Bloc Party to release new single
The new Bloc Party single got its world premiere last night.»
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Stung: Six-figure fine for illegal downloader
Record companies in the US have fired another ominous warning shot across the bows of illegal downloaders by successfully prosecuting a 32-year-old American woman for $222,000.»
Vincent Vincent and the Villains tour
Vincent Vincent and the Villains will head out on tour later this month.»
Dylan Donkin - Make A Choice
San Franciscan Dylan Donkin’s debut single lasts four minutes and 11 seconds. This in itself is an achievement. ‘Make A Choice’ is so flimsy a cut that you expect it to float away on the lightest pushes of breeze...»
Watch: Laura Marling on the streets
Laura Marling found herself fallen by London's licensing laws the other night. Did it stop her?»
Swn Festival tickets go on sale
Tickets for the inaugural Swn festival are now on sale.»
Ian MacKaye: not dead
Reports of the demise of Ian MacKaye, the former Minor Threat and current Fugazi frontman and Dischord boss, have been quashed...»
Love: 'Grohl hit on me...Kurt hated him'
The world's longest running conflict plumbed new depths today, as Courtney Love took a damaging potshot at nemesis Dave Grohl.»
Gorillaz plan 'new' release
Gorillaz will return this autumn with a new album.»
Official: Kate Nash to tour in 2008
Chart-topping niceface Kate Nash will flounce about the UK and Ireland next year, in her biggest live shows to date.»
Les Savy Fav - Let's Stay Friends
It’s been said that Let’s Stay Friends is more pop than anything Les Savy Fav have put out before, but it’s still tight-fist tough – witness the feral marching on ‘Slugs in the Shrubs’ or the ice cube/neck thrills running in the throat of Toko Yasuda’s vocal on ‘Kiss Kiss Is Getting Old’...»
British Sea Power unveil new album
British Sea Power have announced details of their third studio album.»
Folk devil: Animal Collective put 'terrified' youth through 'hell'
An angry mother writes. The promoter of a recent Animal Collective show in Philadelphia caught the wrong end of some parental invective...»
Orcadian rhythm: Half Cousin tour the UK next month
Half Cousin will leave Orkney island in search of warmer climes for a quintet of UK shows next month.»
The Royal We - All The Rage / L'Enfant Terrible
Most towns have their own musical ghost. Liverpool has its red-eyed Beatles obsession, sprung from distant docker roots. Manchester has Tony Wilson. London has confusion. Glasgow, adopted hometown of The Royal We, finds most of its musical product coloured with the soft sepias of pastoral twee...»
Edinburgh! I Fly Spitfires announce last ever show
I Fly Spitfires, the DiS-associated Edinburgh club night, will fly for the last time this Thursday as it winds down operations.»
Split: Nine Inch Nails clipped
Nine Inch Nails' big man Trent Reznor has announced his intention to split up the band.»
CSS, Metronomy tour with Joe Lean and Justice
CSS will tour in December, taking some high-calibre comrades out for support.»
Gazumped: Charlatans new album free from Xfm
The Charlatans have struck a deal to release their new album exclusively through the website of radio station Xfm.»
Qui to the cities: tour of UK and Ireland
LA act Qui will return to the UK in November for some hot, fleshy, live action.»
These New Puritans, Teenagers, Crystal Castles for Unitaur
These New Puritans, The Teenagers and Crystal Castles have been rounded up and will be unleashed on a joint tour next month.»
Tour: Emmy the Great's maiden voyage
Emmy the Great has made arrangements for her maiden headline tour.»
Blur get back together
What are you doing for lunch next week? Damon Albarn, Graham Coxon, Alex James and Dave Rowntree are meeting to discuss the reformation of Blur.»
DiScover: Banjo or Freakout
Banjo or Freakout is 28-year-old Alessio Natalizia from Turin. He's been living in London for two of those years, looping sounds that glitter and whisper and crackle and lope and threading them all together with the dab hand of a red-eyed, spinning plate ring master.He's yet to play live but his demo is one of the most promising 'debut's I've heard all year...»
Kanye blessed: Ghandi, Luther King, Christ, West
Journalists have traced the source of Kanye West's ego back to his mother.»
News: Popular Workshop tour, release single
Popular Workshop are keeping busy in the freezing wind - touring the land, releasing records.»
Huzzah: new UK dates for Dan Deacon
After a stream of reports of local sightings dried up last month, spies tell us that Baltimore blastwaver Dan Deacon is coming back to the UK.»
Kling Klang plot tour
Liverpudlian quintet Kling Klang have made arrangements for a short UK tour, due to start next month.»
Glow-sick: Bonde de Role, Sh*tdisco cancel US tours
Bad news in rave town - Shitdisco and Bonde de Role have cancelled dates on their respective tours due to health reasons.»
Josh Ritter-ns for new live shows
Josh Ritter has just announced a series of live dates, scheduled to take place at various locations across the Kingdom and Ireland in early winter.»