Busta busted! Rapper nicked in NYC
Rapper Busta Rhymes has been arrested in New York...»
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Mike_Diver has written the following articles:
DiScover: Kaada
Music For Moviebikers is a truly absorbing, consuming record – sixty minutes of score for some wonderful fantasy fairytale of a film, some imaginary celluloid experience that no filmmaker could credibly capture. It draws, quite obviously, upon Kaada’s ‘day job’ – he writes music not only for films (ten so far) but also international television advertisements (“I just did one for Africa,” he says. “I’m very lucky – I’m the one they call when they want something different.”) – but possesses an affecting emotional element usually absent in adhere-to-the-script movie scores...»
It's Monday, I'm hungry... for some CHART news
Remember Bryan Adams’ sixteen-week reign at the summit of the UK singles chart back in 1991? I do: the scars remain today. I was genuinely terrified when The Fugees’ ‘Killing Me Softly’ threatened to repeat the feat in ’96. Thankfully, clever label executives deleted the ballad before it could romp to a sixth week at the top spot. As for Wet Wet Wet, don’t start. Just don’t...»
Mates Of State - Fraud in the 80s
Not quite the song of the summer – albeit only because that honour’s already been awarded elsewhere – ‘Fraud In The ‘80s’ is nevertheless worth so very much more than its couple of quid asking price...»
Slayer - Christ Illusion
This is the most brutal metal record to see a release in 2006. If Christ Illusion had made its hoped release date of 6/6/06, it’s absolutely probable that the Earth would have ripped open, allowing the Devil himself to push to the front of the record store queue...»
Comp(o) round-up: WIN LOADS OF STUFF
We like free stuff. By ‘we’ we mean ‘Brits’, as a recently-published poll revealed. Sadly we’ve no DVDs to give away with our newspaper, nor are we offering any free texts to annoy your friends with, but we do have a few competitions on the burner that you’re welcome to dip a bit of bread on a stick into. Mmmm, taste our deliciously salty melty cheese goodness…»
Pumpkins back in studio
The Smashing Pumpkins are back in the studio, according to a post on their website...»
Young Knives at London Camden Proud Gallery, Wed 16 Aug
A pair of singles – ‘She’s Attracted To’ and ‘Weekends And Bleak Days (Hot Summer)’ – comprise predictable highlights, but the thirty-minutes-or-so set isn’t punctuated by four-minute fillers...»
Keane cancel shows. Hope "everyone" understands. Everyone rumoured to be "not bothered".
Keane singer Tom Chaplin, pictured, is suffering from exhaustion, leading to the band's cancellation of a handful of upcoming gigs...»
Fizzy pop-rockers: Lordi get soft
Lordi - monster-masked Eurovision winners - are to have a soft drink produced and sold in their 'honour'. Lordi Cola is to be made by Finnish drinks maker Olvi Group...»
Tom Waits to release three-disc set
Tom Waits is to release a three-disc, 54-track set in November, entitled Orphans: Brawlers, Bawlers and Bastards...»
Gigs in a brewery? DiS's dreams come true...
The Boddingtons Brewery in Manchester is to hold a series of live music events through the autumn and winter...»
Subways > Slayer?
The word on the world wide web this Friday morning is that The Subways are to adopt a heavier approach for their second album, and that they've written "a metal song"...»
V Festival: the DiS preview
One of the true big boys amongst the ever-growing festival throng, V Festival is almost upon us. This weekend, teenagers and thirty(plus)-somethings alike will converge on the festival’s twin sites – one in Chelmsford, the other in Staffordshire – to drink expensive warm lager while the dulcet tones of Sandi Thom, James Morrison and Lily Allen aid their gentle drift to a wonderful plane of serenity…»
Fionn Regan announces his first-ever UK headline tour
Acclaimed singer-songwriter Fionn Regan is to embark upon his first-ever UK headline tour in wake of his The End Of History LP...»
Lostprofits? Nah, this tour'll make a mint...
Welsh metallers and dedicated followers of fashion Lostprophets are to tour this country of ours later this year...»
Cursive - Happy Hollow
Not one of Happy Hollow’s fourteen tracks seems out of place, out of its depth alongside masterfully realised rock songs combining incisive intellect and the primal desire to dance excellently. Emote though Kasher and his crew may, this album should never be misconstrued as a modern emo record...»
No fair! We wanna go to the Fuck Yeah Fest...
Seriously, I am pissed off this summer. Every week, it seems, I see another American festival with a line-up so pant-wettingly brilliant I have to down eight cups of water a minute just to keep up with my own urinating...»
The "Hi, Oldie!" Country: Ryan Adams produces Willie Nelson record
Ryan Adams has been employed as producer on the forthcoming record by country music legend Willie Nelson, Songbird...»
Orton cancels September shows
Folksy singer Beth Orton has cancelled a series of September gigs after doctors advised her to rest up due to her pregnancy...»
Xtina's dead, long live 'Baby Jane'. Apparently...
Christina Aguilera has told a magazine that her 'Xtina' image/persona - that seen in the quite flesh-heavy video for 'Dirrty' lest we forget - is to make way for 'Baby Jane'...»
I love you, but I've chosen rehab: Darkness singer checks in
Justin Hawkins - flame-tattooed frontman of The Darkness - has checked himself into rehab according to reports in the tabloid press...»
Dartz! head to St Petersburg
Dartz! - north-eastern marvels of many an indie-punk toe-tapper - are to release a new single in October...»
Junior Boys - In The Morning
After a couple of listens, what was initially nothing more than a neatly constructed ditty with overtones of late-night Five dialogue heard from another room transforms into a worthy standalone track dripping in potential...»
rockfeedback on your TV
rockfeedback TV begins on MTV2 tomorrow night (August 17), and to celebrate this transferring of rock-born opinions from the web to your telly, DiS has a few money-can't-easily-buy records to give away...»
Mercury Rev prepare best-of album
Mercury Rev are to release a best-of album in October. The two-disc set features a CD full of rare material...»
Bat For Lashes: September tour dates, October single
Bat For Lashes - or Natasha Khan to her friends - has announced a handful of headline dates in anticipation of her debut long-player, Fur And Gold...»
Souls She Said album out September
The debut album from Souls She Said, As Templar Nites, is to receive an official UK release this September through Poptones...»
The Mars Volta bottled at Endfest
The Mars Volta walked off stage at the Endfest on Saturday, after being pelted, in perfect Reading Festival fashion, with bottles of piss...»
Madonna could face legal action in Germany
Pop megastar Madonna could face legal action in Germany, as prosecutors in the country are to monitor her Confessions tour as it makes its way over their home turf...»