Emmy The Great's May dates, plus festival shows
London-based singer-songwriter of no little loveliness Emmy The Great is taking her acoustic guitar on the road later this month...»
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Two Gallants: new EP and UK dates
San Francisco-based duo Two Gallants will release a new EP through Saddle Creek next month...»
The Ponys: May/June tour dates confirmed
Chicago four-piece The Ponys are to tour the UK in May and June...»
A Hawk And A Hacksaw: "I want to go to Transylvania"
Ahead of their UK tour, DiS questions A Hawk And A Hacksaw's Jeremy Barnes on their choice of support act, the recpetion of Balkan-influenced music in the west, and the future for the folksy duo...»
A Month In Records: April 2007
April is over. Done. Dusted. During the last month some might fine records – albums, or CDs, if you will – have been released. As is sort of regular, here we collect together our pick of the bunch. These are April’s finest releases, as assessed by the ears of the ever-reliable DiS review team...»
DiScover: Meet Me In St Louis
Meet Me In St Louis are a band whose name you’re probably aware of – perhaps from these very pages – but whose music you’ve possibly never heard. Yet...
MMISL play the next DiScover Club, on May 5 at Notting Hill Arts Club - click here for details...»
Does It Reference The Popular '80s Film, Yeah? Band announces new single, innit...
Does It Offend You, Yeah? will release their debut single proper, on 7", next Monday (May 7)...»
Motorhead and more for Meltdown; tickets on sale this week
The first few bands have been confirmed for the Jarvis Cocker-helmed Meltdown event...»
Mystery Jets added to Field Day bill
Proggy-popping dudes and their dad Mystery Jets have been added to the bill of the rather smashing Field Day festival, held in London on August 11...»
DiScover Goes East: The Yours, theXgeeks and The Waking Party
In part two of our four-part focus on bands to have crossed our radar from the Far East, DiS bends an ear the way of some frantic hardcore, some refined pop-rock, and some introspective shoegaze-like sound-crafting...»
Reading/Leeds: new names, some good
A slew of new names have been confirmed for this summer's Carling Weekend, in Reading and Leeds...»
Keane's Tom Chaplin: "I was no lightweight"
Keane's Tom Chaplin - who was treated for drug addiction and depression last year - has told Q magazine that, basically, he could out-drink shit-swaggering faux-Manc c*nts Kasabian...»
Foo Fighters to release anniversary edition of second LP
Dave Grohl-fronted pop-rockers Foo Fighters are to release a special 10th Anniversary Edition of their second album, 1997's The Colour And The Shape...»
Dour update: Mates Of State out, Simian Mobile Disco in...
There's some moving and shaking over the Channel, as more bands have been confirmed for the Dour Festival in July...»
Latitude update: Annuals, Cold War Kids, Bat For Lashes and more confirmed for July festival
A number of new bands have been confirmed for July's Latitude Festival, held in Southwold in Suffolk...»
Paul Hartnoll: debut solo album and live dates
Former Orbital man Paul Hartnoll is to release his debut solo album, The Ideal Condition, on June 4...»
Knowsley Hall: new additions, tickets still available
The Knowsley Hall Festival - held in Liverpool on June 23 and 24 - has seen its bill swell today...»
WIN! Tickets to Black Lips in London
Black Lips - them what rock in a kinda retro-jangle punka style, and what are signed to super-hip label Vice over in the USA - hit London like a comet next week - on Tuesday May 1 to be precise - and DiS has some tickets to give away...»
Foals: working with TV On The Radio's Dave Andrew Sitek
Oxford-based stops-and-starts-and-stops band of the moment Foals are to record their debut album with TV On The Radio's Dave Andrew Sitek...»
New Brighton all-dayer: Loop
Brighton will play host to a new all-dayer event this summer, Loop...»
Sh*tDisco cancel tour dates after singer falls ill
Kinda popular dance-indie-dance types ShitDisco - star for those college computers - have been forced to cancel their remaining UK dates after singer Joel Stone fell ill...»
ATP Weekend One: The DiS Preview
This weekend, Butlins in Minehead will be overrun by indie-rock sorts, all wearing bizarre band tees and badges and beards and fidgeting with digital cameras and LPs and wondering what Joanna Newsom sees in Bill Callahan and whether or not Nick Cave is some sort of god or something and what Warren Ellis hides in all that facial hair and deciding if three bottles of blow-your-head-off red for a tenner is a good deal or if the morning will be awful because of it and quite why the sun has decided to hide for three straight days... Some bands will play, too...»
The Kissaway Trail - The Kissaway Trail
The Kissaway Trail is something of a frustrating listen, then – it’s a very good debut, a very good debut, but one that’s lacking in the bombast department; it’s a rather flat representation of a band that, live, can truly steal the breath away from all attendees before them. As a foundation for an absolutely stunning sophomore, though, this is good enough for sure...»
Interpol: new LP title and tracklisting
New York four-piece Interpol's new LP will be released in July through Capitol, on July 10 in the States and, presumably, a day earlier here...»
Summercase: new additions, cheap tickets 'til May 20!
A number of new bands have been confirmed for this year's DiS-associated Summercase Festival, held in Barcelona and Madrid in July...»
Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin: still called Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin
Missouri-based indie-poppers Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin have spoken to NME magazine about the passing of the former Russian president who inspired their moniker...»
The Raconteurs begin work on second LP
The Raconteurs have started work on their second album, the follow-up to last year's Broken Boy Soldiers...»
Favourite Worst Nightmare: unsurprisingly set to be 2007's biggest seller...
Sheffield's popular indie-pop types Arctic Monkeys look set to score 2007's biggest-selling LP with their second album, Favourite Worst Nightmare. So far, anyway...»
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Reading-spawned electro-rockers The Cooper Temple Clause have decided to break up after almost a decade together...»
UNKLE ready third LP, War Stories
James Lavelle-helmed hip-hop/electro outfit UNKLE are to release their third album in July...»