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Another month, another DiScover Club at London's Notting Hill Arts Club. The date: Saturday October 20. Again, the show's a free-entry event and open to anyone aged 18 or over. Doors, they're at 4pm, and kick-out time's four hours later. In between, some bands...»
Details of Brighton's Ooosh! Fest for November have been announced...»
Pity the man's feet, do: this Thursday, October 18, Dev Hynes aka Lightspeed Champion will play three sets in one night in London. Let's hope his Oyster's properly topped up...»
Nada Surf are to release their second album for City Slang - their fifth overall - in February. Lucky will come out through Barsuk in the US...»
On Wednesday, DiS opened its doors for readers to submit their own personal reviews of Radiohead's seventh studio album, In Rainbows. Such was the style of its arrival - like you didn't hear about it - that we felt the best way to assess it from a critical perspective was to let the same fans the band were inviting to download it, for whatever they wanted to pay, review and rate it. Here is the final verdict...»
Guillermo Scott Herren, aka Prefuse 73, is fiddling, shuffling in a chair, twisting from left to right, from a stack of blank CDs to a laptop, pen in hand, scribbling. "I was supposed to make all these radio mixes, but I am losing track of what sort of mixes I’m making." He puts everything down, shifts his computer to one side. He and DiS sip water, get talking. We talk Preparations. And then we turn to touring...»
Heart beats double-time back here – TV screen the only eye on a stage hidden by bouncing bodies too many to brave a forward rush. Still, contentment rolls into excitement; rolls into knee-jerk joy: Battles would sound awesome if the listener were stuck in the foyer. Of a building across the street...»
Australians overseas Devastations - who've impressed DiS in the live arena more than once in 2007 - are to play three Irish dates following a series of shows supporting Scout Nibblett...»
I’ll save you the scroll, and the burning sensation that edges towards the centre of your eyeballs after five minutes of squinting at your screen: ten out of ten. There, I did it. Once in a blue moon? I’ve never seen a blue moon...»
It’s odd, isn’t it, how niche labels have diversified of late? Of course, they never set out to plough a singular furrow, but few would expect an act like Fink – singer-songwriter sort, pretty voice, acoustic guitar – to wind up on a label like Ninja Tune...»
This Saturday, October 13, London indie club Silver Rocket marks its 100th gig with a special all-day do at the capital's ICU venue (next to the Albert Hall, innit). DiS has FIVE pairs of tickets to give away to the event, and winners will also pick up a copy of SR's new compilation CD, SR100...»
High On Fire have a new album out this autumn, you know. But fuck that: buy this, and then pick up the self-titled album if you’ve not already. ‘Thunder pop’, so our protagonists proclaim? I’m not buying it. Modern metal has new champions, and their name is Torche...»
As mentioned here, DiS is offering its readers the opportunity to contribute towards the ultimate fans review of Radiohead's In Rainbows, released digitally at a minute past midnight tomorrow morning (October 10, 2007)...»
Electronica-infusing folksters, or traditional musicians toying with modern machinery? Either way, Tunng’s fusing of elements rooted in history and those echoing a future yet to unfold completely has earned them an array of plaudits, and their third and latest LP Good Arrows is one of the year’s finest albums to mix mainstream appeal with avant-garde tendencies. DiS catches up with founder member Sam Genders...»
It ain’t gonna change your life, and it can’t match the impact of Metronomy in the live environment, but ‘Radio Ladio’ is a neat and worthy addition to DJ playlists already rocking to the tunes of DFA 1979 and CSS...»
The London duo’s first release for the ATP label is a two-track picture disc (and download) well worth immediate investigation: pulsing and incessant thud-throbs come from all corners as ‘Bright Tomorrow’ evolves from sparkling beginnings glistening under a winter sun into some slavering beast of a soundscape...»
Nuts magazine has previously awarded Officer Kicks a maximum five-outta-five review. If that doesn’t tell you everything you need to know about their so-fucking-what shtick, nothing will. Leave it alone – the more you scratch the nastier it’ll become...»
Canadian four-piece The Weakerthans release their latest LP, Reunion Tour, later this month...»
DiS-approved solo singer-songwriter House of Brothers has made a free download of his 'Deadman' track available ahead of his linking up with Youthmovies for a section of the Oxford five-piece's current UK tour...»
Enter Shikari - one of the most successful breakthrough bands of the year - are to release a collection of b-sides and rarities in November, entitled The Zone. It's out on November 12 via Ambush Reality...»
Honest and open-hearted, sporadically touching and always pleasantly entertaining, Let’s Drag Our Feet is a joyous indie-rocker from a trio at peace with their creative limitations...»
A soundtrack to a film following the life, and death, of Ian Curtis that isn’t exclusively comprised of Joy Division songs? Interesting, interesting...»
All Tomorrow's Parties is to return to its original Camber Sands site (Pontin's) in May next year (9-11) for a special ATP vs Pitchfork weekender...»
Ten years in the business and still going strong – check out this year’s Make Another World album for the evidence of an all-firing group, still very much full of the fire that comprised their initial catalyst – Idlewild’s decade-up anniversary arrives at a time where retrospect is so very now...»
Perhaps you heard or, at least, felt the shockwave from all the jaws dropping across the music industry: Radiohead have a new album coming, soon, and the kids are doing it for themselves. Now DiS is giving its readers the opportunity to write the ultimate fans review...»
Y’know what’s great? Growing old disgracefully. Cliché though it is, there’s something ever so satisfying about seeing and hearing someone old enough to be your dad out-rock this year’s most-hyped whippersnappers...»
Shortlist magazine has revealed that distributors in the US, working the new Anton Corbijn film Control, asked if Joy Division could perform live at the US premiere...»
It’s easy to hear why Montreal’s Land Of Talk have captured the ears of a fair few indie-rock kids on blocks both sides of the Atlantic: the trio’s sweet melodies and punchy guitar lines echo an indefinite number of other acts, peers if you will, who have already achieved a certain level of success...»
The north of England has quite the modern post-punk heritage: This Aint Vegas, The Futureheads, ¡Forward, Russia! and Dartz have each made waves of impression, albeit lapping at differing heights, and now Leeds-based Wintermute seem set to follow in said bands’ footsteps...»
Sometimes we feel like being nice at DiS. Usually after our third cuppa and a Hob Nob. (Sam, where are the biscuits?) This is one such time: have some tickets to some great shows, on us...»
