In Arms Reach Festival uniting the kids in August
London-based radical arts collective In Arms Reach have announced a nine-day festival of sorts taking place between 6th - 14th August.»
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Aconite Announce Thrilling UK Tour
Watford's finest melody-mangling chaoti-core troupe Aconite Thrill announce mammoth UK tour and debut album release.»
DEP Talk to DiS
Credited with increasing the amount of technical ability seeping into the hardcore movement by, ooh, about 300 per cent, The Dillinger Escape Plan’s uncompromising approach to heavy music has seen them become unofficial figureheads for the entire math-metal scene. So, following their appearance at Download Festival last month, DiS caught up with guitarist Ben backstage to find out what we can all expect from their highly anticipated (and that's putting it mildly) new album.»
Bitch Alert - ...Rriot
BITCH ALERT! BITCH ALERT! Yes okay, so they patently worship at the altar of Courtney Love, but there is still something all the more fresh and pure about their particularly raw and angsty ballast.»
Sounds Like Violence - The Pistol
You can keep your Saves The Day and your Thursday, because we’ve got Sounds Like Violence, and true, soul-prickling emo has never felt more alive.»
Constantines, Mission Of Burma at London King's Cross Scala, Thu 01 Jul
It should have been revelatory performance; a glorious return to form for a band heralded in the early eighties for their minimal yet wholly unorthodox style of indie-punk. What actually happened was nothing short of disappointing.»
Gay For Johnny Depp - Erotically Charged Dance Songs For The Desperate EP
A remarkable, breathtakingly fresh release Gay For Johnny Depp will give you the kind of art-rock suckerkiss that'll leave you gasping for more»
Jeniferever - Iris
An admirable advancement on last year’s split EP with The Next Autumn Soundtrack, this is a band creating an all-the-more tranquil and settled mood to that of last year’s Jeniferever. One of the most beautiful sounding bands in the world right now...
We have a track of theirs to download here.
For fans of: Sigur Ros, The Album Leaf, Last Days of April...»
The Once Over Twice - Special Moments To Detonate Themselves
The Once Over Twice. Remember that name. Say it out loud. Meditate on it. The Once Over Twice. Write it on a post-it note and stick it on the fridge, on the bathroom mirror, over the TV. Do it NOW. And don’t stop ‘til I tell you to. Because with their debut album they have easily made the most exciting and most viciously infectious album you'll buy this year. Bar none.»
Army Of Freshmen, The Silence, Suburban Legends - Casino Chips And Sunset Strips
A 4-way split CD proving that in the SoCal shadows of the area’s more popular stalwarts there are some startling discoveries to be found.»
Bad Religion - The Empire Strikes First
Well it’s that time of year again and another Bad Religion album to tie us over the summer months. And judging by the artwork, another chance for vocalist Greg Graffin to sink his teeth into whatever political affairs and religious topics that’ve been making his blood boil since 2002’s ‘The Process of Belief’.»
Refused - Re-issues
Influencing just about every modern rock band worth their salt, Sweden’s Refused are pretty much the first and last word in progressive hardcore-punk, and these re-issues serve as a timely reminder of what the punk label truly stands for.»
Fever dreams return once more!
Everyone's favourite post-punk maestros return once more from the land of Windmills and hookers to woo us with their luscious post-punk melodies and really ace accents! *TOUR CANCELLED*»
DiS: London: None More Rock #4 - 25/06/04
Drowned in Sound, in association with De-Milo Music and Play Dead fanzine, presents another evening of ear-shattering, brain-tickling, hip-swinging entertainment...»
Fingathing - And The Big Red Nebula Band
A wholly invigorating listen from start to finish, Fingathing's third opus is an epic adventure through time, space and extra-terrestrial hip-hop lunacy and is by far the most entertaining, dance-spurring hip-hop release of the year.»
Morello - Demo
Five years ago Morello would’ve been huge. With a huge sound that harks back to the chunky ballast of fellow Irishmen Kerbdog it’s a style that is so THEN yet could be so NOW.»
Rek - Demo
A snearing garage-garrotting racket recalling the old-skool female-lead blast of Red Aunts with a smidgen of The Bronx live-fast attitude.»
