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Courtesy of the lovely people behind the fortunes of the equally lovely Annuals - that's one of them, pictured - DiS has a lovely pair of tickets to give away to tomorrow's first-ever Bristol leg of the annual Dot To Dot Festival. Lovely...»
The annual Venn Festival runs from May 31-June 3 in Bristol, and here is a neat list of all the wonderful acts playing...»
DiS's guide to enjoying Mapmaker in three easy steps...»
The Strokes have announced via MySpace that they are to take most of this year off, and that their currently down website, thestrokes.com, will relaunch next week...»
Danger Mouse - pictured - may start a fashion label with Arctic Monkeys drummer Matt Helders. All together now: WTF...»
It’s hardly a new concept – Band X allowing ‘Song Y’ to be used to soundtrack a television advertisement – but now, more than ever, it seems acts from the margins of popular taste are being exploited – or should that be given a boost? – by marketing men with their ears tuned to the sounds of the underground...»
New York indie miserablists The National - probably the only band that side of the Atlantic that can out-gloom Interpol - have announced a series of November dates...»
They're sisters, they're odd, their favourite cartoon is Bod... probably... and they're touring next month...»
Some of you fine people may well know that the pretty dang awesome Blonde Redhead are playing London's Koko on May 30 (listing here), alongside the equally great Maps. Some of you fine people won't have a ticket, but will want to attend. And now you can... if you're lucky...»
US indie-rock titans Midlake and Yo La Tengo have been added to the already pretty damn impressive bill for this September's End Of The Road Festival...»
DiS is pleased as a pig rolling in the very finest shit to inform you that we're right behind the July tour by Sheffield keyboard-core screamers Rolo Tomassi and Guildford/London-based avant-garde alt-rockers Meet Me In St Louis...»
In short, Das Wanderlust’s second single is horseshit, tipped into your ears and forced deep into their canals with cotton buds, bumping against your brain and stinking your whole face up...»
Leathered and denimed Norwegian sextet Turbonegro are to release their new album, Retox, on July 9 via Cooking Vinyl. A single, 'Do You Dig Destruction', is released a week earlier...»
Saaaaf Laaahndaaahn four-piece popsters Good Shoes are to play a special, secret-ish (but not really, to be honest) show on their home turf of Morden this Bank Holiday Monday, May 28...»
London-based rock quartet Fightstar - whose debut album, Grand Unification, attracted favourable reviews upon its release last year - are to tour in August...»
So hot right now emo sorts hellogoodbye are to play a couple of gigs in the UK in August...»
You - yes, you - can wrap your ears around the new Queens Of The Stone Age album, Era Vulgaris, ahead of the crowd by clicking to a special microsite jobby...»
Beheadfest sees a number of extreme acts come together for one night only in London town, at the usually so sensible ICA. The date for your diary: June 6...»
Irish summer-pop outfit The Thrills have announced a UK tour for June and July...»
London-based indie-dance three-piece Chow Chow - they played DiS's monthly DiScover Club earlier this month, you know - are to release a nice EP in July, called Colours And Lines...»
REM are to begin work on their new album in Canada next week, alongside Bloc Party and Kasabian producer Jacknife Lee...»
Ooooh, would you look at that? Another free-entry show at London's fabulous Fopp store, on Tottenham Court Road. In the bar there, down the stairs and right in front of you. Yeah, the bar, with beer and stuff... you know it's a winner...»
The line-up for the Carling Stage at this summer's Reading and Leeds festivals has been announced, and some of it has made DiS go all wobbly at the knees. That said, we're thinking that might have more to do with the almost complete lack of sleep we had last night...»
Liverpool-based indie-popping three-piece Hot Club de Paris are on the road right bloody now. So go see them, if you're not busy. Dates as follows: May 22 Manchester Club Academy 24 Sheffield Leadmill 25 Glasgow Barfly 26 Leeds Cockpit 27 No»
The next Nightmare Before Christmas - ATP's annual December blow-out by the seaside - will be curated by Portishead...»
Muse are to be supported by some real heavyweights at their forthcoming Wembley Stadium gigs...»
Los Angeles-based shoegaze-goes-hardcore duo No Age - a.k.a. Randy Randall and Dean Spunt, formerly of Wives and officially the best-named duo in modern rawk 'n' rawl - are to tour the UK in June alongside Mika Miko. It'll be reet good. Yes...»
DiS is back from the seaside… sadly. A gaggle of hip flask-wielding critics took their poison pens to both The Great Escape and All Tomorrow’s Parties, but now we’re back in the Smoke and wondering where the sunshine’s disappeared to. Returning to Paddington in the miserable drizzle… how very typical...»
On July 9, 2007, popular London-based indie-rock band Bloc Party will release 'Hunting For Witches'. That's the first Monday following the two-year anniversary of the London bombings which inspired it, i.e. on the first-available release date. Which leads this DiS writer to ponder: is this a cheap, sensationalist move, or does the release serve as a reminder that so little has changed since the attacks...»
Somewhere in the cracks on the grimy, beer-splashed and fag-end strewn floor of the Church Of Mother-Fucking Rock And Roll are a ragtag crew of cathartic chaos-bringers, musical magicians with their wands misshapen and their guitars set to kill...»
