Boards of Canada: New Album in New Year?
Although details are typically enigmatic for the moment, elusive Scot electronica duo Boards of Canada will release their third LP proper at some point in 2004.»
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Explosions In The Sky - The Earth Is Not A Cold Dead Place
Post-rock album of the year? ...There’s not a vocal or spoken word sample in earshot, and with titles like ‘First Breath After Coma’ and ‘Six Days At The Bottom Of The Ocean’, unsurprisingly there’s enough continental plate-shifting histrionics to keep any unsatisfied Godspeed! fans amused.»
Venetian Snares - Einstein-Rosen Bridge
It’s that time again. Three or four times a year, speakers quiver in anticipation. They’re prisoners waiting for their execution.»
Clinic, The Flaming Lips, Steve Burns at Manchester Apollo, Tue 28 Oct
The Flaming Lips are, as they proclaim, the greatest show on earth. Or at least the greatest you’ll fit in a venue the size of the Apollo. Glitter, confetti, those omnipresent life-sized dancing soft toys; and that’s just within perfectly sweet opener ‘Race For The Prize’. Adam Anon investigates...»
The National - Sad Songs For Dirty Lovers
It’s the sound of forbidden affairs, illicit sex with strangers in bars, drunken confessions, of real life. And it feels fantastic.»
Belle And Sebastian - Step Into My Office, Baby
The die-hard dufflecoat-wearers can, at least temporarily, rest easy.»
Tim Burgess - Only A Boy
Any direction that navigates a different route to The Charlatans is surely the road to pick, so breathe a sigh of relief that Tim Burgess is turning out daylight-infused celebrations with shrill vocals.»
Cannibal Ox's last supper
Celebrated experimental hip-hoppers Cannibal Ox are no more after they pulled a month-long US tour due to start last Friday, less than a month after a no-show for their last scheduled London date.»
Tomahawk tour no more...
Just in case your week had started a little too well, Mike Patton’s very slightly rocking band Tomahawk have been forced to cancel their UK and Irish dates, which were due to start this Sunday.»
Lostprophets - Burn Burn
Alright, don’t look so surprised – this isn’t some post-ironic double “we like Busted” bluff aimed at proving how very f**king clever music journalism can be.»
Obie Trice - Cheers
“Obie ain’t playin’/Obie’s got a plan.” And thus, the next rap superstar is born.»
Arab Strap, The James Orr Complex at Academy 3 (formerly Hop & Grape), Manchester, Greater Manchester, Tue 30 Sep
Why, why, why, why, WHY???!?? What kind of illiterate, self-aggrandising, post-Strokes F*CK comes to a gig just to talk loudly about their pointless life?»
"Play Everything Like Your House Is On Fire"
Bogdan Raczynski is a 26-year-old shaven headed Pole with an unpronounceable name. He’s previously lived in Japan, China and the UK, and now resides in Canada. So far, so avant-garde.»
Get A Free Pole-ing
As part of DiS' ongoing quest to point you towards the best new free music on the web, from this Monday (September 29th) you can download the internet-only single from German electro-hip-hop manipulator Pole. To get your hands on the track, 'Back Home', which is taken from his recent »
(Review of nothing)
Attempting to pin down the sound of The Fiery Furnaces is similar to wrestling a goddamn barrel of eels, with added jelly. Well, it’s a slippery business, but someone’s gotta do it.
