Electrelane: announce November dates and support Beastie Boys
Indie-rocking all-female four-piece Electrelane - their recent, and very excellent, No Shouts, No Calls LP is out now on Too Pure - have announced three shows for November...»
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Remember Milburn? They're back: tour and second LP
Rather eclipsed by the success of another indie-rocking outfit from their hometown of Sheffield, Milburn nevertheless return to touring ways in September. Excited? Yeah, we bet you are...»
Ellis-Bextor announces autumn tour - tickets on sale now
She was in theaudience, then she wasn't, then she was queen of Ibiza, then she wasn't, then she had a baby with him out of The Feeling and we all went ergh... but now she's touring, so yeah...»
amiina - Kurr
Icelandic four-piece amiina – whose profile has rocketed courtesy of collaborative work with Sigur Rós – craft exquisitely delicate arrangements that sound not wholly dissimilar to the atmospheric wooziness that soundtracks so many indie films...»
Caribou: moving to Andorra in August
Caribou's new LP, Andorra, will be released on August 20 through City Slang...»
Meeting Mr Monch: Pharoahe's Desire laid bare
Ahead of the release of his long-awaited second solo album, Desire, DiS's Mike Diver meets a very relaxed Pharoahe Monch to discuss the negative stereotypes of modern commercial rap, the mishandling of hip-hop artists by major labels, and, of course, his exciting new record...»
The Twang announce massive tour: everyone, it seems, is still avin' it.
Six outta ten in the magazine that made you? Shit off...»
The Twilight Sad to support Snow Patrol
Excellently epic Scottish indie-rockers The Twilight Sad will support Snow Patrol at the latter's huge O2 show later this month...»
DiS gig, this Friday: Dananananaykroyd and more at The Fly
Glasgow-based indie-rockers of hella aceness Dananananaykroyd headline a DiS-themed - i.e. we'll have ourselves a flippin' banner there and everything - night this Friday in central London... come...»
The Thermals, Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin, Underground Railroad at Monto Water Rats, Camden Town, Sun 10 Jun
Summer has, it seems, arrived: following an afternoon on Brighton beach, DiS is sweating again in the company of absolute strangers in the back room of a London theatre pub. We’re sticky and smelly and we’ve not really eaten properly – our bellies are full of seaside chips out of a tray and 99s with flakes – but that’s not stopping us rocking. Initially...»
The White Stripes at London Royal Hospital Chelsea, Tue 12 Jun
Mercifully The White Stripes treat the Chelsea Pensioners of the Royal Hospital Chelsea with a little tenderness: this afternoon show is an intimate, acoustic affair, and even Jack White’s ‘tween song quips are kept on the down-low...»
Black Lips: vice-rock from the past flower-punking the present
DiS's Mike Diver meets new Vice signings Black Lips in east London to find out about their D.I.Y. roots and current courting of the trendier end of the music press, as well as their feelings on being a 'new' band with a massive back catalogue to their name already...»
UPDATED: Arcade Fire announce extra October show
Canadian indie collective Arcade Fire are to tour the UK in October...»
Rough and tumble, Timbaland style: rapper arrested
Rapper-cum-producer with, like, loads of cash money, Timbaland, was arrested in Germany at the weekend following a brawl outside a hotel...»
Winter raving: Klaxons announce dates
Klaxons have announced a series of dates for the winter...»
Manatees, Down I Go, Bossk at London Brixton The Windmill, Mon 11 Jun
Manatees are a beacon, a guiding light; follow them, bravely, and fortune will surely favour you. Few bands make me feel so happy to be able to write about music for a living; hopefully a handful of you will take this bait and become a sucker for their stirring performances, too...»
Chart round-up: nobody loves you, Chris Cornell
Hands up everyone who actually cares about the charts this week! Yup, you saw me alright, keeping my hands under my ample ass...»
WIN! Tickets to The Rumble Strips and Stephanie Dosen
DiS has three pairs of tickets to give away for upcoming, super-special shows by both The Rumble Strips and Stephanie Dosen. You can go, with a mate, or a loved one, or a mortal enemy, if you’re weird. It’s not like He-Man and Skeletor frequented the same bars on Eternia, y’know. At least, not at the same time...»
Die! Die! Die! - Die! Die! Die!
New Zealanders so very far away from home – seriously, just how many times has DiS bumped into them at shows around London’s filthiest venues? – punk-rocking three-piece Die! Die! Die! have filled their debut album with enough vitriol to drown entire legions of wannabe sorts...»
Alan McGee to present Rockworld TV show
Both Alan McGee - pictured - and BBC London's Gary Crowley have signed up to present new music shows on the Rockworld.TV channel (Sky 368, it says here)...»
Old-school sports at Field Day: Battles vs Foals... at tug of war!
Yeah, yeah - there will be some music. But, more excitingly, bands will battle each other at Tug of War at this August's Field Day festival, held on August 11 at London's Victoria Park...»
Calvin Harris - I Created Disco
I Created Disco is roughly as funny har har as getting stabbed in the eye by an old tramp’s decaying cock...»
Vessels announce UK tour and second single
Leeds-based post-rockers with bleeps and lovely buzzing bits and pieces, Vessels, are touring the UK in July, taking in a DiScover Club show along the way...»
Dizzee Rascal - Maths & English
Age, it seems, mellows our Dylan none. Only 22 he may be, but this is album three and clearly the rapper MC known more commonly as Dizzee Rascal still has a raging fire deep within his belly, tickling the back of his tonsils and irritating his every uniquely raspy couplet. Maths & English is not a comfortable, play to please the mainstream LP; it’s an often vicious piece of work that rarely takes a step away from the face across its 14 tracks...»
Marilyn Manson - Eat Me, Drink Me
You have to question Marilyn Manson’s commitment to his musical cause: with talk of film-orientated work circulating and his own admission a couple of years ago that “I just don't think the world is worth putting music into right now”, it comes as exactly no surprise that his sixth long-play platter is an entirely by-numbers affair...»
The Thermals - A Pillar Of Salt
Oh, the naysayers: they’ll be stumped come The Thermals’ day in the sun. For all the negative reviews following in the wake of the Portland trio’s UK support slots with Wakefield indie brothers The Cribs, the retaliation that transpired post criticism was, to say the least, passionate...»
A Badge Of Friendship's DIY Summer Festival: line-up + tickets
London promoters A Badge Of Friendship have announced details of two all-dayers for next month...»
Paul McCartney plays Camden, tonight...
Anyone care? You? Great... but if you want to go you'd better get your skates on - wristbands have been available for almost an hour already...»
Justice - D.A.N.C.E.
Hands up, London and everywhere else this is pumping from PA systems the size of Berlin: Justice’s party’s in progress and anyone not willing to bump and grind against the posterior of a complete stranger may as well trundle, hunched and rejected, to the shadowy corners of this jumping club-from-anything...»
The Young Knives begin second album
Oxford indie types The Young Knives are about to start work proper on their second album, the follow-up to last year's rather acclaimed Voices Of Animals And Men LP...»