Best reserve the phone now: Glasto tickets on sale in April
Seriously, make sure that phone is yours and yours only five months from now: tickets for 2007's Glastonbury Festival are to go on sale in early April...»
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Two princes, princes who adore you, they're planning a concert...
Princes William and Harry - the sons of Prince Charles and the late Princess Diana - are apparently planning a charity tribute concert for their mother, starring Pharrell, Kylie and Elton...»
Chart round-up: it's a DiScussion, too. Wow!
So, indie-rock’s holiday in the sun, its honeymoon period following comeback second albums by Razorlight and The Killers, appears to be over: boybands are back, baby, in a big way...»
werewolves
A million stylistic miles away from Viking Moses’ more-relaxed excursions into topics of love and lust, ‘Werewolves In The City’ is a fiendish delight that’s worthy of your concentrated attention whether witches are flying overhead or Easter bunnies are leaving chocolate eggs at the bottom of your garden...»
Goldenhorse - Run Run Run
As introductory arrangements go, this is fine fodder for a potentially promising future: Goldenhorse have hooks enough, here at least, to attract the most single-minded of melody-seekers, yet their forceful guitars and insistent drumming should move a few feet down the local indie disco...»
We're not taking the Bis! Band reforms for shows...
Scottish pop-rockers Bis are to get back together for a tenth-anniversary brace of shows in April...»
Dandelion Radio to host 2006's Peel-initiated Festive Fifty
Another reminder that John Peel may be gone but he's certainly not forgotten: his regular Festive Fifty countdown, which began in 1976, is to be handled by Dandelion Radio this Christmastime...»
Mastodon - The Wolf Is Loose
Mastodon don’t do anything by half: when they say they’re about to rock you, you’d best make damn sure you’re not only strapped in, but that you’ve elastoplasts and ointment enough to tend to the scratches and abrasions almost certain to litter your half-broken body come the end of their session with you...»
Nirvana bassist joins Flipper on UK tourdates
Former Nirvana bass player Krist Novoselic (pictured, centre) - he was in Sweet 75 post-Nirvana, but let's not kid ourselves that they're worth remembering - is to tour with reformed San Francisco-based punks Flipper in December...»
Slade join race for Christmas number one
Slade's enduring Christmastime 'classic' 'Merry Christmas Everybody' is to be re-released this year, and betting sorts are already predicting that it'll challenge for the festive number one...»
New Order: now over?
New Order's Peter Hook has suggested that the band are as good as over, telling Argentinian newspaper Pagina/12 that the Manchester group's recent performance in Buenos Aires' Club Ciudad might turn out to be their last...»
Gwen Stefani: no more solo records
Gwen Stefani - wife, mother, musician - is to turn her back on her successful solo career following the release of her second album, The Sweet Escape, next month. She'll return to fronting popular funk-rockers No Doubt...»
Noel Gallagher planning a solo album... or four
Oasis songwriter Noel Gallagher has told award-winning tabloid The Sun - yes, it too won awards at the recent Record of the Day bash - that he'd happily release a solo record...»
Noisettes - Don't Give Up
A snarling and scratching two-something minutes of hyperactive riffs and banshee wails, topped with a rollicking cock-rock solo, ‘Don’t Give Up’ is feel-good old-school r‘n’b, a la the Stones rather than some R Kelly impressionist...»
Cats And Cats And Cats, Bottlenose Dolphins, FalenizzaHorsePower, Guns Or Knives - Four-band Split 7"
Select one band for your new label’s debut release? I think not! This, the first offering from new London indie Run For Your Life, houses four bands on a single seven-inch slab o’ waxy musical goodness...»
Man Aubergine - Bastard Brother / Twin Sisters
Just the right side of annoyingly ramshackle, the debut seven-inch from London-based ‘prog-grass’ trio Man Aubergine features a pair of dusted ditties singing and howling and banjo-plucking their merry way around the subject of family: the song titles are absolutely transparent...»
The Rapture, Cat Power, YYYs, Snowden and more on new breast cancer charity album
A handful of DiS's favourite acts - including Yeah Yeah Yeahs (pictured) and Snowden, who played a DiS gig last night - appear on a new album raising money for the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation...»
You Spin me right round, Björk: Thom Yorke's a fan
Björk's 'Unravel' - song three of ten on the Icelandic singer's 1997 album Homogenic - is Radiohead singer Thom Yorke's favourite-ever song...»
Have piano, will travel: Ben Folds tours
Ben Folds - he stand on piano like crazy man - is to come to the UK in January to play a series of shows. Y'know, gigs and the like...»
Interpol begin work on album three
New Yorkers Interpol have begun recording their new album, their third following Turn On The Bright Lights and Antics...»
Lily Allen: angry at "f*cking patronising" magazine
Lily Allen has opened her regularly free-flowing gob - proverbially - on her MySpace page to have a pop at NME and the magazine's editor, the award-winning Conor McNicholas...»
The Maccabees: February stars
Brighton indie-rockers The Maccabees - quite the favourites on the DiS stereo these last few months - have announced a February tour. Perhaps you'd like to attend a date or two? Thankfully, there are a good number to choose from...»
Have a Killers Christmas...
Las Vegas-raised and British-loved pop-rockin' combo The Killers are to release a Christmas song next month, via the online music superstore of iPod-related compatibility and stuff that is iTunes...»
Incubus announce April tour
Californian funk-metalheads Incubus - like those Chili Peppers sorts, only not quite as old - are to tour these here isles in April 2007. Well, ish - one date's in March...»
Frida Hyvönen - Until Death Comes
While it’s undeniably enjoyable when listened to from start to finish a couple of times, there’s not substance enough to Until Death Comes, the debut album from Swedish songstress Frida Hyvönen, to warrant many repeat run-throughs...»
Lostprophets hope their next record is "very different"
Well, the opposite of rubbish would be a good result...»
Timbaland: wants to be a pop star, so recruits Björk...!?
All-over-TMF-every-minute hip-hop producer type Timbaland is looking to cross over from acclaimed knob-twiddler to established pop star in his own right with his new LP, Timbaland Presents Shock Value...»
Robbie Williams to display his artistic side
People of Cardiff, get excited! For art! Robbie Williams' art...»
Uzi and Ari - It Is Freezing Out
Rioting quieter than most, Uzi and Ari is essentially the solo project of one Ben Shepard, and It Is Freezing Out is his second long-play collection following last year’s Dont Leave In Such A Hurry...»
DiS presents Snowden TONIGHT: get in cheap here!
Tonight, DrownedinSound.com and Mammoth Booking present the frankly very awesome Snowden, all the way from Atlanta, in our very own London town. Wanna come? Course you do. Wanna come for a little less than the fiver asking price? Course you do...»