DiScover: Let's Wrestle
Who wouldn’t warm to London trio Let’s Wrestle, with their tone-deaf Pavement impersonations and heart-warming tales of quasar, genocide and having massive cocks...»
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iLiKETRAiNS - The Deception
It might not be iLiKETRAiNS' finest four minutes to date, but 'The Deception' unfolds assuredly with an air of unhurried drama...»
The Weekly DiScussion: what are the essential musical page-turners?
As much as writing about music might be like dancing about architecture, there are few feelings in this life greater than unearthing a truly essential book about music from all the myriad dross publishers have seen fit to inflict on the public, from the cash-in bios detailing Doherty’s latest philanderings to the endless coffee-table prattle of best-ofs, worst-ofs and must-haves. DiS's Alex Denney dusts off his library card...»
The Blow: gusting into a venue near you
Arty electro duo The Blow have announced a brief tour of the UK in October.»
Eugene McGuinness announces dates aplenty
Fresh from support slots with the likes of The Shins, Regina Spektor and Rilo Kiley, our favourite new singer/songwriter Eugene McGuinness has announced a sod-load of new dates in some very fine company.»
Evan Dando, Jesus and Mary Chain, The Horrors at Brixton Academy, Lambeth, Fri 07 Sep
Jim Reid is whipping Brixton Academy up into a frenzy, despite wearing the look of a man supremely not arsed by any of the adulation being hurled his way. "You’re a miserable bunch of bastards, aren’t ye?"»
The incredible grime animal: Dizzee does dates
Dizzee Rascal has announced details of a five-date UK tour in November.»
Chart round-up: nation forgets to buy chocolate
Hello! Here’s some news about the latest chart-botherers for you, the chart-bothered.»
Win tickets for Oxjam launch
Stars including Hot Chip, Jarvis Cocker, The Kooks and Fatboy Slim will will kick off the festivities for the month-long Oxjam music festival on 1st October with a series of exclusive performances in a specially-converted Oxfam shop.»
Cease To Resist: Eamon Hamilton on why Brakes are the main event
"You think about the title of 'Comma Comma Comma Full Stop' and it's almost like a life… different periods broken into punctuation, and then you die." Brakes' Eamon Hamilton gets serious about not being taken seriously with DiS's Alex Denney...»
Ayers rocks: prog legend in Rough Trade record signing
British psychedelic pioneer Kevin Ayers will be signing copies of his new album at Rough Trade in London this Tuesday (September 11).»
Babyshambles - Delivery
'Delivery', the first shot to issue forth from Babyshambles' Stephen Street-produced second album Shotter's Nation, is a game of two halves...»
Interpol - Mammoth
If the wisdom behind its extended, one-chord verses is to convey the tension depicted in the lyrics, it works, but then again, not a right lot happens.»
Klaxons scoop 2007 Mercury Prize
Klaxons have scooped this year’s Nationwide Mercury Music Prize...»
Doing It Right, Again: The Go! Team's Ian Parton on why more of the same ain't no bad thing
Since bursting onto the UK popscene in 2004 with the sample-icious Thunder, Lightning, Strike, The Go! Team’s inspired mix of party rap ‘n’ soul and Sonic Youth-influenced white noise has put them among the frontrunners of the select group of British indie acts that can lay genuine claim to being innovators. Alex Denney chews the fat with key member Ian Parton...»
¡Forward, Russia! new album details
Frantic post-punk quartet ¡Forward, Russia! have announced details of their second album, Life Processes, which will be preceded by a small-ish UK tour this autumn.»
Nathan Fake - You Are Here
Its soporific textures are appealing enough, but really, to lavish too much praise on this kind of thing is to affirm nothing.»
Wee Sex: Bolan popped cherry at nine
Somewhere from the depths of his UK prison cell, Gary Glitter is weeping. But why? Because Marc Bolan was sexually active from the age of nine, that’s why.
Or at least such are the claims made in a new ITV documentary, Marc Bolan: 20th Century Boy, due to air next Saturday (September 8).»
Modest Mouse announce two new dates
US indie heroes Modest Mouse have announced two UK dates following on from their appearance at the Connect Festival in September. »
My Brightest Diamond - Bring Me The Workhorse
If the songwriting isn’t quite capable of matching the exquisite textures My Brightest Diamond deploy over the course of the record, then it’s a forgivable flaw; Bring Me The Workhorse is as delicate an intermingling of the 'beautiful and terrible' aspects of life as you can expect to hear all year.»
The Weekly DiScussion: What's pop got to do with it?
A celebration of pop in all its vague and polymorphous glory.»
Hard-Fi - Suburban Knights
Fighting shy even of The Enemy's hackneyed portrayals of working class desperation, the Staines massive offer listless portrayals of lower-middle class life in sh*t satellite towns, a bit like The Office without the laughs.»
Rollins set for spoken word tour
Henry Rollins is to embark on a spoken word tour of the UK and Ireland early next year.»
Beautiful estranger: Madge sells record label
Madonna has sold her Maverick Records label, which has been home to acts such as The Prodigy, Deftones and Alanis Morissette.
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Floods put dampeners on Reading
Good news for people who like floods – organisers at the Carling Weekend Reading Festival have been forced to close off car parks and camping areas due to yet more of the interfering wet stuff cacking things up for everyone again.»
Bail punk: Doherty escapes new charges
Rock enigma and poet in his own mind Pete Doherty pranced away from court scot-free today after charges of breaching his bail were dropped on a technicality.»
Menomena - Friend And Foe
If there’s a snag to be found in Portland trio Menomena’s manifestly charming sophomore release, Friend Or Foe, it’s that its virtues leap out at you a little too quickly...»
Øya Festival, Oslo: the DiS preview
Deep into the bloated innards of the festival season and DiS is headed in a north easterly direction to Norway – again - this time for the arrestingly-titled Øya Festival in Oslo...»
The Hives: ninety six per cent perfect
Six years on since Alan McGee saw fit to unleash The Hives on an unsuspecting UK public with the gold-selling compilation Your New Favourite Band on his now-defunct Poptones label, the Swedish garage-punks have released a strong third album proper, Tyrannasaurus Hives, in 2004, and are back after a three-year hiatus with a new album, allegedly due in September. DiS speaks to guitarist Nicholaus Arson and Vigilante Carlstroem about perfect records and Maroon 5.»
Charlotte Gainsbourg - 5:55
A highlight from her recent album of the same name, '5:55' features a niftily understated lyric from Jarvis Cocker and music by French duo Air, and sees Charl slipping in and out of impeccably-accented French and English with her usual disarming ease...»