Reuben tour new album. Clever quip not forthcoming.
Hard rockin’ Surrey trio Reuben announce autumn tour...»
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Make Model make single
Make Model, the new project of Lewis Gale of the now-defunct Fickle Public, are set to release their new single on July 16th...»
Royalty hikes still scheduled to cripple internet radio
Internet radio in the US is about to be dealt a stiff blow...»
Jetplane Landing - Backlash Cop
By its very nature, it’ll split both the fanbase and the casual listener alike, but stick it out and you’ll discover just how impressive Backlash Cop actually is.»
The High Wire - Saint Bees
An impressive first three minutes from an outfit who, whilst not giving you cause to get very excited, certainly seem prepared to serenade you to sleep.»
Adventure Club - The Train
‘The Train’ is the kind of song that can just wait patiently, whilst you deal with frankly more interesting stuff.»
Milk Kan - Here Ya Come Again & Again
Wrong. This is just wrong. In fact, don't even read it, go and click on a news story on the right or something...»
David Vandervelde - Nothin' No
There’s something deliciously matured about the sound of David Vandervelde, and the four songs on this Nothin’ No EP sound like they were recorded to good old-fashioned tape rather than someone’s hard drive – actually, they probably were...»
Ghosts - The World Is Outside
Stabbing Eighties synths?! A honey-coated lead vocal line!? Irritatingly cheesy, overly-breathy backing vocals?! It’s like the Dandy Warhols’ ‘You Were The Last High’ covered by Savage Garden. Actually, perhaps that’s too cruel...»
Polly Paulusma - Fingers & Thumbs
Fingers & Thumbs is about miscarriage and facing up to grim reality, about coping with loss and having to start again, and ultimately about hope - it's a very personal record, which is probably why I feel guilty that I haven’t really taken to it...»
the bird and the bee - Again and Again
“I hate you / I want you / I hate you” runs one of the verses, and its contradicting nature pretty much hits the nail on the head where ‘Again and Again’ is concerned...»
Prisoners to get Bragging rights?
Uncaped crusader Billy Bragg has launched a new initiative with the aim of providing musical equipment – guitars, to be precise – for inmates detained at her Majesty’s pleasure...»
Cleared for Landing: DiS meets Jetplane's Andrew and Jamie
On the run-up to the release of their third album Backlash Cop, DiS sits down with Jetplane Landing's Andrew Ferris and Jamie Burchell to discuss where they've been, where they're going and how to accidentally break Xfm...»
Biffy Clyro - Puzzle
If Puzzle was more like its opening track and less like its last, I’d be joining the fanboys in proclaiming this the Best Thing Ever. Ultimately, though, your opinion of Puzzle will boil down to what you wanted from Biffy Clyro in the first place...»
Built To Spill at Reading Fez Club, Sat 19 May
As the fresh convert standing next to me, who just wandered in hearing there was a gig on tonight, so eloquently puts it: "They don’t want you to love them, they just want you to fucking listen"»
Rebus - This City
‘This City’ may be the last showing from Berkshire quartet Rebus...»
Figurines - Skeleton
For much of the DiS faithful, perhaps a recommendation from Kaiser Chiefs in NME doesn’t sound like the most reliable way to discover a brilliant ‘new’ band, but you should give them this one. After all, the second album from this Copenhagen quintet – though they were only a trio at the time of recording – shares little in common with its famous fans...»
Fireworks Night - As Fools We Are
An amiable experience, although not an uplifting one; worthy of praise for its ambitiousness and comparatively original sound despite falling at the final songwriting hurdle...»
Findlay Brown - Losing The Will To Survive
Just over a year since its original release brought Findlay Brown to the attention of the DiS massive, the time has come for the world to get a second taste of ‘Losing The Will To Survive’...»
The Young Playthings - Who Invented Love?
The Young Playthings’ unapologetically fluffy take on life might well make them easy targets for ridicule, but this particular blend of Pinkerton-era garage-rock, Bleed American emo and a guitar pop sound straight from Fountains of Wayne’s Utopia Parkway makes it very hard not to like...»
Soft Hearted Scientists - Light Years To Nothing
Look past the lyrics and ‘Light Years To Nothing’ does have something of a saving grace. Lurking under the sickly outer layer is a semi-decent song...»
The Twilight Sad - Fourteen Autumns & Fifteen Winters
A multi-layered, massive masterpiece; nine songs both tender and touching yet at the same time powerful enough to knock your face clean off your head...»
STA newsfelch: PSB#9, next all-dayer, and more!
A totally mental amount of news springs forth from the oh-come-on-they-must-almost-be-cult-by-now DIY label Smalltown America, including news on the finale of the PSB series!»
Clone Quartet - Carousel
So confident are Clone Quartet that you’ll like their debut single, they’re content to spend twenty of the first thirty seconds of ‘Carousel’ woah-ing away to themselves like some kind of electro Hard-Fi...»
FoW: traffic, weather, brief tour
US pop-rockers Fountains of Wayne - destined to forever be remembered not for the excellence of 'Radiation Vibe' but more for the chart-bothering 'Stacy's Mom' - are to visit these very shores later in May...»
The Brian Jacket Letdown - Eat Your Friends / Me and My Dog
Not to be confused with the similarly-monikered Brian Jonestown Massacre, The Brian Jacket Letdown have their own method of dealing with friends – one which doesn’t involve posting a box of name-inscribed bullets to your house...»
Rosemary - 40-40
‘40-40’ won’t set the world on fire by any means, but what it lacks in substance it makes up for in exuberance...»
Wojtek Godzisz - Burning Ideals EP
Somehow not a million miles from the bubblegum punk band in which Wojtek Godzisz made his name, but at the same time not particularly like it either, Burning Ideals is certainly no intentional rehash of days gone by...»
The Felice Brothers - Tonight At The Arizona
Fresh of face but haggard of voice, The Felice Brothers have weathered a few storms, quite literally, and Tonight At The Arizona documents the reality of happy endings not being one of life’s guarantees...»
Fury Of The Headteachers - Not What It Used To Be
If its production is as flat as your ex-girlfriend’s new boyfriend’s suspiciously-slashed tyres, then the song itself is 150 seconds of him angrily chasing you down the street, shouting illegibly...»