Tin Pan Alley Festival: line-up announced
The third Tin Pan Alley Festival - held in London's Denmark Street and absolutely free to attend - takes place next Sunday, July 16...»
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The groom plucks a key from The Rapture tree... uses it to unlock tour news?
New York's danciest-punkers will tour these isles o' ours come October in support of their second album. All those that call it a 'sophomore effort' in the British press shall be flogged...»
No Kinney? Watch Quasi: rockin' duo on tour
Quasi - Sam Coombes and Sleater-Kinney stickslady Janet Weiss - have announced a UK tour for August...»
Cortney Tidwell: win tickets for one-off London show
Now, while we appreciate that our excitement is often reciprocated by you, our readers regular and otherwise, we don't expect you to always take our words alone for it. So, we've a pair of tickets to give away for Cortney Tidwell's one-off London show next week - Tuesday July 11 at Bush Hall ...»
The Roots bring their Game Theories to Britain: tour news
Philadelphia-based hip-hop collective The Roots are to tour this nation of ours in its almost-certainly-bleak midwinter...»
These Arms Are Snakes ready second album, announce London show
Seattle-based rockers of no little invention These Arms Are Snakes are to release their second album, Easter, in October...»
Fierce Panda calls time on singles
Idlewild, Placebo, Embrace, Hundred Reasons, Coldplay... all have benefitted from Fierce Panda's series of (often) one-off singles. Sadly for seven-inch collectors, though, the label is to cease said operation...»
Lamacq's lowdown on Radio 1 shake-up
As has already been widely reported, the BBC has recently announded plans to shake-up its Radio 1 programme schedule: Colin Murray will fly solo on an evening slot, while a selection of specialist DJs will be brought in for equally specialist shows. On the downside, all clues point to the end of Steve Lamacq's Lamacq Live show, itself but a shell of what The Evening Session once was...»
A shoe? Who throws a shoe?
Never-at-it-to-be-past-it pop-rockers Texas halted their Hyde Park Calling set on Saturday evening after their singer was struck by a spectator's shoe...»
BSP, beside the sea: Brighton's finest headline oddly appealing event
British Sea Power are to headline the Fort Rox event, held in East Sussex this August...»
V Festival goes international
The UK's twin-site V Festival is to go international, with a two-day event already confirmed to take place in Toronto...»
Taking Back Sunday to headline Taste of Chaos tour
New York-based post-hardcore outfit Taking Back Sunday are to headline this year's Taste Of Chaos tour, taking place in November...»
Tom's not so Petty
American singer-songwriter Tom Petty will not take legal action over the alleged plagiarism on behalf of Red Hot Chili Peppers, as previously reported here...»
Muse - Black Holes And Revelations
Should they never make another album, Muse can retire safe in the knowledge that pretentious rulebook re-writing and perfunctory by-numbers rocking have never mixed so alluringly...»
Nickelboozed: rock singer arrested for driving drunk
Chad Kroeger - stupid-haired frontman in the world's worst power-ballad rockers Nickelback - was arrested last week for being drunk behind the wheel...»
Timberlake to play one-off London show
Justin Timberlake is to make his debut live UK appearance on July 13, ahead of the release of his second album FutureSex/LoveSounds, due on September 11...»
Strokes play Street Gig indoors... okaaaay...
Perhaps you've seen the adverts for T-Mobile's series of Street Gigs - the telephone people laid on a few last year, with some degree of success. This year sees them offering customers the chance to see The Strokes, only there's nothing particularly street about the selected venue...»
Lil' Kim granted early release
Pocket-sized rapper Lil' Kim is to be released from prison early for good behaviour...»
Police appeal for witnesses to Billy Les Inc assault
Regular DiS readers will by now be well aware that one of our own, Billy Bell of London's Les Incompetents, was quite brutally assaulted while making his way home from the Barfly, Camden, on Thursday night (June 22). Police are now appealing for witnesses, so please take a moment to read this and ask your friends/family, if they might have been in the area...»
The Outsider revealed: track listing and collaborators on DJ Shadow's new long-player
Josh Davies, aka DJ Shadow, has let loose the track listing for his forthcoming album, The Outsider...»
Wayne versus Richard: why can't we all just get along?
"A worthless twat."
The words of The Flaming Lips' Wayne Coyne, there, talking about Richard Ashcroft...»
Buckley bio-pic planned
No, not about Keith Buckley, tattooed singer of popular post-hardcore types Every Time I Die, but some dead dude that only recorded a single album. Like, whatever...»
Warrant out for DMX
American rapper DMX has been issued with an arrest warrant, after he failed to show up at an already re-scheduled court date...»
Patriotic Americans Alter Bridge beat up their support act
Alter Bridge, the Christian rock outfit counting three former Creed members amongst its line-up, attacked their support act during a show in Zurich on June 14....»
Planes Mistaken For Secondsmile...? Unlikely, but tour action nonetheless
Really quite excellent West Country rockers Secondsmile are to support the equally brilliant Planes Mistaken For Stars on the Americans' upcoming UK tour...»
Football Crazy? Gnarls change gig date to avoid semi-final clash
Potty-mouthed pop-rap outfit Gnarls Barkley (really, there were children crying at Cee-Lo's language during Friday's Wireless performance) have changed the date of their upcoming London gig by a day. The why: to avoid a potential clash with an England game...»
Goldfrapp favourites for new Bond theme
Garbage, Sheryl Crow, Duran Duran, Madonna, Paul McCartney, Tina Turner... a variety of the great and the not-so-great have dabbled with Bond themes in the past, and now it seems that Goldfrapp are to join the list of those singing along to silhouettes of nubile ladies dancing slooooooowly...»
Arcade Fire on their new album
Arcade Fire frontman Win Butler has released a few details about the band's upcoming follow-up to 2004's Funeral through their website...»
Coming Home? Hardly - NFG are coming here...
Super-successful pop-punkers New Found Glory have announced a UK tour for later this year...»
Grandaddy, from beyond the grave: Jason Lytle talks to DiS
“It’s much more natural to imagine a band rocking out together than it is to imagine one frustrated guy at 4:30am in his boxer shorts and messed up hair, slaving over the same keyboard part for four-and-a-half hours...”»