Beirut bummer: Condon plays a one-song 'set'
Beirut, aka Zach Condon, left fans infuriated last night after he played just a single song at Gateshead's Sage venue...»
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DiScover Club: first details of DiS-hosted free show...
On November 18, the DiScover Club again lands itself in the belly of Notting Hill Arts Club. Confirmed so far are The Monroe Transfer and, we're really excited to announce, Adam Gnade. Doors on the day open at four, drinks offers are available at the bar, and DiS DJs will be playing top-quality records before, between and after the live acts. Further bands are to be confirmed, but believe us: they good...»
Oh, the Horror: singer assaulted on stage
The Horrors frontman Faris Badwan has again been assaulted, albeit this time while performing. The singer was attacked in Whitechapel earlier in the year...»
WIN! Tickets to the Transgressive Roadshow!
Ooooh, tickets to give away for show! Wowsers...»
Second annual BSM Christmas Tour announced
Details of the second Big Scary Monsters Christmas Tour have been announced...»
The Album Leaf - Into The Blue Again
If only Jimmy LaValle could pull himself away from the compositions he creates as The Album Leaf for a minute or two. Perhaps then he’d realise that many of these primarily instrumental songs possess only a skin-deep beauty – there’s no discernable soul present within the ten tracks of Into The Blue Again...»
Ash on their new album: "there's a U2 vibe"
Ash's Mark Hamilton - he's the tall, bass-playing one - has told NME a little about the band's forthcoming studio album, their fifth in all...»
Sugababes fancy solo careers
All three of the current Sugababes fancies a crack at a solo career, says founding member Keisha Buchanan...»
X Factor winner favourite to claim Christmas number one
William Hill have narrowed the race for this year's Christmas number one single down to just three acts...»
Xfm announces Winter Wonderland line-up
The Fratellis (pictured), Manic Street Preachers, Biffy Clyro, The View and Boy Kill Boy are among the acts confirmed for Xfm's three-date Winter Wonderland season this year...»
The Boss and some dross 'confirmed' for Glasto '07
Both Bruce Springsteen and Razorlight are apparently confirmed to play Glastonbury next summer...»
Q Awards: Take That "bollocks" Idols, while Liam's at the zoo...
Take That picked up a Q Idol Award at the magazine's annual awards bash yesterday, only be be called "bollocks" by fellow winners Arctic Monkeys. Ooooh, someone wash those boys' mouths out...»
New G'nR album: "almost like doom metal"
The new Guns N' Roses album, Chinese Democracy, has received the seal of approval from former Skid Row man Sebastian Bach. And he knows a thing or two 'bout The Rock...»
Kele from the Bloc reacts to Our 66
Bloc Party's Kele Okereke has been in touch with DiS following the publishing of the final part of Our 66. The band's Silent Alarm debut made number three on DiS's list of the finest albums of the last six years (this site's lifetime)...»
DiS is 6: Our 66, the top six
You’ve waited, we’ve waited. At times we daren’t hold our breath just in case, by fair means or foul, our final top six – the records below – were somehow prevented from coming to public attention. Yet here we are: the conclusion of Our 66...»
Bat For Lashes - Trophy
Bat For Lashes, perhaps, isn’t meant for this world: her lyrical landscapes belong in a fairytale, the imaginary environs of a bedtime tale told to generation after generation beside a barely flickering fire. Skilled in the way of the metaphor, Natasha Khan – for she is the woman behind this affecting voice – paints a thousand pictures with a single word, the forms of her creatures of mercy forever morphing and evolving across the course of this song...»
DiS gig double-header: tonight and tomorrow! Emmy The Great and Metric, plus more...
London, wake up: DiS is putting on a pair of shows for you - yes, you! - over the next two nights. You think we book these things just so we can go out and get drunk? Well stop thinking that - it's only partially true...»
DiS reads about the UK charts; rewords everything; calls it an 'article'; goes for lunch.
Finally, the UK album chart has witnessed a significant shifting of top-ten artists. There are no fewer than FIVE new entries in the top ten, four of which debut in the top five. Hooray!? Let’s wait and see…»
Espers: four November dates
Espers are to play four dates next month, in support of their second solo album Espers II, released earlier this year...»
Queen to record first album in 15 years
Queen are to begin work on their first long-play album - of new material - in fifteen years...»
Panda Bear announces new single
Panda Bear is to release his first solo single for Fat Cat next month...»
Hooray again! The Kooks, right, they're only gonna make a second album!
There are bands, right, that when they're good they're very very good. But when they're bad they're turd...»
Hooray! A new Bravery album! So they're not dead, then!
The Bravery have announced that they are not dead: they will release a new album, their second, in 2007...»
Deftones - Saturday Night Wrist
If you’ve even the slightest interest in ‘heavy’ music, you simply must make Saturday Night Wrist an integral part of your record collection. Its charms don’t dull with repeat plays – believe me when I say I’ve given it plenty – and the creativity and ambition evident across its fifty minutes is so sizeable it’s a wonder any other rock record has come near my stereo these past couple of months. It’s the perfect Deftones album, a sole sucker aside. Get it ASAP...»
Jeremy Warmsley: new single details
Jeremy Warmsley is to release a new single on December 4...»
Wainwrights tour US for Christmas
Martha Wainwright is to tour the US and Canada alongside her brother Rufus, mother Kate McGarrigle and aunt Anna on the McGarrigle Family Christmas Tour...»
J Touring: SexyBack star to play UK
Justin Timberlake is to tour the UK next year. Along the way he'll become the first artist to perform at the )2 Arena, a venue you might currently know as the Millennium Dome...»
Malcolm Middleton lands himself a Full Time Hobby
Half-an-Arab-Strap sort Malcolm Middleton has signed with quite-excellent indie label Full Time Hobby, home to releases by Viva Voce, Tunng and Autolux...»
Adrian Klumpes - Be Still
Committed to tape in just a single five-hour session, Adrian Klumpes’ debut long-player is far from the immediate beast you’d imagine such a short recording time to produce. The studio time is simply representative of the limited instruments employed by Klumpes: throughout Be Still, only a single piano is used. No other sounds are to be heard...»
Upcoming brilliant tours: The Gossip and Metric
Got something of a penchant for female-fronted rock possessing no little pop? Well, the end of this month and the beginning of next harbour a couple of real treats for you...»