You And Whose Arabica: Radiohead to sign Starbucks deal?
The wildest rumour on the world wide web this day is that Radiohead are thinking about signing a deal with Hear Music, the label owned and managed by the Starbucks coffee chain....»
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Dour Festival update: Explosions have us in Raptures...
The DiS-associated Dour Festival - if you've missed the first few detail-riddled articles, click here - has announced a batch of newly confirmed bands. And we're all like wow and stuff...»
Minus The Bear - Interpretaciones Del Oso
Remix records with even a modicum of thought and creative integrity instilled within them are a mighty rare commodity these days – bands that have are well and truly outweighed by counterparts that most certainly don’t...»
The Locust - New Erections
New Erections won’t sate the appetites of those wanting nothing but devastation, but anyone approaching The Locust’s new(ish) direction with an open mind is certain to be rewarded...»
WIN! Kieran Hebden and Steve Reid tickets and records
To celebrate the recent release of their collaborative album Tongues, reviewed here, DiS is pleased to offer one lucky winner a pair of tickets to tomorrow night's Kieran Hebden and Steve Reid show at London's Koko venue...»
Manic Street Preachers - Underdogs
It’s ironic, obviously? The days of Manic Street Preachers being ‘Underdogs’ in any sense of the expression are long gone. Then again, if this track is indicative of where they’re going with Send Away The Tigers, their new album due in May, then perhaps they’re intentionally working their way back into rock ‘n’ roll obscurity, into the fog of the forgotten...»
Pelican: "We’re neither trend setters nor trend followers"
Pelican aren’t ones for existing in stasis, however tight the typical boundaries of the genre they operate within, namely post-rock. The Chicago quartet are moving forwards, onwards and upwards; they’re leaving behind the slow-build design of material past for something a little more instant, something a little more in the face of the casual gig attendee. They’ve always arrived in town to pop your eardrums; now, though, they’re gonna make you bleed in seconds rather than hours...»
Demon's Claws - Satan's Little Pet Pig
Take your mind to another dimension and sling this on and you’ll be feeling flower power punk down your pants for a half-hour. Stay sober as a judge while Demon’s Claws entertain you and prepare to be puzzled into relative indifference...»
Maria Taylor - Lynn Teeter Flower
Lynn Teeter Flower isn’t bad by any means. It’s just too safe, too predictable. It becomes sound-alike fast, as songs generally flow into songs with no real themes emerging beyond the traditional pairing of love and loss (anything else exists merely on the periphery). It becomes boring fast, is what’s basically being implied here. Too bad, but not too bad, if that makes sense...»
Jakob - Solace
DiS has already highlighted a pair of breaking-through New Zealand acts this year – check our South By Southwest preview pieces (here and here) for the low-down on Cut Off Your Hands and So So Modern – but the third to come under our critical eye (or should that be ear?) since the beginning of 2007 is a very different prospect. Forget dancing in the aisles – Jakob craft music for the most grand of funerals...»
Cornelius announces European dates
Japanese music-making man Cornelius has announced a series of European dates to support/promote the release of his new long-player, Sensuous...»
Get hot 'n' sweaty with Pornographers this summer
The New Pornographers have announced a trio of London shows for June...»
Exit Planet Denton: Chemical Brothers team up with Midlake's Tim Smith
Midlake's Tim Smith has contributed vocals to a song on The Chemical Brothers's forthcoming We Are The Night album...»
DiS @ SXSW: the virgin's account
The South By Southwest virgin is a terrified creature. All around them, gaggles swarm, heads twisting and turning and hollering at other gangs. Noises creep and crawl from open bar windows; drums are smashed on a balcony and the chatter of industry insiders becomes an overpowering drone. The weak would bolt on the first day...»
Mogwai confirm Connect appearance: Scottish fest takes shape...
Mogwai are the latest act to confirm their appearance at the first-ever Connect Music Festival, held in September in Scotland...»
Incubus cancel dates in Europe and South America
Rap-rockers Incubus have been forced to cancel a series of upcoming dates, including a number in the UK...»
DiScover Club update: loadsa free shows for London DiSsers...
Tonight's free-entry event's no one-off, y'know - we'll be putting on more and more free shows at Fopp on London's Tottenham Court Road this year. Be sure to check the site for updated details in the near future. Which leads us quite nicely to this: all the dates for our forthcoming DiScover Club shows...»
More acts announced for Primavera: White Stripes, Beirut, Hot Chip...
A handful more excellent bands have been confirmed for this year’s Primavera Sound festival, held in the Spring in Barcelona, making an incredible line-up that little bit more brilliant...»
Coldplay talk Timbaland: R'n'b producer expected to work on new album
R'n'b supremo Timbaland is expected to work on the new album by indie-pop heavyweights Coldplay...»
The Flaming Lips' Yoshimi to make Broadway
The Flaming Lips's Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots album of 2002 is to cross from compact disc players and live stages the world over to the glittering lights of Broadway...»
Winehouse wins over America: singer scores highest-ever entry
UK soul singer Amy Winehouse has made US chart history with her new Back To Black album...»
Thousands of Reading & Leeds tickets cancelled
Thousands of would-be ticket-holders for this summer's Carling Weekend, held in Reading and Leeds, have been told that their tickets have been cancelled...»
Mates Of State, Clap Your Hands and more for Dour
Our friends at the Dour Festival - DiS will be heading to the Belgian festival this summer to host a stage for a day - have kindly given us an update on who's playing the four-day fest'...»
Fields fall foul of chart rules with 'digital vinyl' release
Excellent indie-gazers Fields have angered rule-makers over at Charts HQ by releasing their new single, 'Charming The Flames', on something alleged experts are calling 'digital vinyl'. Wait... wait... right, now I've closed my mouth...»
Winnebago Deal: April tour
Hard-rocking Bens one and two, a.k.a. Winnebago Deal, have announced a set of April dates...»
V2 offer upcoming labels a leg-up...
V2 Music, as part of its tenth anniversary, is offering bedroom labels the continent over the chance to win a business development grant with their Cooperative Music venture...»
DrownedinSound.com does Fopp, again! Second free show details...
Do you remember the first time? We do – t’was only earlier this month, on March 1, that DrownedinSound.com (hi) hosted our first free-entry do at the fancy bar/performance space in the basement of the country’s flagship Fopp store, on London’s Tottenham Court Road. How will our second such venture be remembered? A day and a bit from now, you’ll know…»
Excellent! Shellac album due June 5
Shellac's fourth album, the follow-up to 2000's 1000 Hurts (why oh why did it not make Our 66?), is to be released on June 5...»
Pelican, Part Chimp and more for Rhaaa Lovely Festival
Pelican (pictured) and Part Chimp are among the top draws - ha, see what we did there? - at this year's Rhaaa Lovely Festival...»
Björk announces first batch of world tour dates
Björk has announced the first few dates of her forthcoming world tour. If you already read the headline, there was really no need to read that first sentence. But you did anyway. I just wasted a second of your life. Yes...»