Hot Chip announce DJ dates
Hot Chip are to embark on a DJ tour this month, in support of their DJ Kicks compilation, due out on May 21...»
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The Maccabees - Precious Time
Come on, boys – you’ve fantastic names and live beside the seaside, cheer the fuck up. Granted, you’ve a jauntiness to your swaggery rawk that few indie rockers du jour can match, but couldn’t you at least try to sound happy...»
TrocaBrahma line-up announced
The TrocaBrahma Festival is set to go, with the first few names confirmed for the three-day, three-site bash...»
Ruder still: Robbie goes hip-hop
Robbie Williams is planning to make a hip-hop LP...»
The Weekly DiScussion: home taping ain't killing music, music's killed home taping
Earlier this week, high-street electrical retailer Currys announced that it would no longer stock blank cassette tapes. T’was a sad, sad day in the DiS office...»
Smashing and grab: Pumpkins studio looted
The Chicago studio where Smashing Pumpkins have been working on their comeback LP, Zeitgeist, was broken into and burgled last week...»
The Sound Of Dumbs: Kula Shaker tour dates
Kula Shaker - they were famous for being pretty awful, once - are heading out on tour soon. They will soon release Strangefolk, the follow-up to 1999's second LP Peasants, Pigs And Astronauts...»
WIN! Tickets to Akron/Family in London, next week
Brooklyn-based weirdie beardies with folk in their blood and fire in their hearts, Akron/Family, bring their oft-loud, alt-quiet live show to London next week. The four-piece play Cargo on May 16, and you can be there for nowt...»
Athlete's foot in the door... of Koko, for three days straight!
Athlete are a band. Sometimes, bands play shows, 'gigs' if you like. Athlete - a band, remember - are to play three 'gigs', one after the other, at the same venue. The venue is Koko in Camden, London. It is very red. I was there on Friday. The bus home was very busy...»
Prince turns (in) 21... shows that is, in London
Prince - he did the music for Batman, you know. The good one. With him out of The Shining in it. And her that used to be married to a Baldwin brother - is to play 21 shows in London this summer...»
Malajube - Trompe-L'oeil
Forget the language barrier, please – unless you’re a closet racist who simply can’t abide the merest whisper of a foreign language in their presence, Trompe-L’oeil is the most bubbly, boisterous and fun album to earn itself an official UK release in the month of May...»
The Thermals: new single, extra UK dates
Portland indie-rawk trio The Thermals release their new single, 'A Pillar Of Salt', on June 4...»
DiS @ Fopp: next show is this Thursday!
The next of DrownedinSound's free-entry shows at London's flagship Fopp store (in the café/bar area - it has a stage and sells beer and everything!) goes off with a bang this Thursday, May 10...»
Sonic Youth's Kim Gordon on their Don't Look Back Daydream Nation shows
Sonic Youth's Kim Gordon spoke exclusively to DiS today about the band's forthcoming Daydream Nation shows, held as part of All Tomorrow's Parties Don't Look Back series...»
Sonic Youth's Kim Gordon on the band's April shows in China
Legendary New York noise-rockers Sonic Youth – 26 years and counting – visited China for the first time ever earlier this year, playing a pair of shows in April, in Beijing and Shanghai. DiS got on the phone to the band’s Kim Gordon to talk about their trip...»
Björk - Volta
Björk’s origins might well be lost in the mists of time, but we’re not as concerned as she is: we’re far more interested in where she’s headed, even at this point of her career. This is no sidestep, despite the recalling of past achievements; it takes one step back to fly a dozen forward, and leaves the listener bewildered at its incredible execution.»
No more Order: Manchester pop legends split
Manchester pop outfit New Order have broken up, according to bass player Peter Hook...»
YYYs: free NYC show and new EP news
New York's Yeah Yeah Yeahs have announced details of a free-entry, all-ages show in their hometown via MySpace...»
WIN! Tickets to Muse... in New York!
Muse are playing Madison Square Garden in New York in August, and you can be there... providing you're in the city at the time, that is...»
Queens of The Stone Age at London 100 Club, Thu 03 May
During a set that lasts for about an hour, QOTSA pull out only a tiny quota of the smashes they’ve written in the past, and that’s being generous. It’s not like ‘Little Sister’ nor ‘Burn The Witch’ can hold their own against ‘Go With The Flow’ or – oh please oh please come back for an encore and play it – ‘The Lost Art Of Keeping A Secret’...»
Jeniferever, Devastations, The Kissaway Trail at London Spitz, Sun 22 Apr
If The Kissaway Trail continue to grow from gig to gig at their present pace, expect the Danes to be filling Wembley roughly a year from now...»
DiScover: Favours For Sailors
Favours For Sailors are a three-piece from London. You could call their songs pop, or rock, or a combination of the two; you could dance to it, or simply tap a foot; you could, even, go so far as to say they were pretty good. DiS feels that way, which is exactly why we invited them along to May's DiScover Club show, on Saturday May 5...»
DiScover Club: this weekend, Saturday May 5!
Hooray - or is that 'hurray'? Either way: it's the weekend! And this weekend's super special, and not just because the mighty Southampton could secure a place in the play-offs. Oh no... we've a DiScover Club to dance at...»
Dillinger Escape Planning a new record, due in the autumn
New Jersey tech-metal titans The Dillinger Escape Plan are about to record the follow-up to their 2004 super-brilliant own it today second album, Miss Machine...»
Youthmovies: studio updates via MySpace
Oxford-based and DiS-signed (yippie) all-over-the-place rockers Youthmovies are currently in the studio, working on their debut album. Touch wood and cross fingers now: it'll be out later this year...»
The Icarus Line: new LP out in June, on tour NOW
The Icarus Line are here, now. Yes! Did you know? I didn't, 'til just now... turns out they're on tour with The Lemonheads. Wowsers. They have some headline dates, too. Get to them...»
The National: teaser clip for Boxer album
Ahead of the release of Boxer, through Beggars Banquet on May 21, DiS is pleased to present to you a teaser clip of a forthcoming documentary on The National...»
SuperSonic bill: full! Mogwai, Wolf Eyes, Shady Bard and more for Birmingham two-dayer
The bill for this summer's SuperSonic, held at the Custard Factory in Birmingham in July, is now full...»
Smashing Pumpkins tribute LP attracts Deftones, Panic and more
A tribute album collecting together covers of Smashing Pumpkins songs is forthcoming, featuring a wealth of rock talent...»
BigSexyLand relaunches: new venue for London club
Popular with those-what-are-popular club night BigSexyLand re-launches next weekend at a new venue in the capital, The Phoenix on Cavendish Square...»