Mike_Diver has written the following articles:
Misery and regret are muses that many a man can call upon for inspiration, and Devastations' Conrad Standish and co-vocalist Tom Carlyon have their share of demons infecting their blood; bile and spit, it’s here on tape, captured catharsis rendered as exquisitely as a band like Shipping News or Enablers...»
When is a solo album not a solo album? When the band said soloist has ‘split’ from is the multi-membered Canadian super-group known worldwide as Broken Social Scene, of course. DiS gets in touch with Kevin Drew to discuss his first record sans BSS, Spirit If...»
New York-based folk-rockers Akron/Family are return to the UK in support of their new Love Is Simple album...»
San Diego-based indie-rockers Pinback are coming to the UK in November for a series of live dates, including a DiS-sponsored show in London on November 22...»
Sure, the kids are alright, but they should really cut the fizzy drinks outta their diets. If they don’t, one day all pop bands will sound like Late Of The Pier...»
September may well be a week old already, but don't go accusing us of slacking. Besides, we're playing catch up like crazy 'til the month's end...»
Scottish four-piece Sons And Daughters are to return to record store racks next month with their new single, 'Gilt Complex'...»
Dev Hynes - aka Lightspeed Champion - has recorded an album of Green Day covers. Which is a shame, as we were holding out for a Weezer collection...»
Welsh trio Manic Street Preachers - still going strong after however many albums now - are planning to release a special Christmas single later this year. Around Christmas, we'd wager...»
‘Turn On Me’ is classic stuff from the four-piece: instantly recognisable as the product of said architects, and melody rich like the very best indie-pop should be...»
Following the success of last Friday's end-of-summer (although it's bloody blazing outside right now) bash at London's Monto Water Rats - thanks to all who packed the place out for stunning sets from Russian Circles, Eugene McGuinness, Dartz!, Youthmovies and I Was A Cub Scout - DiS is pleased to announce we're back at the very same venue later this month for something a little quieter, but no less brilliant...»
While Klaxons are celebrating this morning after scooping the annual Mercury Prize, and the £20,000 that comes with it, one British band is less than bothered by the award...»
Mercury nominee Amy Winehouse has told the Daily Mirror that she considers regular drinking to be more dangerous than taking heroin...»
While it doesn’t dazzle – there’s little in the way of Wow Factor here – ‘Be Good Or Be Gone’ is one of those gems of understatement and delicacy that shuffles its way under your skin given a couple of repeat exposures...»
Widdly guitars and befuddling breakdowns all the way home, ears singing an echo of the night’s best gig in town…»
The five men of Youthmovies and the quintet known as Jonquil have joined forces for a new project, Vertical Montanas...»
Nottingham (ish) four-piece Lovvers - excellently schooled in truly raw punk rock ways, they are - are to tour these lands from later this month...»
To these ears it’s three of three, yet to many thousands it’ll offer a first insight into one of modern pop’s more creative rock bands. Foo Fighters fans are about to get their minds blown...»
Following this story back in April, where we reported on the alleged actions of Bring Me The Horizon singer Oli Sykes - he was said to have urinated on a female fan before hitting her with a bottle, leading to a facial injury - DiS can now report that all charges against the vocalist have been dropped...»
Time to put our pretend money where our ever-so-real mouths are: DiS is picking our individual favourites for tonight's Mercury Prize, and leaving them here so we can see who's right. And, more importantly, who is wrong and has to buy the biscuits tomorrow...»
Each week, the DiScover Diary will outline some choice gigs up and down the country, highlighting some excellent up-and-coming acts across the nation’s varied stages. Here we sneak a brief peek at five Sheffield kids who’ve been carving their names into the walls of venues throughout these lands all year, Rolo Tomassi...»
Sometimes, actions speak louder than words...»
Yes, it sounds like Van the Man’s ‘Gloria’. No, it’s not particularly complicated. Perhaps, Black Lips have never once grasped even the concept of progression. But none of that matters: ‘Katrina’ is the sort of twitchy pop gem, a swagger-rock jangler, that’s sure to get all that hear it jerking and jiving, regardless of accusations regarding retrogression as an art form...»
A Hawk And A Hacksaw - that'll be Jeremy and Heather to their friends - return to the UK this week for a couple of shows at London's award-winning Luminaire venue in Kilburn, and you can be there...»
Nu-wop, that’s what Kev just told me the kids are calling Sean Kingston’s smash single ‘Beautiful Girls’...»
A load of rambling on or a whole lotta fact? We're not so sure just yet, but the industry's buzzing with talk of a Led Zeppelin reformation, taking in a show at London's O2 in the autumn...»
To support the release of his third solo LP, the recently released The Miracle Inn, Euros Childs is to play three dates in his native Wales...»
Scottish trio Biffy Clyro are to support Queens of the Stone Age on the latter's US tour next month...»
London-based odd-poppers Ox.Eagle. Lion.Man will release a single - their first - via Transgressive later this year...»
August is meant to be hot, sunny. Y’know, summer. Didn’t quite happen, did it? In fact, this summer is the wettest on record, so I read in this morning’s paper. But the inclement weather hasn’t damped the spirits of the DiS review team any – we’ve had plenty of smashing records to keep our stay-inside selves occupied with over the last four-and-some weeks...»
