The Knife to release Marble House and special version of Silent Shout
Swedish dance duo The Knife are to release both a new single and a special version of their current album early next year...»
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In The Presence Of Truth: DiS meets Aaron Turner of Isis
Isis’ fourth long-player, 2006’s In The Absence Of Truth (Ipecac), wasn’t quite what factions of their hardcore supporters were expecting. An album rooted far deeper in melodic territories (for all its occasional bursts of stunning bombast) than its immediate predecessor, 2004’s Panopticon (Ipecac), the Californian five-piece’s latest split opinion like no Isis record before it. Critics and fans alike were left forced to agree to disagree...»
ReDiScover: Third Eye Foundation
At the end of the ‘90s, Matt Elliott sailed wave after wave of critical acclaim under the guise of Third Eye Foundation. The Bristol-based musician successfully fused dark drum and bass with eerie guitar atmospherics and rumbling shoegaze on his self-released 1996 debut, Semtex, but he first came to this writer’s attention with his second album, Ghost...»
Some Questions: Ladyfinger (ne)
Nebraska-spawned rock quartet Ladyfinger (ne) are sure to get Saddle Creek’s 2007 off to a blistering start. Their Matt Bayles-produced debut album Heavy Hands is due out through the label – not so synonymous with all things emo these days – at the end of January. DiS sent off Some Questions and was pleased to receive replies from not one but two members of the band. Unprecedented? We forget...»
DiS's top ten albums of 2006, as voted for by YOU
The results are in, and all arguments in the DiS office have died down – we can’t alter our final top ten albums of 2006, anyway, as they were very kindly voted for by you lot. Reckon you can guess the winner? Is that photograph a clue...»
The Apples In Stereo sign to Elijah Wood's new label
Weirdie-indie-rockers The Apples In Stereo have put pen to paper on a deal with Simian Records, the label operated by actor Elijah Wood in conjunction with Yep Roc...»
The View announce tour dates for 2007
I haven't 'got' them yet, but many a friend and foe informs me that The View are fairly The Hotness Right Now. With this in mind, it seems only right to inform you that the Scottish four-piece have announced some tour dates...»
RAT:ATT:AGG - Can We Fix It / Left The Hex
A rollicking drum roll or seven and a pair of couldn’t-be-more-deadpan voices equal the public at large’s introduction to the skewed punk-pop of London’s RAT:ATT:AGG...»
Some Questions: Young Widows
Not unlikely to appeal to fans of The Jesus Lizard and Shellac, Young Widows’ debut album Settle Down City was released via Jade Tree in September. DiS fired Some Questions the way of singing guitarist Evan Patterson. We still can't tell if he liked them...»
The Weekly DiScussion: what's your favourite PROPER Christmas song?
Where the hell are the PROPER Christmas songs? The ones that make your dad sing along to ‘em in the car while stuck in traffic after last-minute shopping for Aunty Whoever’s favourite moisturising cream; the ones that the kids love today and that they’ll love tomorrow; the ones that hit the airwaves at midday on December 1 every year and don’t fuck off again ‘til Boxing Day...»
First Grinderman release scheduled for January 8
Grinderman - the new band featuring Nick Cave and Warren Ellis - are to release their debut single on January 8...»
Metallica: cardboard boxes out, thrash in
Metallica's pint-sized sticksman Lars Ulrich has promised fans that their next album will see the veteran rockers return to their thrash roots...»
Muse Chemical Romance: Brits support emos Stateside
So Hot Next Summer At Wembley sorts Muse will support So Hot All Year emos My Chemical Romance when the latter get all mascaraed up for their US tour in February...»
WIN! Tickets to Frog's NYE party at London's Forum
We've a pair of tickets to give away for FROG's NYE bash at the Forum, in Kentish Town (9-17 Highgate Road, London NW5), and a bundle of other goodies, too. Appearing live on the night will be The Young Knives, Rumble Strips and Larrikin Love, and winners will receive signed records and t-shirts from the first two acts upon entering the venue. Best take a bag, then...»
More din from NIN: Trent and co finish new album, almost...
Gloomy industrial muthas (muthas?) Nine Inch Nails - still featuring former Icarus Line guitar mangler Aaron North, pictured - have all but finished their new album...»
Some Questions: Thunderbirds Are Now!
Now on album three, Make History, TAN! are gearing up to take the dance-punk crowd by storm. Signed to Frenchkiss – the label run by Les Savy Fav’s Syd Butler – the group will appeal effortlessly to fans of the ‘Fav as well as aficionados of everything new-wave. DiS fired a list of questions the way of singer Ryan, and he kindly answered them. Hooray? Yes! It’s another Some Questions…»
Noisettes release iTunes-only EP
Recently seen about the land supporting Muse, The Noisettes are to close their 2006 campaign on the nation's dancing shoes with the release of a digital EP...»
Mos Def's Dynamite rap: listen here
Rapper-cum-actor Mos Def is offering fans a pre-release listen to a track from his forthcoming Tru3 Magic LP...»
No Shouts, No Calls: Electrelane to get quiet in 2007?
Electrelane have announced details of their new album, their fourth, via their official website...»
Tapes 'n Tapes 'n Taken: band robbed in Australia
Tapes n' Tapes: we were just talking about them in the office. I like them. The others, they don't. What does that tell us? That I'm right and the world around me is wrong? Probably. Not...»
Kylie WON'T play Glastonbury, after all
Despite many rumours saying she would perform, Glastonbury organiser Emily Eavis has told BBC 6Music that Kylie Minogue won't be playing 2007's festival...»
Karen's Demo Hell: YYYs singer upset over leaks
Yeah Yeah Yeahs singer Karen O has warned fans off looking for recently leaked demo tracks on the internet, as they were never meant to be heard...»
Chart round-up: Take That sure to be denied Christmas number one by X Factor winner
Despite holding on at the top spot of the singles chart for another week with 'Patience', Take That seem certain to lose out on a Christmas Number One once X Factor winner Leona Lewis, pictured, releases her version of 'A Moment Like This' on Wednesday...»
Arcade Fire reveal new album title
Canadian Indie Mafia Leaders Arcade Fire have revealed the title of their new album, the follow-up to 2004's astonishingly successful Funeral LP...»
The Early Years: new EP, tour dates
Acclaimed post-rocking shoegazers (insert your own adjective here) The Early years are to release a new EP in February and have announced a series of tour dates, too...»
Paul Marshall prepares new album
Leeds-based singer/songwriter Paul Marshall - also a half of Concentration Champ - is preparing a new album for release in March 2007...»
Donation site set up to help J. Robbins' ill son
Members of J. Robbins' family, as well as a number of the singer/guitarist/producer's friends, have set up a website to accept donations to help his unwell son...»
Camden Crawl to span two days in 2007
Next year's Camden Crawl event is to take place over two days in April...»
Justin Hawkins lined up for Celebrity Big Brother
Justin Hawkins, former singer with The Darkness, has apparently been approached to star in the next series of Celebrity Big Brother...»
London's Trash club to close
Popular with the skinny-jeaned London club Trash - I've been there twice - is to close on its tenth birthday in January...»