Beach House: on tour in November
Baltimore-based lullaby-pop duo Beach House are touring the UK next month in support of their self-titled debut album, released through Bella Union only weeks ago...»
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Nasty Fest 8: Deerhunter, Nine Black Alps and more for Leeds all-dayer
The DiS-supported Nasty Fest returns to Leeds' Faversham early next month, and tickets for the all-day do are available for just £12 now...»
Yeasayer: debut album due, tour dates confirmed
Neo-pop-prog four-piece Yeasayer brightened some of London's dankest basements when they played the capital in August, and now the band are returning for what can only be called a proper tour. Good form...»
Jeffrey Lewis: touring this month
He's the anti-folker with a love of Crass and he's touring in a wee while for a wee while...»
Craaaaig David: south coast star returns
Southampton-spawned (sorry?) popster Craig David will return to the charts next month with his first releases for some 18 months, that odd Kano collaboration aside...»
The Weekly DiScussion: Radio 1 at 40
Hopefully it hasn’t escaped your attention that The Nation’s Favourite, Radio 1, has reached something of a milestone. Forty years in the business, the BBC’s premiere pop station is marking its anniversary with a mildly irritating Est 1967 campaign. What we want to know is: what does Radio 1 mean to you today, and is it, as Colin Murray reckons, “the world’s greatest radio station”...»
DEP forced to postpone UK dates
New Jersey metalheads The Dillinger Escape Plan have postponed their already rescheduled UK dates for next month following an injury to guitarist Ben Weinman...»
Kate Nash - Mouthwash
Kate Nash likes tea, cups of the stuff. She’s also pretty keen on her freckles – she’s a few of them, too. Me too as it happens. Although quite what you care about this, I dunno; chances are you don’t, which leads me to…»
Jim White: the blues ain't so bad no more
Jim White turned 50 this year. Half a century down, perhaps another to come. It’s a milestone many reach, but White was once unsure about making it to such an age. DiS's Mike Diver speaks to the alt-country icon about his new LP and life on the road, and more importantly what has to be left behind...»
The Verve announce extra dates
The Verve have announced live dates for December following their sold-out November shows...»
Abdominal - Abdominal Workout
Fun times preoccupy Abdominal, Canadian emcee riding DJ Format beats. Though the British summer slipped by with nary a week of blessed sunshine left unscathed by passing gloom and torrential downpours, our rapping protagonist cares little for the downers that pepper the day-to-day; instead, backed by the kind of arrangement designed only to get nerve endings sparking, he sets about putting a smile on the faces of those dampened of spirit...»
Meet Me In St. Louis, Cutting Pink With Knives, Lovvers at Barden's Boudoir, Hackney, Thu 27 Sep
You keep your rock and I’ll keep mine, ta. Mine knows how to, y’see. What can yours do? ‘Very Ape’. Oh sure, ha ha, clever clever. Fuck you...»
The Blackout - The Beijing Cocktail
Fuck sake lads, you’re from Merthyr Tydfil, not the Mid West. You are not Lostprophets, either; we’ve one of those already. So your point is…»
Metro Manila Aide - The Queen Bee EP
Newcomers with ideas beyond what’s deemed conventional, take note: your grand designs, unless spectacular in their construction – sensory stimulation on an unprecedented level – are almost always doomed to failure...»
A Month In Records: September 2007
And so you might well spit, Jose, at the manner of your premature departure from the Bridge. But cry thee not, our Portuguese special one: the month of your skedaddling from a sinking ship coincides with the release of many – and that really is many – a fine album. Here are the must-own LPs in our eyes. Or ears, we guess...»
Botch - We Are The Romans (Deluxe Edition)
It’s absolutely right of Hydra Head to repackage Romans for a new audience, chucking in the now traditional extras to appease those long-termers with wagging fingers and mumblings of ‘sell outs’...»
