Oasis Tickets - See Hear, Now.
Oasis this week announced a string of stadium shows for next summer - theoretically to support a sixth long playing record.»
Articles
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Dogs - She's Got A Reason
London's roaming rockers Dogs, are in an uneviable position; the Great Eastern Street mafia appear to have all but abandoned Pete and Carlos, and with it, all their stylishly bedraggled fellow bands. As it's all jerk jerk jerk round the broadsheets, the latecomers are chasing a rapidly accelerating bus.»
Biffy Clyro - Only One Word Comes To Mind
The juggernault that is Biffy Clyro ambles slowly on, with a clear path and destination in sight, just no particular urgency to get there.»
Lemon Jelly - The Shouty Track
I mean… what happened here? It’s very rare for an outspoken, verbose DiS journalist to be caught with their thesaurus-ed pants down, but… what can one say about Lemon Jelly’s ‘The Shouty Track’?»
Ladyfuzz - Oh Marie
Inevitable comparisions from the ill informed of stylistically focused will nod towards Bloc Party and Yeah Yeah Yeahs, but a comparision to female-fronted music for the sake of it, and singling out one edgy post-pop band in a whole brew is disingenious.»
Lou Barlow - Emoh
The new album’s called ‘Emoh’ you see, and is more than a nod towards what he feels is a certain misappropriation of what emo boys should do; it’s all about the open heart surgery, rather than the thrashing hardcore-esque guitars.»
Dead Fly Buchowski - Blackout
Dead Fly Buchowski make their recorded debut in hairy fashion. ‘Blackout’ is all overloaded guitars and bass and guttural vocals.»
Thirteen Senses - Thru The Glass
God this song is so fucking wet. You could douse a raging inferno simply by throwing masses of these CDs over it.»
Pink Grease - Strip
‘Strip’ is a meaty, Mid Wester of a dirty rock song, and it flails about menacing indeed. Filthy guitars nearer to synths cruise metronomically, while lyrically, it's suitably lace and leather.»
Green Day - Boulevard Of Broken Dreams
Does it surprise and worry you that this song is played back to back with Keane on many radio stations? Or are you happy that your rock n roll figureheads are snuggling nicely into the mainstream?»
Six By Seven - Catch The Rain
six by seven single. not great.»
The Black Velvets - Get On Your Life
Black Velvets vertigo. stereophonics really.»
Snow Patrol, Various - The Trip
What a happy place Snow Patrolville is at the moment. Big enough and pop enough enough to be asked to do Band Aid, yet cool enough and indie enough to create a tastemaking mix tape. Fran Healy's doing '...Christmas Time' but he's certainly not been asked to guide the alternative youth's notions of cool. Thankfully.»
Radio 4 - State Of Alert
Things aren’t going too well for Radio 4 at the moment; alongside the cancellation of their European tour, they have their nemesis being re-elected»
Bright Eyes - Take It Easy
'...The production on 'Take It Easy' is astounding. Clattering, bunched percussion fights with rogue bontempi keyboards and backwards swells of sound. All the while of course, Oberst narrates in the manner of a self-flagellating, cynical, confused, hopeless romantic.'»
Mando Diao: Scando-rock hitmen hit the UK
Mando Diao, the (hopefully sooner rather than later) natural heir to Sweden's rock n roll crown are to release their debut UK single proper.
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Winnebago Deal - Dead Gone
Ten things that you must know about The Deal...»
Morrissey - Let Me Kiss You
that trademark Moz vocal sigh, the sweeping balladry, the arch, almost subversive lyricism – it’s all there. So why are we so unmoved?»
Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Y Control
Proof indeed, that the common image of Karen O belting round the stage screaming like a drunken lady on a Club 18-30 excursion is in fact wrong. Some of the time at least.»
Fatboy Slim - Palookaville
Listening to 'Palookaville' it's hard not to resent Cook for making something so naively upbeat and depressingly bland. Doesn’t he know that there's a war going on? Lots of them?»
The Subways - 1am
Originally coming to the attention of the music-watching public back in June when they graced the Other Stage at Glastonbury as a still-unsigned band, initial signs for The Subways weren't too promising.»
Sons and Daughters - Johnny Cash
It's fitting that the Glaswegian country quartet Sons & Daughters are the first band to have produced a tribute to Johnny Cash: their shared sense of noir is a strong bond indeed.»
Jimmy Eat World - Pain
No point in wasting any time – the first new material by Jimmy Eat World in a bunch of years rockets away with nary a breath for opening instrumentals.»
Johnny Panic - Burn Your Youth
‘Burn Your Youth’ is a standard slab of big chorused Kerrang! TV riffing. The sort that any idiot with five digits on one hand can play. It is however a very catchy standard slab of big chorused Kerrang! TV riffing.»
Ed Harcourt - Strangers
There’s always been a nice Vaudevillian part to Ed Harcourt – like fellow troubadour Rufus Wainwright, he has a nice sense of overblown theatre. Which is very important when most performers of his genre threaten to send you comatose with large doses of mediocre earnestness. But... is his new record halfway decent?»
Adem - Ringing In My Ear
Adem’s an odd name really, or is it merely a audible take on the South African pronunciation of ‘Adam’? No, didn’t think so…»
Beastie Boys - Triple Trouble
Apparently, the six year hiatus between ‘Hello Nasty’ and ‘To The 5 Boroughs’ can be solely attributed to the trio being held captive by a Bigfoot-esque monster called Sasquatch.»
Ed Harcourt - This One's For You
The history of rock ‘n roll is peppered with the tale of the bar room blues. Pretty much every solo artist of repute in the last fifty years has produced at least one drinking song...»
The Libertines - Can't Stand Me Now
For all the cruel arrows of fate that have struck The Libertines in their short career, the most shuddering hits have always been struck by themselves...»
The Polyphonic Spree - Hold Me Now
‘Hold Me Now’ is about an unhappy person, who should, like, be really happy, cos, like, the world’s actually an alright place. Thanks, Tim.»