Mike_Diver has written the following articles:
Oxford-based indie-rockers of no little brilliance This Town Needs Guns - boi oh boi did they ever impress at Saturday's DiScover Club - are hitting the road in October. Service stations, they'll visit some...»
Carlisle-based drone-sludgers Manatees - still the greatest domestic act this writer has witnessed all year - play four dates beginning this week, including a show for DiS at London's The Fly...»
With popular music in Britain becoming increasingly dominated by accents far from accepted BBC pronunciations of not so long ago – ‘RP’, isn’t it? – Kid Acne’s breaking out from the country’s hip-hop underground couldn’t have been better timed...»
With their membership disjointed by geography – Sweden to France isn’t exactly a two-euro metro ride – it’s little surprise that Envelopes sound so borderless, a band without a root in one specific scene. Their jangling arrangements are impossible to place, yet parallels can be drawn: be fair, take your pick of melody-rich indie kids. Chances are they’ll stick...»
I Was A Cub Scout have announced that they are to tour with Minus The Bear in the UK and throughout Europe this winter. The band also recently completed the recording of their debut album...»
Strings Of Consciousness’ debut long-player allows its audience to swim about freely, directionless, floating face-up; it’s all blue skies and wide horizons here...»
Back once again come the renegade masters, punk-rocking party-starters supreme, ready to kick out the jams afresh. New material? You got it: Les Savy Fav’s Let’s Stay Friends might just be the Brooklyn-spawned quartet’s finest long-player yet. DiS catches up with Syd Butler ahead of the band's arrival in the UK next month...»
It’s a far cry from halcyon days circa Plague Soundscapes; then, with the mainstream infected and NME jerking to the tune of ten-outta-ten, possibilities were abundant and attentions buzzed critical. Safely re-ensconced in the pits from whence they initially sprouted, it seems The Locust are presently doing their bit to shun wandering might-cares..»
The Cribs' Gary Jarman has posted a MySpace bulletin regarding the release of his band's new single, 'Don't You Wanna Be Relevant'...»
We've a pair of tickets to give away to the launch party for Meet Me In St Louis' album - which goes down on September 27 - as well as copies of both the aformentioned LP and MMISL's split 7" with the also-amazing Secondsmile and some posters...»
This Saturday, September 22, DiS again rolls its merry way down to London's Notting Hill Arts Club for an afternoon of great, free music, in association with Rough Trade Shops. Doors are at 4pm, entry restricted to over-18s - same old same old...»
This is not The Sad at their finest; the epic immersion their Fourteen Autumns And Fifteen Winters offers is crackled into cough-fits and static; a snapped bass string – or does he always have three? – and no soundcheck equals a groping-in-the-dark set, one where the band physically, visually, claw their way from A to Z with an acute awareness of their exposed position...»
New York Fiery Furnaces will bring their travelling family show to the UK this winter.»
Making sense of London-based Cutting Pink With Knives' splutter-punk electro goofing is as much fun, and as infuriating, as attempting a top-level sudoku puzzle with your pants down in a bubble pool full of hula girls. DiS catches up with the trio ahead of the release of album two, Populuxxe...»
Cats And Cats And Cats, from various towns in the south of England, are one of a good few bands that DiS readers of a regular nature will have some knowledge of, but perhaps never actually heard. Ahead of their set at this weekend's DiScover Club, London, DiS pokes and probes for further information...»
Canadian dance-rockers Holy F*ck are to tour the UK in November in support of their new LP, LP. Said record is out on October 22 via Young Turks...»
They came, they wiggled, they slayed. To firm the ground ahead of the impact of their fourth studio album – and first official UK long-player – Atlanta’s Black Lips hopped into a stinkin’ van and wound their way around the wiry blues and yellows of AA’s motorist’s guide to the UK. They played some shows, hung out a bit, and let certain bits hang right out. Chaos, fun, dribble and spit, and some punk rock: all adds up to a grand time...»
Bristol-based prog-folksters Crippled Black Phoenix hit the road next month for a series of shows. You could call it a tour. Yes...»
Portland avant-indie trio Menomena are in the UK this month for some sure-to-be-busy shows. They'll be supporting the domestic release of their excellent Friend And Foe LP, available now on City Slang...»
To celebrate the release of his second album, Man On The Roof (reviewed here), DiS has some signed Stephen Fretwell goodies to give away...»
With album number four knocking on the door of metal-heads everywhere, DiS catches up with Californian trio High On Fire to chat the internet - "f*cking lame" - and beard stroking - "Ha ha..." We find them amiable beyond their hardened appearance, and keen to highlight their ambition to "make everyone’s jaw drop". And to eat kebabs...»
Remixes: things on the b-side of shitty singles, and also the title of Soulwax's forthcoming double album. Awesome: what it'll be, actually...»
Eminem is working on a new studio album, his first in three years...»
The Brainwash Festival returns to Leeds later this year for three days of bleeps and beats and riffs and rock, all in the name of charity...»
Q Award nominees Hard-Fi - their 'Suburban Knights' track is up for best single - are to tour in December, calling in at a number of the nation's larger venues...»
Pity the poor weekend kid whose final job at insert record store here before a return to a five-day slog of sixth form nonsense is to rack this album, the second (inverted commas) long-player from London-based synapse-butchers Cutting Pink With Knives...»
Breaking news: the rumoured Led Zeppelin reformation show, pencilled in for November 26 2007 at London’s O2, is now confirmed...»
Untitled Musical Project have put the finishing touches to their debut LP, alongside producer Dan Swift. The self-titled record is due for release via Tigertrap on October 29...»
Tim Kasher-fronted indie-folksters The Good Life are to tour in November/December, following the release of their new LP Help Wanted Nights (out October 1 via Saddle Creek; review forthcoming)...»
New Jersey tech-metal outfit The Dillinger Escape Plan have announced their rescheduled UK dates following the withdrawl of Meshuggah from their original November dates...»
