Bloc Party: delay new single, announce June tour
The release of Bloc Party's 'Banquet'/'Staying Fat' single has been bumped back a week to the 3rd May.»
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Avril Lavigne - Happy Ending
'Happy Ending' is the sort of gritted teeth ‘everything’s-rubbish-now-cos-you’re-gone-you-bastard’ pap that gives us girls a bad name and makes us all look like a bunch of depressive bunny boilers.»
The Shins - Fighting In A Sack
The Shins carry on their aural assault with a horny paen to extreme bedroom relations. Or, we might be getting this all wrong...»
Bloc Party - Little Thoughts
A little thrill seeped through our cynical bones when we learnt that Bloc Party are now Chart Stars.»
The Concretes - You Can't Hurry Love
'You Can't Hurry Love' sounds like The Polyphonic Spree on the Atkins Diet; still containing the essential ingredients of joyous, uptempo sunshine rock, but slimmed down to lose the exhausting choral flab.»
Charlotte Hatherley - Kim Wilde
After three albums of kicking it with the boys, the second-fittest one in Ash finally gets around to carrying on with her pre-'Nu Clear Sounds' work. »
Six By Seven - Ready For You Now
Rather like those comical action films where the hero is riddled with bullets but keeps staggering on against all odds, we're somehow presented with another precious Six.By Seven track.»
Hope of the States - The Red The White The Black The Blue
And to quote someone famous, HOTS are still a mystery wrapped inside a puzzle inside an enigma. Indefinable still, confusing and surprising at every turn, it's still about turning heads and proving people wrong.»
The Features - There's A Million Ways To Sing The Blues
The more you listen to 'There's A Million Ways To Sing The Blues', the more impossible it becomes not to fall hopelessly in love with their tuneful nous, organ driven power pop and cat-gut vocals.»
Keane - Everybody's Changing
Almost exactly a year after it was initially released and DiS trumpted that 'Everybody's Changing' was a brilliant record, 'Everybody's Changing is released again; this time with everybody else trumpeting that it's a brilliant record.»
Ash - Orpheus
The first single off Ash's new album is akin to a direct Nuclear hit on Disneyworld, saccharine style.»
The Beta Band - Heroes To Zeros
Evidently a lot of time and effort has gone into the making of the Scottish avant-indieists’ new album, but the lengthy gestation period and a sense of over-incubation has led to something of a malformed mutant.»
Goldie Lookin Chain at London Hammersmith Apollo, Thu 08 Apr
Horrendous joke? Or simply horrendous? Wales' first claim to hip hop fame storm London's West Side in a barrage of councilality...»
The Ordinary Boys - Week In Week Out
For those of you that find little England a vomitous concept, look away now; people who appreciate the observational nuancy of the village green mentality, from Davies to Weller to Albarn, are invited to tea.»
The Open - I Close My Eyes
Now, we assume that you've all gone and fallen in love with The Stills, and their own brand of shimmering, epic guitar idolatry, so perhaps a little home-based hors d'oeuvre ?»
The Strokes - Reptilia
After the rather confusing sight of watching fun Fab and jubby Julian et all struggle on stage at a lamentable hitole like Alexandra Palace, it's reassuring to get back on track with the release of one the best tracks off of 'Room On Fire'.»
Engerica - The Smell
'There's something rather twisted and randy about their grinding rock, something that makes you want to grind along, and in the past couple of years, they've gotten really good at it.'»
Delays - Long Time Coming
...Perhaps if you’d thought about it, you wouldn’t have dented their confidence, you wouldn’t have shattered their aspirations, and you wouldn’t have installed that seed of doubt that’s grown and grown in their minds...»