Keane to sell official 'bootlegs' at live shows
Keane will offer fans attending their upcoming UK tour the chance to take the evening's set home with them...»
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Fall Out Boy: new album almost finished
Fall Out Boy's Pete Wentz - have you seen his wee willy winkle? - has spoken to MTV News via e-mail about his band's new album, the follow-up to whatever their last long-player was called. Something about a cork tree? Really, what do I care...»
DiS's chart update: we might be slow, but at least we're not listening to Razorlight
Razorlight's 'America' is at number one. Yes, the four-piece's latest slice of plod-plodding indie-pop pap has crawled its way to the singles chart top spot...»
New album news! Dinosaur Jr and Faithless...
Yes, this is the one and only time you'll see those two band names written in the same headline. I promise...»
Further Steps back in time...
More news hot off the MTV grapevine... or lukewarm, at least...»
I Was A Cub Scout announce new single
Nottingham-based electro-indie-dance (or something) duo I Was A Cub Scout have announced details of their new single...»
P Diddy presses play for the last time
P Diddy (that is his name this week, in this country, right?) has told MTV that his new album, Press Play, will be his last...»
Klaxons: new single confirmed
Klaxons' next single, 'MagicK', has been given a release date of October 30...»
Oasis versus Blur? Get with the times, U2...
Oasis and U2 are to go head to head next month, as their respective best-ofs are released on the same day...»
Archie Bronson Outfit - Cherry Lips
Rat-tat-tat-tatta-tat drum beats and a rumbling, growling bass sound like something out of an ‘80s Bad Seeds rehearsal captured onto crackly magnetic tape through a dozen paper-thin walls, ‘Cherry Lips’ manages to sound both ancient and absolutely in tune with the here-and-now in perfect synchronisation...»
WIN! Adaadat gig tickets! Swedish music compilations! Yay for free stuff!
Huzzah! We've some stuff to give away - so we're gonna do just that...»
Brand New: brand new album news
Their third long-player is to be called The Devil And God Are Raging Inside Me. Which is a crap title, innit? Yeah...»
Clark -Chris Clark to his mum - tours UK and Europe...
Clark is touring his frankly fantastic new album, Body Riddle, this month and through 'til the end of the year...»
Lightspeed Champion announces debut single
Lightspeed Champion are to release their (his?) debut single in January...»
The Isles announce UK dates
NYC-based indie-pop-rockers The Isles are to tour the UK next month...»
Morrissey announces December dates
He's the ringleader of the tormentors, or something, don't cha know? And he's got some live dates lined up for December...»
Loney Dear - The City, The Airport
Svanängen’s new album in his Loney, dear guise, Sologne, is almost certainly out at the very moment you’re reading this; if the aforementioned points of reference tickle your musical fancy, try this as a taster of Sweden’s latest potentially great pop export...»
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‘Deep Grief One To Four’ read the five words adorning Todd’s side of this plays-at-33 seven-inch; no markings are really necessary, though, since the most so obviously speaks for itself. All right, ‘music’, Mr High Street Five Albums A Year Fifty Pounds A Visit Whatever Demographic Suits Your Sunday Paper...»
Londoners: DiS DJs for you, for free! Plus more, obviously...
It's Saturday, whoooop. It's not even eleven, and I've already tidied the kitchen and swept the living room floor while listening to the Beirut album; now, I've just enough time before a much-needed shower (Comets On Fire got me sweaty last night, fo'real) and the start of Football Focus to tell YOU, London, about some great gig action going on later today...»
WIN? The most awful single we've heard all year!
It's little wonder Genesis are reforming, what with talentless pop-metal monkeys covering their songs and trashing them into hollow nut-sacks of their former selves...»
The Black Keys, Blood Meridian at London Kentish Town Forum, Wed 04 Oct
The duo’s swaggering good-time set does feature a significant fault: they play for too long. Even when fan-favourites appear either side of cuts from the their long-player of this year, a sense of repetition and regurgitation bubbles up from lager-full bellies come the forty-minute mark...»
Strokes man announces solo dates
Taking a little time out from his nine-to-five as one fifth of popular NYC posh-rockers The Strokes, Albert Hammond Jr is to tour his solo album, Yours To Keep, from November 22...»
James Lavelle launches new label
Sometime UNKLE fella and DJ type-o-person James Lavelle is launching a new record label by the name of Surrender All...»
Another Daniel Johnston tribute record assembled
Someday, soon, Daniel Johnston tribute albums are surely going to outnumber records by the man himself... »
The Bronx announce new single
LA punk quartet The Bronx have announced details of the second single to be taken from their recently-released self-titled second album...»
Adam Gnade joins Youthmovies on tour - confirmed
Wanderer of the great American expanses and writer of some of the most extraordinary modern-folk 'talking' songs to reach DiS's ears in recent years, Adam Gnade has now been confirmed to tour the UK in November alongside Youthmovies...»
Gn'R set album release date... apparently
Axl motherfucking Rose - check how fucking rock the motherfucker is right there - is apparently all but ready to unleash the much-spoken-of but never-fucking-seen Chinese Democracy...»
Girls Aloud best-of announced
Girls Aloud have revealed the tracklisting to their double-disc best-of album...»
"Controversial" Dr Dre biography coming
The author of the forthcoming Dr Dre biography Dr Dre: The Biography (WHOA! at that inventiveness) has promised that the book will be controversial...»
DiS is 6! Our 66, part 1
Let the DiScussing begin! We’ve been racking brains – prior to pulverising each other’s – at the DiSopolis these past few weeks to come up with our top 66 albums of the past six years; the very best records to see the light of day during DiS’s lifetime (yes, six years). Arguments have been won and lost, a handful of frankly incredible artists have improbably missed the cut through forgetfulness and space constraints, and we’ve all got quite, quite drunk along the way...»