Gay for touring: Depp monikered boys hit the UK
New York foursome, Gay For Johnny Depp are to return to the UK in support of their album, The Politics Of Cruelty.»
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Mystery Jets - Flakes
Sounding rather like a dippy, modern-day version of Grease soundtrack favourite ‘Teen Angel’, it appears that a rather tumultuous few years for Mystery Jets has lead to a contemplative mood»
Scouting For Girls - Elvis Ain't Dead
Scouting For Girls are not Good Pop. They are Bullshit Pop. They grate and whine like a cut-price Divine Comedy colluding with Ben Folds Five in Pat Sharp's Funhouse. Without any of the skill, wit or nous»
The Whitest Boy Alive - Dreams
Dreams is a sophisticated record, made by someone exploring his burgeoning musical palate. It might just be Erlend Øye's breakthrough to a wider, more appreciative audience»
The Shins - Sealegs
Good band and everything, The Shins, but on occasion, a misplaced sense of Adult Rock can leave you seriously bored»
Stuffy & The Fuses - Metal Queen Theme / Sir Wants Sex
Lo fi rock rules! Angels, as Stuffy and the Fuses have observed on their latest record Are Ace. So indeed, is Stuffy and his band of merry punk rock girls and boys»
Super Furries offer free xmas track: clever title a bonus
Everybody’s favourite favourites, Super Furry Animals, are to give away a free MP3. On Christmas Day. What makes this even better? The track is the cleverly-titled ‘The Gift That Keeps On Giving’.»
Marketing plan falling into place: Radiohead announce single
Radiohead have announced they’ll be releasing ‘Jigsaw Falling Into Place’ as the first single from In Rainbows on 14th January 2008.»
The Weekly DiScussion: Have we lost our stomach for intelligent debate?
Browsing over breakfast yesterday morning, a nation was stunned to read that Morrissey had said some things that People Might Not Agree With. DiS splutters its rhetoric before other people do...»
Kevin Drew - Safety Bricks
Gentle, folksy and sounding like it was recorded mainly with a collection of detuned guitars and loosened snare drums, it evokes a plaintive and lush drama that lulls you in tenderly.»
Amy Winehouse cancels all shows for the rest of the year
Troubled songstress Amy Winehouse has cancelled her show in Cardiff tomorrow and the rest of her forthcoming tour.»
In The Other City: ITC brings Best Of to London
Following this year’s annual unsigned bunfest that is In The City, the organisers have disseminated the four day booze and broken amp-athon into a fistful of bands to represent ‘the best of’.»
Midlake - Milkmaid Grand Army EP (Re-release)
Recorded way back before The Trials of Van Occupanther, Milkmaid Grand Army is an EP of tracks that disclose the formative years of Midlake, even if it is a rather questionable decision.»
Wild Beasts - Assembly
Much of the joy to be found in the dippy, quixotic and downright oddness of Wild Beasts is… just that. Music hall on mushrooms from the Leeds quartet. No strobe lights, though, please»
Queens of The Stone Age - Make It Wit Chu'
QOTSA in 2007 are an odd thing. Live, they’re as powerful and darkly enticing as they ever were, but on record, things haven’t reached the peaks of Rated R and Songs For The Deaf. »
Beirut: inspiration is an old piano (Archive Interview from 2007)
DiS meets the beating heart of Beirut, Zach Condon, in Cardiff to discuss musical appropriation, German house records and why it's better to visit cities after you've made the record they've influenced»
Sebadoh for full European tour in '08?
In order to counteract today's unusually high number of factual, important news stories, DiS is fancifully fanning the flames of a full UK and European tour for Sebadoh next year.»
Blitzen Trapper - Wild Mountain Nation
Wild Mountain Nation may be founded upon a solid brew of late-Beatles-born, ‘60s-inflected American indie, but Blitzen Trapper will throw anything into the soup in order to make it more piquant»
Johnny Flynn - The Box
In the confused dungeon of rock that is the DiS office, many people have been heard to utter, “So Johnny wassisthing; is that the same as Jolene and the thingy things?”»
The Whitest Boy Alive - Burning
It’s a little strange how The Whitest Boy Alive are so substantially overlooked, given the praise earned by Erlend Øye in his former guise as a King of Convenience»
O'Death - Down To Rest
‘Down to Rest' is the sort of song that sways under its own drunkenness, creaks beneath its own toothless croak of a vocal, and draws you into a spit-and-sawdust paradise»
Huw Stephens on SWN Festival: "I can't believe it's actually happening"
The Huw Stephens curated SWN Festival takes place this weekend in Cardiff. The Radio 1 DJ drops into the DiSopolis to explain the thinking behind the Welsh music blow-out»
Label Focus #12: One Little Indian
Noted for work with Björk and The Sugarcubes, One Little Indian has a fine history with Rocket From The Crypt and, most recently, Asobi Seksu on its roster. Founder Derek Birkett plays DiS Q&A»
Alberta Cross - Leave Us Or Forgive Us EP
It’s welcome to see in a time of flippancy and Goodtime Charlies a bit of gravitas in the indie world, and it’s clear that Alberta Cross trade in such goods with wide-eyed vigour»
Neil Young - Chrome Dreams II
Chrome Dreams II – so named as it is notionally the sequel to a record made and then discarded by Neil Young – mixes the lethargic and thoughtful with the coruscating»
Chase the answers: Jimmy Eat World Q&A
With their sixth record Chase The Light in stores as of now, Jimmy Eat World (we dare not call them emo) discuss interchangeable album songs, not keeping up with the Joneses and Radiohead's new dawn In Rainbows. Yes, we had to ask»
Shocking Pinks - End Of The World
They’re probably a band who make more sense in the context of a full album (or compilation), but ‘End of the World’ is still a precious artefact»
Sigur Rós - Hljomalind / Staralfur
If you’ve switched on the likes of 6Music recently, you won’t have failed to hear the bewitching slab of soaring vocals and crescendo-ing guitars that is ‘Hljómalind ’»
Rogue Wave - Asleep At Heaven's Gate
Lazy Shins Comparisons are inevitable, but when Rogue Wave break out of the confines of indie-by-association they prove they are a fine band indeed...»
Who's listening to Radiohead: In Rainbows gets scrobbled...
Tracking those Radiohead listeners...»