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The Abdoujaparov song which makes me grin silly and want to skip through fields in a "hello birds! Hello trees!" kind of way (perhaps not that extreme) is 'There's A Monster' in my garden, and it wasn't played tonight due to stand-in bassist Salv considering it "too twee" or something, so for»
Pocket Promise are named after a Cable song and sound fuck all like Cable. Considering ‘Nothing More’ is a headrush of joyful glitzy glam, it’s a pity the rest of the songs tail off into more morose, ballad-rock territory. The best of the bunch would be ‘Die Sleeping’, originally recorded by»
Someone who isn’t me described their website and their music thusly: “The text is a ripoff of Godspeed, the name’s a ripoff of Add N to (X), the names for the pages are a ripoff of Mogwai and the music sounds like screaming yobbo football hooligan skinhead violence mixed with Simple Minds. I lik»
Having made myself some (instant) coffee and light refreshments in the form of tuna-on-toast, I settled down for the morning’s musical entertainment. The blister on my foot wasn’t helping the mood much and the awful drilling sound upstairs was complementing the awful drilling sound coming from my speakers. But that was»
Contra are a band I know little about other than they mostly play in Aberdeen and are highly-rated among their peers and the Kidz. Thus, being relative newcomers, they are still making those initial steps into the big, bad world and thus you probably haven’t heard of them yet but oooh yes you soon will. Y’see, t»
A gathering of traditionally hard-to-please students. Heads nodding appreciatively. The smell of ‘funny’ cigarettes. But this isn’t some fucking hippy gathering, these people are here to watch four unglamorous men dressed in black (aka Six By Seven, a British beat combo). ‘Candlelight’, one of only two son»
Congratulations on passing your Cycling Proficiency Test! You are now free to cycle to your heart’s content out in the big, bad world. But before you do that, come hither, young child, and let me have a quiet word in your ear. You know that Highway Code we made you study and then asked really easy question»
Pretty indieboys Thirteen:13 have been dropped by Polydor. No further details are known at the moment but it's suspected the reason has something to do with none of their singles reaching the Top 40. In any case, some enterprising souls have set up an online petition to get the band signed to another label. »
So many CDs, so little time. Once upon a time, the staff of Drownedinsound were able to review everything the generous (or just plain desperate) PRs and record companies sent our way. Now that is just impossible. Many have slipped through the net (not that they all deserved to). To help rectify this, here is a pile »
Yet again a band I know little about is thrust into my life by someone who couldn’t face his ever-expanding pile of promo CDs (thanks, Sean). Not only has this got one of the best titles I’ve heard in a long-time, it’s also a godsend in a big piles of smelly jobbies that have been passed off as “sin»
Well, this is very nice. Not amazing but… nice. I haven’t seen a photo of the band but suspect more than one of them has a beard. ‘Word Fail Me Now’ has a plinky plonky intro with Matt Jones’ fragile voice fitting it perfectly, along the lines of Grandaddy’s more tender moments (but not as good. Obviously)»
And so the music industry did fret as to what to do about the sudden Hear’Say backlash and the metal kidz taking over and OH what about that punk rock music. And so they did fret and panic and put out Dane Bowers and Posh Spice and Allstars CDs and then wonder why nobody bought them. Then somebody, perhaps one of t»
The really rather fab yet terribly-named Nylon Pylon release their second single, 'Sister Siam', with a launch party at Manchester's Life Café on 29 Oct. Released on Booney Tunes, the single will be on sale for the first time at the gig but in nationwide shops on 12 Nov. Other g»
Lee Ryan from rising boyband Blue has issued a grovelling apology for comments he made regarding the Sep 11 terrorist attacks. He was quoted in today's (Oct 26) The Sun 'newspaper' as saying: "Who gives a fuck about New York when elephants are being killed? They are ignoring ani»
‘Indie tunesmiths’ Beulah are the latest in a line of bands being big girl’s blouses, having pulled out of their scheduled support slot with Hefner at London’s Shepherd’s Bush, and all their European dates… because they are afraid of flying in the wake of the Sep 11 terrorist attacks. Quite why they’ve ch»
