Cover me bad: stars line up for Yoko Ono album
Yoko Ono has assembled a varied cast for a covers album of her own material. The record, entitled Yes, I Am A Witch, is out in February...»
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Manatees - Untitled
There’s something about the name Manatees that has the uninitiated (but about to be blown away) listener expecting passages of calm ambience, a series of soundscapes ideal for drifting away to, as if sailing a still sea, the gentlest breeze propelling your vessel. Ha...»
Channels - Waiting For The Next End Of The World
If Channels can make it to album number two – this arrives three years after their formation – then we might be dealing with a very special band indeed...»
DiScover: The Monroe Transfer
The Monroe Transfer self-released the really rather excellent Electric Old Wire Noise LP earlier this year – click here for DiS’s review; its follow-up, Vox Humana, is a work in progress – and they’ve kindly agreed to appear at DiS’s DiScover Club @ RoTa this Saturday, November 18...»
DiS nominated for a PLUG Award
DrownedinSound.com is pleased as punch to report that we've been nominated at the PLUG Independent Music Awards 2007 in the US, in the category of Music Website Of The Year...»
Rice is nice?! Singer fella does touring thing
Damien Rice's new album, 9, was released this week. Or last week. I forget when it was, exactly, when my mum brought it home from Tesco. Now he's announced some tour dates. Mum, calm down...»
Don't Believe the tour: Kinsella and co cancel dates
US awkward rockers Make Believe have cancelled their European tour, due to take place next month...»
Chinese Democracy not out next week. World remains stony-faced.
The long-awaited (or not, as we all stopped caring a long time ago) new album from Guns N' Roses, Chinese Democracy, will not be released next week...»
Panic! on album two: "We're trying to improve"
The Las Vegas outfit have been talking to Billboard about their second album, the follow-up to their breakthrough debut A Fever You Can't Sweat Out...»
The Fall's Reformation: due early 2007
The Fall's twenty-sixth studio album, Reformation, is to be released early next year...»
Maps - Don't Fear
‘Don’t Fear’ exhibits potential enough for the average critic to be excited about any forthcoming long-play effort. The average consumer of slightly leftfield ‘folktronic’ offerings should feel likewise...»
The View announce debut album
Dundee-based four-piece The View have announced details of their debut album...»
Motorhead: Lemmy likes kids...
Lincoln's Greenbank B Team - an under-10s side - is to be sponsored by Motorhead. Their shirts will bear the band's name as well as its Snaggletooth motif...»
DiScover: Ape Has Killed Ape
Ape Has Killed Ape are one of four bands playing DiS’s DiScover Club @ RoTa this Saturday, November 18. Also appearing on the bill are Adam Gnade, The Monroe Transfer and Viking Moses. Exciting, no? Yes! For full details of the show, click here. Tim very kindly found the time to answer a few pre-gig questions, which we’ve neatly compiled into DiScover: Ape Has Killed Ape...»
thisgirl on their split: thanks and final gig news
Yorkshire-based rockers thisgirl are to split after seven years together...»
WIN! Tickets to The Twilight Singers in London
Like it says, you crazies! You can win yourself a pair of tickets to The Twilight Singers' gig at London's Koko venue on November 23 by just answering some silly question...»
Deltasonic's charity Christmas party: details announced
Deltasonic is to celebrate Christmas a little early this year with a party on December 16 at Liverpool's Carling Academy...»
Britney Spears: full of "bubble-headed rubbish"
Soon-to-be-single mother of two and sometime pop star Britney Spears is locked in a legal battle with Irish 'paper The Sunday Independent...»
New OC compilation: actually pretty good!
The sixth in the well-selling series of compilation albums based on the television show The OC is out on December 4. In a neat twist to previous emo-filled editions, this album sees a variety of actually-very-good acts covering songs by other very-decent bands. Jeepers...»
Shifty Disco turns ten, releases boxset
Shifty Disco - Oxford-based indie label founded on many a record a la the one pictured - turns 10 years old in January, and is releasing a nice boxset to celebrate...»
Thunderbirds Are Now! - Make History
On their third long-player, Detroit-spawned indie-dance four-piece Thunderbirds Are Now! manage to stimulate thoughts of a dozen or more similarly stylised bands, yet also maintain a consistency from song to song that sets the group apart from these peers in such a way that any plagiarism can ultimately be overlooked...»
Mono at London Camden Underworld, Thu 09 Nov
Four individuals walk slowly onto the stage; as they settle into their positions a hush descends and all and sundry point their faces forward, towards an equally muted quartet now bathed in a wash of red. A few whispers tickle the senses of those towards the back, but that aside we could conceivably be in the catacombs of a church...»
Bloc Party cancel whole US tour
London art-rockers Bloc Party have been forced to cancel their entire US and Canada tour, where they've been supporting emo superstars Panic! At The Disco, due to drummer Matt Tong's collapsed lung...»
Blur's Rowntree: Blur will never tour again
Blur's Dave Rowntree has told BBC 6Music that his band will never tour again...»
Not a DiS exclusive: Jay-Z gets sued
Mr Beyoncé is facing a lawsuit filed by Bridgeport Music in the States, who claim that a track on his The Black Album, 'Justify My Thug' (LOL!), contains samples that a) were not cleared and b) belong to them...»
Feeling full after Christmas? Get F**ked Up...
Toronto-based punks F**ked Up are to play a handful of UK dates between Christmas and the new year, including a pair in London...»
DiS's chart update: boybands rule, again!
Good news, everyone! This week sees Westlife’s ‘The Rose’ romp to the number one spot on the UK singles chart, the position that’s been rightfully theirs since oh we forget when. The Irish four-piece, who have a new album out a week today, are the only new entrants within this week’s top ten...»
WIN! Viking Moses goodies
To celebrate our rather ace Saturday afternoon show on November 18 - click here for full details! - we've got some Viking Moses goodies to give away. We've a copy of the Crosses album, the 'Sandstorms' seven-inch and a rather nice, baby-clue t-shirt to give away to two readers...»
Grizzly Bear cancel remaining European dates
Grizzly Bear have cancelled their remaining European dates - including a number in the UK - following guitarist Daniel Rossen's decision to return home to New York to tend to his ill father. The band also had their equipment stolen while in Belgium...»
The Blood Brothers - Young Machetes
This is Crimes refined, sculpted so that its edges aren’t as jagged as many sound-clashes past have proved to be; it exhibits managed eccentricity enough to stoke the furnaces of intelligent, demand-more punks worldwide...»