Living jape: Killing Joke reform for new album, world tour
The original members of Killing Joke will reform for the first time in over 20 years for a new studio album and world tour»
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DiSband #4: The Hives
How can there be any way, in 2008, that four-chord garage punk can end up sounding anything other than stolen? Are The Hives still the best band in the world? Frontman and born performer 'Howlin' Pelle has the answers to DiS's questions»
Horrorshow? Libertines musical in the works
The most important news of the weekend, by some distance? Carl Barat is looking to sit down again with estranged ying Pete Doherty to write a musical»
A Week in Drowned in Sound: 29/02/08
The leap in our year»
Howlin' Rain: Comets on Fire man's new project tours UK in spring
Ethan Miller’s Howlin’ Rain will return to the UK this spring for a fair-sized live tour.»
Dark prints: Nick Cave to be ordained as Rough Trade’s first ever ‘Counter Culture Icon’
DrownedinSound has learned that Monday will be a very special day in east London – hipsters, quake, Nick Cave is coming to Rough Trade East to be sworn in as their very first ‘Counter Culture Icon’»
First love: The Maccabees meet The Futureheads
A memorable three-way, at London's Social: DiS, The Futureheads and The Maccabees, shooting the proverbial about life after the dreaded drop and how all guns're blazing for new LP This Is Not The World. Part one, here; part two, next week»
Tonight's Vampire Weekend show off after drummer is hospitalised in hit 'n' run incident
Vampire Weekend have been forced to cancel tonight’s instore at Rough Trade East after drummer Chris Thompson was hospitalised after being hit by a car last night»
The Black Keys to tour dead man's songs in the spring
The Black Keys will tour after the release of their new record in the spring»
'Richard Swift' to release new, rock 'n' roll solo record
Richard Swift as Onasis is the pseudonym under which the prolific solo artist will release a new, Link Wray-inspired album this spring»
Vampire Weekend, Saul Williams added as Great Escape bill shapes up
The ill and ailing Vampire Weekend top a new raft of acts who’ll be around Brighton in May for this year’s Great Escape.»
Animal Collective ready new Water Curses EP
Animal Collective continue to amass a back catalogue to intimidate future generations with the addition of the much-mouthed over Water Curses EP set for release this spring»
Paranoid band void: Glastonbury dismiss Radiohead's green no-show
Glastonbury Festival have dismissed Thom Yorke’s concerns about the impact any headline set from his band would have on the environment»
Jens Lekman's London show: tickets on sale now
Tickets for Jens Lekman's forthcoming show at the London Scala are now on sale»
Beirut, The National, Black Mountain and more for Green Man 2008
The lastet set of acts has been confirmed for this year’s Green Man Festival»
Bonanza! 764 bands compiled onto free SXSW torrent
Hundreds of tracks by bands appearing at this year’s South by Southwest have been compiled into a massive torrent that you can download for free»
Coldplay, Timberlake and more sign up for launch of Facebook's iTunes-integrated music service
Social networking upstart Facebook is coming for the last thing that MySpace holds dear, today revealing the introduction of a new, iTunes-affiliated music section»
NME Awards show: full round-up
For those of you not following the grand ceremony on TV, here’s a round-up of all the winners from last night’s NME Awards Show»
Vampire Weekend drummer hospitalised after being run over in London
Vampire Weekend’s Chris Thompson has been hit by a car while out in London tonight (29 Feb)»
Pete and the Pirates playing free North London instore tonight
Reading’s Pete and the Pirates will be playing a free instore at Pure Groove records in Archway tonight»
Watch: Frightened Rabbit's 'Heads Roll Off'
Frightened Rabbit have recorded a video for new single 'Heads Roll Off'»
Radiohead to Glastonbury: 'no public transport, no show'
Radiohead frontman Thom Yorke, who is the frontman of Radiohead, has revealed how Radiohead didn’t play this year’s Glastonbury festival due to the absence of a local transport infrastructure around the Glastonbury site in Glastonbury»
Showbiz: Muse to appear in nation's cinemas
Muse’s recent shows at Wembley have been collected together on DVD, and now Vue will preview the trio’s gigantophon broadcast at a selected number of its cinemas next month»
Pavement chaser: Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks announce UK summer shows
Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks will play a few UK dates this summer to support the impending release of their new album»
Knifing the hand that feeds: band slag NME, DiS on eve of headlining show
And to think, they used to be such nice boys - Young Knives have been taking pot shots again, and this time the smoking barrels are pointed in the direction of the NME and the readers of some website called ‘DrownedinSound’»
RIP: Jimi Hendrix drummer Buddy Miles
Buddy Miles, the drummer who helped Jimi Hendrix achieve no small level of reverence, has died aged 60»
Is your sweater on? Vampire Weekend cancel UK dates due to illness
Vampire Weekend have cancelled the last two dates of what was their current UK tour.»
Sufjan-collaborator issues second album
A new My Brightest Diamond album will be with us by the end of June, as Shara Worden issues the follow-up proper to 2006’s Bring Me The Workhorse»
Host of acts join Spiritualized on Dot to Dot bill
More bands have been confirmed for this year’s Dot to Dot Festival following DrownedinSound’s announcement last week that Spiritualized would be headlining the event in Nottingham and Bristol»
Ronson Robs da Bank to spawn Bestival's new baby brother
Mark Ronson, Late of the Pier and The Cuban Brothers are among the live acts who’ll play the Bandstand double-header this summer»