Mike_Diver has written the following articles:
My Chemical Romance are at work on their third long-player, the follow-up to their really-rather-successful Three Cheers For Sweet Revenge album of 2004. Is this the right place to say that I gave my copy away...?»
Having already announced a hometown show at Brighton's Dome on October 28, The Go! Team have now added a handful of Irish dates alongside their appearance at the Airwaves Festival, Iceland...»
Actress-cum-sometime-singer (although not here, hence this) Lindsay Lohan has been shown the door by her label, Island, following her complete refusal to promote her music in the UK...»
Like the headline so succintly says, Oasis - or their 'people' - have revealed the tracklisting for their forthcoming best-of compilation, Stop The Clocks...»
No-longer-'P' Diddy has, in true pop-rap styleee, lined up a slew of guests for his new album, Press Play...»
“Downloads will be king within the next couple of years,” says Alan McGee, seemingly prophesying the end for physical singles formats. Yet sales of vinyl seem to be on the up, with more and more labels turning their attentions, so what the hell is going on? Who can we believe? Does anyone care if compact discs die a death at the hands of digital downloads? DiScuss...»
Top Of The Pops' last-ever show attracted just 3.9 million viewers on Sunday night, despite the widespread media coverage preceding its airing...»
You know how things like this start: some loopy ol' fella that hasn't been a part of your band for thirty-odd years goes and dies, and a dustcloud of rumours gets kicked up, causing everyone around to start coughing "reunion" into their money-grabbing hands...»
Former Catatonia singer and professional indie-rock drunkard Cerys Matthews - soon to release her second solo album - has told someone, somewhere, that Bob Dylan and the artist formerly known as Cat Stevens helped her kick her drug habit...»
Already a full-time member of both Blur and Gorillaz, Britpop-singer-turned-hip-rocker Damon Albarn has pieced together another new band, The Good The Bad And Queen...»
So Top Of The Pops is dead. Anyone watch the last one? I didn’t. Had better things to do. Like eat pasta and catch a train. I thought about recording it, specifically to find out what was atop the pile o’ short-play records we in the business call the ‘singles chart’, but then I remembered: the DiS round-up, this round-up, will set me straight! Not least of all ‘cause I’m the foo’ writing it...»
As July slides away into memory’s mists, one can’t help but feel that summer – so swiftly and brutally upon us though it was – is slipping through our fingers with all the fluidity of the Coke Zero that DiS has taken to consuming by the tanker-load. Really, why is it that Diet Coke by another name is so appealing? Is it because a guy advertises the stuff on the telly, or are black cans simply that cool? Answers on a postcard to some other address than ours – we really don’t have the time to read your nonsensical musings on the matter.»
Masters of the slowly-churning riff, Tool, have announced a handful of UK dates for later this year...»
What? They've not broken up yet? rappers Goldie Lookin Chain are set to headline a free event in Newport (Wales, as opposed to the Isle Of Wight, geography fans) this September...»
Pitchfork has reported that NYC party-rockers Les Savy Fav are beavering away at a new album, the eventual follow-up to their Go Forth long-player of, like, YEARS AGO. I'm not counting Inches as a proper album, yo...»
Sometimes the machine deals you a bad hand – for every White Stripes success story, there’s a backlash that builds to towering proportions even before the release of the affected act’s initial offering. This has at least partially been the case for Wisconsin’s Tapes’n Tapes, whose self-released album’s late official arrival on these shores has been preceded by a chorus of critical disappointment...»
Stars' last long-player, the sublime Set Yourself On Fire, is to receive the remix treatment a la the likes of Bloc Party's Silent Alarm and Her Space Holiday's The Young Machines. And, like, A MILLION others...»
Mercury-nominated indie-dance types Hot Chip are to be joined by new Domino signings Junior Boys on their October tour...»
Canadian website Jam! (link) has confirmed that The Beastie Boys are in the studio as of now, working on the follow-up to 2004's To The 5 Boroughs LP...»
Sub Pop's Brazillian dance-rockers CSS - aka Cansei der Ser Sexy - have announced a series of UK shows, their first-ever performances over here...»
Bruce 'The Boss' Springsteen is to return to the UK following tour of relatively small venues earlier this year...»
Natasha Khan - for it is she that hides behind the Bat For Lashes nom de plume - projects a persona of absolute kookiness: the glittering facial adornments, the awkward body shape as she floats from position to position on Koko's sizeable stage, the way she mumbles commands between songs, most of which fall upon deaf ears. Yet her music is anything but trivial or incongruous...»
Sub Pop-signed manglers of many a fret Comets On Fire have confirmed a series of UK shows for October...»
By way of celebrating our new /Festivals mini-site, DiS has procured two VIP passes to the upcoming Electric Gardens festival to give away...»
We're not usually ones to get excited about a single release - we've usually more fanciful fish to focus our attentions on - but Peter, Bjorn and John's 'Young Folks' might just be the most brilliant, immediately classic seven-inch (and CD!) released this summer...»
Brandon Flowers, singer and sporter of nice 'tache in The Killers, has retracted his less-than-favourable comments about Panic! At The Disco after admitting he's never actually heard them... »
Canadian post-hardcore outfit Alexisonfire are to release their third album, Crisis, in the UK on August 21. A download-only single, 'This Could Be Anywhere In The World', will be available from September 4...»
Arizona-based emo-rockers Jimmy Eat World are to enter the studio reeeeeally soon to record the follow-up to 2004's Futures long-player...»
A Yahoo! Music poll has shown that Top Of The Pops - due to bow out this Sunday with a special final show co-presented by Jimmy Saville (pictured!) - isn't the nation's favourite music show...»
Smile sweetly at the mythical musical hydra that is Secondsmile, please; should you not, one of its twin heads will almost certainly consume your grey matter entirely...»
