Presetting the agenda: Aussie duo on becoming a festival fixture
Australian duo The Presets, alongside Cut Copy and Midnight Juggernauts, are driving southern hemisphere dance grooves into the British mainstream»
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Black Kids to play free London show
Florida five-piece of decent hype Black Kids - check out our review of their debut album Partie Traumatic here - will play a free show in London on Monday, July 7»
Harvey Milk - Life... The Best Game In Town
If you don’t air drum – or, better still, pound a desk with your digits ‘til they’re sore – to Harvey Milk’s fifth album then your rock soul is in deep despair»
Wild Beasts: July/August dates in full
Wild Beasts - their superb Limbo, Panto debut album is out now via Domino; review here - are out and about this month and next on what can only be called ‘a tour’»
Minotaur Shock: album three forthcoming
Minotaur Shock - aka Bristol's David Edwards - releases his third full-length next month via 4AD»
Freeloading: get Mogwai's 'The Sun Smells Too Loud' for nowt
What's this? A true treat of a Mogwai freebie ahead of their sixth LP, The Hawk Is Howling? Aye. Download it»
MGMT: album two due next summer
New Yorkers MGMT - seemingly all over every magazine worth its purchase tax at present, as well as DiS (interview from earlier this year) - have announced that their second album will be released next summer»
of Montreal reveal album release date
Kevin Barnes-fronted oddball popsters of Montreal's follow-up to their acclaimed Hissing Fauna... LP of 2007 (review) will be released on October 7»
Lily Allen may quit singing if album two flops
From NME.com via Rolling Stone comes word that DiS's favourite Allen after Allens Woody and Clive may quit the music business if her second album tanks»
Brett Anderson reveals second solo record
Suede vocalist Brett Anderson will release the follow-up to his self-titled solo debut, Wilderness, on September 1»
Wild in the Country festival cancelled
First Björk pulled out, then Battles pulled out, and now the whole thing's off: this weekend's Wild in the Country festival has gone the way of Tapestry and been cancelled»
Kings Of Leon announce Brixton Academy one-off
Kings Of Leon have announced a show at London's Brixton Academy, a warm-up before they play V Festival»
Tapestry Festival cancelled
This year’s Tapestry Festival, set for August 8-9 in south Wales and due to feature the likes of Jeffrey Lewis, Circulus and Danny & the Champions of the World, has been cancelled»
Funeral For A Friend: headline dates confirmed for autumn/winter
Bridgend rock quintet Funeral For A Friend have announced details of a number of headline dates from October onwards»
Calexico return in September with Carried To Dust
Joey Burns and John Convertino - aka Calexico - release their new album Carried To Dust on September 22»
Primal Scream to play 'secret' Glasgow show
Primal Scream are to preview tracks from their forthcoming Beautiful Future LP at a (not so) secret show in Glasgow on July 7»
The Weekly DiScussion: the best of 2008's forthcoming albums
We've presented our faves to date, now we're getting you excited about what 2008 is yet to reveal in full: our pick of albums coming your way»
Tricky announces first UK show for five years
Tricky will play his first show in the UK for five years in October, in support of his new LP Knowle West Boy»
Look: details of our special YACHT show in flyer form
Just why are these people jumping for joy? Why, it's because they'll both be at our special YACHT show, at London's Old Blue Last on July 16»
Watch: wonderfully weird new video from Pram
Birmingham-based trio Pram are to release a remix EP - containing tracks from their recent The Moving Frontier as re-worked by the likes of Psapp and Grandmaster Gareth - on July 21, via Domino»
Raging Lion: Zack de la Rocha forms new band
Zack de la Rocha - frontman with disbanded-cum-reformed rockers Rage Against The Machine - has formed a new band with former Mars Volta man Jon Theodore»
Watch: Jay-Z's Glasto intro film
The intro film shown before Jay-Z's headline set at Glastonbury on Saturday - not shown on the BBC coverage - has appeared on YouTube»
Watch: new video from XX Teens
XX Teens are to release a new single, 'Only You', on July 14. The standalone precedes the London band's debut album, Welcome To Goon Island»
Hammock - Maybe They Will Sing For Us Tomorrow
Take the time to concentrate on Hammock's music for an hour and you will experience what a guitar gently weeping truly sounds like»
Why? at London Cargo, Mon 30 Jun
Sometimes it's better if a show isn't perfect - if Why? had delivered their Alopecia album faultlessly tonight, DiS's heart might have broken for good»
Hear the new Albert Hammond Jr album ahead of release
Got a soft spot for sometime Stroke Albert Hammond Jr? Then check out his new LP ahead of its release»
MGMT announce Reading/Leeds warm-up shows
Brooklyn duo MGMT - find their Oracular Spectacular debut reviewed here - are to play a pair of warm-up dates ahead of sets at the Reading and Leeds festivals»
Aerosmith's Steven Tyler admits painkiller addiction
Aerosmith vocalist Steven Tyler has admitted that his recent stint in rehab wasn't much to do with a sore foot, but actually to do with an addiction to painkillers»
Battles not getting Wild: New Yorkers WON'T play festival this weekend
They're not playing, but Soulwax are: confusion cleared right up here, after so much umming and ahhing»
A Month In Records: June 2008
An impressive crop this month, as Flying Lotus and Wild Beasts tussle for supremacy on the DiS stereo, both just about distracting us from the kicking»