Lightspeed update: Dev does diaries, and more...
Dev is in Nebraska, as of now, recording with Mike Mogis; the results will make up the debut Lightspeed Champion album, which is to be released later this year through Domino...»
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Dustin O'Halloran - Piano Solos Vol. 2
Find your own little corner of the world, your hiding place. Take this with you. And think, reflect, assess, and conclude, properly, for the first time in what might be months. Believe me: it’ll make re-entry to the Real World a whole lot less painful...»
DiScover: House Of Brothers
House Of Brothers is the I-play-guitar-and-sing alter-ego of Andrew Jackson, one-time member of both The Murder Of Rosa Luxemburg and Scarecrows. Both of his former acts were much loved by many a DiS writer, and his new project is going the right way to earning a similar level of adoration and respect.
House Of Brothers plays the DiScover Club at Notting Hill Arts Club, London, on Saturday 13 January, 4pm-8pm. It's a free show, over-18s only.»
Emergency! Dates! By! An! Emergency! Yeah...
Not a lot of people know that we at DiS really really like Exeter-based pop-punk hip-swingers An Emergency; they regularly make us shake our bottom halves in a way we've not since Q And Not U called it quits...»
Bloc Party: playing more dates than we've had with even moderately hot girls
Bloc Party have announced a hella lotta US tour dates for March. They were, of course, forced to abandon their tour with Panic! At The Disco late last year following drummer Matt Tong's collapsed lung...»
wires on fire
Remember when you thought the first Bronx album was brilliant, ‘cause it was so pissed off? This is more pissed...»
Hot Gossip - Angles
Snaking their hips out of Milan’s grimiest back alleys, Italian trio Hot Gossip are sure to cause a stir on these shores with their dance-punkin’ pop ‘n’ roll, neatly packaged here as their debut album Angles...»
Dan Sartain: new single, February dates UPDATED
Dan Sartain, he's a singer. Someone, somewhere, called him the punk-rock Elvis. Us? We simply say this: he's good, so go see him at these places...»
Chinchillafest turns five; celebrates with Trencher, Kling Klang and more...
Leed's annual Chinchillafest turns five this year, and is to take place from March 2 to March 4 at the city's Brudenell Social Club...»
Junior Boys: February tour, video competition...
Canadian dance types Junior Boys are returning to the UK in February for what people at Ground Zero are daring to call 'a tour'. This, ladies and ladies, is exciting news...»
Blood Brothers: tour reminder, WIN tickets...
They're almost here, those Blood Brothers boys. Perhaps you already know that their UK tour, which kicks off in Aberdeen on January 13, is in association with DiS. You didn't? Now you do! Hurray...»
Arcade Fire: more UK shows, album tracklisting
Canadian indie super troopers Arcade Fire have announced more UK dates and the tracklisting to their forthcoming Neon Bible album...»
DiScover Club @ Notting Hill Arts Club: Loney, Dear and more for free January 13 show
DrownedinSound.com's first bill of 2007 is a super one, and what makes it even better is that it's free...»
The Ataris to Welcome the Night next month
US pop-punks The Ataris are to release their sixth studio album next month...»
The Shins announce US tour
US indie-rockers of hella DiS love, The Shins, are to tour the US before crossing the sea for a one-off show at London's Astoria...»
DiS's Tips for 2007, Part One
Here we are, then: each of us a year older, and each of us a little wiser as to what’s great about music, and what sucks. 2007 holds within its twelve months many a musical treat; here, DiS exposes just a handful of them, with more to follow in Part 2. Foals, Gallows, I Was A Cub Scout and Youthmovies are detailed here, alongside many weird and wonderful more...»
Slayer: Unholy Alliance DVD coming, Australian dates announced
Metal titans Slayer are among the bands featuring on a forthcoming DVD of last year's Unholy Alliance tour...»
Gruff Rhys and Boom Bip form Neon Neon
One is Welsh, one is not, but that hasn't stopped them collaborating again... Gruff Rhys and Boom Bip (the latter, pictured) are working together on a new project called Neon Neon...»
Sparklehorse announce first US tour for five years
Sparklehorse is/are (delete as you like) to tour the US for the first time in five years...»
Yndi Halda - Enjoy Eternal Bliss
Yndi Halda’s violin-led approach isn’t at all derivative of a particular predecessor; at times echoes of acts past become apparent, but never do these tiny divergences from everything unique upset the rhythm of Enjoy Eternal Bliss, a four-track EP on paper but an hour-plus album in practice...»
Jeniferever confirm UK tour dates
Swedish post-rockers par excellence Jeniferever have confirmed a number of UK dates for April of this year...»
Lady Sov' reschedules US shows
Rapper Lady Sovereign - so called because her dad named her after a dog and her family surname's Sovereign - has rescheduled a number of cancelled US shows from last year...»
Grinderman reveal further debut album details
Nick Cave-fronted rock quartet Grinderman have revealed a few more details about their debut album, a self-titled affair due out through Mute in March...»
The Killers revealed as V headliners
The Killers - a popular around these parts rock band from the American sicy of Las Vegas - have been announced as headliners at 2007's twin-site V Festival...»
Chart round-up: these new downloading chart rules are doing our heads in...
Hangover passed, has it? Some of us didn’t have the opportunity to develop one, such was our ignore-everything-else excitement over the start of the new musical year. 2007, though, begins almost exactly as 2006 ended, chart wise...»
Release Lightning! DiS's guide to 2007's early releases...
It does precisely what it says in the title: this is the DiS guide to some of the finest records coming your way in the first quarter of 2007. January, February and March: each will bear witness to some ace-o-rama releases, and here are just some of them...»
The Christmas DiScussion: who are you tipping for 2007?
Hey, you! Chew that turkey properly and then give us a hand. We want to know about your tips for 2007...»
DiS's interviews of 2006: DiScoveries, heavy-hitters and silly Some Questions
2006: twelve whole months of DiS running about the country, up stairs and down basements, into hotel rooms and outside into pub gardens, chasing bands. It's what we do, so that you don't have to.»
Blood Red Shoes: big bloody tour
Brighton-based boy'n'grrrrrl duo Blood Red Shoes are to take their bang-bang-dance rock on the rolling road from January 30...»
Duran Duran work with Timberlake and Timbaland on new LP
1980s pop-rockers Duran Duran have enlisted the assistance of Justin Timberlake and producer Timbaland on their new LP, the follow-up to 2004's Astronaut...»