In photos: Andrew WK & Rolo Tomassi
A brace of gigs, a host of pictures: Rolo Tomassi at The Old Blue Last on Monday night, and Andrew W.K. making a rare live appearance at Push's 1st Birthday party on Saturday»
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Future plans: FOTL announce tour, live album
It's no secret that Future Of The Left are bloody marvellous at gigging - so it's perhaps no surprise that someone came up with the genius idea of putting out an album to document the FOTL live experience»
All that glitters: Santogold tours with Kanye
Santogold: pretty hot right now. Her self-titled debut LP is mad decent, too. That's probably why the king of bling himself Kanye West has decided to take the girl on tour with him in November»
Doing it for the kids: Elbow to make album for children
Elbow, currently raking in the cash off the back of that Mercury win, have announced their intention to follow up prize winning LP The Seldom Seen Kid with an album of children's music and an accompanying animated film.»
It's great when you're 8: DiS' birthday bills announced
A couple of special birthday party-slash-showcases at Concrete & Glass and In The City»
Not so intimate: Bloc Party announce 2009 dates
Those boys from the Bloc, they be touring. Well, in early 2009. And only a bit: a pair of dates in Glasgow, Manchester and Wolverhampton»
Remix Radiohead, and pay for the privilege (again)
Radiohead, hey? They give away an entire album (okay, so a few people might have paid for it...) but then charge fans to remix its tracks»
Kings Of Leon to take M83 on the road
Kings Of Leon still have time for the little guys: they're taking underrated shoe-gaze knob twiddler M83 (aka Anthony Gonzalez, plus live band) on tour with them this winter»
TV On The Radio - Dear Science
Whether Dear Science will stand the test of time is impossible to predict right now, but, at this moment in time, it's sounding like one of the albums of the year, and its makers' latest, greatest masterpiece»
Animal madness: Wild Beasts, Cats In Paris and more to DiScover Manchester in October
So you know how last week we said we had some exciting DiScover-related news for you in the pipeline? Well, we weren't lying. In partnership with The Deaf Institute, we're taking DrownedinSound live to Manchester at the end of October and then every fourth Tuesday of the month from then on. »
He's (not) on the Phones: Bloc Party remixer to stop knob twiddling
Bloc Party's new single 'Talons', out October 20 via Wichita, promises to be something of a collector's item - it'll contain the last ever Phones (AKA producer Paul Epworth) remix »
Mercury rising: nominees report massive sales boost
Whether you agreed with the decision to award Elbow the 'Prize or not, one thing is clear: Mercury nominations = more moolah.»
Ready to receive: Parts & Labor announce UK LP release
Criminally underexposed Brooklyn noise-punks Parts & Labor are to release their third album for Jagjaguwar on November 3 in the UK»
Chart news: Metallica hold on at #1, sound better on Guitar Hero
Mastering engineer claims new Metallica album Death Magnetic sounds better on Guitar Hero than it does via the CD release due to excessive compression»
Mixtape #15: Duncan Lloyd
Maximo Park guitarist Duncan Lloyd joins the fourteen other artists who've sent DiS their mixtape selections»
Watch: Eugene McGuinness' new vid and him on tour
Eugene McGuinness, a massive exception to the rule that singer-songwriters are usually rubbish, has a couple of releases on the horizon that you should know about.»
Earth to Chemicals: beatmeisters unveil 'Midnight Madness' video
The Chemical Brothers invited fans to submit videos of their nocturnal activities tagged with Google Earth locations for inclusion in their video for current single 'Midnight Madness' - see the results here»
TV On The Radio tour... a bit
It's the news we've all been waiting for, but it might come as a disappointment if you live far away from a major city: TV On The Radio are indeed touring new album Dear Science in the UK this autumn»
Do you wanna be in Guitar Hero (sort of)? Apply within...
Leamington based geeks FreeStyleGames have signed an agreement with Guitar Hero makers Activision to produce additional downloadable content for the third instalment in the series, and they want musicians to help them»
Hungry? This Ain't No Picnic menu swells
Smalltown America Records announce full lineup for September Shindig at King's College, London»
DiScover Sheffield: Autumn programme announced (new underwear-centric)
Up here at DiScover Sheffield, we've got a bunch of lineups sure to warm the cockles and delight the ears this Autumn/Winter»
Tour news: Spinto Band plot UK dates
The Spinto Band: they be doing stuff. Hot on the heels of their recent Gremlins connection, the cutesy pop tykes have only gone and announced a bunch of UK dates»
Happy Birthday Rough Trade: Jarvis announces anniversary jaunt
To mark Rough Trade's 30th birthday, Jarvis Cocker - himself celebrating the same number of years in the business - is to head out on a brief anniversary tour»
Rave on: Raveonettes announce free remix EP (plus three more to follow)
DiS-approved Danish filth-pop duo The Raveonettes are to release four EPs before Christmas»
Idle-wild? Not Roddy: second 'solo' project announced
Roddy Woomble, singer with once-good-but-not-anymore Scottish guitar-slingers Idlewild, has announced details of his second release»
Justice for all: French rump-shakers release documentary
Justice are to release a documentary "all about the extraordinary things that can happen when a bunch of frogs gets dropped in dreamy America" on Monday November 10»
The Cure score quadruple US chart success, release remix EP
Robert Smith and his ever-reliable band of Goths have scored not one, not two, nor three, but four entries in the US top 20»
The Coral - Singles Collection + Mysteries And Rarities
Though memory suggests the quality of The Coral's singles has been pretty consistent, hearing them in this non-chronological order makes one thing abundantly clear: they're still yet to better the early stuff»
Cats In Paris - Courtcase 2000
A pretty-darn-close to impeccable debut copybook. These Cats, then, have got the tunes as well as the cream. A bright future seems assured»
A Month in Records: August 2008
August, then: a month of festivals, and all that entails (mud, booze, excess, tiredness, sleep - usually in that order) - but also a pretty good time for album releases based on this little lot»