Plan B tours: hide your Biros
Plan B is not only the name of a nice magazine, but also a real life man! A man that raps, no less! A man that raps, no less ,that's hitting the road, no less, really soon. No less...»
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Brand bails/Russell's Reading no-show: delete as appropriate
Skinny funny man - and by funny we don't necessarily mean 'ha ha' - Russell Brand has cancelled his appearance at this weekend's Reading Festival. We didn't know he was meant to be there, but whatever...»
The Charlatans prepare another best-of
The Charlatans are to release a collection of their singles, from 1990 to right now, on November 13. It'll be called Forever: The Singles. Yup...»
ManNOlin: Spinto Band suffer instrument swiping
Some no-good tea-leaf made off with The Spinto Band's mandolin last night, during their set at Manchester's Hop and Grape... sorry, Academy 3... last night...»
Paramore - Emergency
Intriguing on paper though Tennessee-spawned quintet Paramore are – female-fronted emo-rockers stealing diaries back from their plagiarising older brothers – ‘Emergency’ is a fairly weak run-through of tried-and-tested “it’s not your fault”s and we’ve-been-here-before overtones...»
Dr Octagon - The Return Of Dr Octagon
Keith had always been regarded as an innovator, and rightly so, but The Return Of… is absolutely entrenched in the present day, both lyrically and in terms of the frantically delivered beats and scratches that comprise the core compositional building blocks of most of these fourteen tracks (okay, needless skits aside)...»
Frank Black unhappy with Pixies documentary
Frank Black - the never-gonna-win-slimmer-of-the-year singer with Pixies (sorry, we meant cuddly) - has told popular newspaper The Guardian that a new documentary following the reformed four-piece was made by "naïve" filmmakers...»
Badly Drawn Boy tours for Oxfam
Badly Drawn Boy aka Damon Gough aka smallmaninhat aka that one that did that song in that Hugh Grant movie is to play four dates next month. Chances are that attendees will be treated to what people in the industry are calling 'new material'. We suggest you take protection...»
BBC grabs Amstell by the Buzzcocks
Former Popworld presenter and regular on the stand-up circuit Simon Amstell is to captain the good ship Never Mind The Buzzcocks for the BBC when the show returns later this year...»
The Rolling Stones at London Twickenham Rugby Stadium, Tue 22 Aug
When the four-piece, ably assisted by talented backing musicians, break into The Hits, the show becomes a fantastic spectacle...»
Sparklehorse to release trio of pre-album singles
Sparklehorse will release a trio of singles from the forthcoming Dreamt For Lightyears In The Belly Of A Mountain album before the long-player's release on September 25...»
Dylan: modern recordings are atrocious
Bob Dylan claims he hasn't heard a decent record in twenty years, reports ContactMusic.com...»
Hot Chip predict Monkeys Mercury victory
Hot Chip have told MTV that they think Arctic Monkeys will scoop the on-our-doorstep Mercury Music Prize...»
Win rare Mozza record! Download special, um, download!
That Morrissey fella, bit old isn't he? Still, that doesn't stop the sour-faced Manc from embracing Brand New Exciting Technology. Oh no no no...»
Deerhoof finish new album
Deerhoof have put the finishing touches to the follow-up to last year's The Runners Four LP. The album, as yet untitled, will be released Stateside through Kill Rock Stars/5RC in early 2007; expect ATP to pick it up here...»
Mos Def: more acting, third album news
Mos Def is to release his third solo album next month, the annoyingly titled TRU3 MAGIC...»
The Tuesday DiScussion: should the Astoria be saved?
It turns out that a company of developers, namely Derwent Valley Central, have bought London’s famous Astoria Theatre, the much-used music venue in the centre of our nation’s capital...»
Say it ain't so? Seems Weezer ain't splitting...
One minute they are, the next they're not: will Weezer ever actually just get this splitting up thing over with...»
Mates Of State Bring It Back next month
Hubby-and-wifey duo Mates Of State are to release their fourth long-player on September 18...»
Thom Yorke - Harrowdown Hill
With an immediate bassline that’d sit prettily in a composition by The Rapture, it’s entirely likely that ‘Harrowdown Hill’ would make the TOTP cut, slipping onto Sunday night television screens between a slew of sound-alike production-line poppers...»
Get Capes, wear capes, DOOM: Sunn O))) tour
Southern Lord's much-acclaimed bass-drone monsters of rock Sunn O))) will tour the UK in October in support of their forthcoming collaborative album with Boris...»
Big Brother winner to star in rockumentary
Big Brother winner Pete Bennett is to star, along with his bandmates in Daddy Fantastic, in a rockumentary series...»
Head(land) out to a free gig this Thursday
WIN: tickets to see Headland this Thursday in London...»
ParaNomore: Tennessee rockers cancel Reading
The new kids on the emo block, whose single 'Emergency' is out this week (DiS review coming before close of play Friday), have been forced to pull out of the Carling Weekend as singer Hayley Williams is suffering from vocal chord irritation...»
Phoenix Bodies - Raise The Bullshit Flag
Wonderfully vitriolic and virulent stuff, and uncompromisingly punishing in the wrong ears, Raise The Bullshit Flag is one of the finest straight-up hardcore albums to land on this desk in a long while...»
A Number of Magic dates: flowery four-piece on tour
The Magic Numbers are to tour in the winter in support of their second album...»
Spice Girls top Yahoo! Music reunion poll
Yahoo! Music UK has conducted a poll to discover what separated band the British public - that's you, probably - would most like to see reform. The winner: The Spice Girls...»
Peel Jnr handed own radio show
Tom Ravenscroft, the son of late DJ John Peel, is to get his own radio show on Channel 4's Slashmusic, an online station aimed at exposing new talent...»
V2007 tickets on sale tomorrow
As is the trend these days, organisers behind the V Festival - which just finished, like, yesterday - are to make tickets for next year's event available from tomorrow...»
Anything Paris can do, TPT can do better...
Tara Palmer-Tomkinson is apparently planning to mount an assault on the pop charts, and is seeking advice from Louis Walsh, according to the Sunday Mirror. Well, if that Paris girl can do it...»