Larrikin Love their fans; offer them a signed ukulele...
Increasingly popular ska-country-whatever four-piece Larrikin Love have offered their fans the opportunity to win a ukulele, signed by singer Edward...»
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Scissors For Lefty finish debut album, set release date
San Francisco-based four-piece Scissors For Lefty, recently seen supporting Canadian quartet Metric in the UK, have finished work on their debut album...»
DiScover Club at The Barfly: it's THIS FRIDAY
WHAT, I hear you ask, waits at the end of this particular descent to the weekend? Why, the DiScover Club at the Camden Barfly, of course! This month we’ve not only jigged the club a little, so that we’re now presenting to you, dear reader/punter, the very best new bands we’ve wrapped our lugholes around, but we’ve also moved it a week forward. Why? Why not! Here are all the details you could ever want… »
The Black Keys - Magic Potion
Great in parts though it is, Magic Potion isn’t quite the album to attract a raft of newcomers to The Black Keys’ archaic rock, a breed best played loud from dusty porches and creaking pick-up trucks. Loyal fans, though, will find much of their favoured brand in abundance here. Just focus on keepin’ your jaw from slackin’, you yokels...»
Mastodon soundtrack Aqua Teen Hunger Force movie
Atlanta-based rockers Mastodon - whose latest album, Blood Mountain, received a pretty special ten-out-of-ten review on DiS today - are among the acts contributing to the soundtrack to the forthcoming motion picture adaptation of Aqua Teen Hunger Force...»
The Observer's suggested autumn listening: Beck, Joanna Newsom, Tom Waits...
DiS's Sunday broadsheet of choice - well, we all seem to buy it, anyway - The Observer has published a list of this autumn's must-hear albums. Here, we've listed them for you...»
Espers announce UK dates
Philadelphia alt-folk collective Espers are to play a handful of British dates in November in support of their long-player of earlier this year, II...»
Cat Power's The Greatest to be re-issued
Cat Power's The Greatest long-player is to be re-issued by Matador later this month...»
UK Music Hall of Fame welcomes further legends to the fold...
This year's inductees to the UK Music Hall of Fame are to include Led Zeppelin, Brian Wilson, Dusty Springfield and Rod Stewart...»
Roddy Woomble: "Not sure what's up with OutKast"
Roddy Woomble, singer with Scottish indie-rockers Idlewild, has told the band's fans that he's been confused by recent promotional posters for the OutKast album and movie, Idlewild...»
Buckcherry face legal action over 'Crazy Bitch' video
LA rockers Buckcherry are facing a lawsuit from a 16-year-old girl, who alleges that the band and their label forced her to perform sexual acts in their video for the song 'Crazy Bitch'...»
Mastodon - Blood Mountain
An album that leaves its closest on-the-shelves cousins languishing a thousand leagues in its wake, Blood Mountain is, almost unequivocally, the year's greatest rock album. Ingeniously complex yet satisfyingly direct and immediate, meticulously crafted yet wholly organic in feel and flow, this triumphant third LP from a band that successfully avoids precise pigeonholing is absolutely deserving of a maximum numerical score – there’s simply no other possible conclusion to reach...»
Oasis' Stop The Clocks: official tracklisting revealed
See, sometimes we jump the gun a little. This run-through of tracks making up Oasis' Stop The Clocks best-of isn't actually accurate. So, um, sorry...»
Deerhoof news: album tracks revealed, community school ballet announced...
We like Deerhoof. So does Pitchfork, over there in the US of A. Indeed, we read this rather interesting slice o' news at their site...»
The Killers announce full UK tour
Las Vegas-spawned pop-rockers The Killers, who release their second album Sam's Town at the start of October, are to tour the UK in November...»
JamiroCry? Jay Kay arrested in London
Jamiroquai singer Jay Kay was arrested this morning, according to band fan site The Funkin' Site...»
Eminem mixtape due for October release
Today's stream of news trickles to an end with this nugget of like-not-wow information: Eminem so totally isn't retiring from music. Because he's a new album in the works. Ish...»
50 Cent: zero sense
He's got bucketloads of cash literally falling out of his ears, but rapper 50 Cent still can't afford to properly register and insure his motors...»
The Mars Volta's try-before-you-buy offer
The Mars Volta released their third studio album today, the 70-something-minute-long Amputechture. Perhaps you noticed, since we've only gone and reviewed the damn thing. Here. See...»
Chart round-up: So, when you use a bidet, is that a 'number three'?
If so, it's totally apt considering Beyoncé's position on this week's album chart. But we'll get to that in a second...»
Kasabian's Meighan to do a Bowie?
Sting, Prince, Bowie, Jagger, Waits, Albarn, Flea... the list of musicians-turned-sometime-actors is a long one, and one peppered with truly awful excuses for motion pictures. Now, it seems, Kasabian's Tom Meighan is weighing up his cinematic options...»
When We Were Don: rapper Akira prep's debut album
London-based Wales-raised rapper Akira The Don is to release his debut album later this year through the Something In Construction label...»
Bilge Pump, Pifco - Split 7" (Jonthan Richman covers)
Slowly but surely becoming a label of a peculiarly quirky persuasion, Run Of The Mill’s second instalment in their ‘They Do Them’ series – the last starred Monster Killed By Laser and That Fucking Tank – features a pair of Leeds-based acts re-working songs penned by Jonathan Richman...»
Yo La Tengo at London Bush Hall, Tue 05 Sep
‘Season Of The Shark’ accurately summarises half of Yo La Tengo’s set this evening: the band – completed, of course, by James McNew on bass and keys and Kaplan’s wife Georgia Hubley on drums and keys – switch from serene passages of sweet indie-pop, a la the aforementioned Summer Sun LP highlight, to screaming squalls of intense guitar riffing that blindside the front row, leaving them slumped onto monitors, stage lights burning the back of their necks like newspaper lit by an unattended grill...»
DiScover: Bat For Lashes
Bat For Lashes' Fur And Gold follows in the wake of no little critical acclaim for its preceding single, ‘The Wizard’. Comparisons to both Kate Bush and Björk have put Khan in an awkward position, albeit one enviable to many: what happens if those points of reference are ones that she can never parallel in her own way? Khan seems to have become detached from the record’s reception before it’s so much as begun in earnest...»
The Isles - Perfumed Lands
The Isles are a lot more than the overly-Anglicised, particular-act-aping outfit certain reviews have painted them as – at times they draw more of a parallel with Interpol than anyone else. They’re a great indie-pop band, basically, and one that’s delivered a decent debut that deserves recognition for its one foot in the present as much as it does respect for its excellent amplifying of echoes past...»
Oneida - Happy New Year
Never ones to slip their not-so-slight frames into a solitary musical mould, Brooklyn’s Oneida have again conjured a record of greatly diverse styles, the sole constant being the tried-and-tested echoes of Krautrock-style repetition that underpin each and every hop ‘n’ skip from compositional approach A to blueprint sketch Z...»
Lily's US campaign begins with digital EP
Pop-rap sensation Lily Allen is to begin her effort to crack the States with a digital EP release, Smile. The title track, quite obviously, is the same song that went straight to the top of the UK singles chart not so long ago...»
Erase Errata: October dates in full
San Francisco punk outfit Erase Errata have announced a full UK tour. The band, now a trio, release their third album Nightlife later this month...»
P. Doherty: Sean "Puffy-smoker" Combs - skag boy for life?
Brand-new(ish) free London paper The London Paper has been forced to apologise to rapper-cum-businessman P Diddy, or Diddy, or whatever, after printing a picture of him beside an article reporting Pete Doherty's latest drama...»