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Righto, musicians: there’s inoffensive, and then there’s this...»
Canterbury five-piece Yndi Halda create some of the finest instrumental music - call it post-rock if you must - that Britain currently calls its own. Comparisons to the likes of Sigur Rós and Explosions In The Sky give the know-nothing a vague idea of their supreme hold on the listener's emotions, but really: theirs is a sound that's quite stunningly affecting. DiS questions the band ahead of this weekend's DiScover Club show...»
Beirut will play a special acoustic set on London's South Bank this coming Monday (June 25)...»
Somewhere, in space, this is all happening right now. It’s out there, in the stars, that the real Super Furry Animals are kicking out the interstellar jams on the dark side of a meteorite ploughing its way through a strange planet’s outer rings...»
Skint Records - them what dance down Brighton way - are giving away a ten-track compilation for nowt...»
The line-up for this year's Electric Gardens - held at Mount Ephraim Gardens, Kent, on August 4 and 5 - has been confirmed...»
Further acts have been announced for this year's Ibiza Rocks series, via FreeDM...»
M.I.A. has pulled out of this weekend's Glastonbury Festival...»
Ahead of their set at this Saturday's DiScover Club show at London's Notting Hill Arts Club, DiS exchanges some questions and answers with Birmingham's incredible folk-rockers Shady Bard. With MTV exposure under their collective belt already, and deals signed on the other side of the world, 2007 seems to be shaping up to be the year for the eclectic five-piece...»
Sort of: the first in a series of Broken Social Scene presents... LPs will be Kevin Drew's Spirit If.... It comes out on September 17 via City Slang...»
Californian nu-metallers KoRn - is the capital, or reversed, 'R' entirely necessary? - will release their eighth studio album next month... without a title...»
Of course, what most people are foaming for is another Wolf Parade album, but in the absence of such a release, at least until early 2008, Plague Park will serve as a fine substitute...»
This just in: DiS has a pair of tickets to tonight's Super Furry Animals show at London's ICA to give away. Quick, get on this...»
The solo venture of Victoria Bergsman, otherwise silent since her split from The Concretes, Taken By Trees’ debut album is entirely adherent with the informed’s expectations...»
Amazing instrumental quintet Yndi Halda - their name's Icelandic but they're from Kent, make sense of that - have announced a series of dates for the Far East...»
The conceptual framework of one man fleshed out elegantly by the musicianship of a talented quartet, Yucatan’s self-titled album i»
C'mon, boys, smile! You've a major label LP coming out. I know, Editors went and beat you to it in the summertime gloom stakes, but Our Love To Admire's decent, yeah? Yeah! Now, come play a show already. Good boys...»
Popular tabloids the country over have reported that The Libertines may reform at this weekend's Glastonbury Festival. Our tip if you're going: take a rowing boat...»
Chicago-based instrumental rock heavyweights Russian Circles - probably the best band this pair of ears heard at this year's South By Southwest schmindustry do - are to play their first-ever UK dates in August as support to Tool...»
Sheffield's famous Gatecrasher club is currently on fire (Monday, June 18, 19.22)...»
Missing the DiScover Club? I know I am... but miss it no longer! Because it's back, this weekend...»
You might not know this, what with all our adventures at festivals in foreign lands, but DiS is actually a sponsor at this summer's first-ever Field Day event, a one-day festival held at London's Victoria Park, Hackney. And now you do know, how's about a little treat to celebrate...»
Yeah Yeah Yeahs release a new EP, Is Is (I like to pronounce it like the band Isis, just for a funny), on July 23 through Fiction. Now, the NYC trio aren’t doing any press with the likes of scummy music hacks like the DiS crew, but they’re well up for what we’re calling A Jolly Nice Fans Q&A...»
In the wake of the news that Northern Irish indie-rockers Ash would be making no more traditional albums after the July release of their fifth long-player, Twilight Of The Innocents, DiS's Mike Diver got straight on the phone to the band's Mark Hamilton for some straight answers...»
Lightspeed Champion - aka Dev Hynes, formerly of Test Icicles - will play his sort-of debut headline show on July 19 at London's 229 Club...»
Canadian indie collective Arcade Fire have announced an extra date at London's Alexandra Palace as they tour the UK later this year.»
Synth-rocking poster-boys for 14-year-old Refused-wannabes everywhere Enter Shikari have announced a load of dates for when the weather turns chilly...»
The Sanctuary label - home to the likes of Happy Mondays and Idlewild - has been bought by Universal following months of rumour tossing and gossip mongering...»
Brummie miserablists Editors had their Wednesday night show in Cologne, Germany, halted by police who claimed that the band were too loud...»
French ambient-poppers Air have anounced a pair of shows for November...»
