Keane appearing Later...
Terrific troubadouring triple whammy trio, Keane, are to appear on Later… With Jools Holland this Friday, October 31st.»
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Desert Sessions - Crawl Home
It’s not entirely unobvious that the king and queen of unsettling rock sleaze, Mr Homme and Ms Harvey would eventually gravitate towards each other, but judging by the results, Mars and Venus do not naturally align.»
Lomax - Modern Life
'...however, as toweringly worthy as ‘Modern Life’ is, it doesn’t stop it from being so earnest as to be particularly unenjoyable...'»
Super Furry Animals at London Brixton Academy, Fri 17 Oct
Welsh psychedelic pop geniuses turn up to their traditional London haunt, and fail to surprise with their surprises.»
M83 - Dead Cities, Red Seas & Lost Ghosts
‘Dead Cities, Red Seas & Lost Ghosts’ really is a ray of beauty. A ray of droning, intricate synth beauty, but marvellous nonetheless.»
Do Make Say Think - Winter Hymn Country Hymn Secret Hymn
'...Best experienced on vinyl, the group’s fourth record is set across three movements, the best being Side B’s horns and recurring jazz grooves...'»
Elliott Smith: RIP 06/08/69 - 21/10/03
Steven Paul Smith, better known as Elliott Smith, died on October 21st. A legend is born.»
Repairman - Here We Are Now
As we become increasingly used to being force-fed tunes as bright and vivid as the advertising in Leicester Square, it’s occasionally nice to revel in a band who gently and assiduously sneak songs into your subconscious.»
R.E.M. - Bad Day
An impressive 17 years in the making, ‘Bad Day’ proves that REM can still cut it in the world of brilliant pop singles.»
The Music bang stuff; make 'epic' soundtrack
Kippax psyche-rock goons The Music have recorded an original fifteen minute musical score to accompany a forthcoming installation by renowned artists Rob and Nick Carter. The duo are responsible for The Music's own swirly-whirly cover artwork. artwork.»
Hope of the States at London ULU, Fri 10 Oct
"It might not be quite as good as it always wants to, or really should be, but there is a sense of self-worth and magnitude that exudes from these men of furrowed brow that is single-handedly driving them onto bigger stages with bigger crowds who are increasingly more believing."»
Dogs at London 93 Feet East, Mon 06 Oct
When every man and his canine trawled up to Manchester last September to watch a miriad of hopeless bands play hopeless tunes, the feeling was that there was nothing left; rock n'roll had gone to the dogs. Now, we learn, rock n'roll has actually gone to the Dogs.»
The Fiery Furnaces - Gallowsbird’s Bark
In a time where every record company's dream is to find the new White Stripes, it's quite scary to see that someone has actually managed to find what is almost pound-for-pound the new White Stripes.»
AC/DC take west London - cheap at twice the price
AC/DC play the Hammersmith Apollo, 21 years after they took it down the last time...»
Funeral For A Friend - She Drove Me To Daytime Television / Bullet Theory
He just knows that those girls are going to keep fucking him over»
The Strokes - 12:51
Back with something between a bang and a cheery wave, ’12:51’ is a smart piece of brevity that goes someway to microcosmically indicating the forthcoming ‘Room On Fire’.»
Death Cab For Cutie - Transatlanticism
Fresh from the utterly wonderful The Postal Service (think Deathcab mincing the Pet Shop Boys) side project, this is their third and best album to date...»
Belle And Sebastian - Dear Castastrophe Waitress
For many, B&S are too insipid to be poppy, too wet to be indie cool, or just too fuc*ing annoying to be listened to. For others they are the ultimate soundtrack to a closeted life of children’s books and social inhibitions. Or at least, they used to be.»
Strokes to play gigs; hysteria begins
Blah blah Strokes blah blah tour blah blah big venues blah blah really good
December 1 - Glasgow - Braehead Arena
December 3 - Cardiff - International Arena
December 5/6 - London - Alexandra Palace
Tickets go on sale 9am September 26.
The single, '<»
Rancid - Fall Back Down
Rather like Felicity Kendall, Rancid are probably far too old, but still well worth five minutes of your time. Respect the aged, and all that. And, as enjoyable a three minute romp as ’Fall Back Down’ is, there’s a feeling of mild shame in indulging yourself in it, being that it’s a rather standard»
'A' - Good Time
Ah, ‘A’, the Feeder that it’s okay to hate less. Sure these boys ‘rock’, but it’s akin to flying a kite made of candy floss; lightweight, ungainly and a bit useless. Don’t be fooled by the big guitars and crystal sheen production; ultimately ‘A’ will always reside in the ‘pussy boy’ section of rock, simpl»
QOTSA man Lanegan readies LP & EP: everyone in the rock world plays on them
Former Screaming Trees frontman Mark Lanegan is set to release a sixth solo album in January next year, entitled ‘Bubblegum’. ‘Bubblegum’ features guest spots from Greg Dulli, fellow Stone Age-rs Josh Homme and Nick Olivieri, P.J. Harvey and G n’R boys Izzy Str»
Beck in Studio, does album, films, videos, dvds, Dallas
Beck, the man almost unanimously voted turn of this year’s Carling Weekender by DiS writers, has announced that he is set to start work on a new album with long-time collaborators, the Dust Brothers. The diminutive genius will return to the recording studio this week to begin work on the follow-up to his l»
Stellastarr* - Stellastarr*
Stellastarr* know a lot about art. Indeed, band leader and singer Shawn Christensen, has his very own site dedicated to the medium (www.shawnyboy.com if you care to look). However, probably the greatest feat he has achieved is on this debut album; the art of encompassing your influences and then tra»
The Flaming Lips, The Chemical Brothers - The Golden Path
Perhaps a few years ago, Wayne Coyne might have been rather excited by teaming up with Ed’n Tom; the electronic pioneering duo wanting to work with him; weirdy-beardy pop pioneer, imagine!. However, you get the feeling that it’s probably the other way round now; a mark of the seemingly botto»
Placebo - Special Needs
Placebo don’t make it easy, do they? Having spent an increasingly dogged career dishing out doses of occasionally very good, and sometimes even rather elegant music, they really do test the listener by matching up the music with reams of self-obsessed lyrical catwank. Ol’ Brian doesn’t exactly carry»
Tim Burgess - I Believe
Proof then, that location, location, location is the answer. Put a stoutly Lancastrian frontman on the west coast of America for a couple of years, and see what happens. Course, Tim Burgess would probably tell you that he had it in him all the time, but ten - or even five - years ago, who’d of thought that the m»
The Raveonettes - Chain Gang Of Love
If only the saccharine-sweet original chick-flick 'Dirty Dancing' was soundtracked by The Raveonettes; it would of made for a far more wonderfully inedible perv-fest. Jennifer Grey, one speculates, would have been in her element. Far outstripping the influence of the narcotic swirls of the Vel»
Starsailor - Silence Is Easy
If only whiny James from Starsailor had sucked on Phil Spector’s gun in the same, voracious way that he does on the cock of corporate indie tunefulness; then, instead of us having to write some somnambulant bollocks about an ultimately pointless four minutes of pseudo-soulful bullshit, we could be »
Muse - Time Is Running Out
My God, there’s so much to hate about Muse; the pompous frippery, the vocal nobbery, the in-built desire to fuck people off; the hair; the complete virtuosity of musicianship which is so completely unnecessary. So why, WHY do I find myself listening to ‘Time Is Running Out’ again and again, torturing myse»