Mike_Diver has written the following articles:
Antony Hegarty, of Mercury-winning outfit Antony And The Johnsons, has been invited to perform a Shakespeare sonnet, as part of The Royal Shakespeare Company's The Complete Works series of events, due to happen in February...»
Graham Coxon has revealed to Pitchfork that he hasn't, as yet, been approached by his former bandmates in Blur with regard to getting back together as a four-piece for a final album. The band's Alex James has, as we previously reported, been talking about a possible reunion...»
When the Earth’s crust finally does split below London’s foundations, swallowing the city’s towers and sewers alike, only a smattering of individuals – those already in league with the creatures of the fiery underworld that awaits every sinner the capital spawns – will survive. The three men of Trencher are likely to be among the few while the many tumble to an eternity of torment...»
Robert Gomez is a well-studied musician – he’s played Cuban guitar with Nelson Gonzales and has performed in Turkey with Omar Faruk Tekbilek – and such commitment to the understanding of music’s many varieties has produced a debut offering full of character and soul...»
Oasis's Liam Gallagher - a well-documented fan of The Beatles - has called the production on the defunct (and fifty per cent deceased) band's latest collection, Love, rubbish...»
Westlife look likely to romp to the top of the album chart come Sunday with their The Love Album collection, according to industry insiders...»
Jimmy Chamberlin, drummer with the reformed Smashing Pumpkins, has posted an update on new material on the band's MySpace page, here...»
Tim Burgess - singer with The Charlatans and sometime solo artist - has told popular allegedly-alternative radio station Xfm that his band are looking forward to releasing brand-new material in the wake of their recent best-of, Forever...»
New York post-hardcore outfit Glassjaw - truly a favourite rock act at the DiSopolis, even to this day - are to perform in Connecticut on December 31 as part of the Stillborn Fest...»
Like today wasn’t great enough already what with that Killers versus Razorlight news and our latest readership figures, here’s the chart round-up...»
January 29 - hey, that's next year! - will see the release of The Abattoir Blues Tour, a double-disc DVD set featuring live songs from said tour, as performed of course by Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds...»
Dischord Records - founded by Jeff Nelson and Fugazi's Ian MacKaye - is working in conjunction with other local organisations in the Washington, DC area to open the famous Inner Ear Studios up to young musicians, for free...»
That picture, it's the closest we can currently get to an image of Troubles, a new six-piece comprised of exactly that many former members of acclaimed post-rockers Hope Of The States...»
Word on the inky tabloid page is that Brandon Flowers and Jonny Borrell are to collaborate - to duet! - on a cover of Dire Straits' 'Romeo And Juliet'...»
Sunderland-spawned indie-rocking four-piece The Futureheads have parted company with their label, 679, after shifting only (!?) 32,000 copies of their latest long-player, News And Tributes...»
Pint-sized rapping chav Lady Sovereign - seriously, I might joke now but I wouldn't mess wit' the girl - last night broke down on stage in Los Angeles. She was later diagnosed with a chest infection...»
They might have a sweet-sounding name, but Canadian indie-rockers The Dears are damn fine moaners when the mood suits...»
Really quite lovely indie-rockers The Earlies are to release their second long-player in January...»
OutKast's Big Boi - he's the fifty to André 3000's other fifty - is working on a solo album. His partner in rap - and acting - is to work on the record's production...»
Weekend Two of next spring's All Tomorrow's Parties festival - held as it is next month at Butlins in Minehead - is to be co-curated by the fans, those actually buying the tickets...»
Defunct Watford punks Chariots - who released their only album, Daybreak, through BSM in 2004 - are to release a posthumous EP via Holy Roar in the spring...»
Really, this sounds more than a little like solo Gwen Stefani material, or even Republica. Remember them? One-hit wonders of the highest order. Bee Stings may have a single hit in them, somewhere, but this sure isn’t it...»
When we're not either stuck late at the office or drunk (sometimes we're both), the good people of DiS - hello, us! - are quite the show bookers. This weekend we've two quite different gigs for you, but both feature the very, very best in brand-new music...»
Viking Moses is a man and a band – a man called Brendon Massei and a band called, well, Viking Moses. Where the line between Brendon and Viking lies, we’re not really certain, but the fact is that it matters not: the man’s music is as wonderful when played by one name as it is the other. He plays DiS's DiScover Club @ RoTa on November 18, 4pm-8pm. Come, won't you...»
Ends is, to summarise succinctly early on, fairly breathtaking at times and consistently satisfying throughout. These songs bounce and bomb like the best Biffy Clyro efforts so-far laid to tape, albeit mercifully without the over-egging, and resonate with the proper post-hardcore emotional force of Small Brown Bike, Burning Airlines, At The Drive-In, et cetera...»
The love songs on Gala Mill, those that first touch the drunkard, cool rather in the cold light of sobriety, but the bitterest of murderous folk ballads here remain as bloodily brutal as ever they were when experienced in that place: where a stranger’s words come alive, fiery and flying all around, like bumblebees bearing holsters filled with molten lead...»
Paris? I’ve never even been there, but until I visit the music of Cyann & Ben will aid my own sweet belief that the city is one untainted by the mess of modernity...»
DrownedinSound.com (and DiS Records) founder Sean Adams recently spent some quality drinking time with James Mercer, singer and guitarist of the much-loved The Shins. Here are just a few remarks about the band's new album, Wincing The Night Away, ahead of part one of the interview...»
Bi-coastal political dance-punks !!! have announced details of their third album...»
Justin Hawkins, former singer with The Darkness, is planning to begin work on a solo record soon...»