Jamie Woon at London Camden Lock 17/Dingwalls, Mon 17 May
A spark in the voice. A glint in the eye. Often what makes a singer / songwriter so captivating can be the most subtle of expressions. Jamie Woon - a former Brit school student - has both. But it’s the way his soulful demure is magnified by a voice so effortlessly unique, and powerfully affecting, that gives him such entrancing sensibilities.»
Daughters! - Canada Songs
Completely obliterating style and form and taking a stranglehold on prudent creativity, Daughters’ chaotically freeform approach reconfigures the way melody and noise is assimilated through some of the most fiercely challenging experimentation probably ever attempted.»
Nekromantix - Dead Girls Don't Cry
As Nekroman insists, “the fun in fright is key”, and there is definitely spadeloads of fun coursing through this album, albeit spine-chillingly dark, ghoulish fun involving zombies, graveyards, cannibals and well, death in general.»
Pulley - Matters
While not a million miles away from the majority of Epitaph's roster 'Matters' is still a worthy batch of gems that resonates with the brash energy that Epitaph built its reputation on through the mid-90s.»
Schneider TM - Reconfigures
Following on from 2002's 'Zoomer' album and last year's Peel session 'Reconfigures' sees Schneider literally reconfiguring tracks – as opposed to ‘remixing’ – stirring up their colourful amalgam of textures and sounds within his own smouldering pot of influences to create an album that is nothing short of mesmerising.»
DiS London: NONE MORE ROCK #2 - 30/04/04!!
Hurrah! It's back! Now, with full endorsement from Jagermeister and three more stage-decimating bands (one by the name of Bumsnogger), the hardcore extravanganza that is None More Rock returns once more, fully-charged to shake your booty with some top-knotch disco-rock beats. Come hither...»
The Letters Organize - (The Cure)
Originally released as the ‘Everybody Goes Bash’ MCD on Brand Name Records on the States ‘(The Cure)’ is a thrillingly expedient disc rattling with all the raw passion and uncontrollable energy of Refused, bolstered by a ferocious Bronx-like intensity that skins alive any half-assed competition and dances manically on their shallow, gut-less carcasses.»
Good Riddance to KFC
This Sunday Fat Wreck punksters Good Riddance will be playing at Manchester University but before they take to the stage the band will be leading a PETA protest against KFC at 12.45 p.m. outside KFC, 131-133 Portland Street, Manchester.»
Condoms, Chocolate & Mel C
Amiable, post-whatever, rock school graduates and possibly the most promising new band in the UK right now.»
DiS London: NONE MORE ROCK - 26th March is GO!
Didn’t quite get there in time for All Tomorrow’s Parties tickets? Gutted at the prospect of sitting at home hugging a can of Ice Dragon cider and watching that rubbish new dating programme while your mates are jizzing themselves off over Lightning Bolt, Converge, Isis and Mogwai? Then fret not, for DiS cares about its dear readers and wouldn’t want to see them in such a sad state of affairs, oh no. So we’re launching a new club night on March 26th, that will aim to provide, well, an adequate substitute. **UPDATE** THE BIRDS OF PARADISE ADDED TO THE BILL ** JETS vs SHARKS REPLACED BY SILENT FRONT **»
Malkovich - The Foundation Rocks
The product of a thriving, ever fluctuating European hardcore scene ‘The Foundation Rocks’ is a captivating collection of tracks that once more pushes the genre into a new realm of ingenuity and innovation, that not only rocks the foundation but posivitely topples the building to the ground.»
Vio-lence - Oppressing The Masses / Torture Tactics
Yes this is indeed the same Vio-lence with which Machine Head mainman Robb Flynn earned his stripes all those years ago. This reissue compiles their two 1989 and 1991 EPs to probable fanfare from those members of the metal community still nurturing their precious, long scraggly hair after the storm of ostentation that was nu-metal.»
Black Cougar Shock Unit - Black Cougar Shock Unit
Hailed as the latest punk rock supergroup to bound out of the states Gainesville, Florida’s Black Cougar Shock Unit contain former members of such underground punk bands as Panthro UK United 13, Discount, Unitas, Army of Ponch and House On Fire. (Cue the deafening cry of ‘who??’)»