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Did you watch the NME Awards t'other night? I did. I saw Jarvis Cocker and The Gossip's Beth Ditto destroy Heaven 17's 'Temptation'. "Awful" was pretty much my verdict. Predictably enough someone disagreed...»
Seriously, why don't people tell me when good bands reform? I couldn't give a monkeys about Pixies or Pumpkins or, um, 5ive... but The Dismemberment Plan?! Come on, kids - keep me in the loop...»
All Saints have been dropped by their label, Parlophone. Rumours regarding their demise had been circulating for weeks - click here for our story of last month...»
If it's not NME then it's Music Week - you (well, I) can't seem to turn a music rag page without seeing The Twang staring back at me. But for every high-five the Brummies have received in the press, they've taken a good kick in the balls, too...»
Further acts have been confirmed for this year's three-day Primavera Sound festival, held in Barcelona from May 31 'til June 2...»
Do Make Say Think, the Toronto five-piece initially formed to soundtrack a play, have never been ones to touch their audience with immediacy and fail to let loose their grip – their material, available since 1998, has always been slow to sink in, and it doesn’t claw as sharply as that of many a peer...»
Those of a more discerning nature will need no obvious boxing of impossible-to-pigeonhole material, and will more than likely already have this on their To Buy list. Cryptograms is fantastically fun to dive into – really, don’t delay in doing so...»
Quick one this week, as I’ve sausages to get home to and Southampton are on the telly at 8...»
Is this Pete for the pop crowd? Shouldn't we just stop writing about her and let her get on with getting better? Yes and, probably, yes. But not just yet. After this. Promise...»
Q magazine - your dad probably buys it to disguise his filth when your mum's around - has revealed that Ozzy Osbourne is one of the worst singers of all time...»
NYC rappers The Beastie Boys are to release their new LP, the follow-up to 2004's hit 'n' miss To The 5 Boroughs, this summer, reports Billboard.com...»
Here we are again: one DiScover Club show down and a brand-new one already peeking over the horizon...»
Björk's new album, Volta, is to be released on May 7 via One Little Indian...»
The Venn Festival - held at various venus in Bristol from May 31 'til June 3 - has announced its initial line-up...»
Brakes are a band. Perhaps you’ve heard of them? They tour a fair bit, as do many bands up ‘n’ down these isles of ours. So, like a kinda public service, DiS invited Brakes’ Eamon Hamilton to provide something of a post-tour recovery menu, for the benefit of other bands and crazy gig-goers alike...»
No Age: they used to be Wives (mmmm), and now they're not. And they're here. Almost...»
Aussies with itchy ants in their tight pants, Wolf & Cub roll, rollickingly, like so many other dance-rockers: ‘This Mess’ rides on a fine beat, filling three-minutes-fifty of otherwise dead air perfectly well...»
The Isle Of Wight's the place to be come September time (7th 'til the 9th) for spotting the likes of Mike D, a pair of Adams and a Tom and Ed, as this year's Bestival is to be headlined by The Beastie Boys (pictured) and The Chemical Brothers...»
Seriously: forget the next new whatever, and dance around the trendy scenes: We Are The Physics don’t fit your moulds and they don’t dress to impress. What they do is make the listener feel like there’s a riot going on in their ears. Brilliant...»
One-woman-band Ill Ease - that's a big fat a.k.a. Elizabeth Sharp - is on tour in the UK from the middle of the month...»
Soon-to-support-Arcade-Fire sorts Electrelane are to perform at an invite-only gig sometime in the next two weeks. When? Where? We dunno... but you can find out...»
Klaxons (pictured) and Jamie T were among the winners at last night's Shockwaves NME Awards, held at the doomed Hammersmith Palais...»
DrownedinSound.com - hello, you'e reading us - is very pleased to announce that we'll be extending our fingers of festival fun across onto continental Europe again this summer...»
Stomp clap-clap stomp: thus begins ‘Prescilla’, the latest slice of (misspelt?) sweetness to be lifted from Bat For Lashes’ Fur And Gold long-player. Only is it? No, actually: the buy-twice factor’s in full effect here, ish, as this is a quite wonderful re-recording of the track found on the aforementioned debut album...»
Grinderman: there’s something about the name alone that carries certain connotations. Rawness, aggression, weirdness; there’s definitely something about the moniker that pricks the hairs on the forearm and dries the throat. And that’s before the four-piece’s music’s been sampled...»
Where October All Over trump so many of this nation’s capital’s most-rocking acts is that they meld their might with killer pop hooks and stirring melodies that bring to mind the Breeders as swiftly as their chopped-up chords conjure thoughts of a dozen or more hard-touring hardcore outfits.
October All Over play the DiScover Club on March 3 - click HERE for more details...
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And is it good? Oh for sure. But anyone who’s anyone knows that already, and has its Magic Potion parent LP. If you’re yet to pick it up, go crazy...»
American alt-country punks - or make up your own genre-centric mishmash and insert it here - Murder By Death are touring the UK in April...»
twentysixfeet are a capital city collective with skyscraper-proportioned ambitions – one listen to their widescreen electro-punk-rock is all it takes for the uninitiated to be overcome by cricket-click beats and guitars that go so beyond eleven...
twentysixfeet play the DiScover Club, at Notting Hill Arts Club, this Saturday - click here for details...
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Scottish indie-poppers Camera Obscura are heading out on tour next month, and will release 'Tears For Affairs' as a single on April 16...»
