From Portsmouth to Interzone: Klaxons announce two small shows this month
Klaxons will play two low-key shows in between forthcoming appearances at the BRIT Awards and NME’s ‘Big Gig’ later this month.»
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Muse announce world stadium tour plans, one-off London show
Muse sparked chatter that they’ll soon embark upon a world stadium tour while confirming their appearance at the Royal Albert Hall this spring.»
Tindersticks announce new European shows
Following the recent announcement of their first album in five years, Tindersticks will cement their return with a headline show in London this spring.»
Revealed: the hottest scenes, genres and acts of 2008
Popular social networking website MySpace has flipped the lid on the zeitgeist and revealed what ver kids will be getting up to in 2008.»
New LCD Soundsystem material included on movie soundtrack
James Murphy has contributed a fresh LCD Soundsystem track to the OST of a new film.»
Daft Punk hoax fools 'bloggers: who is Louis La Roche?
A track hurled into the, er, ‘blogosphere on Valentine’s Day – allegedly a new recording from Daft Punk’s Thomas Bangalter – has been exposed as a hoax.»
Wife swap: Winehouse’s hubby trading signed pictures for smack
Grimy business abound in Pentonville prison, according to this morning’s Sun - Blake Fielder-Civil, the incarcerated husband of tortured belle du jour Amy Winehouse, is trading signed pictures of his wife for heroin.»
WIN! Money can't buy tickets to Jamie Lidell live album showcase
Jim, the new album from Jamie Lidell, will be released on the 28th of April through Warp.»
A Hawk and a Hacktour: peddling wares across the UK with Portishead
A Hawk and a Hacksaw will return to the UK again this spring.»
OMG: latest raft of acts for Primavera Sound includes Public Enemy, Shangri La; blows minds
More acts have been confirmed for this year’s Primavera Sound festival in Barcelona.»
Poached: Caribou cancels UK tour
Caribou’s forthcoming tour of the UK has been cancelled after the band's drummer hurt his wrist.»
Björk, Franz Ferdinand, Editors and Kompakt for great European festival
The first names have been confirmed for this year’s Melt! Festival in Germany.»
Rihanna gets chance to join Klaxons at BRIT Awards show
Klaxons will perform with Rihanna at this year’s BRIT Awards.»
The Kills to tour UK in April
The Kills will tour again in spring after the release of new album Midnight Boom.»
A Week in Drowned in Sound: 15/02/08
The swagger in our step.»
Mercury Rev, Mountain Goats and more for End of the Road
Quickly, before we go, there’s news of the first raft of confirmations for this year’s End of the Road festival.»
Third time lucky: Portishead finalise album details
Bristolian miserablists Portishead’s new album, their first for a decade, will be called Third - that much is known, but now we have the added comfort of tracklisting and a revised release date.»
¡Forward, Russia!: release LP, tour UK and do exclusive DiS download track
Leeds types ¡Forward, Russia! release new album in April, tour and offer DiS/RCRDLBL an exclusive preview.»
Kate Nash 4 Danananaykroyd: Moshi Moshi ready Singles Club compilation
18 months into their quest to fill young ears with quality sound, Moshi Moshi have decided to take a quick glance back over the output of their Singles Club and compile it all in a new compilation.»
RATM confirm themselves, The Verve, Kings of Leon and REM for T in the Park 2008
Constantly struggling against the man, even when he comes in the form of a tramp-juice-sponsored rock festival, Rage Against the Machine have leaked the line-up for this year’s T in the Park.»
Eavis: 'Glastonbury not over' as Radiohead are 'confirmed'
Glastonbury organiser Michael Eavis has denied reports that this year’s festival may be the last, as his daughter announces that Radiohead will appear at the event in the next couple of years.»
Super-Rev: Makers, Monkeys, Mystery Jets and Supergrass to form charity supergroup
Members of Arctic Monkeys, Mystery Jets, Supergrass and Reverend and the Makers have tethered together to form an ‘indie supergroup’.»
Xiu Xiu to play UK and Ireland dates
Splendid Californian miserablists Xiu Xiu will head to the UK and Ireland for a short series of live dates in spring.»
The Coral - Put The Sun Back
The Coral’s new single ‘Put the Sun Back’ is pretty dull. In fact I’d say it’s so dull it almost becomes good again, except it doesn’t. Because it’s The Coral and they haven’t written anything worth writing about since ‘Pass it On’»
Indie: Constantines release new album through Arts and Crafts
Canadian quintet Constantines have announced plans for a new record.»
Band of Horses announce new shows
Band of Horses have added a few UK dates to their schedule for the coming months.»
Massive Attack to curate Meltdown 2008
More details of this year’s Meltdown Festival have been announced, with Massive Attack confirmed as the event’s ‘artistic directors’.»
David Bowie to guest on Scarlett Johansson's Tom Waits covers record
If you’ve got it, flaunt it, my mother always told me. I’m not sure what ‘it’ was, but Scarlett Johansson’s mother must have had more sage advice up her sleeve because her daughter’s recording her new Tom Waits covers album with David Bowie.»
Watch: Pixies man's tiny London 'pre-core' at the Social
Couldn't make it to Black Francis's 'pre-core' show in London today? Find tracklisting, pictures, live footage and other paraphenalia here.»
Fatboy Slim on Wireless: 'I don't wanna be the DJ at a rock festival'
Speaking earlier today at the launch of this year’s Wireless Festival, event headliner Fatboy Slim admitted that he’d turned down offers to play Reading Festival five times in the past.»