Bryan ditches his Ferry for a pirate ship...
Bryan Ferry and Bono have agreed to work with Pirates of the Caribbean star Johnny Depp on an album of sea shanties...»
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The Tube to return... on radio
With the public all a chatter over the recent axing of Top Of The Pops, what better time is there than right now to introduce a brand-new music television show. Or, perhaps, re-introduce a ruddy old one...»
Dirty Pretty Things plan one-off gig for Make Roads Safe
Dirty Pretty Things are to perform at London's Coronet, on September 13, to promote the Make Roads Safe campaign. The gig's announcement comes after three DPT fans - Claire and Jennifer Stoddart and their friend Carla Took - died in a car crash on the way back from the band's Ipswich gig last month...»
You And The Atom Bomb - Shake Shake Hello?
A flurry of yelps over meandering keys and stabbed-at guitars, You And The Atom Bomb’s seven-track follow-up to 2005’s ‘Velocipedes’ seven-inch is another hyperactive helping of inventive musicianship, born and bred in the west country but undeniably in debt to US pop-punks-proper...»
Stars Of Aviation, Shimura Curves at London Monto Water Rats, Sun 06 Aug
Shuffling awkwardly, between-song banter delivered with a tinge of shyness, the band look, initially, as it they’re about to be totally overpowered by the minority in the house that feel it necessary to talk their way through a set they’ve probably just paid to see...»
Strokes man goes solo
The Strokes' Albert Hammond Jr is to release a solo album later this year...»
Various - Coachella (DVD)
Well edited, nicely sequenced and often beautifully shot, Coachella works wonders as a promotional video for a festival that will surely grow and grow...»
DiS delves into the charts; finds little but C to the A to the C to the K...
Seven days may have passed since last we, DiS, delved into the charts in any detail, but little has changed: Shakira remains top of the singles pile with ‘Hips Don’t Lie’, with Rihanna’s ‘Unfaithful’ at two and Christina Aguilera just below her with ‘Ain’t No Other Man’. We’re still digging that last one; t’other two can naff off...»
John Maus - Songs
John Maus is part of Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti. He regularly plays alongside Animal Collective’s Panda Bear. Songs took five years to piece together, so as debuts go, this has a lot to live up to...»
Peter Bjorn and John - Young Folks
If you don’t hear this as pop at its most perfect, then frankly your idea of accessible music must equal Wolf Eyes using missile launchers as percussive instruments while Thurston Moore grinds terrifying white noise out of archaic guitar pedals and a washboard...»
Incubus on new album: "It kicks, it bites, it loves, it hurts"
Incubus have revealed details about their fifth studio album, Light Grenades...»
The Knack singer undergoes brain surgery
Doug Fieger, singer in The Knack, has undergone surgery on his brain to remove a pair of tumours...»
Set aside a date in your diary: Presets on tour. Plus WIN albums...
Australian pair The Presets are touring the UK next week, and by way of celebrating their arrival on our shores, DiS has five copies of their Modular-released album Beams to give away. TO YOU. Maybe...»
Death From Above 1979 split
Canadian dance-rock duo Death From Above 1979 have officially split, confirming months of rumour-spreading and gossip-mongering...»
CSS - Cansei de Ser Sexy
CSS’s fractured-English lyrics, childish in their delivery but smutty content-wise (“Suck suck suck my art-hole,” instructs lead singer Lovefoxxx – with such a name, should we be surprised at the risqué nature of some of these lines? – before later offering forth a song called ‘Music Is My Hot Hot Sex’), keep the listener alert should the band’s oft’ repetitive approach to compositional craft grow a little tiresome...»
Arthur Lee dies at 61
Arthur Lee, frontman of 1960s band Love, has died aged 61...»
WIN! Tickets for Dead Kids in London, TONIGHT
DiS has gotten itself all gooey over Dead Kids lately: if we're not giving their 'Dead Wife Pills' single a frankly ace-o-core nine outta ten here, then we're awarding a similar score to their live set, here. Chances are, as inquisitive sorts, you're probably wondering what the fuss is about... Well, now you can find out, by seeing the band in the flesh...»
See Archie Bronson in the flesh, kiss their 'Cherry Lips'
Domino-signed indie-blues-rockers Archie Bronson Outfit are touring next month in support of their new single, 'Cherry Lips', taken from the much-acclaimed Derdang Derdang album...»
Lambchop announce October dates
Nashville collective Lambchop have announced a series of British dates for October...»
Gnarls Barkley forced to put other projects on back-burner
Gnarls Barkley - vocalist Cee-Lo and production whizz Danger Mouse - have been forced to temporarily call time on their other projects due to the duo's success...»
William Elliott Whitmore at London Borderline, Wed 02 Aug
Until his deliberate self-destruction at the hands of the demon drink – “I had a drink problem, but now I can afford it,” he says – Whitmore is an engrossing performer for the right reasons. He sings with his heart in his throat, stamps his foot and hacks at his banjo as if cutting through the overgrown undergrowth of some alien forest, the foliage before him so thick it takes an hour’s effort to move six inches forward... »
ReDiScover: Isis
It wasn’t until early 2003 that these ears – previously unreceptive to anything heavier than At The Drive-In or, at a push, …Trail Of Dead’s explosive Madonna long-player – were opened, brutally, by the widescreen something-like-metal of Isis... »
Midlake announce winter tour
Seventies-sounding Texans Midlake have announced a November tour in support of their excellent album The Trials Of Van Occupanther...»
WIN! Tickets to Peter, Bjorn and John dates and a signed album
We like Peter, Bjorn and John at DiS. We told some people, once. Then those people said to us, "Hey, DiS, why don't you give your readers the chance to go see the Swedish trio when they tour the UK in August?" We said yes. Hence this competition...»
Reggie and Fearne get Radio 1 weekend show
Following the demise of Top Of The Pops, presenters of no little irritation Fearne Cotton and Reggie Yates have been handed the reins to Radio 1's weekend breakfast show...»
Mars Volta jettison drummer
The Mars Volta have parted company with their drummer, Jon Theodore, ahead of the release of their third album proper, Amputechre...»
Death, metal, death metal: Metalocalypse unveiled
Metal is good. Cartoons are good. Sometimes, on certain Saturdays, I can be found at my flat, watching Spongebob or Dexter’s on video and/or DVD, on mute, while supping a cup of tea to the sound of metal emitting from my stere-ere-o. C’est vrai, my friend, monsieur, oui oui. So when I got wind of the creation of a show - Metalocalypse - that combined both these brilliant inventions of humankind, I was quite literally excited; so much so, actually, that I may have made a small mess somewhere...»
Pharrell Williams - In My Mind
In My Mind is, perhaps, appropriately titled: lyrically, Williams plays out his wildest fantasies, allowing his ego to inflate to a previously unrealised proportions...»
Korn fan critical after mosh-pit-provoked attack
MTV.com has reported that a 30-year-old man has been left braindead in hospital following an attack at a Korn gig in Atlanta on Sunday night (July 30)...»
RHCPs lead the VMA way
Red Hot Chili Peppers' retarded funk-rock may have been forgotten by all but a few (million) idiots still wishing it was 1991 while watching Point Break on repeat, but their much-repeated formula has wowed those responsible for the MTV Video Music Awards nominations: the LA group are up for seven gongs...»