DiScover Club: tomorrow, Notting Hill, awesome
Another Saturday, another free-entry DiScover Club show at London's Notting Hill Arts Club»
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DiS does dates: the capital's covered
As 2007 nears its end and thoughts turn to Christmas shopping, DiS presents a selection of shows to take your mind off tinsel and turkeys... at least for a wee while»
DiScover: Joe Gideon & The Shark
Playing our DiScover Club this weekend, Joe Gideon & The Shark are sure to appeal to fans of Lift To Experience as their blues-laced alt-country narratives are delivered with engrossing drama»
The Dillinger Escape Plan: calculating aggression vs multiplying melody
With their third album Ire Works mixing their trademark technical prowess with more prominent melodies and electronic facets, The Dillinger Escape Plan are a perfect model of hardcore progression»
Pigeon Detectives: a pretty big deal
Yorkshire band look to kill off the year before heading home for a show in front of 14,000 eyeballs...»
Super Tennis - Super Tennis EP
This EP is a sweet assortment of five pop-fuelled indie tracks that showcase a pretty good new band being pretty good in one pretty good package. Pretty good, then? Yes, pretty much»
The Weekly DiScussion: a talent contest too far?
As another television talent contest for wanna-be-famous musicians, mobileAct unsigned, nears its conclusion, DiS wonders just what the winners are likely to get out of the deal»
DiScover: Paul Marshall
Ahead of his set the DiScover Club in Notting Hill, Leeds-based indie-folk singer Paul Marshall talks Nick Drake, why variety is the spice of his touring life, and less than brilliant DiS reviews»
Sigur Rós - Hvarf-Heim
Yes, your songs are very pretty Sigur Rós, but really: does any one of your fans out there need this collection of acoustic tracks and previously unreleased picks (i.e. cast-offs)? No, they do not»
Kelley Stoltz - Your Reverie
Kelley Stoltz is one of those artists – like Ed Harcourt, I suppose – whose genius is recognised widely by other musicians but whose mainstream appeal isn’t likely to be acknowledged ‘til well after his song-writing prime»
The Two Weeks That Was: a fortnight with the new DiS
Two weeks of the new, improved DiS done and dusted. We'd like to thank you for your patience, and invite you to reacquaint yourselves with the staggering diversity of content that we've run this past fortnight»
The Cribs - Don't You Wanna Be Relevant?
The Cribs have always been masters of infectious indie-rock; that it took the public three albums to be alerted to their charms is indicative of the laziness rife within radio-heads everywhere»
Led Zeppelin reunion show postponed
Led Zeppelin's reunion show - scheduled for November 26 - has been postponed following guitarist Jimmy Page fracturing a finger»
WIN! Peter Bjorn & John swag - tickets and goodies
Wanna see Wichita's Swedish indie-pop sensations Peter Bjorn & John this Sunday, at London's Forum? Well now you can, on us»
Saul Williams at Barden's: advance tickets sold out
Advance tickets for Saul Williams' spoken-word performance at London's Barden's Boudoir venue, on November 7, have sold out»
The Dillinger Escape Plan - Ire Works
Ire Works might be a better album when compared to its predecessor but in the context of noticeable progression it lacks the impact DEP's Miss Machine had in 2004»
Halloween story time: Jarvis reads exclusively for DiS
Welcome, dearest DiSsers, to what we’re calling our Special Halloween Feature. Here, for your ears only, we present an exclusive eerie tale, as told by none other than Jarvis Cocker: Rats»
DiScover Club update: January and February dates confirmed
Exciting free gig news: we've gone and booked our DiScover Club dates for January and February, held as always at London's Notting Hill Arts Club, in conjunction with Rough Trade Shops»
Murcof - Cosmos
Cosmos isn’t an easy record to listen to, let alone grow to love. It’s metallic, hard and sharp of edges; it clunks and grinds, eerie drones dancing atop a bubbling pool of molten microchips»
Audrey, DiS DJs, Yndi Halda, The Monroe Transfer at The Luminaire, London, South East England, Sun 28 Oct
A note for bands playing the Luminaire in future: stick as best you can to the noted stage times or else anyone with a house south of the river and work tomorrow will miss half your headline set. Thanks»
The Weekly DiScussion: cold comfort songs
This week's DiScussion – if the title isn't too much of a giveaway – focuses on songs to while away off-sick-with-a-cold time. After all, something has to fill the space ‘tween Neighbours and Neighbours»
Russian Circles: line-up shift, sign to Suicide Squeeze
Chicago-based intrumental outfit Russian Circles - the band headlined a special DiS show back in the summer - have parted company with bassist Colin DeKupier and signed to Suicide Squeeze»
Haemostatic Picnic Races - Helios! These Are Instructions
Dunno ‘bout you, but my Sundays have been revolutionised by mobileAct Unsigned. On the basis of Helios!, it seems the show's missing one final wildcard in the shape of Haemostatic Picnic Races»
DiScover: Yeasayer
Chris Keating, Anand Wilder, Ira Wolf Tuton and Luke Fasano are Yeasayer, musicians out of time in a modernity obsessed with the now over the next. From Brooklyn the four-piece come, clutching copies of their debut album All Hour Cymbals»
DiS vs Crossfire Halloween boat party: blood, gore, and rock 'n' roll
Calm down, Zombie Horde. You can still get yourself down on the list for next Friday's super-gory zombie-themed boat party, presented by Crossfire and DiS»
Reminder: Audrey and Yndi Halda DiS show, this Sunday
A date for your diary, this Sunday: Stereo Test Kit and DiS present Audrey (pictured), Yndi Halda and The Monroe Transfer at The Luminarie in Kilburn, London»
WIN! Tickets to M.I.A. in December
DiS has a pair of tickets for M.I.A.’s forthcoming December dates in Manchester and London to give away»
Bad Blood Brothers? Seattle punks said to have split
Reports on the internet are suggesting that Seattle-spawned punk quintet The Blood Brothers - much admired by a number of DiS staffers - have split up...»
WIN! Tickets to special Get Cape/Nathan Fake show
DiS has a pair of tickets to give away for tomorrow's special Get Cape. Wear Cape. Fly and Nathan Fake show at London's Industry...»
WIN! Pat Graham's Silent Pictures photography book
DiS has a pair of signed copies of Pat Graham's new Silent Pictures book to give away...»