The Dears to tour in October
Bella Union's indie-rocking Canadians The Dears are to play six dates in the UK in October, in support of their soon-to-be-released Gang Of Losers LP...»
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Bluetones get eponymous on fifth album, due October
The Bluetones, hardy Britpoppers content to reside in the shadows while trends come and go, are to release their fifth album in October...»
Cyann & Ben - Sunny Morning EP
For three-quarters of The Sunny Morning EP, Cyann & Ben mesmerize with an enviable ease. New to UK shores after a brace of albums in their home country, expect the British to embrace them as eagerly as a steaming mound of moules frites...»
Panik over: Scottish electro-poppers split
Scottish purveyors of throbbing electro-pop-rock Data Panik, who only formed in 2005 from the remnants of Bis, have called time on their current musical incarnation...»
Don Cab announce European tour
Legendary instrumental rockers Don Caballero, whose latest record World Class Listening Problem was released earlier this year through Relapse, are to tour Europe later this year...»
Snoopin' about the small screen
Rapper Snoop Dogg is to move from the silver screen to the tellybox for his latest Celluloid role...»
Jamie T in tour news 'shocker'
So what, exactly, is shocking about this particular news article, I hear you ask? Well, nothing really. But what is shocking is that while I type the Nicky Wire solo record is being played on the other side of the office. It's about as brilliant, so far, as being attacked by seagulls...»
Raconteurs schedule October tour
The Jack White/Brendan Benson rock 'n' roll machine that is The Raconteurs - other rock bands are available - has announced a bundle of UK tour dates for October. Chances are they'll have a single out then, or something...»
My Morning Jacket: live in Blighty, live in your living room
My Morning Jacket's double-disc live album, Okonokos, is to be released on October 2. We know this, as a copy just arrived at the office...»
Out of the Basement, into the arenas: Jaxx tour
Dance duo Basement Jaxx set out on tour next month, taking in many of the country's fine arena-sized venues...»
Get Cape: massive tour, t-shirts and charity auction...
Mr Get Cape. Wear Cape. Fly, or Sam to his mum, is embarking on a frankly massive UK tour in support of his debut album, Chronicles Of A Bohemian Teenager...»
The Tuesday DiScussion: what's the best best-of?
This Tuesday’s DiScussion piece focuses on best-of releases, past, present and future. What bands have ever really earned a best-of? Who's due one? DiScuss...»
Sue-pernova: Nineties rockers versus Tommy Lee
The producers of American X-Factor-style show Rock Star: Supernova are being sued by a Nineties rock band over use of the name 'Supernova'...»
Lambchop - Damaged
Lambchop are one of only a handful of genuinely affecting outfits whose quality control never malfunctions, and Damaged, the Nashville collective’s eighth album, rises to the same dizzying heights achieved by their last few long-players...»
Moby Go-es with Debbie Harry
Techno animal turned MOR baldy Moby has revealed the tracklisting for his forthcoming best-of release...»
Cable tribute album tracklisting revealed
The tracklisting to the forthcoming Cable covers album has been revealed. See, down there? That's it...»
Thom Yorke "wastes energy left, right and centre"
A campaigner for Friends of the Earth he may be, but Radiohead singer Thom Yorke has told an Australian newspaper that he doesn't do enough for the environment...»
Gomez to release best-of
Gomez's best-of compilation, a twin-CD release, will be made available to Joe Public on September 25th...»
Montana - Montana 7"
“Goes off like a firework in your face,” one neatly plucked quote from elsewhere attests positively, but I ask you: have you ever had a firework go off in your face? It’s not a good thing, having delicate flesh irreparably disfigured by a rogue rocket. It’s fucking horrible...»
Please, please, please: stop buying James Morrison records. DiS chart round-up...
Another Monday, another round-up of the movers and shakers in the UK singles chart. Well, we say ‘movers and shakers’, but nothing much has changed since last week to be honest...»
Blunt rocks out in Ibiza
James Blunt has taken to firing rocks at nosey fans who track him down to his new home in Ibiza...»
Boris + Sunn 0))) = Altar, due on Halloween
The much-talked-about - in metal circles anyway - collaborative album by Sunn 0))) and Boris is to be released on the most appropriate of days - Halloween...»
Bricolage - Flowers Of Deceit
You can dance to it, drive to it, relax to it. It's just about spot-on, really...»
End Of The Road update: Ryan Adams announced!
The first-ever End Of The Road Festival is all but upon us, so what better time for a wee update on the line-up and stuff...»
WIN! Tickets to The Young Knives' album launch...
Perhaps you’ve heard of The Young Knives? Perhaps, even, you’ve heard one of their excellently pop-rockin’ singles, all liberally doused in enough itching powder to have a grown man’s skin red raw in under three minutes? Perhaps, even even even, you’re aware that the Oxford trio have a debut album coming out on August 21? You are!? Great! Wanna come to a party...»
WIN! Glastonbury CDs and DVDs
Julian Temple’s Glastonbury film was released earlier this year to great critical acclaim, and DiS has three copies of the movie that’s kept me in the festival loop this summer, as well as its soundtrack, to give away to our readers...»
Malkmus releases remix single
One-time Pavement fella Stephen Malkmus is to release a remix single, 'Kindling For The Master', featuring re-workings from a wealth of knob-twiddling talents...»
Cohesion Live: Elbow, Badly Drawn Boy, Graham Coxon line up for one-day fest
Cohesion Live, Manchester's biggest music festival this year, is to take place on September 23 at Platt Fields Park...»
Guillemots and Get Cape join up for charity gig
Mercury nominees Guillemots and Southend solo artist Get Cape. Wear Cape. Fly are to play a special gig in Colchester in memory of an A-level student who died of bronchio pneumonia earlier this year...»
Explosive news: Texan post-rockers finish writing third album
Texan masters of all things slow-movingly epic Explosions In The Sky have told fans via their MySpace page that the writing for their third album is wrapped up...»