Plan B: tour rescheduled
London-based rapper what plays geetar Plan B has announced his rescheduled tour dates...»
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Ssssh! DiS links up with London promoters for Quiet Music All-Dayer
Oooooh, looky at this little beauty. DiS is pleased to be involved with London's first-ever Shhh! all-dayer, a celebration of quiet music...»
Bright Eyes: "The apocalypse is a prevalent theme in my new songs"
Conor Oberst - he of Bright Eyes fame - has been talking about his forthcoming album, the follow-up to the twin 2005 releases of I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning and Digital Ash In A Digital Urn...»
Restart the clocks: Oasis to begin new LP sooner rather than later
Oasis are to begin work on their new album as soon as they can, according to singer Liam Gallagher...»
Scotland to host new festival in 2007
The organisers of T In The Park are to launch a brand-new festival next year, Connect...»
Tapes 'n Tapes - Omaha
Thoroughly pleasant though it undeniably is, Tapes ‘n Tapes’ ‘Omaha’ doesn’t actually do a great deal. Three-and-a-half minutes of rolled percussion and repetitive lyrics, it’s a temporarily distracting piece that doesn’t once so much as suggest it’s about to get going, to grind its gears and at least half-heartedly force the pedal to the metal...»
DiS's chart update: late again, but could still do for Hull at home easily enough...
Seriously, lads, nil-nil? You’re killing me here…»
Jamiroquai's Jay Kay to quit music
Jay Kay - popular(?) singer with popular(!) band Jamiroquai - is to quit music...»
Gary Numan has Asperger's, he reckons
Gary Numan believes he has Asperger's Syndrome. Isn't that what that fella from The Vines has? Does that mean Gary's been secretly munching his way through a dozen Big Macs a day...»
Joanna Newsom announces special London show
Harp-humping singer-cum-screecher Joanna Newsom - her new album Ys is quite The Good, you know - has announced a one-off London show...»
LCD Toursystem: James Murphy and gang tour in 2007
The James Murphy-helmed LCD Soundsystem are to return to the UK early next year for what the kids on the street are calling some gigs...»
New Young Pony Club: new dates, free stuff!
Are New Young Pony Club any good, then? I'm seeing them tonight, about eight o' clock. Perhaps I chould check out the free download they've got available right now. Perhaps you should, too...»
WIN! Yo La Tengo London tickets...
Like it says, up there: you can win tickets to see Yo La Tengo this Saturday, at London's Forum...»
Todd, Enablers at London Camden Barfly, Sun 05 Nov
Enablers’ albums to date – 2004’s End Note and this year’s Output Negative Space – are rarely-sighted sons of dog-eared poetry books and well-thumbed LP sleeves: Slint, The Birthday Party, Shellac, you get the intensity-and-control, the balance of, idea perfectly well...»
Various, Cable - Souvenir - A Tribute To Cable
Souvenir – A Tribute To Cable leans heavily on the hit-and-miss talents of this country’s under-the-radar indie-punk scene...»
ReDiScover: Cable
Cable used to be a band; now, they’re a whisper and a sigh, an echo of not-so-olden days of rockin’ about the country with a smidgen of passion, the slightest semblance of soul at least. Their departure wasn’t received like the passing of an infamous rock star, or the disbanding of a mega-selling act, by the populous en masse, but the Derby-spawned four-piece left a mark on many a youthful indie-rocker...»
Various - Xfm presents: This Is Music
Yes, Xfm, this is music. And there was me thinking these forty-four tracks of varied vintage comprised a healthy eating pasta bake, or a lowered Vauxhall Nova with a hole in its exhaust. Makes it sound louder, so not-so-ol’ Chris won’t get it fixed. The prat...»
Gorillaz - Phase Two: Slowboat To Hades (DVD)
Gorillaz’s second video-and-extras-collecting DVD release – the follow-up to Phase One: Celebrity Take Down – is a lovingly crafted piece of interactive media that possesses value beyond regular releases of its ilk...»
Reynolds reform for one-off Christmas show
Acclaimed Nottinghamshire trio Reynolds - who split in 2004 - are to reform this Christmas for a one-off show in the nation's capital...»
Capricorns, Torche, Baroness at London Camden Underworld, Thu 02 Nov
Ringin’ stingin’ ears cooled by the first freezing winds of winter, legs traversing an out-of-commission crossing as motorcycles slice personal space like butchers knives through warmed feta, neck cramped and knees sore from perpetual rocking back and forth, back and forth, rhythmically consistent and unfaltering: this is me shortly after the climax of Torche’s first-ever London performance, stumbling from venue to Underground, dazzled by Camden’s takeaway lights and drug-offloading stand-arounds. Yeee-ouch, that was some set...»
Mono kick off UK tour today!
See, because you're all fantastically intelligent people of amazing taste - and you're all really pretty, too - we shouldn't need to tell you that Mono begin their UK tour today. But, just in case...»
The Horrors announce first-ever headline tour
If you're also the type of drunkard that likes to shake a tail feather to songs like 'Count In Fives', albeit when none of your proper punk-rock friends are looking on, then you'll be interested in the dates below. They equal the band in question's first-ever headline tour. Which is nice...»
Elton John to label: "Please drop me"
Famous homosexual Sir Elton John has attacked his label, Universal. Not physically, we've got to add. That'd be mean...»
Dinosaur Jr: mean fiddlers? Who cares when they're LOUD...
Dinosaur Jr are old. Dinosaur Jr rock. Rocking old people are good. When I'm old, I hope I still rock. My hair, sadly, is gonna be as grey as J's in about three years...»
Massive Attack announce a pair of 2007 dates
Like it says, just up there: Massive Attack have announced a pair of dates for 2007. For February 2007, to be precise...»
MTV Europe Music Awards: winners in full
The veteran synth-rock trio took home the award for the Best Group category at the Justin Timberlake-hosted event in Copenhagen. Recently in the news for totally non-musical reasons sort Madonna was nominated in three categories - Best Pop Act, Best Female and Best Album - yet won nothing...»
Blur have one last album in them, says Alex James
Blur have at least one, final album in there, says the band's bassist Alex James, new presenter of Channel 4 Radio's The Tube...»
This Aint Vegas and Dananananaykroyd, tomorrow, Edinburgh, WOW!
You know what's even better than owning a PG Tips chimp and having him bring you a fresh brew every working hour, on the hour? A flippin' rock gig in Scotland, that's what...»
My Chemical Musical: emo-rockers plan stage show
In-at-two emo-rockers My Chemical Romance are aiming to transfer their latest album, The Black Parade, from CD to the stage...»
Damon's Good 'n' Bad 'n' Queen chaps announce tour
The Good, The Bad, And The Queen - the latest musical venture spearheaded by Blur and Gorillaz man Damon Albarn - have announced some tour dates...»