‘Time’ magazine columnist Joel Stein is developing a new cartoon series for VH1, featuring Fountains Of Wayne. The band’s contribution, if the show makes it past the pilot episode, will be providing the theme music and short music video style snippets in each episode. The cartoon is said to be based around t»
Nine years ago after purchasing ‘American TV’, I would not have thought Terrorvision would end up making a ‘Best Of’ album. My knowledge of the band extended to what I’d read in Kerrang! – this back in the days when Kerrang! could be seen putting VINYL on the cover of their magazines, and one of those fre»
It’s easy to get hung up on looking for NEW and ORIGINAL music. Next big things in sharp suits, who walk it like they talk it. Hello The Strokes. But then on the other hand you have bands who just play great pop with minimal effort, don’t pretend they’re breaking back the boundaries of music, and don’t sound like the V»
Rough Trade Shop Ditches All Their Records... ... apart from the new Aphex Twin album, 'Drukqs'. That's right - on October 22nd 2001, Rough Trade shops on Talbot Road and Neal's Yard, London, will be kitted out entirely with copies of Aphex's latest opus. Each album comes on heavy-weight vinyl »
It’s that time of year where unsigned bands with names like Dude, Hollywood Waitress, and The Fantastic Super Foofs all descend upon a carefully chosen city (usually Manchester), aiming for the attention of someone who can give them that lucrative record deal. Sure, the endless parties, showcases, drinking, panels, pre»
Like many other bands changing song titles, lyrics and so on, The Strokes have removed 'New York City Cops' from the US version of their album, 'Is This It?'. This is of course due to the tragedy in New York a couple of weeks ago. And that's all there is to say about that, really.»
Cult Scots indie heroes ballboy have an album coming out. Hurrah! And they've re-recorded some older tracks for it. 'Donald In The Bushes With A Bag Of Glue' and 'A Day In Space' have been reworked, a new song 'Postcards From The Beach' will see the light of day for the first time, and it's also to include an ac»
This came as a bit of a surprise because the local-band-CDR-singles I normally hear are unmitigated shite. Boomhauer are a little different though, mainly because they sound more geared up for the American radio-friendly rock than most bands in this country. Major labels looking for the ne»
You have a fab new phone. It has WAP and everything. GRATE! You are the essence of yuppie cool. Or so you think…
Top 5 Phone Annoyances
1. “I’M ON A TRAIN!”
You will shout this loudly into your phone and then laugh wildly at the thought of having committed one of the biggest mobile phone »
Grand Royal is to close down. The record label was set up by the Beastie Boys in 1993 and has also played home to At The Drive-In, Atari Teenage Riot, Luscious Jackson, Bis, and Ben Lee. The nature of the closure has been blamed on "mounting debts, decreasing assets and exceedingly harsh industry cond»
Having parted ways with Artful Records, Clint Boon is now spending his time setting up his own label to release his music and other people's. In a letter on his website, he says The Clint Boon Experience are taking a break. He states: "I recently decided to focus more time and effort on some of my other acti»
Glasgow's McSleazy All-Stars headline King Tuts Wah Wah Hut on Sep 23rd, playing a special set. The songs have been written just for this gig and it's set to feature guest vocalists Eugene Kelly, Rico, Paul Campion (AC Acoustics), Chris Gordon (Regency Buck/Deckard/Baby Chaos) and Kit Cummings (Vodka/said»
Kung Fu Records have not really been known in the past for championing what is affectionately known as ‘geek rock’ but with their latest release there is a slight change. Being brought up in the 1980s and fed on a diet of ‘Back To The Future’, Nintendo and ‘Star Wars’ provides the lyrical inspirations for Ozma»
The "unforseen, internal band circumstances" which caused them to cancel their imminent UK tour has split Cast. The band will be working on solo projects instead. As previously reported on DiS, their new album only barely limped into the Top 80.»
[story updated 22-08-01]
Weezer have confirmed a tour of the UK:
28 Oct: London, Brixton Academy
29 Oct: Southampton, Guildhall
31 Oct: Birmingham, Que Club (Radio 1 Sound City)
1 Nov: Manchester, Apollo
2 Nov: Glasgow, Barrowland
The health of bassist Mikey is s»
