License to Killers? Flowers and co. asked to pen Bond theme
Las Vegas' successful indie-rockers The Killers have apparently been approached to write the theme song for the next movie in the James Bond series...»
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Blood Red Shoes announce last-minute Sheffield show, tonight
Dynamic Brighton duo Blood Red Shoes have announced a last-minute gig, tonight at Sheffield's Foundry venue...»
Five Curses but six tracks? David Thomas Broughton can't count...
David Thomas Broughton is to follow up his The Acclaimed Guide To Insufficiency album with a six-track EP, oddly titled 5 Curses...»
DiS presents: two free shows for 2007!
2006 isn't even over, yet, and already DiS has lined up some neat-o live treats for y'all in 2007. And they're free...»
Capdown return in 2007
Ska-punkers Capdown are to return to album-releasing action early in 2007...»
Some Questions: F*cked Up
Fucked Up aren’t your average punk-rockers. The Toronto quintet is deadly serious about their chosen art, and decidedly more savage of song than many a peer. They don’t aim to perfect their art, though – this is catharsis at its finest, expression at its most violent...»
A year's record collection, reduced to some mix tapes: DiS's tracks of the year
Seeing as the albums of 2006 are being taken care of by you, DiS’s valued readership (click!), us writer types have focused our attentions instead upon the finest tracks of the year; on the songs that, be they from albums perfect or poor, have truly mattered over the past twelve months. Here we present to you a collection of ‘mix tapes’. The results are, to say the least, incredibly varied...»
Bat For Lashings of February tour dates
Natasha Khan is taking her Bat For Lashes project on the road in February...»
VOTE! For DiS's album of the year! WIN! A massive pile of CDs from Our 66!
Good day to you, dearest of dear readers, and welcome to what we’re calling an ‘interactive activity’. Because we’re busy – bloody busy – at the DiSopolis, we’re asking you to decide our album/s of the year...»
Some Questions: Desert Hearts
Irish indie-rock outfit Desert Hearts first established themselves on DiS’s radar of goodness back in 2002, when they released their debut album Let’s Get Worse via Tugboat. Their second, Hotsy Totsy Nagasaki, was released in October. The band's Charley Mooney very kindly allowed us to probe him, rather, via the medium of Some Questions. Which was nice for us. Let’s hope he enjoyed it, too...»
Trail Of Dead: no plans, no restrictions... no sixth album?
Texas-spawned trailblazers of fiery rock ‘n’ soul …And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead have been demolishing stages and popping eardrums since the mid 1990s. DiS fired some questions the way of key songwriter Conrad Keely following the release of fifth album So Divided, and he was kind enough to reply...»
WIN! Tickets to Part Chimp in London, this week!
Hey you! Like loud music? We do! That's why we're giving you the chance to win tickets to a gig we heartily recommend...»
(Untitled)
So we’re back from ATP and shattered, physically and mentally: what better time could there possibly be for a trawl through the ups and downs of the last seven days in the UK singles and albums charts...»
Arcade Fire tell fans not to buy gig tickets from eBay
Canadian indie-poppers Arcade Fire have told British fans not to buy tickets for their upcoming London shows via eBay, probably for a vastly inflated sum...»
Minus The Bear, This Et Al at London Islington Academy, Wed 06 Dec
With citations of their influence on music press-bothering acts – I Was A Cub Scout being the most immediate to spring to mind – spreading, the time’s never been more perfect for Seattle’s Minus The Bear to rise to the challenge laid down by the enormous potential they’ve exhibited since their 2001 formation and finally crack the UK market...»
A Month In Records: November 2006
Time, dear friends, is ticking away; it feels like only yesterday that DiS was chomping on Easter Eggs, but Christmas is only days away. Terrifying, isn’t it? Us we-haven’t-shopped-yet sorts certainly think so. But November's records: there were some, some good ones, and here are some of those some...»
Edinburgh! Party! Tonight! We Are The Physics play I Fly Spitfires bash...
The DiS-fancied I Fly Spitfires crew have arranged another rather ace night of r'n'r fun and games tonight, at Edinburgh's Cabaret Voltaire venue...»
Jolly 'Prince' Billy: Will Oldham to perform stand-up
Will Oldham, aka Bonnie 'Prince' Billy, is to turn his hand to stand-up later this month, reports Pitchfork...»
The Bronx awarded Album of the Year by Rock Sound
LA-based punk-rock four-piece The Bronx have been awarded the Album of the Year title by Rock Sound magazine, for their second self-titled effort...»
I Love You But I've Chosen Darkness - I Love You But I've Chosen Darkness EP
Not quite the Interpol-copyists that certain quarters of the music press have made them out to be, Texan quartet I Love You But I’ve Chosen Darkness do have their guitars tuned to the sound of hearts breaking, a la their NYC peers, but the five compositions that make up this self-titled EP are far from gloomy affairs...»
The rape of the Holy 'Mother: Wolves at your doors, February time...
Yes, we were listening to The Icarus Line earlier. They probably hate Wolfmother as much as Mike Patton does. Which is a hellalot...»
Viarosa, Josh T Pearson at London The Luminaire, Tue 05 Dec
The most startling sensation felt – the immediate stillness that strikes the individual, rendering them statuesque save for a few tilts of the head to find a better viewing angle – is one informed as much by nostalgia, the memory of performances past, as it is by what unfolds on stage this evening...»
Goodnight, Razorlight? Almost...
Three-quarters of popular London indie-rockers Razorlight required medical attention after discovering that they'd travelled on one of the planes found to contain traces of Polonium 210, the poison responsible for the widely reported death of Russian spy Alexandar Litvinenko...»
Follow the Bear: Seattle's Minus get remixed
Seattle math-pop-rockers Minus The Bear are to release a remix album, via US label Suicide Squeeze, in February...»
Bloody Thrones! The Rapture set up their own label
New York dancey-rock types The Rapture have set up their own label. Its name? Rather more metal than you might've imagined: Throne Of Blood Records...»
Haemostatic Picnic Races win BSM Christmas competition
Tunbridge Wells-based four-piece Haemostatic Picnic Races have won the chance to open Big Scary Monsters' Christmas gig, at Camden's Barfly on December 17...»
ATP's Nightmare Before Christmas: the DiS preview
Yippie. DiS is off to All Tomorrow’s Parties’ Sonic Youth- and The Stooges-headlined and Thurston Moore-curated The Nightmare Before Christmas three-dayer on Friday morning, and we’re mega excited. We’re so excited, in fact, that we’ve been thinking of little else but ATP for the past 48 hours, and when our train tickets arrive we’re likely to shift into meltdown. That, or we’ll realise it’s time to pack our bags – we’re DJing at the festival, so we’d best take some records...»
Not-so-Giant Drag: LA duo halved
The drums and keys half of LA-based rock duo Giant Drag, Micah Calabrese, has left the band. MTV.com reports that no reasons for his departure have yet been specified...»
WIN! Awesome tickets! Like, literally, ish...
Sometimes, right, DiS gets tickets for shows to give away. This, right, is one of these occasions. You, right, should be excited. Right? Hooray...»
Maximo to Park their tourbus in Newcastle and London
Newcastle-spawned indie-rockers Maximo Park have announced a pair of live dates for February...»