Mike_Diver has written the following articles:
Following their Mercury Prize win on Tuesday night, Arctic Monkeys were almost prevented from partying at the awards' aftershow, as bouncers at the Met Bar weren't convinced that the band were of legal drinking age...»
Ahead of the quartet’s headline set at the DiS-curated RoTa show, we caught up with Optimist Club's Bryn (vocals, guitar) and Jeion (guitar) to talk touring, drummers, aspirations and motherhubbarding punk rock...»
Following yesterday's news that Arab Strap are to split, DiS can now reveal the pair's final tour dates...»
King Creosote has extended his October tour, and will be supported by Jeremy Warmsley at all dates but the London show...»
Nothing remarkable it may be, but ‘Don’t…’ is a quick-fix slice of summery indie-pop sure to appeal to those dreading the onset of early sunsets and frosty mornings...»
Arab Strap have announced that they are to split up after ten years of performing and recording...»
Rob da Bank is a man of many hats, and we’re not talking deerstalkers and beanies. We’re talking occupations, and more specifically those of radio disc jockey, club deejay, record label head-honcho and festival curator-slash-organiser-slash-face. We could have used an alternative analogy, perhaps something about pies and fingers? But that’d make us hungry...»
Madonna - pictured looking a little younger - has been warned that a stadium she is to perform in is unsuitable for a large concert audience...»
DiS has spent much of the last twenty-four hours in the company of Deftones' new album, Saturday Night Wrist. See that picture there? That's the cover art. Here we present a run-through of the album's twelve tracks, just to get appetites whetted somewhat...»
DiS does RoTa! This Saturday! In London! It'll be radical! Bring your friends! And enemies! Because they'll like you after seeing this little lot...»
Chan Marshall, aka Cat Power, has released a new EP via iTunes...»
Boston-based masters of crushing metalcore Converge have announced that their new LP is to be titled No Heroes. It will be released through Epitaph on October 23...»
Radiohead have stated that they won't play live again until they've completed the recording of their as-yet-untitled follow-up album to 2003's Hail To The Thief long-player...»
xbxrx touch down in the UK later this month for a string of British and Irish dates that take them from London to Belfast via such delightful cities as Manchester and Nottingham...»
Former Napalm Death guitarist Jesse Pintado, most recently of the band Terrorizer, has died at the age of 37...»
‘Snitch’ is what it is: a relatively bland, by-numbers affair that doesn’t outstay its welcome but never makes an impression deep enough to warrant further investigation...»
Surprisingly, considering the warm August weather’s affect on the population at large – its ability to coax the most bedroom-bound of individuals out into the sunshine – a number of really great albums were able to keep certain folk indoors while their friends played in paddling pools and public parks all over the place...»
Detroit-spawned singer-songwriter Kelley Stoltz has a slew of UK and Ireland dates coming up this month. The Sup Pop-signed musician was meant to tour back in April, but plans were scuppered due to financial constraints. »
Chicago-based trio Pit er Pat will release their new album, Pyramids, through Thrill Jockey on October 16...»
Alexander Tucker has revealed that his next ATP Recordings-released long-player will be called Furrowed Brow. Fans, make a note on your diary's November 14 page, as that's when it'll be out.»
Australian eight-piece poppers Architecture In Helsinki are to contribute tracks to a limited-edition tour EP alongside much-praised New Yorkers Clap Your Hands Say Yeah...»
London-based indie-rockers The Holloways have announced that their debut album will be called So, This Is Great Britain...»
A previously-unreleased song by the late Matthew Jay is to be released, by his family, this month to mark the singer's death...»
Another year, another Mercury Prize (sorry, Nationwide Mercury Prize), and an ultimate feeling of deflation once the dust’s settled. The bookies got it right, we got it wrong; Arctic Monkeys are the critics’ as well as the consumers’ favourites, and who are we to stand in the way of their sweeping-aside-all-before-them power and popularity...»
...only for three or so songs, mind...»
It’s as-it-says-on-the-tin simple: this week, we want you to DiScuss us. We want your opinions on areas of the site that could be modified, or tweaked, or completely overhauled. We want to know what draws you to the site – perhaps a couple of times a week, maybe once a month, possibly every single day – and what keeps you here. We want information, spoon fed on silver cutlery. We need it in order to develop, to progress, to evolve. As that’s precisely what you see whenever you log onto DiS: evolution in effect. The last six years have seen dozens of changes, the comings and goings of features and facilities; we’re far from the perfect beast just yet...»
Sam Get Cape. Wear Cape. Fly Duckworth is playing two gigs on the same night at London's Betsey Trotwood venue. Now, if you've been there, you'll understand the fireplace comparison; if not, it's very small...»
Perhaps it passed by your radar, but The Black Keys have a new album out next week. Magic Potion, that's what it's called, and it's about as good as having a pretty lady kiss you on the face. Yup, dang good...»
Mercury-nominated singer Isobel Campbell has told DiS that she's to release another album before the end of the year. Her Mercury shortlisted Ballad Of The Broken Seas was released in January 2006...»
Singer-what-releases-lots-of-stuff Sufjan Stevens - not that we want him to slow his production rate down, you understand - is to release a five-disc festive set this coming Christmas...»
