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How good is this? DrownedinSound.com – hello, you’re reading us – has only gone and confirmed our DiScover Club bills all the way ‘til October. Wow, for once we’re totally all over this organisational thing...»
DiS has a pair of tickets to give away to Daniel Johnston's sole non-ATP performance, in Manchester on May 21...»
Canadian rock star Bryan Adams has been told that he can't appear at this summer's memorial concert for the late Princess Diana...»
Russell Simmons - founder of the Def Jam label - has announced that certain words should not be allowed in popular music. In other words, said words should be banned from rap...»
Volta finds Björk taking a few steps backwards in order to leap forward – the new album, out on May 7, possesses its fair share of Vespertine and Homogenic echoes but manages to feel entirely fresh at the same time. Propulsive, attention-grabbing songs sit shoulder-to-shoulder with tracks that are so soft and delicate the slightest surge in volume could shatter them irreparably...»
Chow Chow play pop. Quite brilliant pop. Pop that makes DiS think back to summers of the late 1990s, when we’d collapse with a can of something cold after a kick around and talk shit about the bands in Melody Maker that week. Glory days...
Chow Chow play the next free-entry DiScover Club show, on May 5 - click here for more details...»
Every week of the DiS Goes East series, DiS will be focusing its spotlight the way of three bands from t’other side of the world. Here we bring you details of a trio of breaking-through outfits from the Far East who, with a little luck and a following wind, could be turning ripples into waves in the UK before long...»
Thanks to the sponsors of the DiS Goes East series – which will run for four weeks – DiS is pleased as a punch-drunk to offer one reader a year’s supply of fine, bubbly, thirst-quenching Tiger Beer. Truth: it will make your mouth wet...»
While artists from Japan have made inroads into western musical circles for many a year now – one only has to cast their mind back to last year to find Polysics touring with Kaiser Chiefs – few bands from other far eastern countries – China, Korea, Thailand, et cetera – have transferred domestic successes onto an international platform; or, rather, one beyond their immediate neighbours. Why is what DiS wants to know...»
Swedish quartet with designs on all things sorta weird, Dungen, will release their fourth album next month via NYC-based label Kemado...»
Saddle Creek-signed singer of a lotta loveliness Maria Taylor has announced some UK dates for next month. Yup...»
DiS catches up with native New Yorker El-P to talk his latest album, air travel, passing fashions and wild streaks... »
Support bands aren’t meant to be the main draw of an evening’s gig-going. It’s just not polite, delivering a set so electrifying that all synapses are frazzled long before the show’s headliner takes the stage. Clearly nobody went over such protocol with These Arms Are Snakes...»
Do you rememember the first time? We do. And the second. And the third. This will be our fourth free-entry gig at London's flagship Fopp store, on Tottenham Court Road - while it wasn't quite third time lucky t'other week, this promises to be a beauty and no mistake...»
Although obviously sequenced to exhibit very different sides, In Your Time may have benefited from mixing its tracks up a little – there’s an imbalance that makes little sense on CD. Our suggestion: buy the LP and flip as per your mood or mental state...»
Quite what the know-nothing is meant to learn from this release – one fairly obscure artist covering four songs penned by a band long defunct – is anyone’s guess, but those already familiar with the selection here – ‘You’ve Passed’, ‘Gardenhead/Leave Me Alone’, ‘Where You’ll Find Me Now’ and ‘Holland 1945’ – and with Viking Moses’ quite unique vocal delivery should find a smile beaming from their chops not long after pressing play...»
While those familiar with the songs being covered and the artists featured will get the most out of this unfamiliar trip down memory lane, absolute beginners will find a great deal to love and, hopefully, a few new (or not so!) bands to check out too...»
While the on-paper components are neatly in place – this Alabama three-piece have a D.I.Y. history, play as Dan Sartain’s backing band on the side, and have earned attractive comparisons to the likes of Fugazi and Hot Snakes – there’s something about Battle Hymns For A New Republic that doesn’t totally click...»
What a week it has been! Sunny days, not-so-warm nights – it’s almost like the summer… only, like, proof of our impending destruction at the merciless hands of global warming...»
The exceptional go public only so often, so don’t skip El-P’s class the next time he swings by your town...»
No Age are all smiles. So are we. It feels nice...»
Scottish gloomsters The Twilight Sad release their debut album next month, via FatCat...»
The line-up for this year's Pricthattsbury festival, held at Birmingham University, has been announced...»
Not a make-a-name record by any means, Star Destroyer nevertheless sets a precedent for future Alex Delivery records to be measured by. It’s by turns inaccessible and wonderfully catchy, inspired and irritating. It’s a smorgasbord of delightful ideas not fully realised… yet...»
British soul singer Des'ree is suing American R&B star Beyoncé Knowles after the latter failed to clear the former's 'I'm Kissing You' hit of 1998 for a sorta-kinda cover version, 'Still In Love (Kissing You)'...»
Lethal Bizzle has collaborated with celebrated punks Gallows (pictured) - they who tore DiS new earholes at SXSW - on a new track, 'Staring At The Rudeboys'...»
The latest music magazine to hit the shelves has folded after just a week...»
US indie-rockers Built To Spill release their new album, You In Reverse, through Rykodisc on June 4. Filter has already said it "could be the best independent rock album of the year". Neat...»
This is tragically one-dimensional, needlessly over-glossed, terribly predictable, depressingly trite rubbish. Remember Lorraine’s flirtation with the big time? Exactly...»
Sigur Rós collaborators amiina have confirmed their first UK shows since signing with Ever Records (Cyann & Ben, Cortney Tidwell)...»
