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Spoon confirm a one-off date in the capital
Texas-based trio Spoon, who recently toured the US with Superchunk, and will back on the road with Guided by Voices in April, have announced they're playing a one-off date with Joel R.L. Phelps at the Borderline, London this month.
March
Glaswegian Rockers Mogwai have revealed an Irish tour date
Mogwai who recently confirmed gigs at the Rothesay Pavillion on the Isle of Bute (14th April) and at London's Shepherd's Bush Empire (19th April), have announced they're playing in Dublin on the 17th April, in the Guinness Storehouse, tickets »
Those gobby shites from Weymouth, ooops I mean the attitude splattered spunky gobish punk rock band Pusha have confirmed two gigs.
The band who's debut single 'Lowlife', was release on Sean Adam's Soaked
Sounds label has announced two warm up dates for their easter tour. Pusha
will play:
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January have attacked Lowgold, after the band slagged them off and nicked one of their guitars at a recent gig.
Guitarist Sarah Peacock told playlouder.com that the theft occurred after the two bands played together.
"We were meant to go on second, but their record company had bought a load of »
The Beach Boys are to play a short tour of the UK, despite only featuring one original member.
Mike Love has licensed the Beach Boys' name and lines up alongside Bruce Johnston, who joined the band in the '70s as a touring replacement for Wilson. The rest of the band is made up of session musicians. <»
The band which includes members of Three Mile Pilot and Clickitat Ickatowi, have announced an one-off date before their performance at All Tomorrow's Parties
The band who according to Southern, their UK distributor, are about "Funereal pacing, love lost at sea, whiskey-soaked hearts, and nicotine stai»
16th six-tracker from everyone’s favourite non-independent indie label. The last six-track compilation from Fierce Panda was an all American affair that featured …And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead, Fiver, Hopewell, Interpol, Bright Eyes and The Fire Show, would this compilation prove that us Bri»
The eagerly anticipated debut release from London’s newest noiseband Econoline
Ever wondered what would happen if you were to take the fuzzy guitar noise of Husker Du, combine it with the freeform dynamics of Braid then add the ex-frontman of the Cashcow, Mr Ian Scanlon, a self-proclaimed 80’s US hard»
Second release from the boys from Petersfield
Really not too sure about this, I adored their previous release '(pause) EP' and Seb, the bassist, told me little later on that they weren’t that happy with it they’d be back with even better songs.
So when I got this I shoved it straight into m»
Another release from those Finnish Freaks
They may well be freaks but you can't help but love them. Another glorious release from Helsinki's… if not the World's finest artnoise band. Mother Goose are at their most laid back on the title-track 'Village', a delicate and fragile droning slowcore n»
Here's the Damn You! schedule for this month
March
14th - London, The Verge
Sweep The Leg Johnny
Guapo
The Monsoon Bassoon
Reynolds
15th - Oxford, Bullingdon Arms
The Monsoon Bassoon
Jet Johnson
Stanton
Meanwhile Back In Communist Russia»
Courtney Love's new band are called Bastard, and will feature members of Hole and Veruca Salt.
According to the official Hole website www.holemusic.com, Love has formed a new band, Bastard, with Veruca Salt's Louise Post on lead guitar, Former Hole drummer Patty Schemel and ex-Rockit Girl, Gina Crosle»
Ex Pavement frontman Stephen Malkmus returns to the UK
Malkmus will return to the UK in April, for a 5-date tour, the tour coincide with the release of his debut single, 'Discretion Grove' available through Domino Records.
