Mike_Diver has written the following articles:
It’s funny how few people in the grand scheme of this mixed-up musical landscape haven’t heard of Built To Spill...»
Human The Death Dance is a little too boastful, a little too obvious; the subtleties that made Francis’ previous offering so enjoyable and provided it with plenty of longevity have dissipated somewhat...»
Six months into 2007 (almost...) and there’s already a not-so-proverbial shit-tonne of albums in contention for the coveted Album of the Year ‘gong’ at DiS – again, the winner will be selected by you, the readers, from a shortlist compiled by us. Yup.»
Today is the deadline for entries for a number of our current competitions, so if you want to win a pair of tickets to Rock Ness in Scotland, Dour in Belgium, or Summercase in Spain, you'd best get clicking...»
Another label, some new artwork, but beyond the aesthetic front just what has changed on this ‘new’, ‘special edition’ version of Orchestra Of Wolves, Gallows’ debut album of last year which reached number four on the DiS end-of-year countdown as voted for by you...»
You know what? I think we equate more to Roxy Music than most people would take into consideration. We don’t sound like them, but our approach is very similar: they do all kinds of shit on their records, and their songs have strange peaks and valleys, and they’re really not afraid evolved from record to record...
And then, The Icarus Line swallowed the universe...»
Excellent: a song that starts and ends like prime Nirvana – you know, when their rock locks were offset by their pop socks – with a middle that wriggles and squeals like a piglet slowly squished by some sort of pneumatic device – think Terminator, right, meets Babe: Pig In The City. Neat...»
LA-based drone-rock trio Dead Meadow have announced a series of UK dates for August...»
New York-based rapper El-P has had the video to his latest single, 'Smithereens', banned by a number of US media outlets. We took a look, and can sort of understand why...»
The DiS-associated Hove Festival – held in the picturesque surroundings of Tromoy, on the Norwegian coast, from June 26-30 – has confirmed its final, pretty dang good actually line-up...»
Vancouver-based titans of melody-rich indie, The New Pornographers, will release their new album, Challengers, via Matador on August 20. That Dan Bejar guy, right - also of Destroyer, yeah - he only wrote three of the songs. Nice one, Dan...»
Currently caught in the middle of a DiS competition - click here - London-based pop lass Lily Allen has confessed via the medium of MySpace - but everyone is on Facebook now, Lily! - that she's a little too fond of the demon drink...»
Still the best domestic band I have seen all year, probably, Carlisle-based trio Manatees (pictured) hit the road later this month alongside Ashford-based rock titans Bossk. It's going to be epic...»
Canadian singer + band Patrick Watson - it's his name, right, and the name of the band - has announced a pair of fairly small London shows. Our suggestion: get along before he/they get, like, huge...»
‘Brother’ probably isn’t the song to propel Annuals to the levels of acclaim and adoration achieved already by those aforementioned acts – there are enough pop-orientated songs on their Be He He LP to break radio in this country, and win over the hordes in the process – but it is a song that those listening to the static in modern indie’s margins will fall in love with, without fail...»
Oh please... it can't, it won't... will it? If it rains at Glastonbury this year, again, DiS will very probably cry real tears. But, more importantly, WIN A LOAD OF TICKETS HERE...»
DiS is, to say the least, pretty damn excited: tomorrow (tomorrow, in this case, being May 31, 2007) we fly to Barcelona for the annual Primavera Sound festival. The bill is literally a perfect who’s who of our favourite bands – some returning heroes, some breaking-through young bucks. Feel our sweaty skin, do – we are that excited...»
The September edition of the ever-so-popular (thanks, really) DiScover Club has seen its bill shift, slightly: Hey Colossus have, sadly, withdrawn from the show, but they've been replaced by the OMG-excellent Secondsmile. Hurray...»
The first few acts for December's Portishead-helmed Nightmare Before Christmas event, held at Minehead's Butlins, have been confirmed...»
With Oasis entering middle age, both personally and professionally, just how relevant are they in today’s musical make-up? Do you envisage them lasting for another 16 years, or transforming into a Rolling Stones-style mega-touring money-making machine? Does Noel turning 40 make you feel old at all? It does me…»
Kentish indie-pop four-piece GoodBooks will release their debut album this summer. Yes! They will...»
Justin Timberlake is launching a record label of his own... ish...»
New York quartet Interpol have announced a number of UK dates for August and November. Their new LP, Our Love To Admire, is out on July 9...»
Northeast indie-rockers Maximo Park have revealed their winter tour dates. And there are some of them. Neat...»
Online music retailer CD Wow has been orded to pay UK record companies a staggering £41 million after the company was found guilty of breaking a previously arranged deal to cease the importation of foreign CDs...»
“I never loved you anyway” bellows our hero at the core of this swirling, disorientating shred-yr-head fest; like most things racing their way from the torn and tattered throat of Our Frank, you fuckin’ believe what he’s saying. Bitch is more than likely gonna wind up in a ditch, face down and pulse free...»
Frankly ace Atlanta-based quartet Snowden are to support the super-selling number-one-album brothers from not-so-beyond Kings Of Leon on their forthcoming European/UK tour...»
Fantastic NYC-based indie-rockers Blonde Redhead have announced a super-special OMG free-entry London show for this Bank Holiday Monday...»
Marilyn Manson has revealed to Radio 1 that he, rather oddly in our opinion, carries a picture of pop pin-up Justin Timberlake around with him at all times...»
Super Furry Animals will release their eighth studio LP on August 27. The title on the sleeve: Hey Venus!...»