OK, before these guys adorn fashion mag covers the world over, it’s worth just mentioning that the burning heart of TFF are
Spiritualized - She Kissed Me (It Felt Like A Hit)
Young Mr Spaceman might have changed his name, plus his approach to life and music, but nowadays Spiritualized’s most perplexing mind-boggling comes with confusing multi releases. So although the fuzz-blues beauty of Hole-aping ‘She Kissed Me...’ (careful Jason, Courtney Love punc»
Various - Skate To Hell (The Extreme Skaterock Collection)
As some child-assed rat-faced lil’ minx once noted, “he was a sk8er boi/she said see you later boi”. Erm, yeah. Unwittingly, Ms Lavigne concisely summed up the vacuity that has enveloped the skateboard massive post nu-metal. For those living in Outer Mongolia, nowadays a skateboard no longer has to »
The Locust - Plague Soundscapes
Twenty-one minutes and three seconds. That’s all it takes for all previous music to be wiped from memory, with fascist brutality. Good job too – any longer and ‘Plague Soundscapes’ would quite probably cause listeners to spontaneously die. The headfuck on legs which is The Locust have never sounde»
Bright Eyes at Manchester Academy 2 (formerly MDH), Wed 06 Aug
Some people hate Conor Oberst, y’know. Judging by a packed sweaty stripy jumper-clad crowd, quite a few love the guy too. It soon becomes apparent why Bright Eyes inspire such extremes of human emotion. At »
DM & Jemini - Ghetto Pop Life
If you still need telling by now, then prepare for excitement – DM & Jemini might very well be the perfect combination of straight up and backpack rap the world never knew it needed. Until now. DM&J, or Danger Mouse and Jemini The Gifted One to give them their full names, enjoyed fascinating a»
Crestfallen - Demo
With an endorsement from grinning Manc idiot comedian Terry Christian plus a worrying tag of ‘power-balladry’ already to their name, Crestfallen are at this point setting off some pretty major alarm bells. After all, their hometown of Manchester is (in)famous for churning out paaaaaaainfully avera»
The Celebrity Squares - Happy? (Dumka)
In all honesty there are more contemporary Penny Farthings, but as a great many respectable people (plus Kelly Jones) will attest, the art of good songwriting will never die. And so long as bands of The Celebrity Squares’ ilk have breath in them, there isn’t much danger of that. With roots in ’90s po»
The Bug - Gun Disease
In the hands of lesser mortals, 'Gun Disease’ would have endured a short and incongruous existence as run of the mill dancehall ragga. Thankfully, The Bug is Kevin Martin, a man with a pedigree far superior to the average beat manipulator; previously responsible for hard electro hip-hoppers »
Tomahawk - Mit Gas
This isn’t an attempt to fuel an argument, or even discussion. Mike Patton is the greatest living rock vocalist. Fact. Therefore, anything he puts his name to is Very Important. In the league table of ROCK, Premier Division, there is a hierarchy: namely Shellac, followed by Queens »
Tes - New New York
OK, so any artist from NYC, writing about NYC and naming their record after NYC will, inevitably, get linked to the ubiquitous date of September 11th. Now we’ve got that out of the way, who’s for some cleverer-than-Einstein soul-filled hip-hop that’s easier on the ear than your re»
Le Neon - Luss
Hailing from Gloucestershire does funny things to young tykes. Lifestyle choices are generally restricted to an inviting threesome of farm, fight or get wasted at indescribably bad dance nightclubs. Le Neon have chosen a fourth option. Officially the best thing from Stroud ever (although there sure ain’t m»
Dizzee Rascal - I Luv U
It’s about fucking time. The saviour of UK music has finally arrived and – gasp – he’s not carrying a guitar, although he is armed with a fair share of teen angst. Making So Solid Crew look like the wankstas they invariably are, Dizzee Rascal makes spittle-flecked inner city soundtracks more ‘urban»
Shed Seven - Why Can’t I Be You?
Talk about shooting fish in a barrel. Not content with asking a stupid question within their new live album title (‘Where Have You Been Tonight?’ – um, as far away from you as possible you MONKEY-FACED COCKS), these Brit indie posterboys, circa 1995, are inviting cheap shots a little with their comeback »
Calla - Televised
There’s an extra delicate line between breathy beauty and bedwetting banality which Brooklyn-via-Texas threesome Calla are waxing their arse-cracks with right now. Taken from the album of a similar name (that’ll be ‘Televise’)»
Silkworm - You Are Dignified
Metamorphosing musical styles via cover versions is hardly the most original trick in the book. Everyone from Metallica to Depeche Mode’s Martin L Gore has been at it in recent years. Perennially overlooked Chicagans Silkworm, however, add their own unique angle, armed only with a mandolin, a »