Redjetson ready new single
London-based masters of atmospheric post-rock with knobs on, Redjetson, are to release a new single in March...»
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Liars, Gerry Mitchell & Little Sparta - Keep Mother Volume 4
The fourth instalment of Fire Records’ Keep Mother series – each a split ten-inch of a limited run – sees Brooklyn-spawned Liars team up, after a fashion, with Little Sparta, who in turn have their ‘Feasting On My Heart’ blessed by the lyrical input of revered Scottish poet Gerry Mitchell. Your average release, this certainly is not...»
DiS watches the Brit Awards: our wine was nice and we drank the whole bottle
Last night DiS sat down at home, a bottle of M&S red and some spaghetti before us, and flicked our telly over to channel three. Russell Brand! Not talking about his ball bags! It could only mean one thing: we’d tuned into the first live Brit Awards since that whole Sam and Mick fiasco...»
Clap Your Hands Say Yeah!, Cold War Kids, Elvis Perkins at Shepherds Bush Empire, Hammersmith, Tue 13 Feb
Not every song aired is a success – the band’s debut album is a mixed affair, and this imbalance translates to a live setting without any attempt to embellish material rooted in blues-pumping roadside bars – but the front some rows lap up everything Californian quartet Cold War Kids offer their way...»
Hove Festival announces new confirmed acts
A host of new acts have been confirmed for the Hove Festival, taking place this summer in Norway...»
Elliott Smith rarities record forthcoming
Kill Rock Stars are to release a double-disc collection of rare Elliott Smith material later this year...»
Converge announce UK tour
Massachusetts-spawned metalcore monsters Converge are to tour these fair counties o'ours in July. That's the summer. Seems so very, very far away...»
Troubles on tour...
Troubles - featuring former members of Hope Of The States - are on tour this month...»
DiScover: Rolo Tomassi
Rolo Tomassi: perhaps you’ve heard of them? After all, they’ve been front-page-featured only this week – click here for said live review – and their self-titled EP of last year was our DiScover record of the month in October – point your mouse here for that little beauty...
Rolo Tomassi play this weekend's DiScover Club - click here for full details»
The Weekly DiScussion: the most romantic songs, ever...?
Love is in the air, and what better way is there to enhance the whole lip-locking experience than with some mighty fine music? Many an artist has tried, and failed, to convey their innermost feelings for a loved one via song, so why not allow their emoting to make your meal for two (microwaved in five minutes? Good one, son) that little bit more special. If they’re happy, you’re happy, right? Mostly...»
St Valentine's special: Dan Sartain talks heartache and heartbreak
Dan Sartain is a sexy man. He’s a sexy musician, too. This is all we need to formulate a Valentine’s-themed feature. And look! Here it is. Efficiency, it’s not our middle name. That’s James. Alabama-based punk-rocker Sartain took ten minutes or so out of his hectic touring schedule earlier this month to talk lurve with DiS at London’s famous 100 Club venue; what we didn’t see coming was a disarmingly honest opening of a stranger’s heart...»
Pretty Girls confirm final tour dates
Seattle-spawned femme-fronted funky-punks (funky-punks? Whatever) Pretty Girls Make Graves have announced their final tour dates...»
Either/Or #1: The Ataris
A new feature! Our inaugural edition of Either/Or – yes, it’s inspired in name by a certain Elliott Smith record – features Kris Roe of popular US punk-rockers turned superbly epic-indie-pop types The Ataris. Remember ‘San Dimas High School Football Rules’? “Went on all the rides, didn’t have to wait in line.” Yeah, they don’t do that anymore...»
Will Haven will tour. In April.
Look! A picture of DiS's own Raziq Rauf with two members of Will Haven. Why is this on your internet today? Because the band in question - that's Will Haven 'case you missed it, just there, with that bit about Raz - are touring! In April. Fact...»
Biffy join the Party. The Bloc Party. On tour. Yup...
Scottish trio Biffy Clyro - look, that's them pictured! - have been announced as the main support for Bloc Party's April/May tour of the continent scholars are calling 'Europe'...»
