Mike_Diver has written the following articles:
Vinyl's lovely, but it's hardly the major format available in your average high street record store. Despite the increase in downloading popularity, the compact disc continues to rule the format roost. But for how long...»
Adem is to play a series of European dates following his support slots with Nerina Pallot...»
The rest of November sees DiS get all nice and stuff, giving you, the readers, the opportunity to not only attend awesome gigs, but to also watch videos that we've selected on your televisions. In your house! Or flat. Do you have a license? I am telling...»
Atlanta-based indie-rockers Snowden arrive in the UK for their first-ever tour of these isles on November 12, and DiS is lending a helping hand in London...»
Swedish star-gazers Jeniferever have announced a handful of live dates for March on their MySpace page...»
Green Day's first two albums, 1,039/Smoothed Out Slappy Hours and Kerplunk, are to be re-released via Reprise in the US...»
X Factor judge and very-rich-person Simon Cowell is apparently keen to get Kate Moss' signature on the bottom of a recording contract...»
Garbage's best-of compilation, Absolute Garbage, is to be released on March 19...»
Bloc Party have cancelled a number of shows in the US after drummer Matt Tong was admitted to hospital...»
John Hassall-fronted indie-rockers Yeti hit the road early next month, almost certainly semi in support of their recently released (and well-received) EP, One Eye On The Banquet...»
So what does Isis mean to you, today? If it’s pigeonhole-destroying progressive-metal soundscapes balancing terrifying horror and spectacular gorgeousness, then make In The Absence Of Truth yours post haste. The slow-learners at the back can continue with their inter-band elitism...»
Nashville native Cortney Tidwell has well-named her latest release, for she is indeed one of those rare artists that serves as a (usually missing) link between worlds, bewitching and bewildering, yet with roots in your own backyard...»
Trencher are three men, known to their parents as L***, M*** and R***, but to the thousands of grind-minded individuals the length and breadth of this country and beyond they’re referred to as Lock Monger, Milk Shit and Pox respectively...»
A quite smashing line-up has been assembled for the Anti*Pop Music Festival, held in Orlando from November 13. Why are we telling you this? Because the event features a load of our favourite bands...»
Popular-around-these-parts indie-poppers Guillemots are to tour the U of K in February...»
Australian desert-rockers Howling Bells are inviting fans to appear in the video to their next single, 'Low Happening'.»
Youthful rave-rockers Enter Shikari have announced a series of dates, beginning at the end of the month. The still-unsigned band sold-out the Astoria in London last weekend. That, ladies and gents, is some big boy shit. Dates as follows... Novem»
DiS is really pleased to announced that the line-up for the next DiScover Club at RoTa - a free afternoon show at London's Notting Hill Arts Club - is now confirmed. We've four magical artists, four acts capable of sending the average listener spiralling into a fantasy land where the grey skies of London are replaced by wonderful rainbows and sparkling daytime stars...»
Yes, we realise this month’s A Month In Records is roughly a week late, but we’ve been suffering from something of an Our 66 hangover (click it for a link!). It’s okay, though: the painkillers have finally kicked in and, a few sour faces aside, we’re firing on all cylinders again.»
Buy it, love it, and look after it – in years to come this EP should be worth a fortune; if not monetarily then certainly as a document of one of 2006’s most amazing new discoveries...»
Soon-to-release-a-best-of pop trio Sugababes have announced a series of dates for next year...»
The Smashing Pumpkins' Billy Corgan performed in Los Angeles last night playing four new songs...»
GoodBooks: a band so good we put them on tour t'other month with Fields. Good? You bet...»
Glasgow-based and Mogwai-connected record label Rock Action has announced that it's to start a singles club...»
Reclusive pop star Michael Jackson is to perform in London next week, at the World Music Awards...»
Quite how Thom Yorke maintains such a fantastic level of quality with his output, both as a fifth of Radiohead and when releasing fuzzing and buzzing electronica records under his solo banner, is wonderfully perplexing...»
Countrified punk-rockers a la Cursive albeit with a thirst for bloody torture both physical and mental, Murder By Death don’t exactly make music for the masses...»
Hopefully it hasn’t escaped your attention that the superbly talented Yo La Tengo are gracing our fair isles with their presence as of right now...»
These people are dead inside, as hollow as the empty cans littering the venue floor...»
American pianist Norah Jones has finished her third LP, reports NME.com...»
