WIN! Tickets to Roots Manuva and Jamie Lidell in London
DiS has tickets for a pair of shows in London happening in the coming days, both forming part of the iTunes Live Festival»
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My Brightest Diamond - A Thousand Shark's Teeth
Shara Worden isn’t the easiest female singer-songwriter to enjoy, but persistence produces rewards on her second studio LP»
The Ting Tings do the tour ting
Love 'em or hate 'em, The Ting Tings are touring in the autumn and there's nowt you can do. Well, if you do love them, you could always buy a ticket»
The Cool Kids play free London show tonight
Between riding BMX and having a fish-fry, hip-hop duo of substantial buzz The Cool Kids sometimes manage to record music and perform live. Tonight: the latter»
Update! Battles and Soulwax WILL play Wild in the Country
Following yesterday's news that Björk has pulled out of the day-long event, held on July 5 at Knebworth Park, word reached us that two more bands would pull»
Acclaimed Danes do look back: Efterklang to do Parades in full
Delicious Danes Efterklang are to 'do an Ash' in September, performing their much-acclaimed Parades album of 2007 in full, from start to finish»
Chart round-up: Elephants, Foxes, Ne-Yo
This week’s chart round-up arrives a little later than usual in the day as DiS has been busily Spring cleaning… again, we’re doing that a little later than we perhaps should’ve. Anyway»
Radiohaters: band still grumbling about EMI best-of
While it's well established that Radiohead aren't exactly over the moon with EMI's recently released best-of package, collecting their 'greatest hits' for the label, still they're chattering about the album»
Getting punched by Winehouse "part of the Glastonbury experience"
The Glastonbury-goer whacked by Amy Winehouse during the singer's Pyramid Stage set at the weekend has spoken to the BBC about his brush... battering... with fame»
Is there a festival Lightspeed Champion isn't playing? Him and more for Surfstock
Lightspeed Champion, The Gossip, Alphabeat, Black Lips and The Go! Team are among the acts performing at this year's Surfstock festival at St Agnes, Cornwall»
The Verve's 'Mover' available as free download
Glastonbury headliners The Verve - watch their set here - have made a new track available as a free download»
Lily Allen completes second album
Pop gobshite Lily Allen - pictured not talking - has finished her second album, the follow-up to the mega-successful Alright, Still of 2006»
Björk blows off Wild In The Country
Björk has pulled out of this summer's Wild In The Country festival, which was set to be her only festival appearance in the UK this year»
Grace Jones signs to Wall of Sound for Hurricane's release
Grace Jones - pop icon of the '70s and '80s - has signed with Wall of Sound to release Hurricane, her first album since 1989's Bulletproof Heart»
Jaguar Love: DiS-supported tour kicks off this week
Jaguar Love - the Seattle trio spawned from the detritus of the shattered forms of The Blood Brothers and Pretty Girls Make Graves - arrive inthe UK this week for their first shows here»
The Last Shadow Puppets: first live shows
The Last Shadow Puppets are to perform properly live for the first time in August, with more dates confirmed for the autumn»
Singles Round-up (30/06/08)
Our greatest rapper returns with a song about attracting girls with ice cream and silly wigs... Roots Manuva's 'Buff Nuff' is our Single of the Week»
Hear the new Alkaline Trio LP on MySpace
Chicago goth-punks Alkaline Trio have made their new album available to stream on MySpace»
2008 to date: DiS's tracks of the year so far
Three of DiS’s core operators list ten of their tracks of the year so far - a simple premise, and a simple article for you to have fun listening along to»
Tom Waits given a key to El Paso
Tom Waits - currently on tour under the banner 'Glitter and Doom', playing venues stateside before coming to Europe - has been presented with a key to the city of El Paso, Texas»
Franz Ferdinand to make surprise Glastonbury appearance
Franz Ferdinand are to play Glastonbury this weekend (the three-day festival started properly today)»
Two weeks 'til Supersonic: have you got your ticket to the Festival of the Year?
This year's Supersonic Festival - named Festival of the Year by our friends at Plan B - is only two weeks away»
Independents Day: online eBay auction live now
As Independents Day looms - July 4, mark your calendar - events bubble surfacewards, and eBay is currently hosting a topical auction»
Dirty Pretty Things - Romance At Short Notice
Dirty Pretty Things frontman Carl Barât has a brilliant album in him, but this isn't it. The band's developed, that's evident, but they're not peaking just yet»
Lite - Phantasia
Easy to admire but tough to love, Japanese quartet Lite deliver the sort of balance-troubling post-rock with math overtones that gets tech-heads in a giddy spin of pleasure»
Daedelus - Love To Make Music To
Daedelus' latest is a summery, instant-fix assortment of genre-muddling fun. Don’t take it particularly seriously and you and it shall have a ball»
More Radiohead news: band's live album available on iTunes
Radiohead - presently on tour in the UK - have made a special live album available via iTunes»
Oasis on new LP: "more hypnotic, more driving"
Oasis' seventh album proper, Dig Out Your Soul, will be released on October 8 via Big Brother»
Kanye rants: rapper angry at criticism of Bonnaroo set
Kanye West hasn't taken kindly to online criticism of his set at the recent Bonnaroo Festival»
A novel exclusive: read an extract from Adam Gnade's new book
DiS presents an exclusive excerpt from the debut novel of one of our favourite songwriters, Adam Gnade. Get a taste of Hymn California here»