October»
Insert your own WOW I AM SUPER EXCITED intro here and read on: for the stage times (subject to change, as always) for the forthcoming ATP vs Pitchfork weekender at the festival's original home, Camber Sands Pontins»
Emma Louise takes her Scout Niblett songwriting guise on tour in May, calling in at three UK venues as part of a Europe-wide jaunt»
Okay, so we're not really sure how new this video is. But we've only just seen it. And you should too. If you like, and if you're as big a fan of Isis as we are (well, I am)»
Midlake's Eric Pulido, guitarist in the Denton-based indie-rock quintet, is to launch his own brand of coffee»
Successful indie-rock sorts Coldplay are to make a new track available as a free single, starting from tomorrow»
With grime in the top five, seems the yoot are taking over... everywhere except the albums chart»
A classic opportunity missed, but 5ive’s classic LP could well be delivered with album four if the Bostonians capitalise on the greatest elements of this mixed adventure through tumultuous instrumetal waters»
Oxfordshire indie label Big Scary Monsters has reached its 50th release, and will celebrate by issuing a special 50 Not Out compilation»
Manchester United's sometime-striker Carlos Tevez is apparently to record a song expressing his love for the title-chasing club... hmmm»
Manchester outfit The Whip tour next month in support of their out-now (but yet to be reviewed here - words expected soon) debut album X Marks Destination»
