Singles Round-up (24/03/08)
The latest release from New Jersey record house Italians Do It Better triumphs over Clinic, Blunt and Gnarls Barkley in a week of lacklustre big releases and drab singer-songwriting»
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A Week in Drowned in Sound: 20/03/08
Early Easter bulletin»
No, no, no: Amy Winehouse gets naked for charity
Amy Winehouse has disrobed in order to raise awareness about breast cancer among young women»
Remixing Hitler: an audience with Girl Talk
DiS went looking for hate but no-one, it would seem, is safe from the mash-hungry claws of Pittsburgh producer and DJ Girl Talk. Not even das führer. The Eagles, on the other hand»
Crawling in sick: DiS queasy as Fratellis are confirmed for Camden fest
You and your muckers, rejoice now, Geez, The Fratellis are playing this year’s Camden Crawl, oh yes oh yay!»
Details: Coldplay's new album will be bullied at school
Yesterday, news that Chris Martin’s new sprog had been christened made the majority of the world’s news pages. Seems his wild flair for nomenclature has crept into his professional life, Apple, 3, and Moses, 1, now joined by Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends, as Coldplay ready their fourth album»
Venn the boat comes in: new acts sail in to Bristol festival
A raft of new acts has drifted up the Severn Estuary for this year’s Venn festival in Bristol»
Fall Out Boy's Pete Wentz reveals failed suicide attempt
Fall Out Boy’s Pete Wentz has revealed that he made a failed attempt at suicide a few years back»
DeVotchKa visit UK and Ireland next month
DeVotchKa will follow up this week’s release of a new album with a short series of UK live dates next month»
Jack Penate, minimal tech come to T in the Park 2008
More names have been added to the roster for this year’s T in the Park»
Interpol, Sigur Ros, M.I.A. all among first names for Latitude
The initial details of this year's Latitude festival were announced tonight (19 Mar)»
Former Aereogramme man joins Twilight Sad for new live shows
The Twilight Sad, the band everyone in Glasgow’s talking about according to Malcolm Middleton and who made it into the News of the World’s top three records of 2007, will tour again in March»
You're getting boring: Raconteurs tracklisting
Following yesterday’s sudden announcement that their previously unheard-of new album will be released in a matter of days, The Raconteurs have returned with a tracklisting»
Summer gets better as el Guincho's debut album gets UK release
I’m not fond of the term ‘DiS fave’, as it implies a consensus view among our writers that just doesn’t exist, but if I was, I’d use it to describe el Guincho, whose debut album will be made widely available in the UK through XL/Young Turks for the start of summer»
'It's not a downer': The Roots getting political on new album
Student hip-hop faves The Roots return with a new album, their tenth, next month»
The Wedding Present, Darren Hayman: tickets on sale now for Indietracks 2008
Tickets are now on sale for this year’s Indietracks festival»
DMX: 'What the fuck is a Barack?!'
It’s been a while since we dropped in on DMX… what’s he up to now, we ask ourselves, on seeing this thread pop up on the left-hand side of our front page?»
Gnarls Barkley release new album today after online leak
Gnarls Barkley’s new album has been dragged forward a few weeks after some blighter leaked the thing online»
R.E.M. to play small London inshop
R.E.M. will play an inshop (reclaim the language) at Apple’s flagship place of business in London next week»
Iron & Wine among dozens of new names for Green Man
A whole load of names have just been confirmed for this year’s Green Man festival»
Franz Ferdinand to headline Latitude 2008
The organisers of Latitude Festival have let one cat out of the bag ahead of tonight’s grand line-up announcement and that cat is Glaswegian, named after a murdered German archduke, loves afrobeat and has a natty way with a post-punk riff»
What’s this you’ve brought me? Oh, you’re The Kooks and you’ve made another stupidly-titled album
The Kooks release Konk on the 14th of April. This much we know. What seems on the face of things a simple story took a sudden twist today, however, when it came to DrownedinSound’s attention that the Brighton band would be releasing another record alongside that. It’s name? Rak»
WIN! Want to see Black Kids, Metronomy and Esser TONIGHT? Race, here
Please don’t mistake the excitable tone of the headline for goonish hysteria – it’s urgency, is all, as we have a pair of tickets to give away for a handsome-looking show in London TONIGHT»
Age after beauty? Velvet Revolver to support Led Zeppelin on tour
Led Zeppelin are going to be touring at some point in the near future, apparently, and Velvet Revolver will be supporting them»
Kate Nash, Battles, Hercules & Love Affair among new additions for Melt! Festival
The latest acts have been confirmed for this year’s Melt! Festival in Ferropolis, Germany»
Adem to honour influences on new covers album
Following in the recently-laid footsteps of Cat Power and Scarlett Johansson, Adem will release an album of covers later this spring»
Breaking dens: Mystery Jets ditch prog's grey cage for Young Love and pop fun
After a quiet couple of years since waving goodbye to mentor Henry Harrison, Mystery Jets cast off the prog shackles and return sounding more colourful and vital than ever before»
Dawn Landes announces UK tour
Brooklyn’s Dawn Landes will return to the UK later this month for a series of live shows»
Peter and the Wolf in the UK later this month
Austin, Texas’s Peter and the Wolf will head across the Atlantic for their first UK tour next month»