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As you have already heard, InMe are touring in January but blimey, someone's done something right, as two of the UK's other best RAWK outfits have been added the bill!! We can exclusively announce that DiS-faves from the Oxford Weezer Rock College Crackout support on the first 5 show's and dis-faves»
Those Biffy boys are on their way back... The awesome noise versus tenderness threesome that go under the always-confusing-when-said-drunk-and-often-sober moniker of Biffy Clyro, are taking a break from working on album number 2 to play an xmas show with Aldershot-grungers Vex Red at the Marq»
That ska-party - breathing fire, tooting glitter guns, juggling and everything - is coming at brits again! Less Than Jake who recently signed to Reprise (Warner/Aol) have announced details of a uk tour and a new album. The record's called 'Anthem' due sometime in the Spring. You can check som»
I'm at the Mean (Kiddie - ho ho!) Fiddler, to see the band opening up the Martin oooh-I-sound-like-VAST-and-sold-out-to-kick-start-my-career-with-a-car-commercial Grech, Kerrang affiliated rock show, a band that we at DiS want the world to know about.
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This is the first of many tour diaries from the best bands in the UK right now, strange stories, tales of debauchery, drunkeness and wot not... This is Dan Reeve's Diary, from Exeter's amazing rawk with a cello that is Tyler ..think Aereogramme, Fugazi, early iDLEWiLD, Six by Seven's raw bits.. stuff like »
You will have heard Miss Black America split up, well forget all about that.. We don't yet have the official line on what's happening as yet but as far as we know, Seymour has rummaged together a band that will continue under the moniker of Miss Black America and they will play the Drowned in Sound »
Another band leave Virgin.. After the recent departure of Goldrush from Virgin we now hear Aldershotians, nu-metal via grungers, Vex Red have left and are said to be "extremely happy to be out of such a clusterfuck of »
Last Night... They came, they sold out the venue, they partied, and then left, late, drunk, ears a-ringin'.. Christmas is a time for giving and partying. We hope we pulled off both last night down in the depths of Brixton. The good news is, it's happening again soon.. Ok, so the staff ate (and dipped»
We promised you a lot of DiS affiliated tours this year and you will already know about the Reuben tour in January, and now we're proud to announce our second month, february-full of gigs... We're excited as bunnies on heat to a»
What do you mean you don't like the Flaming Lips? You'll learn. The hard way most probably. Go see them. Some dates below. An extra one too. Those folks with their odd digi-bits, The Flaming Lips are coming to visit again for another rainbow rub all-over. They'll have a new single too 'Yoshimi Ba»
Skate-pop princess is set to do her first headline tour She's been the (marketing) success of the year, pulling together the Britney thingy, dressed a bit like she should be in Linkin Park, written better songs than P!NK, struttin it like Alanis Morissette, woo-ing them that got bored of Eminem's mum-baiti»
You know that Interactive Music Awards thingy? Well... We came One Hundred and Twenty Seventh out of 1000 sites voted for by you. Considering we beat some pretty huge acts official websites and lots of the dis-a-like websites, I think we did alright. For the full 1000 sites linked »
It almost doesn't seem right but Cat Power's next album has a couple of rock godz on it... 'You are Free' is the title of the second album Cat Power (aka Chan Marshall) out on February 18th, but the website of Matador Records (a»
Punk meets R'n'b in royal confines? And a rock city warm-up! Currently on tour in Oz with the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion have just announced that they'll be playing as part of a MOJO week of concerts (the week includes sh»
It's been quite a while since we last heard from PJ Harvey but after a bit of looking for info on the next album (there is no info yet, grrr!) we've found the following.. According to Murmurs.com, an REM fansite, the band's managem»
The two afro'd parts of At The Drive-In are touring stadiums already? And working with superstars? Cedric and Omar's band The Mars Volta have nearly finished recording their debut album in L.A. with Rick Rubin who's worked with SOAD, RHCP and RunDMC. We've heard that Flea (RHCP) plays bass on the re»
Bobby Gillespie and his gang of drunk addled revolutionaries have got themselves signed to the evil empire and added an extra date to their uk tour.. 5 labels have been brawling to sign PRIMAL SCREAM in the USA. They've gone for Epic/Sony (not a huge leap considering Creation was part of Sony). »
Their show at the 100 Club was one of our gigs of the year. The album they dropped 'Mono' still sounds as fresh as fuck. They're one of the hardest working and most important bands of 2002. Looks like 2003 starts just as well...»
Christmas is upon us once again, and this is another news story about about a Charity CD but don't sigh, Conor Oberst and the Saddle Creek crew are in on this... Conor Oberst (aka Bright Eyes) has had a busy year. Not only has he put out his own album »
We're very proud to announce the line-up for our Xmas party next Sunday 8th December 2002.. As it's the season to justify alcoholism; we thought it only right to share the joy and drunkeness and put together a bill of acts that have rocked our world this year! We've got them all together to play The Bri»
Mooooorrre iDLEWiLD dates? YUP! Firstly, the line-up... you will have already read that 23year-old Gavin Fox (rumoured to be related to one of Boyzone!) from the awesome irishness that is TURN is replacing if-jesus-was-a-bassist Bob Fairfoull in Idlewild. But he's not doing the December date»
Bugger! Bugger! Bugger! Bad news... We've just heard that The (International) Noise Conspiracy tour that was meant to kick off next week has been postponed due to Dennis injuring his back "really badly". A spokesperson for the band said they're rescheduling dates for as soon as possible»
They released one of THE albums of the year and now they're back, kinda... Tomorrow night (Friday 29th Nov) those arty-noizemunkies, cool catz and friends of DiS The Cooper Temple Clause will be taking a night off writing their second album to play records at the Camden Barfly's Club Sputnik »
There’s this gang we really want to tell you about. They’re known as Jarcrew, which doesn’t give away too much, but don’t be put off, especially if you like things to hit you like the noizest party you’ve ever stumbled out of. I caught their sweaty rockstorm live at this years In The City. They rocked so much t»
We promised you a rock tour or three to kick off 2003 and here's our first deliverance... Aldershots finest, dis-faves and all-round great guys =REUBEN= (who're currently out on the road with Hell is For Heroes) are set to headline the first Drownedinsound.com tour of 2003 with their exciting»
Olly and Gale. February and March. Them and You. Live and Love. Let me hear a big YAY! cus Turin Brakes have announced a February and March tour in promotion of their second album, 'Ether Song' out on February 3rd 2003 (which isn't as far away as it sounds!). The album's produce»
I just love it when I hear another new band that I want to tell the world to go and see/hear. So here's my chance, cus Colour of Fire are doing some shows soon... Kp has already called this Icarus-Line-TrailoDead-Tool-Muse-esque rockgang, "the future" in»
Ok, so it is their website, we're not going to be on teevee or nuffink. Bossman/Creator chap Sean, got quizzed by the BBC One Music website (which is really useful if you're in a band or want to get into the music biz) the other day and you can read it if ya wanna »
The Primms could be from anywhere. Any no-mans-land. It really doesn’t matter where they’re from. We live in global shitsville. We all believe we've got it bad. Tho often it’s the cosiest ones that have it the worse, they learn life's lessons the hardest of ways - on their knees in toilet stalls, usually. »
