DiS Recommends: The best of February 2006
Remember February? There's plenty to look back on, for sure - not least the absolutely splendid selection of albums and singles we were presented with.»
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Jamie T - Betty and the Selfish Sons EP
The bedroom is said to be a metaphor for life. The messier it is, the more confused existence has become; I'm less inclined to tidy up than ever.»
Win! MTV2 Brand Spanking New Music Tickets
We've got five pairs of tickets to give away for MTV2's annual new music bash at Birmingham's Barfly venue»
Don't suck: read this about Truck
DiS says: "Truck is the highlight of the summer festival season, why not pop along?" You say: "OK, but how? and why?" DiS says: "Read on, fair turnip-muncher."»
Drowned in Sound Radio: No. 6
Come, gather round for another burst of new music and retrospective marvel. Gasp! at the wonderment of Low, tied in with this week's ReDiScover feature. Marvel! at the stupendous electronic talents of Napoleon IIIrd, Jimmy Edgar and MSTRKRFT!»
Bid for a piece of 65days history
65days are auctioning No.1 of the run of single, along with a test pressing and some badges for the Friends of the Earth charity, through eBay.»
65daysofstatic - Radio Protector
When a band like 65daysofstatic release singles, it must take an age to decide exactly what to use. The band produce albums that beg to be listened to as an album, the songs hold their context in an album's scope and to remove them from their surroundings can easily prove disastrous. Not so here.»
Martha Wainwright plays tiny London show
Richard Hawley has unfortunately cancelled his Barfly show this evening, but has been more than adequately replaced by Martha Wainwright!»
Luminaire is voted best London venue
Kilburn, North London. No, it's not one of the 'fashionable' parts of London and if you've ever lived on one of the council estates off the main road, you'll know it can often be mildly hostile. It does however contain a DiS-favourite venue that has now been proclaimed the Time Out Live Venue of the Year!»
aMUSEing rumours: new LP in May?
Details of new album and single-related movements at camp Muse emerge from the US»
Guns n' Roses headline Download festival
Axl Rose is bringing his on-off Guns n' Roses circus to the UK for one show this year..»
Drowned in Sound Radio No. 5
This week's extravaganza features the exclusive play of hotly-tipped Scottish team :(, as part of a Must Destroy label focus, as well as tracks from Tilly and the Wall, Regina Spektor, the ex-Unicorns project Islands, London buzz band Klaxons and a whole host of other exciting bits and pieces.»
NME Awards Tour at Portsmouth Guildhall, Wed 15 Feb
As the brand-endorsed indie circus rolls into another faceless UK city, stock is taken of what this year's offerings can provide. Frills? Pills? Or just a night of cheap thrills?»
White Heat at London Madame Jo Jo's, Tue 14 Feb
Valentine’s Day is spent, for a large portion of us, in the arms of lovers. Tonight however, in London’s ubiquitous White Heat club, I’m waiting to be welcomed into the bosom of a somewhat different beast. Maybe not so much the embrace, more the world of the Norwegian noise-dream that is Serena Maneesh.»
volcano! - Beautiful Seizure
The formula for this album is pretty simple, really. Take the sum of all of your favourite records since you started listening to music seriously, rip out the filler and make an LP containing only the heart-wrenching, ear-pounding, mind-bending and all-too-beautiful epochs, condense it to 55 minutes and unleash it on an unsuspecting journalist who, intrigued, plays the album once and listens to nothing else for months.»
:( & data Panik do the BiSness
Split 7" picture disc and tour dates mean that we Must Destroy... Scotland.»
Drowned in Sound Radio No. 4
Taking in everything from the dulcet electrotones of Casiotone for the Painfully Alone, through to the brutal sounds of Head Wound City and great new singles from Hot Chip and Blood Red Shoes. Presented by Colin Roberts and Michael Diver.»
DiS Radio Subscribers - new feed address
Those of you who subscribe to Drowned in Sound Radio need to update your feed address now, so you can download previous and future shows with maximum ease.»
Blood Red Shoes - Stitch Me Back/Meet Me At Eight
They'll never 'do' a White Stripes and hit the charts with dullardry and rehashed blues choruses; rather, the Shoes will be entertaining us all with a swell line in ballsy punk-tinged heavy pop songs for a good few years yet.»
Serena Maneesh = good, London shows = this week
Having produced one of 2005's most stunning debuts (scoring 9/10 on this very website here) and been tour support to the Dandy Warhols, Norweigan five-piece Serena Maneesh are in town combining their dreamy soundscapes with ear-battering noise and moments of unintelligible beauty.»
EXCLUSIVE: British Sea Power headline 5-room April festival
British Sea Power join Art Brut, Komakino, Battle and more at London's SEONE venue this April»
Jeremy Warmsley wets himself; announces tour
"I'm so excited about these tour dates, I've just wet myself."»
Fopp Award for New Music showcase: Tonight!
At the start of 2005, bands from Scotland and Northern Ireland were invited to send demos for consideration in the scheme and after much deliberation, four were chosen. The bands' award was a good few days in the studio, CD artwork and manufacture courtesy of Clear Sound & Vision, press by Press Counsel and being stocked in all of Fopp's UK stores. The scheme is overseen by the PRS Foundation, the charitable 'arm' of the Performing Rights Society, which is awfully nice of them.»
Drowned in Sound Radio No. 3
DiS Radio No. 3 brings a 65daysofstatic exclusive, news on DiS Recordings' latest signings, great new music from the States and Britain, as well as a couple of contemporary classics.»
Hard-Fi play five night Brixton Academy jaunt
Staines-based troop, Hard-Fi have become only the fifth act ever to play five consecutive nights at London's Brixton Academy venue.»
Get in The Maccabees' debut video!
One of Drowned in Sound's big tips for 2006, The Maccabees, invite you all to Brighton this Wednesday for a rootin'-videoshootin' time.»
DiS Recommends: The best of January 2006
January brought us whales, woe and a whole heap post-Christmas mind-bogglery. Here's the bits of the month that we don't want you to have missed out on.»
Ask DiS: The Friday inbox
It's Friday and the end of the working week appears to be rolling in, so whilst you all switch off Excel and turn to DiS to carry you through the last few hours before binge drinking and smoking crack for the weekend, we open our Inbox for a new weekly feature.»
Test Icicles: "F*ck the ULU"
When a show is advertised as ages 14+, you'd generally expect to get inside if you were 15, right? Not last night at London's University of London Union (ULU) show. The door staff were requesting photo ID from all and sundry that has provoked reponses from both headline band Test Icicles and tour support Help She Can't Swim.»
Monkeys vs. Touts: who will win?
Popular beat combo Arctic Monkeys have declared jihad on ticket touts by limiting supplies of tickets for their forthcoming tour.»