Midlake to return to UK, with DiS tip Robert Gomez in tow
Texan indie-rockers of plenty o' beauty Midlake are to tour the UK in April. The band will be supported by DiS tip for 2007 Robert Gomez...»
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Les Incompilation: London band releases collection of recordings
Now-defunct London pop-rockin' party boys Les Incompetents - I always used to write their name with an accent, but there ain't one on the CD - are to release a compilation of all their recordings...»
Kate Nash confirms debut album producer. Take a guess...
Ha! You're wrong. Unless your answer was Paul Epworth. In which case you're correct. Have a biscuit...»
Crowded House announce new album
Australian pop-rockers Crowded House have confirmed the title of their return-to-action album...»
David Gray for acoustic tour
David Gray has announced a set of acoustic dates for March. Yup, March. The month of my sister's birth. True story...»
Get Closer to Kelly Osbourne? No thanks, says Hef
Rock daughter Kelly Osbourne apparently harbours desires to appear in Playboy, but an interview with the magazine's founder Hugh Hefner suggests she's unlikely to peel for its pages any time soon...»
Fields reveal debut album details
Recently-on-a-DiS-tour outfit Fields have announced details of their debut long-player...»
Brandy involved in fatal car accident
Reports have emerged that R'n'B singer Brandy, pictured, was involved in a serious car accident late last year...»
Thrill Jockey Pop Quiz: Califone vs Bobby Conn
In one corner, Califone’s Jim Becker; in the other, Bobby Conn. Both have called the Thrill Jockey label their home away from home these past many recording years, and now they must face each other in a trivia-based battle for critical survival. The loser will never have a record reviewed on these pages again; the winner, we’ll love like a band awarded an 8.7 from Pitchfork. That, folks, is hella lotta love...»
DiS meets The Blood Brothers: "What am I doing here?"
DiS meets Seattle's most-visceral and forward-thinking punks on the block, The Blood Brothers, during their DiS.com-sponsored tour of the UK... »
Bloc Party - A Weekend In The City
A Weekend In The City is the aural adaptation, a digital manifestation, of what it’s like to be a twenty-something in Britain, today. It’s dirty, dishevelled, unsure and paranoid; fearful, easily distracted, boisterous and ashamed; reckless, wild, nervous and terrified; graceful and gangly. And it’s very nearly perfect...»
Archie Bronson Outfit win fancy award; fail to shave properly for the occasion, probably
Blues-punkin' trio Archie Bronson Outfit have won the Breakthrough Award at the South Bank Awards, also sponsored by The Times...»
Snowboarding PatrLOL! Drummer busts arm...
Jonny Quinn - drummer with popular indie-poppers Snow Patrol (that's them in that picture, there) - has broken his arm while snowboarding in the Alps...»
Lily Allen wants to marry a rich man. DiS staff distressed...
Lily Allen wants to marry a man with money, apparently...»
News just in: Kurt Cobain, Elliott Smith and more "foresaw Mika and took the only possible action"
Breaking news: DiS's resident medium, Derek Okra, has revealed that Kurt Cobain, Elliott Smith, Jeff Buckley and Jimi Hendrix each foresaw the arrival of current chart sensation Mika. Each experienced a vision of a ghostly face with bleeding ears prior to their deaths, and now Okra has told the DiS staff that the face belonged to the Beirut-born singer...»
Klaxons: "Nah" to Wembley gig
Klaxons' Jamie Reynolds has revealed that the London-based trio turned down the chance to support Muse at Wembley Stadium in June...»
Renowned remixer/producer Disco D commits suicide
Disco D - remixer to the likes of Pharrell Williams, Usher, Christina Milian and Shiny Toy Guns - was found dead yesterday. He had committed suicide...»
The Blood Brothers, Help She Can't Swim, DiS DJs at Islington Academy, Islington, Mon 22 Jan
Right Now, they’re the one band that matters. Tomorrow they will be replaced by another, but Right Now, The Blood Brothers truly are on fire. Fire. Fire...»
The Locust unveil their New Erections
San Diego grind-core-punk-rockers - oh whatever, mould your own pigeonhole - The Locust have announced details of their new album...»
WIN! Signed Future Of The Left vinyl and gig tickets!
Future Of The Left have a single out next week and it's great. But don't believe me: read this and, like, let your tongue wag about the place...»
Special summer show for Charlatans
The Charlatans have announced something of a homecoming show for June 15. The 15-year-old band will play in Delamare Forest, in Cheshire, as part of the Forestry Commission's 2007 Forest Tours series...»
Rage Against California: rap-rockers to headline Coachella
That anger's a gift is a given, but the chances of Rage Against The Machine playing this year's Coachella Valley Music (and Arts) Festival, not so. But they bloody well are, y'know...»
Monstrous behaviour: bands cancelled in favour of Doherty
Leeds-spawned avant-post-rockers These Monsters and Jeniferever tour mate Paul Marshall had their show at London's Macbeth venue - originally scheduled to take place on Saturday night - scrapped by the venue's new owners in favour of a last-minute booking of Pete Doherty...»
The View have an album out; generate press by smashing stuff up
Scottish scallywags The View - recently seen scoffing pick 'n' mix at Edgware Road Woolworths, unless that was four other scruffy-looking kids shooting us nasty looks - have been banned from ever staying at a Travelodge hotel...»
New albums by not-so-new bands news: Maximo Park and Elbow reveal details
Both Elbow and Maximo Park have revealed details of their upcoming new records. Can you call downloads 'records' and get away with it..»
Rice is nice, if you're over 40: singer tours
I've never got the appeal of Damien Rice. I assumed it was because I'm too young to be suckered by another average singer-songwriter with a bit of monthly glossies acclaim behind him (did you see the advert for 9 on the back of The Guide? Who'd say such things!?), but an encounter with a young girl's iPod on the bus t'other day proved me wrong. Everyone loves this guy! So...»
DiS Radio: DiScover four: our tips and more!
Colin Roberts and Mike Diver play some of the top tips for 2007 as featured on DrownedinSound.com, as well as some of the cream of our forthcoming live acts. Music comes from Los Campesinos!, Sky Larkin, Blood Brothers, Cold War Kids, The Besnard Lakes, Rolo Tomassi, Lovvers, Jack Peñate, Lovvers and more.»
My Chemical Romance - Famous Last Words
It’s all a little hackneyed, which is sad, really, since MCR really have pushed themselves on their latest long-player...»
Cats And Cats And Cats and an all-dayer: this weekend, London
DiS's favourite band called Cats And Cats And Cats, Cats And Cats And Cats, have pulled together a frankly super bill for an all-dayer in London this weekend...»
The Prodigy start their own label
Musical mavericks of 1992, The Prodigy, have set up their own label, Ragged Flag...»