Gravenhurst - The Western Lands
Before listening to The Western Lands I was – wrongly – under the impression that the Nick Talbot-fronted four-piece Gravenhurst was a folk act, albeit one with a few tricks up its sleeve (or why else the Warp signing?)...»
Silver Rocket at 100: special all-dayer this month
Celebrated London indie clube Silver Rocket is to mark its 100th show with an all-day bash at the capital's Imperial College Union...»
Pinback - Autumn Of The Seraphs
And so, although it’s unlikely to be as celebrated as Wincing The Night Away, for example, come the end of the year, this acclaimed but relatively low-profile act from America’s west coast have successfully birthed the year’s brightest indie-pop album. Crap artwork, mind...»
Tonight: Manatees, Charlottefield and more at London DiS show
Another day, another plug, but with good reason: the double-header of Manatees and Charlottefield is simply too good to not pimp 'til it's dazed and confused with knickers about ankles...»
DiScover: Zettasaur
Zettasaur are four men from Brighton making a mighty punk-rock racket; their listed influences, including 90 Day Men and Part Chimp, might give you some idea of the direction their squall can take. Also, that the foundations for the band were laid following a visit to the thrice-yearly ATP Festival should solidify the notion forming in your mind that Zettasaur can rock, ever so well...»
Sonic Cathedral at London Kilburn The Luminaire, Tue 25 Sep
Sadly this evening much of their promise fails to conjure a delivery worth raving about. A pleasant affair though their set is, one to tap a toe and sup a brew to, it’s not quite as sold. ‘Yet’ is a particularly operative word, though...»
Touring NOW: Youthmovies and Adam Gnade
On tour, from this evening through 'til next month: DiS's Youthmovies and US spoken-word poetic dude Adam Gnade (pictured). Buy him gin and watch him spin...»
Manatees: sticking it to "stuck-up c*nts"
Manatees are far from the most rock and roll creatures of the Animal Kingdom. Manatees, the band, are very different: although they’re far from the first out of the blocks when it comes to making an impact, their slow-release sludge-riffs and doom-laden vocals eventually stir the soul into a bubbly frenzy; prickly hairs and dilated pupils, tingle fingers and tappedy toes...»
This Aint Vegas: November tour dates and new single
Excellently awkward rocking Sunderland four-piece This Aint Vegas hit the road in November. They are good, you know. Perhaps you'll want to see them...»
Prefuse 73 - The Class of 73 Bells
Although the title track possesses glitch aspects enough to ensure the average listener is in no doubt as to its architect, ‘The Class…’ is a far less-frenetic offering than its companion piece on side A of this 12”: ‘Smoking Red’, another cut from Preparations, finds Battles’ John Stanier delivering propulsive percussion ‘tween gaps in jerk-keys and stutter-coughs...»
Big Dada turns ten: double-disc comp and London gig
Ninja Tune hip-hop offshoot Big Dada celebrates its tenth anniversary this year, and releases a double-disc compilation, a DVD and presents a pretty special gig by way of celebration...»
The Donnas get Bitchin': UK tour dates and new LP
The Donnas vs Girlschool. C'mon, whose side are you on? Me, I gotta go with the kids, albeit only 'cause they'd kick my ass if I didn't...»
DiScover: Seventeen Evergreen
San Francisco-based two-piece Seventeen Evergreen are masters of the sci-fi ethereal, mood-sculpting in a manner most organic. As they arrive in Europe for some rare live appearances, including a date tonight at London’s Luminaire (their only British show ont his trip), DiS catches up with Pate and Evans to DiScover the band...»
MSN muddle: Late of the Pier vs Envelopes
Take two Hot New Bands. Pop them together, ish, in an interview scenario. Roll tape, after a fashion. Call that fashion MSN. Leave and collect come home time. Pretty simple, really? So, Envelopes vs Late Of The Pier. A battle? Nah: more a meeting of like-minded souls. Mutual appreciation, we’re feeling it all around. Even if it has given us a headache...»