Jamie Tours: biggest-ever dates for Mr Treays
Rapper man with guitar that isn't Plan B, Jamie T, has announced his latest set of tour dates. He'll be playing some of his largest venues to date in April and May...»
The View fall foul of US immigration: Stateside tour cancelled
The View - the popular Scottish indie sorts whose Hats Off To The Buskers debut album was number one a few weeks back - have been forced to cancel their March US tour following problems with the States' immigration folk...»
Ecstatic Peace announce SXSW showcase
Thurston Moore's Ecstatic Peace label has announced a showcase gig for this year's South By Southwest conference...»
DiScover: Down I Go
Down I Go are rock to the bone, but not as you or I have known it previously. The London four-piece’s self-coined brand of ‘diastercore’, showcased on last year’s This Is Disastercore long-player, takes the frenetic riffing of the finest punk acts around and solders it onto lyrics about – yup – disasters...
Down I Go play the free-entry DiScover Club at Notting Hill Arts Club, this Saturday, February 17. Full details here»
Arctic Monkeys preview Favourite Worst Nightmare at secret hometown show
Arctic Monkeys played a secret show in Sheffield at the weekend, previewing material from their forthcoming second LP, Favourite Worst Nightmare...»
Nick Cave: new Bad Seeds album to be recorded in June or July
Legendary Australian musician Nick Cave has confirmed to BBC 6Music that a new ...And The Bad Seeds album is forthcoming...»
Chart round-up: Mika in double-penetration shocker!
It’s pop, kids, but not as we like it. And it’s all over the charts like a bowl of cold custard tipped from a tenth-floor window onto the frail frame of a passing OAP. Sticky and yellow and just not proper...»
Trencher, Rolo Tomassi, Cutting Pink With Knives at Camden Barfly, Camden Town, Sun 11 Feb
Rolo Tomassi are a mighty gust of brilliantly fresh air in a scene that breeds too many a carbon-copy of The Locust or Trencher; they enjoy themselves and don’t take their very seriously good music too seriously for its own good, and we reciprocate...»
DiScover: Manatees
Carlisle-spawned Manatees are headlining this coming weekend’s DiScover Club at Notting Hill Arts Club, London, a free event booked by this fine website in collaboration with Rough Trade Shops. To say we’re excited to have them would be something of a massive understatement; we’re pant-sh*ttingly expectant...
Full details for February 17 DiScover Club here
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Bat For Lashes: 'Prescilla' single forthcoming
That Bat For Lashes girl and her girls, on The Culture Show t'other night they were. And Klaxons were on something, too, all chatty about stuff, stuff like touring and the like. The Like! When are they gonna get the break that never came their way last year? When they get good? Wut...»
WIN! Tickets to The Ponys in London
The Ponys are a band. They come from Chicago. They number four, three men and a lady. Is she little? I'm in no position to give you that sort of information... but you can win tickets to their Barfly gig nonetheless...»
Dan Sartain, Plate Six at London 100 Club, Wed 07 Feb
He’s a jawbone to admire, a slender frame that many a mid-twenties man would kill for; his songs bleed upwards from his heart while his fingers bleed in accordance with gravity from all the pluck-strum-jerk actions at his wrist. Dan Sartain ain’t your average rocker rolling with the trends of the money-making. Dan Sartain ain’t your average anything...»
ATP update: Yo La Tengo and Les Savy Fav confirmed for Fans Vs weekender
Good news, ATP fans! You, the ticket-buying voting types, have successfully secured the services of both Yo La Tengo and the best live band in the world Les Savy Fav for the second Spring weekender, to be held May 18-20...»
Explosions In The Sky: "It’s shocking that we have any fans at all"
In an unassuming London hotel, one of many featureless temporary residences in the King’s Cross area, lurk two of the most inspirational instrumental musicians on the planet. Yet chances are you wouldn’t recognise them if they passed you in the street. Michael James and Munaf Rayani make up 50 per cent of Texan-born quartet Explosions In The Sky, one of this world’s most revered instrumental rock acts. DiS meets the pair ahead of the release of All Of A Sudden I Miss Everyone, EITS’s fourth album...»
Idlewild announce a pair of free in-stores
Idlewild - we like them lots! - are to play two free gigs at a pair of HMV stores later this month...»