Nine Black Alps begin work on second LP
Manchester-based grunge-rockers Nine Black Alps have started work on their second album, the follow-up to their Everything Is debut of last year...»
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Metallica's 2 Of One comes to DVD
Metallica - them metallers what like to point in their photographs - are to make their 2 Of One video collection available on DVD, just in time for Christmas...»
OutKast's André 3000 angers anti-gun campaigners
OutKast's André 3000 (pictured) has angered anti-gun campaigners in the US by claiming he'd like to buy his nine-year-old son a weapon...»
Clinic to headline special Central St Martins show
Domino Records - perhaps you've heard of them? - have assembled a fairly neat bill for a special one-off show at London's Central Saint Martins venue, not usually open to the public for such events...»
amiina announce new single; play tonight!
Icelandic quartet amiina are to release a new single, 'Seoul' on November 6...»
The Black Keys - Your Touch
The boot-stomping highlight of The Black Keys’s latest long-play collection, Magic Potion, ‘Your Touch’ riffs its merry way into a fiery frenzy, vocals tossed into the melee with no regard whatsoever for smoothness: this is raw, emotive, and sure to get even the most reserved indie boy out of their library seat and air-guitaring...»
DiS meets Deftones
Stephen Carpenter seems relaxed. The Deftones guitarist slouches in his chair, backstage at London’s Electric Ballroom venue; behind him a table is covered in fruit and snacks, while in his hands he rolls a joint, almost certainly not his first of the day. He’ll smoke it throughout our time together...»
DiScover Club @ RoTa: this weekend, and it's free!
The DiScover Club ups sticks and wanders across London to Notting Hill this weekend, for a FREE show! Saturday, October 21: Blood Red Shoes, They Don't Sleep and Jairus. Be there, or be a loser...»
Coca-Cola: pop-drink people offer free unsigned pop, live!
Fizzy drinks folk Coca-Cola are throwing a party for what they feel are four of the bext unsigned acts in the country, at London's Islington Academy on November 9...»
Culprit One to support Subtle
Cardiff-based beat-weaver Culprit One has been announced as the main support to Subtle for the Californian hip-hoppers' upcoming UK tour...»
The Ordinary Boys - Lonely At The Top
He’s got too much, but he still wants more? Well, wouldn’t you: the band’s bubble’s about to burst, so why not confront your own fifteen, slipping through your fingers like the finest sand, in an attempt to deflect critical attentions away from the obvious...»
Enablers confirm November dates
San Francisco-based post-rock poets Enablers (oh shush - you come up with a neat description for them) have confirmed a series of UK dates for next month...»
Explosions In The Sky finish new album
Texas-based post-rockers of interstellar scope and volcanic bombast Explosions In The Sky have finished recording their new album, their fourth in all...»
WIN! Cable tribute albums...
Cable, they were a rock band. A good rock band. So good were they, indeed, that a small label by the name of Signature Tune has only gone and assembled a tribute record, full of the four-piece's classic songs reinterpreted by a bundle of today's rockers...»
Lights out at Hot Club's album launch...
Scouse art-rockers Hot Club De Paris' album launch party - held on Saturday night (October 14) - came to an abrupt conclusion, before the band had even performed...»
Thom Yorke considers travelling to Japan... by train!
It's 'cause planes are bad, innit. Try telling DiS that, though - we're not taking the Megabus to Iceland tomorrow...»
Scarlett-hued Tom Waits recordings to be released?
Make sense of this: The Sun reports that Scarlett Johansson is to release a record, entitled Scarlett Sings Tom Waits...»
We Are Scientists launch their Crap Attack
US pop-rockers We Are Scientists are to release a CD/DVD compilation of rare bits 'n' bobs on November 6...»
Get Cape announces new year tour
Get Cape. Wear Cape. Fly's Sam Duckworth isn't going to take too much time off this festive season: once he's finished off the cold yurky in his fridge, he'll be hitting the road for what people in the industry are calling a 'tour'...»
Squarepusher - Hello Everything
Tom Jenkinson’s brain, like yours or mine, is neatly divided into two halves. On one side, he hears his music, recorded under the guise of Squarepusher, to be glitch-riddled electronica wholly in the traditional Warp vein, beats skittered and speedy; the other side, though, interprets his output as neo-jazz workouts, structurally unbound by genre constraints and technological limitations...»
Q Awards nomination announced: strap yourself in for a flood of mediocrity!
This year's nominees for the annual Q Awards, the award ceremony offspring of dad-rock bible Q magazine, have been announced. Whoa, there, Q - way to get radical on our arses...»
Kasabian on MCR, again: "They're clowns"
I like Kasabian. They open their mouths and poop falls out. Like a PEZ dispenser, only with poop! LOLZ...»
Mandelbrot Set - All Our Actions Are Constantly Repeated
This sounds like victory, soldier: follow my lead into the far greater beyond...»
Two Gallants' Texas show ends in violence
Two Gallants' Houston show on Friday night ended in violence after a particularly physical police officer forced proceedings to a close following a noise complaint, reports Pitchfork...»
This week's DiS chart round-up is brought to you by the letters 'E', 'M', and the number '0'
So what’s shakin’ in the charts, eh? A whole lot of rock, that’s what. Yeah…»
Get Happy Tour: actually slightly depressing...
Somebody, somewhere, thinks these bands will make you happy, so much so that they've gone and called these dates the Get Happy Tour. See me, I'm crying inside...»
Jamie T: album release date announced
DiS likes Jamie T, but almost wishes he'd get that money, then spend it on some elocution lessons...»
Seth Lakeman - The White Hare
He might be the poster-boy pin-up of the new (major-label-backed) wave of British folk, but for all Seth Lakeman’s undeniable interviewee charm and aesthetic appeal he’s yet to truly connect with an audience at an under-the-skin level. Songs past, though assembled and arranged in the folk tradition, were worryingly disposable and slight, and ‘The White Hare’ is no different...»
Mt. - Lethologica
A decent debut, but one that is surely a stepping-stone to far greater things...»
Stuttering back: former Pop Idol threatens a return
Squeaky-clean (and squeaky-voiced) Pop Idol loser Gareth Gates is preparing to return to the spotlight as ITV1 has announced a documentary about the flopped singer...»