Gorillaz going live
Albarn and co's cartoon pop-hoppers Gorillaz are to release a live CD/DVD documenting their five-night run at Manchester's Opera House...»
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Bloc Party to headline Royal Albert Hall
Bloc Party are to headline an indie-rockin' bill next month in support of the Teenage Cancer Trust...»
The Shocker - Up Your Ass Tray – The Full Length
Perhaps up their ass tray is precisely where Finch and her crew should’ve kept this tedious exercise in furthering the cause of retrogression in popular rock music...»
Part Chimp, Todd, Hey Colossus, Lords - …Present a Split 10” of Monstrous Proportions
This thick slab o’ jet-black wax, replete with hunched figures of bloody intent on each of its sides, is a four-way split in two senses: one, it features four bands delivering one song apiece; two, it’s released by four different labels, each of which has previously released material by at least one of the featured acts...»
Madonna tours. Where? Don't ask us...
Madonna is to tour this summer, according to MTV...»
Scientists + music = übergeekdom and some bunsen burners
'Academics' across t'pond have 'discovered' the 'revealing' 'news' that 'people' are more likely to 'like' something if they're 'told' to like it before 'listening' to it. Y'know, 'music'...»
Shambles re-scheduled dates confirmed
Babyshambles have confirmed their re-scheduled dates from... um... before. When they were postponed. Because of something...»
Jesus He knows him, so don't take the mick out of Phil Collins' great new idea...
Phil Collins was once in Genesis. He is quite short. He also thinks he's wanting to follow Rod Stewart, a similarly old musician fellow, into the world of the theatre. Daaaaahling...»
Popworld pair to part
Simon Amstell (pictured) and Miquita Oliver are to leave popular Channel 4 pop music show Popworld, after providing often-funny links from one flash-in-the-pan to the next for the past five years...»
Cat's sour - Chan cancels London show
Chan Marshall's recent cancellation of US dates has, rather inevitably, led to today's announcement that the artist better known as Cat Power is to miss her date at London's Barbican on March 4th...»
Ordinary Boys' extraordinary success = winter tour dates
For the love of God, man, cash in and cash in quick! Oh, you have. Nice one...»
Arctic Monkeys tell hometown crowd to "f*ck off"
"Fuck off." That was Arctic Monkeys' singer Alex Turner's reaction to hometown crowd calls for his band to play their much-aired cover of Girls Aloud's 'Love Machine'. Manners, in my day we had them.»
America, too, falls for Blunt's 'Beautiful' ways
James Blunt is being firmly welcomed by gig-goers Stateside, so sayeth The Sun. The singer, up for many a Brit Award on these 'ere shores, is at number eight on the Billboard Chart with 'You're Beautiful'. The BillBORED chart, then...»
British, beefing: Mystery Jets don't like Hard-Fi 'shocker'
One day it's some Busted muppet versus Harry Potter, then Wayne Coyne has a dig at pop puppets, and Pink mickey-takes everyone in a single video blow; now, Mystery Jets have chirped up about their dislike of fellow London indie types Hard-Fi...»
Astoria to host gypsy punkers in March
Gypsy punkers Gogol Bordello have done a Broken Social Scene and upgraded their London gig (on March 10th) to the Astoria...»
My Latest Novel tour in March
Really quite wonderful euphoric-indie outfit My Latest Novel are to take songs from their forthcoming debut full-length on the road in March. Trust us, you won't want to miss these shows.»
Sparowes soar across British skies: tour dates in full
You may already know that epic instrumetallists Red Sparowes (featuring members of Isis) are swooping down onto British soil next month; what you might not know are the precise locations. So, here they are - go and be moved by some of the most mesmirising and powerful instrumental music around...»
Ride to your DOOM: metallers on the road
Self-proclaimed "greatest band in the world" Doomriders are to lay absolute waste to ears about the land in a few weeks, then they embark on a wee UK tour...»
Beastly behaviour: Mogwai get angry over a review, again
Mogwai have again had a wee rant about a less-than-favourable review via their website. This time, Barry Burns has laid into FHM's assessment of the band's fifth studio album, Mr Beast. Read on, do...»
The charts, they're a-changin'
Music Week has revealed the new chart rules, due to come into effect next month...»
Gilmour: Pink Floyd is over, for good
Dads, put away your credit cards and return to those dusty LPs racked so neatly on the top shelf: Pink Floyd will not reform to play again, ever...»
Bourne to rant: Son Of Dorker doesn't like Potter one bit
Former Busted fella turned Son Of Dork mainman James Bourne has been firing words of little respect Harry Potter's way. Well, he's been slagging Potter actor Daniel Radcliffe, anyway...»
Coldplay announce Abbey Road 'gig'
Coldplay, so often happy at home in enormo-domes about the globe, are to play London's Abbey Road Studios next week...»
Daniel Agust at London The Luminaire, Mon 06 Feb
...Pick yourself up from where you fell, all of thirty minutes ago, lulled into tripping face-forward into a blackest hole of immeasurable depth; where it goes, only you now know; the descent, soundtracked by widescreen dreamadelica only the price on the door can buy: Daníel Ágúst...»
Stereophonics release double-disc live set
Rock dullards the Stereophonics are to release a double-disc live album in April, entitled Live In Dakota.»
Don't be an Idiot, enter and WIN! Signed album, gig tickets...
Some of you might be aware that fresh-of-face inventive-punkers Idiot Pilot are currently carving their way about our wee Isles. By way of celebration, and to in no small way attract your attention to the fact that the duo have an album out this week (do check over the reviews section, won't you?), DiS has some nice tickets to give away...»
Broken Social Scene announce new London date, upgrade tour venues
Epic Canadian indie types Broken Social Scene have been forced (yeah, they were so reluctant) to upgrade the venues at their Belfast and Leeds stopovers on their current UK tour...»
Symmetry - This Is Not The End. It Is The Beginning. You Cannot Falter Now.
Isis have so very much to answer for: before the former Bostonians were plastered across the covers of metal magazines the globe over (or at least afforded multi-page coverage within such glossy pages), bands like Symmetry wouldn’t have had an audience readily willing to accept their slowly shifting riffs and preposterous song-length self-indulgence...»
Idiot Pilot - Strange We Should Meet Here
For now, we’ll reserve absolute judgment, but if Idiot Pilot take their best ideas here and develop them for album number two, they might just be onto something magnificently original...»
Follow the line already well walked: Marvin Gaye to get bio-pic
Hollywood Reporter is, um, reporting that a film is to be made on the life of soul sensation Marvin Gaye... »