The Research working on album number two
Wakefield pop trio The Research are already at work on the follow-up to their debut from earlier this year, Breaking Up...»
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Twin Zero, Yndi Halda, Textures at London Monto Water Rats, Wed 19 Jul
It’s the hottest day of the year both outside and in this sweltering room, but my arms are alive with gooseflesh...»
Robots to Get RID of their Disguises? Album news...
Electro-lovin' girl duo Robots In Disguise, aka Sue Denim and Dee Plume, are to officially release their third album on July 31...»
McFly's tackle to take 'em to number one?
Lily, daughter of Keith, Allen is unlikely to be 'Smile'-ing come Sunday evening, as McFly are set to steal her top-slot spot on the UK singles chart with their charity double-a-side...»
Mi and L'au embark on lengthy UK tour
Finnish-French folksters Mi And L'au are to showcase their self-titled debut album of last year with a series of UK shows, running from late August into September...»
Sufjan Stevens - The Avalanche
Not to be misinterpreted as an album ‘proper’ – at 21 tracks and 76 minutes, The Avalanche looks as much like a compilation affair on paper as it sounds through speakers – Sufjan Stevens’ follow-up to the all-conquering Illinois long-player is nevertheless a welcome and recommended stop-gap release... »
The Russian Futurists - Paul Simon
Summary? A summery YEAH! that’s as dour as a picnic with the Lucky Charms leprechaun...»
Ryan Adams announces UK dates
Ryan Adams is to travel to Europe in September for a series of live shows, including several - well, seven exactly, actually - dates in the UK...»
Say hello to my tunestick: The Evil Dead gets musical makeover
Like Ash hasn't had it hard enough already, now he's got to belt out a selection of macabre songs from a New York stage...»
Mogwai's soundtrack for Mr Beast-ly Zidane to get a release
Mogwai are to release a 10" of music taken from the movie Zidane: A 21st Century Portrait ahead of that of the full soundtrack...»
Ben Kweller on Ben Kweller: self-titled effort due September
Ben Kweller has been talking to Billboard about his upcoming self-titled album, his fourth solo effort all told...»
Jay-Z working with Timbaland on "needed" new album
Jay-Z is working with Timbaland on his forthcoming album, one thought unlikely to appear since the rapper 'retired' already...»
Kasabian member Cutt Off: quartet reduced to three...
We're-better-than-you sorts Kasabian have shed a member, citing "creative differences"...»
Final TOTP hosts confirmed
The final episode of the BBC's flagship music programme, Top Of The Pops, will be co-hosted by four previous presenters...»
Ash confirm new song titles; hint they've been looking at internet porn...
Ash have revealed a few details about their upcoming record, the as-yet-untitled follow-up to their Meltdown long-player of 2004...»
The Tuesday DiScussion: The Mercury Music Prize shortlist
Cheer up, Thom! Your only-just-released debut solo album, The Eraser, is among the twelve long-players shortlisted for the 2006 Mercury Music Prize, sponsored by Nationwide...»
The Flaming Lips - The W.A.N.D.
“We’re the enforcers, the sorcerer’s orphans,” lead Lip Coyne claims of his clan, and who are we to dispute him when the music his fellow magicians conjure is so dazzling, so very obviously the work of righteous warlocks...»
G8 countries to crack down on counterfeiting
World leaders at this year's G8 summit in St Petersburg - not to be confused with the G4 fan club meeting at Katie Barnsworth's house, Saint's Hill, Tonbridge, tomorrow night at seven - have announced plans to crack down on counterfeiting within the music industry...»
A Giga Dance at the Idioteque? Deerhoof to support Radiohead
The world's - well, DiS's - favourite San Fran-based pop oddballs Deerhoof are to crash their psychedelic spaceship into Europe this summer, for three dates with Radiohead...»
Manson's no star, now, in his own show
Painter-cum-musician Marilyn Manson has apparently turned down the opportunity to star in his own reality TV show, a la Ozzy et al...»
DiS play pop: chart attack, new releases...
DiS does like to play pop, from time to time, but for every ‘Back In Black’ there’s a ‘SexyBack’ just around the bend to trip you over with its initially impressive skitter and slide. To ensure you don’t suffer likewise, we’ll do our very utmost to provide you with a weekly guide to what’s what, chart-wise. So, here’s the runners and riders – and fallers and non-starters – for the week beginning July 17. THAT’S TODAY. Wow, the Romans were great…»
Fancy a visit to the clinic? Perhaps a Visitation from Clinic, instead...
Clinic will return to album-releasing ways with their latest long-player, Visitations due out on October 9th...»
Johnny Cash - American V: A Hundred Highways
As much of a cliché as it is, it must nevertheless be stressed: there is real, tangible tragedy in Johnny Cash’s voice throughout American V; his cracked tones allow little light to shine through, but for all the feeling of his imminent departure from this plane – the knowledge that he is not to be much longer of this earth, that resonates from syllable to syllable...»
DiS meets Ben Chasny: "Basically I’m lazy, but that’s how I work..."
Ben Chasny might be the busiest man in indie-poppin’ly interstellar super-buzzing folk-tinged acid-fried rock and roll right now. That, or he’s just your everyday musician with a lot on each of his many plates...»
Up C Down C Left C TOUR! Post-rockers hit the road...
Awww, bless. Sometimes you don't hear from people for, like, ages, and then you do, but they've kind of forgotten you...»
Cortney Tidwell at London Bush Hall, Tue 11 Jul
As DiS skips into the night, we’re certain it’s only a matter of when rather that if for Tidwell, although a little restraint will go a long way to ensuring the success her wonderful songs – always balanced between delicateness and fury – deserve...»
DiS meets Pretty Girls Make Graves
It’s always been hot and cold from album one. People that loved album one didn’t necessarily like the next. I think we’ve always been that way...»
Second split of the day: Out Hud
Following today's earlier news that Bullet Union have called time on their band operations comes word from across the Pond that Out Hud, funky-ass punks if we ever heard 'em, have done likewise...»
Razorlight - In The Morning
With a little modesty, Razorlight could have reinvented themselves here as charming chancers, a group of lads that got lucky playing mediocre pop-rock to an audience desperate for any act with the loosest of Libertines connections. If only, if only, Borrell and company had chosen the self-congratulatory words that pepper their past with a little more wisdom, with a sliver of foresight...»
Bullets not-so united: London punks split
Bullet Union - London-based punks much loved by many a DiS writer, this one not excepted - have called it quits after four years as a band...»