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The Campaign For Real-Time: UK tour dates in full...
Fairly freakin' ace futuristic dance-punks The Campaign For Real-Time - their debut album, Yes... I Mean No, was released earlier this year through Big Scary Monsters - are to cross the sea to tour the UK next month...»
Sting says his voice is "encrypted with life", or some pseudo hippie nonsense or other...
Sting - well-known for his roles in Dune and that Lock Stock... film that really doesn't need to run once a bloody week on Film 4, y'know - has told a website that isn't this one that "singing is a spiritual journey" and that his voice is "encrypted with life"...»
Chris Clark: ditches Christian name, gives away MP3s...
Chris Clark is to return to record-releasing ways next month, albeit simply as Clark. His new long-player, Body Riddle, is in shops through Warp on October 2...»
The Horrors: a pair of last-minute shows
The Horrors are a band. A band that sound a bit like Eighties Matchbox, albeit with all the fun removed. Still, some kids, they dig The Horrors, and since DiS is a public service an' all, here's some news about the band in question. The Horrors, you understand. Do try to keep up...»
Art Brut play some dates; quite freakin' obviously don't play TOTP so SHUT UP about it...
Art Brut are fairly well-liked around these parts, so it seems only right to report that the band - which is comprised of five individuals you may wish to call 'musicians' - is playing some shows later this year...»
Trail Of Dead: referencing their critics with new album title?
The new album from ...And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead - the follow-up to last year's Worlds Apart - is to be called So Divided...»
Embrace to split after next album... probably
Embrace are apparently to call time on their music career once the five-piece's next album is recorded...»
Three shows for TVOTR
Acclaimed (and rightly so) New York rockers TV On The Radio are to hop on a plane to Blighty later this year for three shows...»
Dan P Carter announced as new Radio 1 Rock Show presenter
Dan P Carter, of both A and The Lucky Nine, is to take over the Radio 1 Rock Show from Mike Davies when the latter relocates to Los Angeles...»
Nirvana's Live! Tonight! Sold Out!! to transfer to DVD
Nirvana's 1994 video, Live! Tonight! Sold Out!, released just after the death of the band's singer Kurt Cobain, is to finally be made available on DVD...»
Brand for Adam Ant biopic?
Big Brother presenter and comedian Russell Brand is being lined up to play Adam Ant in an upcoming screen adaptation of the singer's autobiography, Stand And Deliver...»
twentysixfeet hardly Immune to touring
London-based post-something-core experimentalists twentysixfeet have announced a fairly hefty tour that'll take in such beauty spots as Leeds, Norwich, Romford, and Cindy Crawford's face...»
Keith Richards disappointed with quality of modern drugs
The Rolling Stones' Keith Richards has told your music bible Q that modern drugs are, like, rubbish...»
Cat Power: "I was always intoxicated"
Chan Marshall aka Cat Power has explained why she cancelled a series of live shows, including a date in London, earlier this year (see our report from the time here).»
Investigate The Pigeon Detectives, live...
Tipped Leeds outfit The Pigeon Detectives are touring their socks off over the next few months, with dates here, there, and quite almost everywhere...»
MOBO Awards: Beyoncé and Jay-Z win but don't attend
Both Beyoncé and her rapper boyfriend Jay-Z scooped awards at last night's MOBO ceremony at the Royal Albert Hall, London. Neither, though, were in the capital to collect their trophies...»
Polly Jean to release Peel Session compilation
PJ Harvey is to release a compilation of Peel Sessions next month...»
Young Widows - Settle Down City
What begins with what sounds like a dog’s bark ends with an ambiguously chanted apology of “We don’t know”; between these bookends lies some of the most visceral punk-rock heard since Wives’ Erect The Youth Problem of last year. Young Widows’ debut album, eleven songs of rampant aggression and distorted amplification, could even be compared to Mono, the album that launched The Icarus Line so violently into the public consciousness...»
All Saints unveil comeback single
Recently-reformed girl band All Saints have announced details of their comeback single...»
Little Man Tate embark on fairly massive tour
Little Man Tate are a band. Perhaps you've heard of them? If not, you've plenty of opportunities to catch them as they're playing near enough everywhere over the next couple o' months...»
Blood On The Wall, xbxrx, Lovvers at London The Luminaire, Tue 19 Sep
xbxrx, emerge to a slightly depleted crowd; although I’m fairly far from overwhelmed by Blood On The Wall’s encore-capped set (aren’t support acts meant to ignore such requests?), clearly a good percentage of ticket-holders are so non-plussed by the Californian quartet’s jerky rhythms and coarse vocals that they’ve bailed without so much as bearing witness to a single song. It’s their loss, and a massive one...»
Take That, they ain't: Five reform nonetheless
Five (or 5ive, if you will) were massive only a few years ago, but beside 'Abs' I'll be damned if I can remember a single member of the boyband. Geoff? Darren? Didn't one of them go out with some actress or singer or something...»
Ash on new album: "shaping up to be our best yet"
Streamlined to a trio they may be, but Ash have stated that their forthcoming album is "shaping up to be our best album yet"...»
Franz documentary to be broadcast this Sunday
A Don Letts-directed documentary on Franz Ferdinand is to be broadcast on Channel 4 this Sunday (September 24)...»
Lily Allen: "indie-rock is like S-Club"
Never one to miss an opportunity to open her gob in the presence of anyone with a tape recorder, Lily Allen has told the NME that she thinks the majority of indie-rock bands are "doing what S Club 7 and Steps did"...»
Beck to take control of 6Music
Beck is to take over BBC 6Music on October 2, the release date of his new record The Information...»
Stefani reveals second-album details
Gwen Stefani has revealed a few details about her forthcoming second album, the follow-up to her successful Love, Angel, Music, Baby debut...»
The Sugarcubes to reform for one-off anniversary show
The Sugarcubes are to reform - including Björk - for a one-off show in Reykjavik on November 17...»
Bad Willie style: country singer charged with drug possession
Country singer Wille Nelson - 73 years young - has been busted for possession of drugs in Louisiana...»