Latitude: sold out
Off to Latitude this weekend? DiS is. Hope you've got your tickets, too, because the three-dayer's sold out as of now...»
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Arcade Fire on the festival circuit: "It's kinda crazy"
With festival season in full swing and this weekend shaping up to be one of the busiest of the year – Supersonic in Birmingham is up against Latitude in Suffolk, and DiS is also attending Summercase in Spain and Dour in Belgium – we caught up with one of the acts on this summer’s festival circuit, Arcade Fire, to talk about the rigours of touring in such a manner...»
Lovvers - Near Enough For Jazz / Special Needs
Lovvers’ second single might lack the immediate ferocity of their self-titled debut EP, but there is nevertheless a rawness to this double A-side slice of finely under-produced wax that resonates deep within the guts of anyone raised on a steady diet of underground punk rock...»
DiS-approved touring action: Rolo Tomassi and MMISL jaunt starts on Saturday
This Saturday sees the DiS-sponsored Rolo Tomassi and Meet Me In St Louis tour get on the move. The two bands - two of the finest in the land to be causing a stir in 2007 - kick things off at the Barfly, London...»
Loop: bill expanded, tickets available
The first-ever Loop festival, held in Brighton's Victoria Park on August 18, has seen its line-up swell these past few weeks...»
DiS's end-of-summer Russian Circles show: line-up expands
Good news, friends of DiS! Our special end-of-summer bash at the Monto Water Rats on August 31 - headlined by the beyond awesome Russian Circles, who'll be delivering their debut London headline set - has grown. Now, we think, it's time to get properly excited...»
Supersonic 2007: the DiS preview
This weekend is a busy one on the festival calendar: in addition to the DiS-sponsored Dour (Belgium) and Summercase (Spain), there’s also Latitude in Suffolk. Expect to see plenty of DiS writers there if you’re scuttling along. This writer, though, will be in Birmingham for the always-excellent Supersonic Festival, now in its fifth year and this summer supported by DiS...»
Aereogramme announce farewell London date
Soon-to-split Scottish post-rockers Aereogramme have announced details of one final show in the nation's capital...»
Oh No Tomassi! Guitarist fractures wrist at 5-a-side
Bad news, fans of Rolo Tomassi's six-string shredder Joe: the guitarist fractured his wrist at yesterday's Big Scary Monsters-organised 5-a-side tournament in London...»
DiS End-Of-Summer Party: new bands announced...
By now you already know who's headlining DiS's super-special end-of-summer party, held at London's Monto Water Rats on August 31. To say we're excited about having Russian Circles play is something of an understatement - we're wetting ourselves in anticipation of one of the best sets the venue in question has ever hosted, trust. But what of the support acts...»
Russian Circles: metallic instrumentalists hitting UK
Ahead of their first-ever UK dates – which include a very special headline slot at a DiS-organised party on August 31 – fantastic instrumental three-piece Russian Circles spill the proverbial beans about their successes to date, the daunting nature of their forthcoming support slots with Tool, and the drunken behaviour of boys from Sheffield...»
The Weekly DiScussion: your band is dead, long live your band...
With news of The Verve’s reformation still ringing in DiS’s collective ears, this week’s DiScussion is a simple one: who’s worthy of another shot at everything rocking, and who should just stay silent...»
Isis at London Koko, Mon 02 Jul
Timing’s a gem: through the door, down the slope, on the stairs, at the bar, cup o’ booze in clasped palm, onto floor, boom. Boris and Oxbow are missed, sadly – late nights at the office are now so commonplace that leaving on time just feels weird – but Isis are tonight’s trump card anyway, rightly topping a bill that could be neatly summarised but one way: incredible...»
The Blood Brothers at London ULU, Tue 03 Jul
Fuck you, hardcore, and your windmill-dancing toss-rag of an admirer: we’re here for a party and it’s what we get...»
Mute launches new Irregulars label
World-famous label of no little acclaim Mute is to launch an offshoot label later this month by the name of Irregulars...»
WIN! Tickets to 2000 Trees Festival
DrownedinSound.com has a pair of tickets to give away to the 2000 Trees Festival - read on for details...»
WIN! Tickets to Bella Union's 10th Anniversary shows...
Next week, one of the nation's - nay, the world's - finest indie labels turns ten years old. Bella Union aren't just great, though - we also like to think of them as our friends. Which is lucky for you, as it means we're able to blag some awesome tickets to give away...»
The Chemical Brothers - We Are The Night
While there is enough in the way of creativity here to dispel any suggestions that Rowlands and Simons have composed We Are The Night with all cylinders set to auto-pilot, there nevertheless lingers a sour aftertaste come its climax...»
BSM: taking itself not so seriously on new sampler
Acclaimed Oxford label Big Scary Monsters is to release a new sampler later this year entitled Record Label Schmecord Label. LOLZ...»
Feist announces September dates
Feist has announced a few UK shows for September...»
House Of Brothers added to September DiScover Club bill
In what can only be described as an 'ace, actually' move, Nottingham-based singer-songwriter sort House Of Brothers - pictured - has been added to September's DiScover Club bill...»
WIN! A pretty super night out tomorrow: Blood Brothers in London
DiS's favourite artsy punk-rockers, The Blood Brothers, roll into London town tomorrow in support of their latest freakin' ace LP, Young Machetes (out now on Wichita), and you can be there...»
Russian Circles: DiS show confirmed, plus headline dates...
DiS is pleased to announce that we will be presenting Russian Circles' first-ever headline London show at the end of August, at a very special end-of-summer party...»
Optimist Club announce last-ever show
One of the country's finest punk acts, Optimist Club, are calling it quits for good really soon... but not before one final gig...»
Reminder + UPDATE: DiScover Club is today
Tomorrow, DiS's once-a-month DiScover Club - bringing you the best new music we're loving, for free - rolls into London's Notting Hill Arts Club. The show's a right beauty this month, as we welcome These Monsters, Yndi Halda and Shady Bard to the DiScover fold, alongside DJ action from DiS and Silver Rocket...»
DiScover: These Monsters
Leeds-based five-piece These Monsters - that’s Stuart, Tommy, Ian, Sam and, apparently, J to the L-O – are an act that could be categorised as post-rock, but the boundaries of said genre have to expand rather to fit the band’s saxophone-led compositions within its so-usually restrictive borders...»
Tokyo Police Club: no sleep 'til they want to
With a UK tour looming and forthcoming festival dates at T In The Park, Reading, Leeds and Hove, DiS checks up on the progress of Canadian pop-rockers Tokyo Police Club as they prepare to take their lessons in crime to a wider audience...»
Beastie Boys - The Mix-Up
The Mix-Up features a sticker on its digi-pack casing: “Their first-ever full album of all-new instrumental material”. What it should have read is similar, but a lot clearer: “If you’re one of the weirdoes who reckons The In Sound From The Way Out! is the Beasties’ best LP, this is for you”...»
Taxi Taxi! - Taxi Taxi!
This debut six-tracker from identical Swedish twins Miriam and Johanna Eriksson Berhan – here’s your a.k.a. Taxi Taxi! – arrives in the UK on the back of great acclaim in the duo’s homeland, as well as on web-based social communities that require no naming...»
Like Bright Eyes? Bothered. LOVE Bright Eyes? Read this...
DiS has arranged a very, very special prize for one lucky, lucky Bright Eyes fan out there...»