Memories of a Lost Festival: Reading 2006
Already two weeks past, DiS is still trying to get its head round what happened to it in a Berkshire field last month...»
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Adventures Close to Home at London 93 Feet East, Fri 08 Sep
They're from São Paulo. They play with a sense of fun and naïvety that you'd imagine to be sorely endearing to a London crowd loosened up on colour and glowsticks. They are five-sixths female. They are truly a marketing man's wet dream. However, tonight falls slightly flat, compared to CSS's record and its lightning bolt imagery...»
The Rapture at London Islington Academy, Tue 05 Sep
As one-paced as they come, for the most part it simply doesn't matter. All that matters is that there is a pace, and while every beat may skip along - beneath a flattering spray of disco hi-hat - at roughly the same speed I push my way to the bar tonight, it's how they use that stubborn, laconic beat that is vital...»
Touriste at London Farringdon Turnmills, Wed 09 Aug
The band take the stage, three-quarters of them replete in Fred Perry. As they wade into first song ‘Your Move’, influences and trajectory are made immediately clear. Frontman Sammie Harris has the split, railing wail of Chris Martin, and a poise that suggests he too yearns prematurely for the company of grey hairs and rocking chairs...»
Jurassic Live: hip-hop in the Autumn
Hip-hop luminaries Jurassic 5 are to walk the land in support of new album Feedback in the autumn...»
Muse announce more November dates...
So many people want to see Muse that they can't even fit them into eight arenas...»
Boring Touring: the mainstream grinds into action
The balding, the bland and the behemoth have been plotting their final assault on the ears, eyes and throats of the world's youth, it seems. Here's this season's social calendar for the filthy rich...»
New album update: Sparklehorse set a date, reveal titles
Tenderly magical lo-fi rockers Sparklehorse will release their latest opus Dreamt For Light Years In The Belly Of A Mountain on September 25th...»
Snakes On A Plane: the soundtrack
Everyone's talking about it. It's going to be the biggest, most epic, most fantastical film of the summer. Snakes On A Plane already has the best name of any film, ever. Now it's getting an, er, ok-ish soundtrack to go with it...»
UPDATED: Dead Disco live: Bath, Southampton dates off
Leeds based quartet Dead Disco have announced a nationwide pub crawl, starting tonight in Woking...»
IfNickyWiretoldthetruth...
...foronedayhe'drevealasolorecord...»
Geeez Buddy, my Head! Aaron North in bother...
Aaron North, formerly of the Icarus Line and now with Nine Inch Nails, is in trouble with a security guard who says the guitarist wounded him “intentionally, violently and without a just cause,” when he allegedly launched a mic stand into a crowd in Wisconsin...»
Rock School pays off for Towers of London fan
Little Chris, the friend no-one had from Channel 4's Rock School has been handed a real-life, bona fide record deal worth half a million quid.»
My Morning Jacket: Live disc bonanza
Wise men from Kentucky, My Morning Jacket, are to release a double live album and a film of concert footage in September, report Pitchfork...»
Download to helmet: free Spinto Band mp3!
The Spinto Band seem nice, don't they? They look like polite chaps, with respect for their elders and a cuddly penchant for kazoos. So what's this they've done now? Inked a poisonous fascist death tract? Dug up and 'harvested' the Marquis de Sade? Poisoned a bear...»
Junior Boys are coming to London
Domino's electro duo will aim to get all swish young heads bopping as they play the Luminaire on August 10th, in support of their first single release with their new label, 'In The Morning', four days later.»
Cry me a River(s): Weezer dead?
Rivers Cuomo, frontman of rock monsters Weezer, has told MTV that the world may have heard the last recorded output from his band...»
Bulletin: Myspace rules earth
Popular social networking site Myspace is officially the most highly visited site in the United States, grabbing an astonishing 4.46 per cent of all webpage visits.»
Anything you can do we can do wetter: New Sparta album
Hot on the tail of their former compadres in Mars Volta, Jim Ward's considerably more reserved Sparta clan have announced the release date for their new longplayer.»
CBGBs goes the way of the pyramids
Punk rock mecca CBGBs is set to finally close after months of legal wrangling on September 30th. After that, it's to Vegas; where it will join the other trashy replicas in an orgy of neon post-modernism. Or something.»
Sufjan Stevens announces dates
Sufjan Stevens is a busy man, but he's taken time out from his hectic schedule just so he can come and play his songs for you at three select venues in the UK and Ireland. Yeah, you better appreciate it.»
Hot Chip's School Disco
Early favourites for the Mercury Music Prize Hot Chip are heading back to school for a gig at Bristol Grammar, as part of T-Mobile's Street Gigs 'ting.»
UPDATED: Syd Barrett dead at 60: Tributes pour in
Syd Barrett, erstwhile original frontman of prog-rock behemoths Pink Floyd, died last Friday at his hideaway in Cambridgeshire, The Guardian are reporting.
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Automatic for the People: Oi! Want to be in a video?
Annoying pop-chimps The Automatic want YOU to star in their new video.»
Yo La Tengo: álbum nuevo
Indie oldsters Yo La Tengo have announced that they are finally set to release the follow up to 2003's Summer Sun this September.»
Creem Redeemed
Rock'n'Roll institution Creem Magazine is planning to relaunch this month on the web, with a view to returning in print form in the future.»
Jackson "shocked" by penis grab
Popular entertainer and all-round bastion of decency Michael Jackson claims he was "shocked" at being shown a video of his then-business partner directing a gay porn film in which he touched a penis.»
T in the Park 2007: tickets released early
As is the tradition these days, T in the Park 2007 tickets go on sale tomorrow (July 11th), barely after the curtain has fallen on this weekend's festivities.»
Breaking Social Scene
Semi-popular Canadian beat combo Broken Social Scene have announced their intention to rest after fulfilling their upcoming tour commitments. Remarkably, they did not use the words 'Indefinite Hiatus'.»
Kaisers ready second album
Speaking to excitable Radio 1 deej Zane Lowe last weekend, Ricky Wilson wowed all present with the revelation that his Kaisers have nearly finished work on their second album.»