Chart round-up: DiS wants candy. Four-finger Kit Kats, to be precise...
Go, charts, go! Check you out, with Marillion loitering around your arsehole and Elton John rocketing his way around the place. You, you are in some fine, special form. Yup...»
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No Age - Get Hurt (EP)
While Dean Spunt and Randy Randall last released a record on these shores as two-thirds of the they-showed-up-and-they-broke-up Wives, their current musical concern is a more understated, calmer being than their chaotic punk-rock past might telegraph. As No Age, the Los Angeles-based pair grind shoegaze-esque passages into a mucky pulp with the most sensory befuddling noise this side of a listenable Load Records release. It’s keen to stress that operative word: ‘listenable’...»
Big Business - Here Come The Waterworks
Although their own material is unlikely to ever be as revered as that of their recent bigger bandmates, …Waterworks proves that Willis and Warren a.k.a. Big Business are true powerhouses, and a collective force to be reckoned with. Impressive, ear-popping and bowel-rumbling stuff...»
Enter Shikari - Take To The Skies
It begins with a shrill “SHIT!” and a choir of screams, but the thrill doesn’t last: like riding even the most knuckle-whitening of rollercoasters, Enter Shikari’s much-anticipated debut album reveals itself as a wholly one-dimensional listen as early as the third or fourth song, the equivalent of the third or fourth time around said stomach-turning sequence of twisters, given that the structural schematics of each of these 17 tracks are depressingly formulaic...»
Further festival fun: Dot To Dot is lookin' fine
Nottingham's Dot To Dot festival is taking place on May 27, and is this year preceded by a sister event in Bristol. ..»
An Albatross: a tour
Pennsylvania-spawned avant-shit-core tykes An Albatross are bringing their keyboard-happy spasmrawk to the UK in May. Nice...»
Escape to the sea: Great Escape tickets going fast...
Tickets to this year's three-day jolly by the Brighton seafront, The Great Escape, are going fast. Consider this your warning: if you're not ATPing on the weekend of May 18-20, get some of this...»
DiS in Digest: our pick of the week's news
DiS in Digest has been away. We were physically away. Now we are not. Hello...»
Charlottefield ready new LP, tour with ycni:m...
Brighton alt-rockers wit' screams Charlottefield have finished the follow-up to their highly acclaimed How Long Are You Staying LP of 2005...»
You couldn't make it up: Kate Nash signs with Fiction
Eat your cakes while you can, Kate Nash, because soon you'll be made to work really hard...»
U2, u like? Nu album!
Like rock music? Then we bet you'll like U2. These old hands at all things rock are working hard on a new album. You're gonna love it...»
DiS @ SXSW: the review
DiS went to South By Southwest t’other week. Perhaps you saw our amazing preview content? Touch wood. While there we did some stuff – you know, stuff – but between sessions of stuff doing we saw some bands. Some good. Some great. Some neither. Some best left unmentioned. You won’t read about them here...»
Line-up announcement: The Eden Sessionzzz
Organisers behind the now annual Eden Sessions series - held, of course, at the Eden Project in Cornwall - have really pushed the boat out this year, booking artists at the very cutting edge of their chosen fields...»
Not a DiS exclusive: get a free Dinosaur Jr download
So there was us yesterday, giving you a free Foals download, and now we're pointing you the way of more free music. Us, nice? You don't know the half of it...»
Paul Weller: not fond of Sting, apparently
Weller apparently, reported The Mirror, called Mr Sumner "a f*cking horrible man". Rumours that Sting beat off Paul Weller to a role in Dune way back when, and then beat him off, are yet to be confirmed...»
K-Fed takes a mil' from Britney's many
Britney Spears and Kevin Federline have finaly reached a divorce settlement... if you care about such things...»
Tim Armstrong readies debut solo record
Rancid vocalist Tim Armstrong will release his debut solo album in May...»
El-P - I'll Sleep When You're Dead
True, home is where the heart is, and El-P’s heart beats to the beep of gridlock horns facing uptown, but a change is as good as a rest, too. In this instance, such a change will almost certainly alleviate our man’s depression and confirm his status as one of contemporary rap’s finest exponents...»
Lovvers - Lovvers
Buy this today before you regret it tomorrow, as there are only 300ish of these beauties being pressed. Really, folks, in all honesty: act now...»
DiS exclusive: Free Foals download!
You like Foals. We like Foals. We are agreed. Then let's all download this exclusive live track and dance together in a giant limb-waving orgy...»
Summercase in your face: first information on exciting Spanish festival
DiS is pleased to bring you news of a rather splendid two-day twin-site festival going down in Spain this summer. Summercase is to be held in Barcelona and Madrid on July 13-14, and DiS will be jetting out there to see what it's all about...»
DiS exclusive: Maximo Park to play tiny London show next week
Maximo Park – perhaps you’ve heard of ‘em, or even heard them! – are to play a special, one-off and pretty darn intimate show next week, to celebrate the release of their second album, Our Earthly Pleasures...»
Truck Festival turns ten: update from the organisers
So you’re yet to hear owt about this year’s Truck Festival, huh? Us too, ‘til this dropped into our inbox, all crispy and fresh like the morning papers dipped in sizzling vegetable oil...»
Hove Festival continues to take shape. Continues to look GOOD...
The line-up of Norway’s Hove Festival – one of a handful of DiS-associated events going down this summer, y’all – is taking shape very nicely...»
Simian Mobile Disco - It's The Beat
While far from the best track on the forthcoming Attack Decay Sustain Release LP, Simian Mobile Disco’s first foray into albums proper, ‘It’s The Beat’ makes sense as a lead single...»
Further free Fopp shows confirmed: April's rockin' with DiS
DiS is wickedly happy and chuffed to announce a further two free shows for April, both at London's flagship Fopp store's cafe/bar area. Said store, full of fancy DVDs and shizzle, is on Tottenham Court Road. Yes, yes it is...»
Jeniferever confirm London date: April tour in full
We love Swedish post-rockers Jeniferever this much (stretches arms as wide as they'll go), so we're proper pleased to finally bring you their confirmed tour dates for April...»
DiScover Club update: April alterations
Bad news, brothers and sisters of The Rock - Leeds' ace pop-punkin' trio Sky Larkin have been forced to pull out of April's edition of our once-a-month DiScover Club, held at London's Notting Hill Arts Club...»
Who can tour? Wu-Tang tour!
The Wu-Tang are to play two UK shows this summer...»
Nevermind the bolero: Nirvana album gets dance make-over
Nevermind - Nirvana's 1991 album described as "sheeny" by resident DiS listings editor Alex Denney, just then, when I asked him to describe it in a single word - is to get a dance make-over by a Seattle-based theatre group...»