Editors announce May dates
The shows are expected to find the four-piece road-testing material from their forthcoming second album, due out later this year...»
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Hey you! Don't spread Slint rumours, you...
Touch And Go/Quarterstick are getting mighty peeved at people asking them when (not if?) Slint - currently preparing for their Spiderland tour (click here for all dates) - are going to release new material...»
SXSW is done. DiS is tired...
DiS is back from its few days stateside; while across the Atlantic, we partied with native New Yorkers in, um, New York actually, and drank ourselves silly in Austin hotel suites...»
DiS @ NYC: Live From London party tomorrow
Hello Britain, how's tricks? DiS is in New York right now - it's currently 11.50 in the morning and the city is surprisingly quiet - 'cause tomorrow we're partying (all the time, party all the time, party all the time) at the Live From London event...»
The Rapture - Pieces Of The People We Love (single)
Nice, for now, will suffice, but if The Rapture don’t pull some terror tricks on their next album, they can kiss goodbye to anyone giving a damn about their bettered-by-!!! shtick...»
DiS @ SXSW: Our Picks, part four...
Here we are, then: day five of our South By Southwest preview, and part four of our picks for your attention. Another four from the sea of many hundreds playing Austin, each pulling cards from sleeves and jumping through hoops for a few column inches in the British press. Seems a bit much for some sucker at Magazine X to give a month-long f*ck about you, doesn’t it? But far be it for us to highlight the fickleness of this whole process, ‘cause these bands are the business...»
Clark - Ted EP
If you’re looking for a super introduction to the engrossing world Chris Clark crafts, almost effortlessly, from banks of unemotional machinery, then the Ted EP is the perfect starting point...»
WIN! Tickets to A Hawk And A Hacksaw
DrownedinSound.com isn't just chuffed to be sponsoring the forthcoming tour by A Hawk And A Hacksaw, we're also pleased as pie to be able to offer a pair of tickets to every show on the tour to our dearest, dearest readers...»
SuperSonic 07: tickets on sale now!
Tickets for this year's two-day SuperSonic festival, held at Birmingham's Custard Factory complex, are on sale now...»
Arcade Fire - Neon Bible
Perhaps the true beauty of Neon Bible is its imperfection. Had it proved to be the be all and end all of indie records, where the hell would Arcade Fire go next? This, like Bloc Party’s A Weekend In The City, sets up album three as something incredibly special – both are flawed, for sure, but amazing nonetheless...»
Stereophonics' new album "complete", says Kelly Jones
Welsh rockers Stereophonics have finished their new album, the follow-up to 2005's not-so-great Sex Violence Language Other. Hopefully the new LP, as yet untitled, won't have such a shite name...»
DiS podcast: SXSW special
Wow, just when we thought we had too much South By Southwest preview stuff up already, we’ve only gone and recorded a brand-new podcast for you. Smells of barbecue sauce, too...»
Korn promise "less-straightforward" eighth album
US nu-metal outfit Korn have told a Los Angeles radio station that their next album - their eighth in all - will be a "less straightforward" affair than previous offerings...»
Iron & Wine's Shepherd's Dog due September
Iron & Wine will return this September with the follow-up to Our Endless Numbered Days, Shepherd's Dog...»
Panic! get cabin fever on second LP
Panic! At The Disco are busy at work on their second LP, reports MTV...»
Ash announce a couple of Koko shows
To be honest, we don't need to add much more to that headline. Says it all, really...»
Idlewild - Make Another World
A return to form is what some’ll call this, album five from Scottish rockers of many line-up shifts Idlewild. But, really, the quintet never really lost it, as by changing their spots with each past release they essentially refused to stick to a formulaic approach that could, in turn, inform an expression of ‘form’...»
Newsom: new songs
Hardly likely to steal that 'voice of an angel' title away from beer-guzzling preggers twenty-summin Charlotte Church any time soon though she is, Joanna Newsom nevertheless turned a lot of critical heads last year with her Ys collection. It looked pretty, and at times it sounded pretty. At times...»
Either/Or #2: Richard Swift
The second of DrownedinSound.com’s semi-regular Either/Or features finds us in the company of Californian solo artist of hella acclaim Richard Swift. Only, we’re not, really – we went over to meet him and he was late, laid in bed with a tummy bug or something. We had a cuppa and went home, fired off an e-mail and sat back in our comfy chairs. And then ping, answers. Umm…»
Grinderman - Grinderman
Sometimes it’s essential, for perspective purposes, to leave the New and Fresh and Exciting and insert PR’s adjective o’ choice ‘ere to one side and tip an ear the way of a few veterans. After all, all newcomers are but by-products of a rock and roll past that they’re too young to remember – the members of Grinderman are, beyond all probability, twice the age of a number of Number One acts of late...»
!!! - Myth Takes
Here it is, then: the soundtrack to your summer house party par excellence, signed, sealed and delivered a good few months early just ‘cause it’s that good. Get your dancing practice in now – come the longest days of the year you’ll be wearing many a sole down to Myth Takes...»
Explosions In The Sky at London Koko, Thu 01 Mar
Within the bubble the man’s cigarette smoke smells as sweet as the freshest roses; on the inside looking out, the throng that moves, as if in slow motion, to what’s unfolding – sonically, aurally, whateverly – upon the stage at which we all stare, isn’t a distraction but an embellishment...»
DiScover: Murder By Death
Murder By Death aren’t merely the proud owners of probably the best name in rock music, they’re also the makers of some of the hardest to accurately summarize music this side of a subgenre yet to be coined...»
Klaxons to play Glastonbury twice... on the same weekend
So nu-rave they ain't nu-rave no more trio Klaxons have told Radio 1 that they'll play two sets at this year's Glastonbury Festival...»
Internet porn: a lot like scoring drugs, says Anthony Kiedis
Anthony Kiedis, singer with mega-popular funk-rockers Red Hot Chili Peppers, has compared the world of internet porn to the evil world of evil drugs...»
The Jackson 5 to reform?
The latest WTF rumour to hit the 'net is as follows: The Jackson 5 are to reform, with Michael, for a series of Las Vegas shows. The amount the five will pocket? £250 million...»
Play around with Lily Allen...
Lily Allen is to appear - kinda - in the computer game The Sims 2...»
DiS @ SXSW: Our Picks, part two...
Part two of DiS’s SXSW preview – again focusing on a quartet of acts we reckon are well worth catching at the annual music biz booze-up – shifts its eyes and ears from the US of A to the UK and even further away from the Lone Star State. Well, with the exception of one of four, anyway...»
Isis to tour UK after ATP appearance
Sorta-kinda-instrumetal quintet Isis are to tour the UK in May, following their appearance at the All Tomorrow's Parties Versus The Fans weekender (May 18-20)...»
DiS @ SXSW: Our Picks, part one
24 hours ago we were excited about South By Southwest, and now we’re even more excited. In a flurry we are, at the DiSopolis, a flurry of nervous hotel booking and flight confirming and band listening. Primarily the last activity, mind. Which is fortunate, as now we can present to you, readers dear and true, a neat multi-part preview of our pick of the manymany-limbed bunch playing the annual industry booze-up...»