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Experimental jazzpunkwhatever bandits The Mars Volta have added more dates to their live shows this spring. The band, whose members include former At The Drive-In singer Cedric Bixler and guitarist Omar Rodriguez, are already scheduled to play a short string of dates with the R»
Dance/punk maestros Radio 4 will play a UK tour in April. Not content with selling out the Scala for their show on the 25th of this month (which will see a guest DJ appearance from The Pop Group's Mark Stewart, who has also remixed and added his vocals to a b-side, "Struggle", for »
Perhaps it wasn't such a good idea to do that car ad. Seeing as how it's all anyone associates him with - a Lexus and a cute "nu-classical" ditty. If you've heard the album, you may know that yeah, he's not the prodigy he's been made out to be - but neither is he the sellout kid who gave it all away before»
This is what your dad's talking about when he grabs your arm and gibbers about "the good old days". This is how your folks remember it. What you hear on Capital Gold, and even in some of the most glittering corners of their record collections, sound tinny, jangly - undeniably the foundations of your own record c»
It was in our top 20 albums list for 2002. But due to an undefined cock-up, this didn't get reviewed on DiS when it came out. This was foolish because this was one of the best records released last year. Forget top 20; I put it as my #1. It's l»
Even the people who knew it wasn't going to work wanted it to be so much more. A thousand or more people have paid over the odds, £20 a ticket, give or take, to see Chris Cornell front Rage Against The Machine. That's what it comes down to. The hopes of the crowd here are split two ways - the ones wh»
I got a phenomenal amount of ridicule for turning up to this gig tonight. My friends were only too quick to point out that The Music are shit and that I was an idiot for going to see them. Fuck that. Five minutes into the band's set and there's nowhere I'd rather be. This isn't the kind of gig where you turn up »
Redjetson have started to turn heads in recent months; rarely have several young men of such a quiet demeanor made such disquieting sounds. Schooled in the Six By Seven academy of thought, their speciality is in compelling, icy, pitiless, and frankly bloody miserable songs that begin as an unsettling w»
Tonight's gig is a bit of a weird one. People are queuing from about 7 onwards, and the stage is empty until 9pm. Everyone's here to see Mew, Scandinavian songbirds who've been making waves across several countries lately. However things get interesting long before they step onstage. Nashville's Venus Hum, th»
Cinematic art-crooners Goldfrapp will play a one-off show at ULU on March 6th 2003. Following the success of the Mercury Music Prize nominated debut album, 'Felt Mountain', the gig will see Alison Goldfrapp and her partner in crime Will Gregory previewing new material expected t»
"There's an acoustic cafe up the road from here where I used to pay to perform three songs. In two years I've come... eight yards" chuckles the none-more-affable singer-songwriter Tom McRae. He forgot to say "via Shepherds Bush Empire clutching an acclaimed debut album". Whoops. Oh well. Bani»
Often imitated, never bettered, the Cocteau Twins' influence on the indie music scene over the past two decades is considerable, and Blue Bell Knoll is a faultless example of why so many artists, from Sigur Ros and My Bloody Valentine to Stina Nordenstam and Tori Amos have d»
Once again all is not well in Six By Seven land. Just over two months after the band were dropped by their label, an official source has confirmed that bassist Paul Douglas left the band at the weekend - as yet, no reason for this has been revealed. As a result, the band's forthcoming London show »
You can smell it. The sticky, faintly doughy smell of mediocrity. On record Doves have an odd, finely-balanced grace – clumsily elegant, the thumping rhythm sections provide an emotionally effective contrast to the delicate melodies. All this and more is completely discarded when Doves take to the stage at Br»
"If you want a cup of tea, have a cup of tea! Don’t make it look like something it isn’t! When you read about Black Rebel Motorcycle Club having bourbon bottles onstage, and there’s tea in the bourbon bottles, that’s fucking bullshit! They should have a kettle onstage then! They shouldn’t be afraid of who »
OK, everyone knows Feeder's story for the past year. It doesn't need to be rehashed. That said, it'd be all too easy to give them the sympathy card and talk about how well they're coping with the death of their drummer Jon Lee, and how the music reflects that. Etc. It'd be easier still to d»
At first glance, Project Abner stick out like a sore thumb on this bill. Playing alongside shoegazing art thunderers Redjetson and the self-consuming instrumental noooiiiise of Mountain Men Anonymous, their clownish demeanor seems distinctly cartoonish. This isn't dumb-by-numbers ska-punk howeve»
Eerie art-rockers Queen Adreena will tour the UK in November with (X) Is Greater Than (Y) in tow as support. It's the band's largest tour to date and is accompanied by a new single 'FM Doll' a new track which doesn't appear on their current album »
Y'know those gigs that start off absolutely rammed, and see the audience gradually fizzle out throughout the evening, completely the wrong way round?? This is one of those gigs. The not-so-beautiful people are out in force tonight for a gig that features 3 of Europe's best bands strutting their stuff in the sweatbox th»
Who cares if QOTSA are playing next door? Pah! Give us good old-fashioned sticky-floored back-room RAWK shenanigans any day. Staines's Days of Worth [no Staines Masseev jokes please] have pulled a sizeable crowd. One song into their set and it's clear that this isn't solely on the basis of loyal friend»
Much has been said about wild-eyed 19 year old singer-songwriter Martin Grech. With a counter-tenor voice that scrapes the opposite ends of the stratosphere and a debut album full of erratic melodies and emotional peaks and troughs, the words 'Jeff Buckley' and 'Thom Yorke' have been tripping of»
Japanese mindfuck trio Xinlisupreme's debut album, Tomorrow Never Comes, was glowing, twisted proof that leftfield electronic music can be confusing, heartstopping and utterly lovely. It was an unearthly, tearstained, beautiful record. Let's not fuck about - mini-album Murder License is not in»
There are hopeful but ticketless fans dotted around the entrance to the Bull & Gate, and an aura of expectancy inside the venue. They made it good like we said they would - tonight sees a triumphant [if misplaced] homecoming for The Cooper Temple Clause, having spent their gigging infancy in this venue. »
Yes yes yes, I know - it's very predictable - being a DiS writer and giving Miss Black America's debut a good review. And of course really we should do the right thing and slag it to within an inch of its life, for the sake of variety. But... don't you get it? Those here at DiS who like MBA, like them »
I hate them for releasing this single. I hate them for writing songs like 'Vow', 'I Think I'm Paranoid' and 'Milk', and then seeing fit to insult us with 'Shut Your Mouth'. Current album 'beautifulgarbage»
Their fans call them "a sonic hand-grenade", their critics call them a "My Bloody Valentine tribute band". Since erupting into the consciousness of UK music fans a couple of years ago in a haze of shimmering, wrecked guitars, chemically imbalanced emotion and biting, sugar-free pop songs, My »
The Vines are this year's best band. There is no band in existence - EVER - that will make you shit yourself with such unrivalled joy. This statement will apply until January 30th 2003 - after which point, you are advised to stand by for further announcements. Ye-e-e-e-e-e-e-es. Um... right. Hands up who r»
Today I learned something. I learned that there is a wonder pill called Modafinil. It stops you wanting to sleep. You can work for 40 hours solid without needing to snooze, and you can do it with your cognitive senses ready and alert, without the jittery/buzzy/crash+burn effects of caffeine and various stimul»
Now I KNOW you've all been there. Rushing somewhere, late, dodging traffic, people and low-flying pigeons, when suddenly you run smack bang into that most feared and dreaded of all the creatures that inhabit the streets by day. The Company Representative. Armed with clipboard, pen and beaming, ever-so-slightly unhinged»
