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This is a team effort, for sure, but the four men of These Arms Are Snakes each go to their own special places once the first riff of each and every set they deliver rings within the ear canals of those before them. They’re like a football squad of international superstars – each individual contests for their time in focus, for their moment of virtuoso r’n’r excellence...»
This week sees Take That conquer both the albums and singles charts. How do they do it? Well, it sure as heck isn’t the good looks these days; guess nostalgia’s a more formidable factor than the likes of Katie Price and Peter Andre (pictured), G4 and Faithless ever imagined...»
Deerhoof - San Fran indie-odd-pop trio fairly fancied by the DiS staff en masse - are to release their next album, Friend Opportunity, with no fewer than twelve covers. So owners can choose their own art...»
In a change to previously advertised listings, which stated that Bon Jovi were to open the new Wembley Stadium (in June 2006; they eventually played Milton Keynes Bowl), Muse are to be the first band to perform before a crowd of 75,000 at the redeveloped sports/music venue...»
DiS is pleased as Punch slapping the hand-puppet shite out of Judy to announce that we've THREE pairs of tickets to give away to Full Time Hobby's Christmas party at London's 93 Feet East venue on December 11. That's a week from today...»
Bass-lugging sorts Andy Rourke (The Smiths), Mani (Primal Scream/Stone Roses) and Peter Hook (New Order, pictured) are to make sweet, sweet music together under the name of Freebase...»
This week Domino - the label you may know from their recent-ish successes with Franz Ferdinand and those Sheffield Monkey boys - re-release Pavement's 1995 Wowee Zowee, albeit with loads of extra bits 'n' bobs. They're calling it the Sordid Sentinels Edition, and we've THREE copies to give away...»
Like it says, just up there, really - The Thrills have finished their third album, which at this moment has no title...»
Popular comedy person and one-time druggie cunge Russell Brand - he has telly shows and everything - is to present 2007's coming to you live live LIVE Brit Awards on February 14...»
If Nina Nastasia was heard by the commuting masses at five-thirty on a Friday afternoon, traffic would grind to a standstill for a fair few minutes. Even in a venue as haphazard of sound clarity as The Scala – taller than it is deep, it seems – the non-native New Yorker’s wondrous voice soars majestically...»
And what a wait it’s been: ten years ago, former Sunny Day Real Estate singer Jeremy Enigk released his debut solo effort, Return of the Frog Queen. Despite positive press for the oddly-titled long-player, it’s taken until now for a sequel to make its way to record store shelves. And has the wait been worth it...»
A museum dedicated to Swedish pop sensations or yesteryear Abba is due to open in Stockholm in 2008...»
Popular nu-metallers - are they nu-metal? Probably not actually... - Slipknot have announced that they've no intention to release a new album until 2008...»
Yo, kid. Put those cord-restrained headphones away and get with the programme: there's no need for leads now, not with the news that THE HUMAN BODY can work as a perfectly good conductor of music from iPod to ear holes...»
What, exactly, is the average consumer of music’s many forms to make of this, the long-awaited (in certain circles) debut album from Liverpool-based purveyors of drum-and-synth oppression Kling Klang? Your dad – my dad – would refer to it simply as “noise”...»
'Cause, y'see, it's not the band's last show... just the last one with the current line-up. You see? Good...»
So it seems the this-week's-fad of new rave does have legs after all, as scene leaders Klaxons have announced details of their next single, due for release in January...»
Coventry punky types The Ripps are to release their debut single on Monday (December 4)...»
The stupidly amazing Josh T Pearson is playing a handful of UK dates early next month...»
Classical-cum-pop singer Charlotte Church has temporarily retired from the music business to focus on her television work...»
The most-hated act on Patton and company’s radar is Wolfmother: they hate Wolfmother. And what does this have to do with Peeping Tom’s music on the night. Nothing, directly, but that these moments of artist-to-crowd-and-back-again banter comprise highlights, well, it tells you something about the consistency of Peeping Tom’s performance...»
Times! We've got them, for this December's Nightmare Before Christmas three-day fest, arranged as always by the lovely people of ATP. Check these names out, and then see when they're playing...»
Like it says, up there: Fall Out Boy are playing three relatively small gigs this side of the pond in January...»
Alan 'Fluff' Freeman - the BBC radio presenter famous for his "greetings, pop pickers" and "not 'arf" catchphrases - has died at the age of 79...»
Snow Patrol's Eyes Open long-player - pictured - is officially the biggest-selling UK album of 2006, so far. Since its release in May, the album has shifted 1.2 million copies on these shores...»
Furrowed Brow is a delight – eerie, romantic, emotional, detached, disaffected, alien; it successfully compiles a myriad of adjectives to precede its catchall pigeonhole, folk...»
Have there been better singles released in 2006 than ‘Knights Of Cydonia’? Yes. Shit loads. But has there been a more ridiculously over-the-top, over-egged and utterly insanely catchy pomp-rock single released this year, and one that’s certain to be a hit at that? Shit no...»
This isn’t quite the calling card with which I Was A Cub Scout can spread their name far and wide, but it’s two successful steps in the right direction...»
Well, you'd stop what you were doing for some pie and booze, wouldn't you. Especially if it wasn't just pie and booze, but pie and booze as recommended by that Ballykissangel barmaid. Phwooaaarrr...»
'Maneater' and well-known 'Promiscuous' pop lady Nelly Furtado has, perhaps disappointingly considering the titillating nature of those titles, turned down an offer to appear on the pages of Playboy. In the buff, you understand...»
