Broken Band of Horses
Seattle-based purveyors of lush indie Band of Horses have parted company with founding member Mat Brooke...»
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Envy - Insomniac Doze
Translated from the original Japanese, a line of Envy’s opening effort on Insomniac Doze, ‘Further Ahead Of Warp’, reads: “Wait for the quiet and peaceful tomorrow”. One can only assume that the tomorrow the quintet are waiting for is one within which their own band doesn’t exist, for ‘quiet’ is not an adjective to precede any one of these seven songs...»
Supersonic Festival at Birmingham Custard Factory, Sat 22 Jul
Now in its fourth year, Birmingham’s annual Supersonic Festival plays host to a slew of leftfield talents in 2006: from the transcendental bombast of Isis to the dance beats of Shy Child, via the skewed folk of Alexander Tucker and the ‘terrifying assaults’ of Haddonfield Illinois (so says the guide), there’s something for almost everyone, and some...»
A punk-rock winter-warmer: The Bronx tour
Los Angeles-based punks of no little energy The Bronx have announced a series of European shows for the early winter, in support of their forthcoming second album...»
Mastodon on new album: "It seems a lot crazier"
Atlanta-based metallers of exclusively mighty riffs Mastodon are to release their third album, Blood Mountain, through Warners on September 11. DiS expects it to rock our brains to a pulp. If it doesn't, we're asking for our money back. Not that we paid for the promo, but...»
Get Off The Internet! No, seriously: do so, and go to this...
See that STA all-dayer news, there? We thought that was about as ace as today was gonna get, awesome-festival-type-stuff wise. But no - then we saw this...»
STA all-dayer details announced: a flood of DiS's favourites in one place!
Smalltown America - the label that has brought you records by Jetplane Landing and Fickle Public - has agina pieced together a stellar bill for its annual all-dayer at London's 93 Feet East...»
Oasis timeless? Stop The Clocks comp suggests so...
Oasis are to release a greatest hits compilation on November 20, just in time for the pre-Christmas shopping crush. And my brothers' birthday, although if either received said record as a present, the provider would die...»
Lily's extra lolly: singer gets no-Mercury bonus
According to the tabloids - red top goss', we love it - Lily Allen is richer to the tune of £20,000 after label bosses felt a shred of sympathy for her Alright, Still long-player not making the Mercury Music Prize cut (clicky)...»
Keeping Madge's vadge clean... sorry, oh God sorry...
The Daily Mirror has reported that Madonna - about to play a few UK shows - demands a fresh toilet seat at every concert she plays. Hence that headline. For which we again apologise...»
OutKast's Idlewild: DiS sneaks a peek
Today, rather than ride the Tube to the mighty DiSopolis, we took a left turn here and a right turn there and wound up in Soho, sat in a cold, dark room with the new OutKast-starring movie Idlewild playing before us...»
Silver Rocket 6th birthday at London Buffalo Bar, Fri 21 Jul
DiS nods, harder and harder, hair sticking to eyelids and ears but any annoyance ignored in favour of concentrating on Collapse’s seconds-away-from-explosion riot-rock; each song is a Molotov with its fuel-soaked rag a little too short for comfort, each bead of sweat that falls from a protagonist’s brown burns the stage like an HR Giger alien’s acidic saliva...»
Sparklehorse announce large UK tour
Mark Linkous is to tour the UK in September and October in support of the release of Sparklehorse's first album for five years, Dreamt for Lightyears in the Belly of a Mountain, due on September 25...»
Camera Obscura: new single, August dates
Frankly wonderful Scottish outfit Camera Obscura are to release a new single, 'Let's Get Out Of This Country', on September 4; it's taken from the already-out album of the same name...»
Sir Bob bails in Italy after possible gig boycott
Sir Bob Geldof cancelled a concert in Milan after only 45 of a possible 12,000 tickets were sold...»
Skinner's Thriller whipper: The Streets man to make 20-minute vid for MTV's birthday
The Streets's Mike Skinner has made the longest music video ever for MTV's 25th birthday this year...»
Addicted to Jane? No need for you to buy this best-of, then...
Although they've only released three albums, it does feel that Jane's Addiction have been around forever. That being the case, we're not totally surprised that the funk-rockers have a best-of on the way...»
Snow Patrol - Chasing Cars
Not so much a song for polar bears, then, but a song for passionless bores...»
Oh Mercy, Mercy me: Planes Mistaken For Stars finish new album
Denver-based rockers of no little excellence Planes Mistaken For Stars - soon to be seen in this country of ours on something the kids are calling 'a tour' - have finished work on their third album proper...»
The Automatic 'trash' GMTV: "we've never been good in the mornings..."
Welsh teeny-rockers The Automatic performed live on ITV's GMTV this morning; when we say 'performed', we mean they kicked over some furniture and stood around in their pants...»
Kylie adds additional Showgirl dates after first four sell out
Kylie Minogue has added additional UK dates to her slew of London shows in January, after the first four nights sold out almost as soon as tickets went on sale...»
Let's Rock! Edinburgh bill announced
The first-ever Let's Rock! Edinburgh one-day gig is to be held this year, on September 30...»
Spiritualized's Pierce goes 'solo' for tour
Spiritualized lynchpin Jason Pierce is to tour the UK on his lonesome this October, previewing songs from the next Spiritualized album, due in 2007...»
Russian Futurists to play the UK in the not-too-distant... um... future
Matthew Hart is to bring his one-man The Russian Futurists project to the UK next month, leaving the confines of his Toronto home for a wee jaunt alongside equally ace Swedes Peter, Bjorn And John...»
Oberst unloads: Bright Eyes offcuts compilation due in October
Bright Eyes - Conor Oberst to his mum - is to release a compilation of hard-to-find and previously unreleased songs in October...»
Don't Look Back update: new shows, cancellations...
So ATP's Don't Look Back series - y'know, a one band plays one album kind of a deal - kicked off in London t'other night with Green On Red performing Gas Food Lodging at London's Koko venue. Granted, there's been a hitch already - Ennio Morricone has been forced to postpone his two nights - but read on, do...»
Win! Tickets for Isis' Oceanic London show, plus albums...
Californian metal-cum-post-rockers Isis are in the UK right now. If you've half a brain - half a brain that likes being battered silly by skyscraper-sized riffs and the kind of growls that only the Devil himself should be able to muster - then this is old news. This, though, is GOOD news: we've only gone and acquired ourselves a pair of tickets for the quintet's special Koko show, taking place this Sunday. »
Moshi Moshi starts singles club
London-based indie label Moshi Moshi is to start its own singles club, a la Sub Pop, Gringo and, um, DiS actually...»
Steve Turner: not fond of new-wave punks, presumably
Mudhoney guitarist Steve Turner is to release his new 'solo' album on August 28 through Funhouse Recordings...»
The Fall Out Boys are back in... the studio, actually.
Fall Out Boy - perhaps you've seen their faces staring at you from the covers of such magazines as NME and Rock Sound - are to return to the studio this month to begin work on the follow-up to their successful Under The Cork Tree long-player...»