The tour dates are:
April
12th - University o»
Tiger Style release split EP featuring K and Low
Ex-Beekeeper Karla Schickele, now of Brooklyn trio Ida, is set to release
two solo recordings under the moniker of K, through Tiger Style Records. The
first is to be a split EP with Duluth's Low. Each artist will record two
exclusive songs for the EP»
The band will release their fourth album in April
The band fourth album 'Dilate' will be released on Matador Records on the
24th April. The record features 10 tracks recorded over the course of 2000
at the Lemur House in Philadelphia and runs for over 72 minutes. It will be
released as a single CD »
Travis Morrison of Washington DC's the Dismemberment Plan, has revealed
details of the band follow up to their 99 album 'Emergency & I'
According to a message on their website, they're just "putting the finishing
touches on the next album's songs now. We're going in with three our four we
haven't p»
Murry The Hump are set to release their debut album in the summer through
Too Pure
'Song Of Ignorance' recorded last year in Newport's Loco Studios, is
schdeuled to be released in May and»
Welsh band Big Leaves have finished recording for their EP
The band recorded four new tracks, 'Animal Instinct', 'Hang On To Your
Halo', 'Nicole' and 'Automatic' in Famous Studios in Cardiff. Which will be
released in April as on CD and a four track 10". The describe the songs as
"the best thing we»
Caretaker play three shows this month
The band will be playing at the Bull & Gate on 12th March with Fourth Quartet, The Oedipus, Reuben and Ursa. The gig is a launch show for the Badmusic compilation CD 'Please take off you shoes before entering', featuring the above bands plus 5 more.
Oth»
Young Glaswegian upstarts, Biffy Clyro release their first single for Beggars Banquet
'27' (backed with 'Instructio4' and 'Breathe Her') will be released on the 26th March. The band who have recently recorded a session for the Evening Session in Scotland and appeared on BBC Choice, are currently on to»
... On their own Tinfold Recordings
'I only wanted something else to do but hang around' , a split single with another Oxford based band Meanwhile, back in Communist Russia is due out on April 2nd, on Tinfoil Recordings.
It's being distributed by Prime Distribution, and will also be availa»
London's premier Psychedelic Power Pop band need your help
Voting for the 'A Night Of Musical Defiance' gig with Dodgy at the Astoria in London on March 30th has begun and we at DiS think you should vote for Koala.
All you have to do is visit »
To mark the end of their 25th birthday celebrations, Rough Trade are showing live footage of The Smiths.
'Reel Around The Fountain' features live footage from a gig at Sheffield Town Hall as well as scenes shot backstage at various venues throughout their 1984 tour.
The 52-minute feature wi»
Q And Not U, to someone that hasn’t heard them are probably "just another American punk rock band with an incredibly stupid name", the more knowledgeable might think, "just another D»
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My enthusiasm has kinda run out lately which is why I haven’t written anything for ages. Despite getting a million and one great CDs, I just couldn’t be arsed. The pile has got so big that my parents are starting having ago at me at making the dinning room look like a tip. So I thought I’d better do somethi»
MSTD have announced a mammoth UK tour, kicking off on Monday 29th January
at The Lomax, Liverpool.
The confirmed dates so far are:
January
29th - The Lomax, Liverpool (w/ Jack Drag + Birdman)
30th - The 13th Note, Glasgow (w/ Jack Drag)
February<»
Chikinki will release their debut album 'Experiment with Mother' on
Bristol's Sink and Stove label on the 12th March.
Featuring 13 new tracks described as "hewn from twisted electronic power and
doused in ridiculously catchy melodies and uncommonly thoughtful lyrics",
the tracklisting is:
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The sequel to possibly one of the most insane alldayers ever to take
place in Chelmsford has been announced.
The Soundtrack to Violence 2 takes place at the Army & Navy, Chelmsford,
Essex on the 3rd February 2001.
The line-up consists of:
Knuckledust
Inimenter
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The band will release their first album in four years via Sub Pop
A spokesperson for the band said that 'Old Ramon' was originally recorded
two years ago, but not released after Supreme Recordings closed. The release
date for the new album has yet to be confirmed but the the provisional
releas»
The trio have announced details on the follow up to their 'Plug Me In' single.
'The Poker Roll', will be released on the 5th March by Mute. The single is available on 2 CDs, b-sides include new mixes of the title track as well as two brand new songs, 'White Scrapie' and 'Wax Gravy', the later a coll»
