Mike_Diver has written the following articles:
Wolf Eyes are a band your dad won’t like. Unless your dad is Thurston Moore. Sometimes I wish he was my dad. My dad, sadly, has fondness for few bands beyond Emerson, Lake and Palmer and old-school Genesis. Genuine sad face. DiS caught up with the noise-core three-piece in a London pub ahead of their show at the capital city’s Underworld venue for the fourth instalment of Either/Or...»
Brighton's The Go! Team are to play a handful of shows in the run-up to their appearance at Glastonbury...»
Icelandic post-rockers are to follow up their acclaimed Takk... LP of 2005 with a book this summer. Not a record. A book. With pages and everything...»
As a single ‘Don’t Go Down To Sorrow’ just doesn’t work when stripped of album context. It’s a shame to knock a band whose star is rightly in its ascendance, still, but this is not a quality release...»
Mercifully nothing like that ‘Australia’, The Shins’ latest single from their successful Wincing The Night Away LP – their first to receive an official UK release through Transgressive – is a wonderfully bubbly, sweetly rocking indie-pop number, perfect listening given the current spread of bright blue skies blanketing the British Isles...»
Legal papers regarding the 2002 murder of Run DMC's Jam Master Jay have been filed in New York, naming one of two people allegedly involved in the hip-hop musician's fatal shooting...»
London-based trio Klaxons have announced that the follow-up to this year's Myths Of The Near Future debut will be "a huge, tribal prog album"...»
Californian popsters The Little Ones are one of four new(ish) bands hitting the road next month for the NME-sponsored New Music Tour...»
Babyshambles singer Pete Doherty - pictured clutching what we can only assume is someone else's award - is next to broke, apparently...»
Further acts have been added to the bill for this summer's Wireless Festival, held in both London and Leeds...»
Last seen by DiS through a fog of sweat and beer at London’s Luminaire, Oakland punk-rockers with designs on conceptual grandiosity xbxrx, or XBXRX if you prefer (I don’t), follow up their 2005 LP Sixth In Sixes with an equally acerbic record of blunderbuss drum beats and finger-shredding riffs...»
While ‘You Can’t Have It All’ certainly doesn’t make a case for us needing Ash around in this day and age, it doesn’t exactly have us wishing they’d called it quits at Nu-Clear Sounds either (although if that’d happened we’d never have heard the awesome ‘Burn Baby Burn’). If we had to pick a side it’d be for keeping the trio – after all, without them to remind us otherwise we’d probably wind up thinking Feeder are halfway decent...»
Marilyn Manson has made a brand-new song available for streaming...»
Devendra Banhart is working on the follow-up to Cripple Crow, his well-received album of 2005...»
Isaac Brock-fronted indie-rockers Modest Mouse are to play a number of dates in the UK, after their massive show at London's Royal Albert Hall next month...»
Former Pavement man Stephen Malkmus is nearing completion on new material with his current band, The Jicks...»
If it’s a party album you’re after for the forthcoming season of summer barbeques, and your invited guests are of a slightly perverted nature, this’ll flick all the right switches...»
The line-up for this year's Summer Series of shows at London's Somerset House - it's by the river, yup yup - has been announced...»
Hollywood star Will Smith is to revert to his Fresh Prince moniker for a world tour alongside DJ Jazzy Jeff...»
Mogwai, rarely ones not to speak their minds, are back at it. Bashing other musicians via their website, that is...»
Not strictly a follow-up but more of a companion piece, Deerhunter’s Fluorescent Grey EP collects together four songs that missed the cut for their Cryptograms sophomore...»
Super-fantastic label Bella Union - read our Label Focus piece here - has announced details of two rather lovely showcase gigs for July...»
Dynamic indie-dance duo Simian Mobile Disco are offering one lucky fan the opportunity to have the pair play at their house. Wait, doesn't this remind you of a song title or something...»
The Camden Crawl is this week, on Thursday April 19 and Friday April 20 to be exact. Lots of bands, both large of profile and large of hype, will descend upon north London’s dirtiest streets to play rock music for you, the people with tickets. Tickets ripe for exchanging for wristbands. Wristbands you’ll use to get into lots of different clubs and pubs and bars. Clubs and pubs and bars which are playing host to bands. Et cetera...»
Amy Winehouse and Ash are to play the Camden Crawl later this week. Both will play on Thursday, April 19...»
The 11-track disc features a brace of live recordings of '2+2=5', alongside remixes and b-sides...»
A number of new names have been confirmed for this year's DiS-associated Dour Festival, held in Belgium from June 12-15...»
Last week’s number one by The Proclaimers slips to number four, while the next new entry is at 14. And who is it? Welcome back, Gareth Gates! We’ve missed you, and your new song doesn’t sound like ‘No Surprises’ at all. No. ‘Changes’ is absolutely its own thing, a fully original comeback single. Yes...»
23 finds Blonde Redhead at their beauteous best, on the sort of form that saw the trio produce one of this century’s finest LPs to date, 2004’s how-do-they-top-this Misery Is A Butterfly. It’s a record that sinks in deep, from the very offset; an album that enriches the heart and mind and leaves the first-timer flabbergasted at just how fantastically otherworldly a single album can sound...»
Native New Yorker Jesse Malin is bringing the sounds of his Glitter In The Gutter LP the way of the UK next month...»
