The Noisettes and GoodBooks for Vice tour
The Noisettes and GoodBooks are to hit the road for the Vice tour next month - and all shows are free-entry for students...»
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Cursive - Big Bang
There was this big bang once, and by the sound of it Cursive are channelling the blast from said universe-conjuring twist of fortune through amplifiers of molten lead...»
Triptych line-up announced: Espers, CSS, Euros Childs, Gruff Rhys and more for seventh year
The bill for this year's Triptych series has been announced...»
The Shins cover the Manics on new single...
...it's not really a Manics cover. But it is called 'Australia'. And it's out on April 9, following the band's UK shows in March...»
CSS - Off The Hook
Surely it’s only a matter of time before ‘Let’s Make Love And Listen To Death From Above’ earns itself a re-release, as in true Gossip style CSS are dangerously nearing the point where their album of the moment has had its hits extinguished...»
El-P - Flyentology
Former Company Flow man El-P, a.k.a. Jaime Meline (and El-Producto), had a slew of guest-aided tracks to pluck from his forthcoming I’ll Sleep When You’re Dead opus as a curtain-raising single – among the collaborators on said full-length are a pair of Mars Voltas, one Cat Power and a Nine Inch Nail...»
Los Campesinos! - We Throw Parties, You Throw Knives
Mmmmm…... Is, probably, the most succinct initial summarisation of this brace of beautifully sweet on the surface indie-pop compositions, a.k.a. the debut single from Cardiff’s much-feted-already Los Campesinos!...»
Jack Peñate: jacks in the day job for massive tour
Recent XL signing Jack Peñate - whose 'Second, Minute Or Hour' was heard on the last DiS podcast no less (download here) - is heading out on a frankly massive tour in a matter of days...»
"It's like jazz!": DiS meets !!!'s Nic Offer
!!! are a band whose reputation precedes them – scintillating live performances have left onlookers slavering for on-wax renditions of what they’ve just lost their minds to, and their Warp-released album of 2004, Louden Up Now left critics and substance-swilling acolytes of their incessant dance-punk fully sated. New album Myth Takes, out March 5, re-sows the seeds of love...»
DiScover: An Emergency
An Emergency are, perhaps, the best band in Britain that you're yet to hear. Yes, you've no doubt heard or read similar expressions of over-the-top praise dozens of times before, if not more, but stick with us here...
An Emergency play the monthly DiScover Club, at Notting Hill Arts Club, on March 3. The show is free to enter, and open to over-18s. Read article for further information...»
WIN! Tickets to Bob Dylan in London
Bob Dylan is touring in April. Did you know that? Now you do. And, because we're so very splendid to you, we've two pairs of tickets to give away to the man's second London date...»
Camden Crawl: initial line-up confirmed
The first batch of artists playing this year's two-day Camden Crawl has been officially announced...»
Stars sign CDs: Hot Fuzzers in London, tomorrow
Usually it'd be a case of 'CD signing, so what?'. But we like Spaced and Shaun Of The Dead, so in this instance we're making an exception...»
Portishead play low-key show; debut new material
Portishead played a small show in Bristol last night, and previewed some new material in the process...»
WIN! Signed RJD2 record and new album
RJD2, a.k.a. Ramble John Krohn, releases his new LP, The Third Hand, next week through XL. But you can get your hands on a copy right now...»
Neurosis return with Given To The Rising
Californian alt-metal outfit Neurosis are to follow up their The Eye Of Every Storm LP of 2004 with Given To The Rising, out on May 7 via Neurot...»
Comets On Fire announce one-off UK date for May
It's absolutely likely that they'll strip the skin from your face... but only if you make it to this one-off show in May...»
DiScover: Forget Cassettes
Forget Cassettes is, essentially, Beth Cameron; she is the constant that runs the course of the band’s existence to date, the spine from which its myriad limbs have spouted. The band is currently completed by Doni Schroader, also of And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead, but their forthcoming LP Salt was recorded with a different line-up, as a trio...»
This week: two FREE DiS shows
DiS has not one but two free London shows for you this week. Check 'em...»
Support the 'Underdog': Manics offer free download
Manic Street Preachers - one of those bands that seems to have been around forever, and that you remember liking a while ago, but you're not really sure why... you think it had something to do with white liberal America, but perhaps it had more to do with wearing ski masks - are to release a new song as a free download on March 19...»
The View's US immigration problems explained: singer on drugs charge?
As reported earlier this month, Scottish quartet The View were forced to cancel a series of shows in the US and Canada after the band fell foul of the States' immigration rules. The exact hows and whys weren't revealed at the time, but now it's come to light that the band's singer, Kyle Falconer, is apparently facing a drugs charge...»
Chart round-up: Massive coat? Check. Massive hit? Check!
He’s gone! Rocked from the top of the singles chart by those merry Leeds men, Kaiser Chiefs. Ladies, gentlemen, breathe again: Mika’s infuriatingly rubbish version of a dozen good songs condensed into four minutes of intolerable shite, ‘Grace Kelly’, has slipped from number one. To number two. Which is so much more appropriate, really...»
WIN! Euros Childs tickets and albums...
Former Gorky's man turned ace-o solo artist Euros Childs plays London's ICA this week - on Wednesday, February 28 - and you can be there...»
More Arctic Monkeying, albeit not so secretly...
Arctic Monkeys - they're a band - have announced a secret but-not-really show for tomorrow night, at Middlesbrough's Town Hall...»
Six By Seven: original line-up reforms
Nottingham rockers Six By Seven - or Six.BySeven if you prefer - have reformed their original line-up...»
The See MJ Music Marathon
On Saturday something snapped – ping – and opportunity knocked: time allowed these already weary legs and fading eyes to attend three different shows, from the afternoon through the evening and into the early hours of the alleged day of rest. The last, three of three, was a club, and one I was DJing at… but still. Three shows, twelve hours, some booze: someone was going to miss Match Of The Day for once...»
DiS in digest: our pick of the week's news
DiS has been busy this week. Busy beavering away at organising exciting things to do with festivals and tours and records and stuff, stuff that you might just be hearing about very soon. Yes, very soon. So long as the rug’s not pulled out from under our virtual arses...»
Chinchillafest: it's next weekend! Full listing, ticket info...
The fifth annual Chinchillafest, held over three days at Leeds' Brudenell Social Club, is all of A WEEK away. Do you have a ticket yet? I don't but I can't get to Leeds. But you, you might be able to. In which case, read on...»
Further acts announce their Great Escape
Further acts have been confirmed for this year's The Great Escape weekender, taking place at venues across sunny Brighton from May 17th 'til the 19th of the very same month. Mmm, Brrrriiiiiggghhhttttooon. I went there once, played the arcades. That fella from 80s Matchbox told me I was rubbish for doing so. True story...»
ReDiScover: Idlewild
Idlewild are one of those bands so far as the core DiS staff goes: we were there, fresh of face and wet behind the ears, when the Scottish then-four-piece rolled and rollicked their way around the nation’s stages, often as a blow-them-away support act. That was back before indie became pop, before the top ten was at least part-owned to the tune of a good fifty per cent by allegedly ‘alternative’ acts. We were inspired...»