Death Cabbing Across The UK
The wonderful Death Cab For Cutie tour the UK next month in support of their new 'The New Year' single.»
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Mike_Diver has written the following articles:
PMFS: Cursive Mistaken For Ataris
Best Punk Rock Band Ever© Planes Mistaken For Stars are heading to the UK next month in support of the excellent Cursive and the emo-geekery of The Ataris.»
The Dudley Corporation On Tour
One of Ireland's hottest bands, The Dudley Corporation, hit our shores this February.»
Evanescence Man Hooks Up With Avril
Former Evanescence axe-man Ben Moody has volunteered his songwriting services to pip-squeak punk Avril Lavinge, who is currently working on her second album.»
Those Brit Nominations In Full
Go on, pick your favourites...»
Prodigy Album Nearly Ready. Again.
Stop me if you've heard it before, but The Prodigy's new album is nearly ready. Honest.»
Converge Sign To Epitaph
Titanic hardcore outfit Converge have inked a deal with Epitaph and announced details of their forthcoming album.»
BBC Top Ten: No Alarms and Few Surprises
The BBC's 'Buzz Chart' for 2004, compiled by 60-odd opinion-makers (including a certain DiS head-honcho) may contain few surprises, but does show that DiS has, yet again, been ahead of the game regarding a number of acts.»
Hella - The Devil Isn't Red
Hella present me with a problem: on the one hand, they’re crazy-fast Lightning Bolt-style rawk ‘n’ rawl action; yet on the other, they’re feather-light easy on the ear. How can this be?»
Guns N Roses - Welcome To The Videos DVD
‘Welcome To The Jungle’, the opener here, is a great song. Its video – featuring Axl Rose’s hideous back-combed barnet and a load of shop window television sets – is not great. And that pretty much sums up this DVD...»
John Squire Exhibition at the ICA
The ICA in London will host the first ever exhibition by former Stone Roses guitarist John Squire from 14th February until the 16th February 2004.»
REM May Call It Quits Next Year
REM's Peter Buck stated on US radio last week that the band may call it a day as early as next year.»
Pilot To Gunner - Get Saved
New York, New York. Think you’ve heard all about it? Think again.»
Outkast - Speakerboxxx/The Love Below
Number 12 on our best of 2003 run down is just too damn funky for its own good, and the stupendous 'Hey Ya! is, remarkably, just the tip of the cool-as-iceberg.»
Less Than Jake Tour
Ska-punk supremos Less Than Jake return to the UK in May. Best book early...»
Fugazi: Split Up? Apparently Not!
This is a rumour at the moment, but it may become solid fact by the close of business... Fugazi have SPLIT! Or rather, they haven't...»
BBC Names New Talent For 2004
The BBC will publish a chart of the top new acts to watch out for in 2004 this Friday (9 January 2004).»
Limp Bizkit 'Officially' Worst Band of 2003
Readers of US magazine Guitar World have voted Limp Bizkit the worst band of 2003, bringing to an end a year of media backlash for Fred Durst and co.»
Heavy Breathing Over At Universal
Universal Music is planning to join forces with a production company best known for porn videos to launch a television channel showing uncensored music videos.»
Wal-Mart To Offer Download Service
American store Wal-Mart has revealed their plans to offer a music download service.»
Fatboy In Talks Over Beach Party 2004
Norman Cook, aka Fatboy Slim, is in talks with Brighton City Council, discussing the possibilty of another Beach Party, to be held next summer.»
Jacko Charged; Comes To Britain
Michael Jackson was charged with seven charges of lewd or lascivious acts upon a minor yesterday, but has been permitted by Santa Barbara Distric Attorney Tom Sneddon to visit Britain to promote his new greatest hits album.»
Pretty Girls Make Graves at London Astoria 2 formerly Mean Fiddler, Thu 18 Dec
Should you be looking for a punk rock princess to tide you over until Courtney’s rehabilitation is complete, look no further than Ms Zollo, as she’s everything that what’s-her-face from The Distillers isn’t.»
Snap-happy Outkast To Work With Polaroid
Shake it like a Polaroid picture? Sure thing, now pay up!»
Meet The Darkness
As the race for the Christmas number one hots up, slightly, The Darkness will be holding a breakfast time meet 'n' greet tomorrow at the Oxford Street HMV.»
Black Eyes - Black Eyes
Any preconceptions you may have of DC punk are going to be laid to rest in a matter of minutes.»
Will Dissed On World Idol
Recent number one artist Will Young has been told to get singing lessons by a judge on World Idol, the global spin off from Pop Idol.»
Clothing For N*E*R*Ds? You Be Frontin', Right?
First it was P Diddy/Daddy with his Sean John range, and then Jay Z and 50 Cent introduced clothing ranges. Now The Neptunes' Pharrell Williams is to launch his own range in association with Reebok (who also have a deal with Jay Z).»
Rammstein - Lichtspielhaus DVD
Rammstein’s bloated, pompous industrial pap rock will never be welcomed in my house. However, they do know their way around the art of video making, a talent showcased here on the group’s second official DVD release.»
Duran Duran Confirm Spring Shows
Tonight we're gonna party like it's 1985...»