Chart round-up: Enemy hit number one spot, thinking of buying a castle
What do you suppose is at number one this week? We've retired the position for now. What's going on elsewhere, then?»
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Franz: New album will be 'synth-led'
Franz Ferdinand have been talking about their their third album, slated for release in spring next year.»
Mail On Sunday threatens legal action over Prince chart ruling
The Mail on Sunday has threatened legal action against a ruling that means Prince’s new album Planet Earth, which will be given away in this Sunday’s (July 16) paper, will not be chart eligible.»
(Review of nothing)
A lean and sinewy garage rocker that’s the opposite of the titular 'Fat Children', Jarvis Cocker's latest single is a familiar tale told by the ghost of a man murdered for his mobile phone.»
Hard-Fi album tracklisting revealed
Hard-Fi have revealed the tracklisting for their second album Once Upon A Time In The West, which some people might call ‘eagerly awaited’.»
Reading Festival site put up for sale
The Reading festival could be in line for a change of venue after the current site was put up for sale, according to organisers Mean Fiddler.»
Top of the class: The Enemy denounce posh music
Nothing like stirring up a bit of class resentment on a Friday afternoon, eh? Tom Clarke, dimwit frontman with The Enemy, has claimed that ‘working class roots’ mean better songs.»
Free love: Win tickets to Lovebox
The Lovebox Weekender cosies up to London’s Victoria Park later this month, bringing with it a host of top-drawer acts, along with a rare opportunity to catch the imperious Sly & The Family Stone in action.»
North Americans come: LCD announce UK dates
In news which some people may actually dub proper news, but then again, probably not, LCD Soundsystem has announced three new UK dates this autumn.»
New Young Pony Club - Fantastic Playroom
Bundling electro, punk and funk references both fair and foul into a slick pop package, much has been made of New Young Pony Club resemblance to ESG’s primitive bass-driven trip, but somewhat less coolly they also occasionally resemble Salt ‘N’ Pepa quasi-rapping filth over a latter-day Kylie record. Well, I say that’s not cool but...»
Cry Control: Karen O in teary shocker
Yeah Yeahs Yeahs singer Karen O has revealed that the tears she shed in the band's video for single 'Maps' were real.»
The Go! Team - Grip Like A Vice
It’s like that moment at a party where your elation starts to feel a bit hollow – you’re maintaining the pretence, but the feeling’s gone out of your dance moves, and the sparkle’s gone out of the conversation...»
Panda to your audience: Person Pitch tour DVD set for release
Panda Bear is to release a live DVD taken from his recent Person Pitch tour of the US.»
Chart round-up: Diddy does Di, and other stories
Who even presents the chart rundown these days? I don’t envy them their job. This week, the second highest new entry is P Diddy...»
Bat For Lashes - What's A Girl To Do
A darkly swooning, expertly-wrought two-and-three-quarter minutes that’s arguably the equal of anything a newly poptimistic Patrick Wolf conjured on The Magic Position...»
Gogol think global: Madge collaboration at Live Earth
Madonna is set to embrace gypsy-punk chic with a performance alongside Gogol Bordello at Live Earth on Saturday.»
Bill Callahan announces UK tour
The artist formerly known as Smog, aka Bill Callahan, will play a string of dates across the UK and Ireland this summer ahead of his appearance at the Green Man Festival.»
Monkeys shun melting Arctic: Live Earth 'hypocrisy'
Arctic Monkeys have slammed tomorrow’s Live Earth event in London as ‘hypocrisy’.»
Don't panic: terror delays at T
Fans heading for the T In The Park festival today are being warned to leave extra time for travel following the terror attack in Glasgow last weekend.»
Win: Tickets for Bert Jansch's London show
Here’s a tasty giveaway for you. The rather legendary Bert Jansch will be playing a gig at London Somerset House on July 14 with Bernard Butler and Beth Orton, as part of the London's Summer Series. And we’ve got a couple of tickets kicking about that we’re oh-so keen on giving away.»
The Enemy - We'll Live And Die In These Towns
The Enemy chunter along with the premature complacency of a film noir private dick who thinks he’s solved the case, but is actually about two or three revelations from discovering the shocking truth...»
Homme: dwarf tossing a career highlight
Queens Of The Stone Age frontman Josh Homme has announced his bizaare career highlight so far - dancing onstage with a dwarf.»
White Stripes play special gig on bus, some people miss their stop
Curiouser and curiouser... The White Stripes continued their habit of playing weird venues with a gig on a bus in Canada.»
Nothing Else Matters: New Metallica LP due in February
Metallica drummer Lars Ulrich has confirmed that the band have completed the backing tracks for their ninth studio album.»
The Strange Death of Liberal England - Forward March
The Strange Death Of Liberal England aim at a peculiarly English sensibility that bypasses all the usual attendant clichés; a kind of ‘Old, Weird England’, if you will...»
A Month In Records: June 2007
Traditionally things get reeeal quiet round this time of year in terms of quality album releases, but happily DiS has picked out a few blinders to soundtrack your hasty retreat from the sun's odious rays...»
Read all about it: Prince album free in Daily Mail
Prince is giving away his new album Planet Earth in The Daily Mail, much to the chagrin of fed-up retail bosses.»
Larsen B - The Treasured Memories Of Cecil Element
Larsen B’s cracked balladry walks a fine line between spare and embarrassingly slight, but demonstrates an unwavering ability to cut to the quick of a melody.»
Music stores feel pressure over increased download sales
Music retailers have admitted they are struggling in the face of plummeting profits due to increased download sales.»
Eighties Matchbox: making a B-line to a venue near you
The Eighties Matchbox B-Line Disaster are putting their touring boots on for a string of fifteen dates across the UK in July and August, in support of their new EP ‘The Garden’.»