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The Futureheads have made exhilarating order out of The Chaos. »
Daniel Johnston and Jeffrey Lewis have announced a show together at the Troxy on Friday 2nd April. Johnston is playing the East London venue as part of a European tour and will be backed by BEAM, an 11-piece orchestra from The Netherlands. Lewis will only be joining him for the London leg before meeting up with Kimya Dawson, Anders Griffen and brother Jack for their first UK tour as The Bundles. »
Shane MacGowan has made the video for his star-studded Haiti benefit single available online. As previously reported, MacGowan rounded up an assortment of debauched rock star friends for the cover of Screamin’ Jay Hawkins’ ‘I Put A Spell On You’. Nick Cave, Mick Jones and Bobby Gillespie were joined in the studio by Glen Matlock, Chrissie Hynde, Cait O’Riordon, Paloma Faith and Eliza Doolittle. »
Fans of unexpected plot spirals, rejoice! R. Kelly has finally announced that he’s recorded a further fifteen chapters of his worryingly mesmeric hip-hopera ‘Trapped in the Closet’. »
Shane MacGowan has rounded up a motley crew including Nick Cave, Mick Jones and Bobby Gillespie to record a cover of Screamin’ Jay Hawkins’ ‘I Put A Spell On You’. The track will be released as a charity single to raise money for the Haiti earthquake relief effort at the end of February.»
Okay, so imagine you’re Beck, armed with prodigious musical talent and some dubious beliefs regarding thetans. You’ve agreed to wr»
End Times is a break-up album that lashes relationship breakdown onto societal collapse, and rarely has Everett sounded so plaintive, so utterly broken down. Even Electro-Shock Blues, which dealt with the deaths of his mother and sister, had musically upbeat moments like ‘Cancer for the Cure’ and ‘Last Stop: This Town’. Blinking Lights and Other Revelations was full of them. On End Times they are fewer and farther between and even when Everett does harness that life-affirming energy, as on ‘Gone Man’, he can’t help but flip the classic Rolling Stones refrain “I used to love her, but it’s all over now” to the rather more lugubrious “She used to love me, but it’s over now”. »
Every year we ask our staff to submit their records of the year and every year, writers put records in their lists that seem to have been somewhat overlooked both within the realm of DiS and/or across the board. Rather than leave these records as forgotten footnotes, last year we launched our imaginatively titled Lost 8 of '08 (see the 8 highlighted records here) and this year it returns, one year older 'n' wiser, as the Lost 9 of '09. Once again this little list intends to do much the same neck-out-sticking for some of our staff's personal favourites. »
Kinshasa, the capital of the Democratic Republic of Congo, is a vast, sprawling city in a vast, sprawling country ten times the size of the UK. The Congolese like to refer to their home as the “richest country on Earth”, a reference to the lush rainforest»
Listening to this album, you begin to wonder whether the man himself has grown tired of being 50 Cent. He has nothing to say. »
The album’s inconsistency simultaneously appeals and frustrates. »
Hush Arbors can be applauded for venturing off into unchartered territory, but on Yankee Reality he too often seems to have lost all sense of direction. »
There’s much to discover, not all of it great, but that was always the point. John Peel was a remarkable guide, but it was always up to you to decide which paths to follow.»
It is a record which drinks deeply from the well of the past but could only have been made today. Megafaun have cast off the weight of the canon and are spreading their wings. »
“What fresh hell is this?” Dorothy Parker would declare when someone was unwise enough to interrupt her day with something as triv»
Seattle’s Throw Me The Statue remind me of a friend of mine, this attractive, clever, funny girl who for whatever reason gets over»
The human rights charity Reprieve recently launched a campaign called ‘zero dB’ to highlight the brutality and widespread use of m»
“Most of the times you would not think about the soundtrack before shooting a movie. You already have enough on your mind any»
“They call women the weakest vessel, but I think they are the strongest,” wrote William Blake in An Island in the Moon, “A girl ha»
As his peers face the reality of seeking work in a world where gainful employment is hard to come by, 22-year-old Peter Broderick has written himself a CV which would render the most well-connected careers advisor redundant.»
