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Really rather excellent post-rockers Yndi Halda release their debut EP next month through acclaimed indie lable Big Scary Monsters. Particularly keen sorts,though, can pre-order the EP now through the BSM site...»
Albert Hammond Jr has told NME that he's keen to make a second solo record - his first, Yours To Keep, is out now via Rough Trade. It is really quite good, y'know...»
The Hippodrome looks for all the world like the last place you’d expect to find a rock band. Luckily, I’m not watching one...»
What, exactly, does this have to properly do with all things music? Well, this Matt Bellamy is the very same Matt Bellamy as the Matt Bellamy that sings under the guise of Matt Bellamy in the Matt Bellamy-fronted rock band Muse. But beyond that, nowt. But it is Friday, you know. Not a lot generally happens on Fridays. Apart from Jonathan Ross. I tend to make sure I'm out...»
Ryan Adams has made no fewer than 36 new tracks - that's thirty-six - available for streaming at the Ryan-Adams.com website...»
Justin Timberlake collaborator Timbaland thinks that listening to JT's latest single 'SexyBack' can make a hella-straight man come over all queer...»
So here we are, fellow travellers through the last six years of DiS’s favourite sounds: part two of Our 66. Believe you me, this section – which collects together the albums we’ve placed at numbers 44 to 21 – was no easier to assemble than the preceding chapter (click here if you’re yet to look over our selections from 66 to 45). In fact, we’ve suffered more headaches over the last few weeks, because of this undertaking alone, than at any other time in our lives. Perhaps, anyway: we do enjoy the odd pint...»
Towers Of London's Dirk Tourette was ejected from My Chemical Romance's instore performance at London's Virgin Megastore (Oxford Street) last night, after he flicked a cigarette at MCR drummer Bob Bryar...»
Maxïmo Park have revealed further details about their second album to Billboard...»
Bromheads Jacket - whose name continually annoys me; surely it should feature an apostrophe, no? - have announced details of their debut album...»
Dogs. Remember them? I saw them at the Garage once, playing to all of three people. They were dire. Still, some people liked 'em quite a bit - if I recall correctly they even toured with Razorlight and The Duke Spirit on an NME tour a while back - and Weekender Records are among said people...»
Domino are to re-issue Pavement's splendid 1995 offering Wowee Zowee, in an expanded edition...»
Does bad news usually arrives in threes? If so, I wouldn't want to be in The Darkness round about now...»
Chan Marshall - known to record store racks everywhere as Cat Power - might appear in future advertising campaigns for Chanel...»
Manic Street Preachers members James Dean Bradfield and Nicky Wire have opened their gobs and directed a big load o' spit and bile the way of musicians that, like, support charities and stuff...»
Billboard has reported that The Stooges are recording a new album alongside acclaimed producer Steve Albini...»
Where are we now? Ah yes. Rock and roll...»
Beirut's magical The Gulag Orkestar is to receive an official UK release on November 6, through 4AD...»
In the picture to the right, Ice T is sporting a hairstyle known in these 'ere parts as the 'Mike still hasn't cut his hair'. He looks like me! LOLZ...»
Put 'em up, Jigga, them Chinese folks don't want you in their 'hood, yo...»
Pop-rockers with make-up My Chemical Romance are to play a 'secret' show this evening. We'd have told you this yesterday, but the information was embargoed 'til seven and, frankly, there was the rather more pressing matter of a football match to deal with...»
Hooray for good tours! Hooray for this tour! Hooray for Bella Union! What's that? But we ripped The Dears apart a few months ago? Shush it, you...»
Fairly freaking ace-o-core London punk types Optimist Club need a new drummer. Sticksmen of quality taste, do please apply...»
Welsh indie-pop types We Are Trees are off on tour really soon. Which allows you, people of London and Cardiff, to check them out ahead of the release of their new single...»
Who is this Sol Seppy person, eh? Am I behind the times here? Her mini-album-cum-EP thing, pssscheeow, might well have come into the office, but beyond that I know nowt about this lady and her music...»
The Blood Brothers' Young Machetes album - the follow-up to 2004's much-acclaimed Crimes - is to be released in the UK on November 20...»
Good news, everyone! PJ Harvey is working on a new record. Huzzah...»
Justin Hawkins has quit The Darkness. He told his bandmates last night, confessing that he'd been consuming £1,000-worth of cocaine a week for the last three years...»
"I don’t mind doing, like, one or two interviews, but when it’s like five… my head starts to melt."»
Stylistic specifics surrounding Santa Cruz-spawned quintet Comets On Fire are a little vague to say the least: a cursory scan of online references – your Wikipedias and AllMusics of this world – reveals little but indefinite categorisations and pigeonholes stretched so wide you could shove an extinct Dromornis australis into the space available. They are, quite simply, bastards to sonically pin down...»
