Snow Patrol triumph at Meteor Awards
Snow Patrol won four awards last night at Ireland's Meteor Awards...»
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We wanna get loaded... like Godlike Geniuses
In a move regarded as "a joke" by at least one DiSser, Primal Scream are to be awarded the Godlike Genius award at this year's Shockwaves NME Awards...»
Chris Chinchilla to leave London for sunnier climes
Former Art Brut-er Chris Chinchilla is to up sticks pretty dang soon to move down south. Waaay down south...»
April sh*t-showers: Linkin Park return
Mighty nu-metal rap-rockers with baggy pants Linkin Park are to return to airwaves and record stores worldwide this Spring...»
Apartment cancel shows following drummer's hospitalization
London indie-rockers Apartment have cancelled their upcoming gigs following the hospitalization of drummer Liam Fletcher...»
Mogwai confirm ATP appearance, PLUS full current line-ups
Scottish almost-instrumental rockers Mogwai have today confirmed that they will appear at ATP's Versus The Fans weekend in May...»
Charlotte Hatherley announces tour
Ex-Ash axe-swinger Charlotte Hatherley - spotted by drunken DiSsers at Metric's headline show in Camden t'other night - is to tour from the end of the month...»
Photo I.D. required for Glastonbury 2007 tickets
Beardy Glastonbury man Michael Eavis, pictured, has told fans of the festival that their new ticketing system - the ticket-buyer will need to submit a passport-style photograph of themself - is much fairer than anything done in previous years...»
Cat Power fans: "harbringers of dark magick"
The people behind Cat Power's MySpace site - located right here and frustratingly only featuring one song - have called the singer's fans "harbringers of dark magick" in a bulletin...»
America's Sweetheart to turn American Idol judge?
Widow to a dead grunger, mother to a daughter that looks reet like her dad, Courtney Love is potentially lining up a spot on the judging panel of American Idol...»
The Bronx - Shitty Future
Few rock singles this year will be as immediate, as catchy and as good. It’s just a shame that so few of The Bronx’s newest songs are of a comparable quality...»
DiS's Agony Aunt: Maria Taylor answers your questions
DiS is ‘backstage’ at London’s Boogaloo pub, high in the hills of Highgate. In a room cluttered with posters, buzzing computers and ringing phones, Maria Taylor sits sipping red wine poured from a bottle in her ample handbag. The Saddle Creek-signed songstress is in town for a single acoustic performance, here, in a couple of hours. First though, she plays the role of agony aunt for the DiS readers...»
Brandy sued for $50 million following car crash death
As we reported here only last week, US R'n'B singer Brandy was involved in a car accident at the end of 2006 that resulted in a death. News has now emerged that the victim's parents are looking to sue the singer for $50 million...»
Nick Drake rarities album forthcoming
A compilation of rare Nick Drake material is to be released by Island later this year...»
Green Man 2007: headliners confirmed
Led Zeppelin's Robert Plant - pictured in his younger days - is to headline this year's Green Man Festival, to be held on August 17-19...»
Coldplay announce singles box set
Coldplay are to re-release their singles to date - 14 of them - in a fancy box set...»
2Pac - Pac's Life
Enough...»
Xerox Teens to release new single
London punx Xerox Teens release a new double-A single, 'Onkawara' / 'B54', on February 5. That's this Monday...»
DiS.com nominated for Shockwaves NME Award
DiS.com - hi, you're reading us - is pleased to report that we've been nominated for a Shockwaves NME Award this year, in the category of Best Website. Well d'uh: we were hardly up for shortlisting in the Worst Dressed category...»
Sky Larkin - One of Two
It’s incessant, repetitive and boisterous: perfect pop, then? Almost but not quite...»
Riddle Of Steel: European tour dates in full
Well-brill St Louis rockers Riddle Of Steel are all but in the U of K for what people round these parts are calling a tour...»
Kaiser Chiefs sell-out Doncaster. Wow?
Yorkshire tykes Kaiser Chiefs have sold-out a one-off show at Doncaster's Dome venue in, like, some seconds...»
We Are Scientists. We are on tour. Almost...
Indie-popping trio We Are Scientists have announced a few dates around their NME-sponsored show at London's expansive Astoria venue...»
Pretty Girls in the grave: Seattle punks split
Seattle's finest pop-hooked punks Pretty Girls Make Graves are calling it quits after five-plus years together and three well-received albums...»
Dan Sartain - The Flight Of The Finch
A spittoon by your boot, a half-sunk whiskey in your hand, some dusted thug pointing a six-shooter in your face; Desperado by way of Tarantino and Mills & Boon, a get-out-of-town threat and a hard lump in the throat, rough like coal and blacker than the tar that drowned the horse you rode in on...»
The Ponys: worth more than a pony, probably
Chicago-spawned and very-rockin' quartet The Ponys are a-comin', with the express intention of plugging their forthcoming third album, Turn The Lights Out...»
Chart round-up: ZZzzzZzzzZZzzZZzzz...
Some people count sheep, others take pills. Some have amazing sex ‘til they collapse in sticky pools of their own man or lady goo. Me, I fall asleep by thinking up different introductions to our weekly charts round-up. What a life...»
Just what is that Carling advert about, exactly? Hard-Fi back in studio...
Belong? I don't get it. Do birds drink rubbish lager? Seriously, this has puzzled the DiS office for a bit: wut...»
Cats XI Select All-Dayer at London Pleasure Unit, Sun 21 Jan
All-dayers regularly look brilliant on paper: a plethora of bands established and not, a bar well-stocked with chilled booze, and usually for an absolute pittance. Sadly, in practice these hours-and-hours-and-hours-long shows can be tests of endurance – despite the attendee’s best intentions, it’s more than often difficult to maintain a consistent level of concentration, and sobriety, for the duration...»
DiS in digest: our pick of the week's news stories...
Welcome, weekend readers! (unless you’re reading this on a Monday. Or a Tuesday. Or… yeah, hi.) Here, DiS is pleased to present a digest, if you will, of the week’s most interesting (?) news stories. Hopefully, assuming we remember to do it, this will be a weekly thing – every Friday evening, a neat little summary of the week’s comings and goings in the world of music...»