Money for old Mark? Ex-carpenter tours UK
Give him some wood and, most probably, he'll knock you up a neat cabinet. But don't ask him to assemble your flat-pack Swedish drawers while he's on tour, yeah...»
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Spread The Gossip, for nothing!
Popular Portland trio The Gossip are to perform for free in London on March 5...»
Hoodie versus goodie? Lady Sov takes a swipe at Lily Allen, and vice versa...
The self-proclaimed "biggest midget in the game" - suppose it's better than her on the game counterpart - has taken a swipe at Lily Allen, saying that the 'Smile' singer has only made it to where she is 'cause of her dad...»
All Saints: all over, as good as
All Saints are almost certain to be dropped by their label Parlophone following poor sales of their Studio 1 comeback LP last year, which barely made the top 40 despite the success of its lead single 'Rock Steady'...»
Metallica to begin new LP in March
Metalheads Metallica - famous for falling out on film, among other, more music-orientated successes - willbegin the recording of their new album next month...»
...And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead, Forget Cassettes at Koko, Camden Town, Tue 20 Feb
‘A Perfect Teenhood’ seems to have lasted forever. Up here in the heavens we don’t mind, but the pit-goers down the front must be tiring by now, surely. The sweat on their brows sends beams of light racing across Koko’s insides with greater speed and franticness than the epic-proportioned disco ball that spins above everyone’s head. One day it’ll fall and kill thousands; And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead are doing their absolute utmost to bring the fucker crashing to earth...»
The Notorious Hi-Fi Killers - The Notorious Hi-Fi Killers
Scratchy sound on this four-track 7” – i.e. it has four songs across its twin sides, not that it was recorded on a four-track – can’t disguise the fact that London’s The Notorious Hi-Fi Killers are true brutes; their awesome sonic strength might be mildly diluted here, but it nevertheless echoes their live force...»
Pink Mountaintops - Single Life / My Best Friend
Stephen McBean’s latest offering as a Pink Mountaintop, rather than a Black Mountain of course, is a stomp-fuzz-fizz-pop number that echoes those few records of your dad’s that, y'know – if pushed – you’d admit were actually pretty cool. This would be an ideal juncture to proffer a word like ‘Velvets’, but that’s already noted on the press release. Oh. Whoops...»
Bella Union celebrate tenth anniversary at SXSW
Maybe you know, maybe you don't. Either way, read this: Bella Union turns ten years old this year, and the acclaimed label has a host of fun 'n' games up their sleeve as well as a special anniversary compilation CD on the way. But for the time being, they've a party to plug over Texas way...»
Sonic Youth and Slint for Don't Look Back series
ATP's successful Don't Look Back series, now in its third year, will play host to Slint, Sonic Youth and The House Of Love in 2007...»
Guns N Proses: Slash to write autobiography
Slash is to write his autobiography, reports New York Business...»
Michael Jackson in fresh legal drama
Michael Jackson is being sued by the family of a elderly woman that died two years ago...»
Arcade Fire: "F*ck all those bands who've got no ambition"
Arcade Fire - whose new album Neon Bible is out at the beginning of next month - have hit out at superstar bands like Oasis and U2...»
Britney checks into rehab after week of frankly odd behaviour
Chart-conquering pop songstress Britney Spears has checked into an undisclosed rehab facility following a week or so of increasingly odd behaviour...»
Funeral For A Friend announce tour
Welsh post-hardcore quintet Funeral For A Friend have announced a set of dates for May...»
Tori Amos: new album due in April
Much-acclaimed solo artist sort Tori Amos is to release her ninth stduio album this April...»
Maximo Park on their Earthly Pleasures
Maximo Park are all smiles. They’ve been at it for two hours, at least, but they’re far from out-questioned just yet. We’re all here because of one thing: Our Earthly Pleasures, the band’s second album, due for release in early April. The album, produced by the revered Gil Norton, is preceded by a single, ‘Our Velocity’, on March 19. Says singer Paul Smith: "Y’know, I like Billy Joel, and that's the bottom line..."»
DiScover: The Ponys
Chicago quartet The Ponys are the purveyors of a brand of rock ‘n’ roll that is both instantly engaging yet difficult to pin down using traditional pigeonhole-centric categorisation...»
Primavera: bill almost full!
Spain's Primavera Sound Festival is all but complete of line-up, with the latest announcement a true who's who of DiS's rocking and rolling wet dreams...»
Travis: a trio of shows to preview The Boy With No Name
Scottish pop-rockers Travis are to play their first live shows in the UK since 2005 next month...»
Your Face Here? Duloks offer advertising space... on their behinds
London-based pop trio The Duloks are raising money for a trip to the Far East in a very unusual fashion: the girls are offering advertisers to pimp their products via the medium of arse...»
Ash finish, ish, untitled fifth LP
Northern Ireland's finest former-teen rockers, Ash, have all but finished their fifth album. All they need is a title...»
El-P's I'll Sleep When You're Dead: full tracklisting
Popular-around-'ere rapper El-P releases his new LP, I'll Sleep When You're Dead, through Def Jux on 20 March...»
Chart round-up: Really, who HASN'T heard Eyes Open yet?
Who’d have thought it? A good few weeks in and still ‘Grace Kelly’ is doing it for the people of Britain. Well, for the people of Britain who don’t like music, anyway...»
DiS presents: A Hawk And A Hacksaw, on tour
DrownedinSound.com is pleased to announce that we'll be sponsoring the upcoming UK dates by New Mexico's A Hawk And A Hacksaw...»
WIN! Tickets to see Panda Bear in Manchester
Panda Bear, aka Animal Collective's Noah Lennox, is to play two UK shows next month in support of his new album, Person Pitch - WIN TICKETS...»
Lily Allen suggests The Brits were rigged, ish. Earth's turn said to be 'unaffected'
Lily Allen, last pictured by the popular press waving one of her shoes around in a strange protest over the size of heels nowadays or something, has suggested that The Brit Awards were sorta kinda fixed...»
Spice Girls: Autumn years, Autumn tour?
With each member's solo career done and dusted, as good as, it now seems likely that this Autumn will see a reunion tour by The Spice Girls...»
Audioslave officially split
But, didn't they ages ago? As good as? Apparently not...»
Benicassim takes shape: first bands announced
The first few confirmed acts for this year's Festival Internacional de Benicassim have been announced...»