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Yes, we know: we’re late. But we’ve been busy, honest! It does happen from time to time – don’t go thinking that A Day In The Life Of DiS involves us all sitting around, drinking tea, listening to great music and occasionally – but only occasionally – updating this here website. Oh no sir, or madam – it’s a lot more complex than that. Why, only this morning we had tea and biscuits...»
North-easterners with angular geetarz Dartz! are to tour their ickle socks off in September across a series of dates the band are calling "a tour of small venues"...»
Whatever you do, don’t go using the words ‘guilty’ and ‘pleasure’ in the company of Brooklyn-based quartet Yeasayer...»
Bella Union-signed singer-songwriter Stephanie Dosen is to play nine UK dates later this year, kicking off said tour on October 11 at Manchester's Night & Day Cafe...»
Forgotten men of glorious indie-pop summers past, rather, The Thrills’ formula for crafting enjoyably middling compositions – a wink to the west coast, a nudge the way of their Irish upbringings – might not qualify as the stuff of rocket science, but why change the record when it’s clearly not broken...»
Album number eight from Californian nu-metal outfit Korn (reverse that ‘r’, and capitalise it even, if you must) offers precisely what’s asked of it and little else: it grunts in all the right places, riffs itself into a frenzy when opportunity knocks, and ultimately reminds the likes of yours truly that Life Is Peachy really wasn’t all that good.»
It’s one month, pretty much, since a sea change occurred in the way we experience live music in the UK and DiS wants to know what your opinion is on the smoking ban in relation to live music. Are you a smoker whose enjoyment of live music has suffered because of your need for a cigarette every half-hour? Has the ban helped you quit? If you’re a non-smoker, have you noticed a significant difference in the atmosphere of recent live shows? Can you breathe more easily, as it were...»
Mercury-nominated soul singer Amy Winehouse is reportedly on the verge of checking into rehab following hospital treatment yesterday for a suspected overdose...»
Marilyn Manson - HE MAKES YOUR KIDS CUT THEMSELVES - is to tour in December, calling in at four UK venues of arena proportions...»
Dead Children Playing - tasty title, that... can't wait for Daily Mail readers to get all Maddie about it - is to be released in the autumn, and collects the work of acclaimed artist Stanley Donwood alongside the Radiohead-orientated output of Dr Tchock...»
Truck Festival-headlining Scottish indie-rockers Idlewild are to mark their ten-year anniversary with a best-of compilation, due out through Parlophone on October 1...»
This is a well-realised debut that comprises a solid foundation from where to build a project that can potentially expand into the darkest outer reaches of contemporary space rock...»
Swedish rock five-piece The Hives are no closer to announcing a release date for their new album, The Black And White Album, claiming that they are "prisoners to our own creativity"...»
Her what used to get road rage all the time on national telly, Cerys Matthews, is to follow in the footsteps of similarly high-profile act Super Furry Animals and release a Welsh language record...»
Hallam Foe is a new film due for release on August 31. Starring Jamie Bell, the picture follows the protagonist of the title as he searches for clues regarding his mother's passing. Which is, of course, just the beginning of the story. DiS has ten copies of the soundtrack album and ten t-shirts to give away...»
DrownedinSound.com – hello, you are reading us… and that does tickle – are excited to announce that we will be sponsoring the upcoming UK tour by Scottish four-piece of great acclaim, The Twilight Sad...»
DrownedinSound.com is pleased to announce confirmed UK dates for probably our favourite live band in the whole world, Les Savy Fav...»
What’s that, looming on the horizon? Why, it’s another new festival, threatening to steal custom away from the other 3,459 day-long-or-more events clogging up the calendars of music lovers nationwide. But wait a second: Field Day is a) pretty blimmin’ special, and b) right on your doorstep. Well, so long as your doorstep’s in London, anyway. DiS’s is. Get in...»
A special, free-entry show celebrating the life of Chow Chow singer Thomas Iain Smith - who died in June - has been announced for later this month...»
Tickets are selling... selling... selling for DiS's special end-of-summer party at London's Monto Water Rats at the end of the month, so if you want in, you'd best get on it now...»
Really-quite-good indie label Thrill Jockey, based in Chicago and London, is to turn 15 later this year, and is throwing a couple of shows to mark the anniversary...»
The brains behind the annual Supersonic Festival (2007 review here), Capsule, have announced details of a very special show at Birmingham's Town Hall, to be staged as part of said venue's re-opening festival...»
DiS - hello, that's us! - has a couple of pairs of tickets to give away for this Friday's Underage Festival in London, held at the city's Victoria Park, E9...»
Franco-Swedish indie oddballs Envelopes are giving away a 30-minute 'mix-tape' ahead of the release of their new single, 'Life On The Beach'...»
The worst headline ever can't mask the hard fact of this matter: Birmingham's Distophia - ever so good, y'know - have called it quits...»
Montreal-based indie-rockers Stars are touring in October...»
Next month's DiS-promoted headline show by frankly awesome Carlisle-based trio Manatees is now complete. Done and also dusted. Fin. All that's left to do now is for us to ask you, nicely, to buy tickets. Aw, g'wan...»
Pop does matter. Never forget. If Take That can come back and kick the new kids on the block into touch, then so too can America's Backstreet Boys. Believe...»
The Cribs have a problem: their tunes are catchy, for sure, but as one single follows another the non-concentrating listener can find it hard separating one jaunty indie-pop-rocker from another...»
South-coast indie-rockers British Sea Power have gone and booked themselves a one-off gig - they're not really playing out much lately - in the glamorous northern town of Bradford...»
