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Anti-people? Anti-Garfunkel? Anti-Dylan? Surely not... Uk tour, yadda, yadda..strange dress..songs about drugs...blah. blah. The Anti-Folk Tour crashes into the UK in November with a line-up of... Major Matt Mason USA, Kimya from Moldy Peaches, Jeff»
Everyones favourite scottish indie folk popkins BELLE AND SEBASTIAN have decided to flog a car to help save the world! Stuard Murdoch has raised £4000 (a helluva lot more than the £1,500 he expected) for Friends of the Earth Scotland - by auctioning his Classic Ford Granada Mark 1 as featured on the sleeve»
Relapse. Remind. Rethink.
’Relapse’ is the latest very extended playing EP from Oceansize who you may have read excited waves of praise about on dis, mostly written within one inspired hour on leaving a venue.
There are reasons for this.
Remind.
Remember.
No other such R-words »
Enjoy.
It’s yours to discover.
( ) is..
…as urgent as hair growing, skin dying, memories fading, ice melting; mundane things changing…
…a beautiful, graceful, monumentally uplifting, sun setting; existential trip…
Gravity kicked in and it rattled as it went.»
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Isn't the news depressing?
I mean, not just the rain but terror everywhere! george bully bush ta»
...mmm...scruffy...mmm...noisy...this demo does make me think of Kinesis. But then, Kinesis make me think of a lot of bands i like. This lot are from Edinburgh and they're full of discontent. The demo's gritty but full of swooping loops. They're yet another example of a scene people are missing of bands who prov»
Mister Boldo MOBY (slang for mobile phone, innit) is inviting the talented yoof out there (that means you!) to direct his next vid... Ok, so it's kinda a competition, kinda a way to save money on a big budget director, kinda a way for Mute to find some ace new directors, kinda a PR stunt for Moby.. but wha»
Everyones favourite Mental Metal band from Armenia SYSTEM OF A DOWN have announced details of a special release for that capitalist celebration we like to call Xmas The release is worryingly titled 'Steal This Album' and is a collection of 12-17 (they aint decided yet) new tracks, incl»
You will probably either love or loathe Conor Oberst aka BRIGHT EYES, but regardless, he's got a new single and is coming to play his morosely sweet, heart-broken folk all over our country... and chicks dig moaners. The new single is out Nov 11th via Wichita and is 'Lover I Don't Have To Love', fro»
Well, we've been banging on excitedly about the Glassjaw record 'Worship And Tribute' for a while now and here's your chance to see why. And below is a list of dates you should get along to.
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Dis' favourite folk pop kidz from Oxford, who're part of running Truck Records, have decided to leave their contract with Virgin Records. We currently do not have an official statement from either Goldrush themselves or the label, but several oxford-based websites, such as »
There aren't a helluva lot of bands on their second albums right now to get excited about, especially american bands. But Q AND NOT U are an absolutely different story... Signed to the mighty Fugazi's Dischord label, Q and not U have got the DC noize thang down, but with loads of muddled like»
After the trouble at the CARLING WEEKEND, LEEDS FESTIVAL there is what they're calling a DISORDER APPEAL... Killingbeck Police need YOUR help to identify 24 men, charged with arson, criminal damage, assault and public disorder, in relation to the disorder at Temple Newsam in Leeds ove»
We'd like you to show your appreication, if that's not too much to ask. We've entered ourselves for the BTopenworld Interactive Music Awards in the Peoples Choice Catergory. Please use the button below to vote for DiS :) »
Don't you love it when the nights draw in and the swoonworthy solo artistes return? Well, this time its former Snug-guitarist Ed Harcourt, with a new single, lots of touring and the second proper albums in the pipeline... For those who didnt know, Snug sounded like Weezer doing Beach Boys but»
There’s only so many chords you can play. There’s only so much one person can say. Is it really better to burn out than fade away?
That is the question.
On one side of Rockville there are the Rolling Stones and The Jam with their latest best ofs, and it’s pretty obvious some things are better left b»
virtual-court.com, june 2004, 9:52am. London.
Judge: Bring out the mp3s! Mister.pee-free, you are charged with the man slaughter of the music industry!
Compere: Let me hear a biiig ’Fuck yeah!
Judge: You are also charged with the murder of global cul»
After last weeks news that GLASSJAW lead singer, Daryl Palumbo, had gone into a Paris hospital with a Crohn's diseases relapse and the uk tour had been cancelled, we hear the following from their PR.. "Daryl Pablumbo has be»
Another month, another load of bands out there on the roads, service stations and floors of the United Kingdom... This month, what with it being ROCKtober, lots of bands with releases ready for Springtime albums, so there's loads of bands we here at dis ain't shut up about for quite some time going out. We thror»
REEF delay 'Best of..' and 'Give me your love' single release.. but the tour must go on (dates below) A lot of people hate Reef, mostly because they're lumped in with yankie-crooner, fluffy-chested rock (see also: Black Crowes or Pearl Jam or Creed.. Eurgh! Yuk! Yukkity yuk!) and const»
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It's very, very, very rare that my taste in music agrees with Jo Whiley or Mojo, but Turin Brakes are an endangered species. Amid the new comatose movement of '99, they're the diamond in the dirt, profound-like-santa-on-a-cross, surrealists who've touched a lot of people. The debut opus 'The Optimist' wil»
Blimey, dunno what's going on with so many bands cancelling gigs and splitting up but for Filter fans, it's bad news too... Singer of the art-grungers Filter, Richard Patrick, has checked himself into a rehabilitation facility and all touring through the end of this year has been cancelled. There ar»
Please, please, please do not shoot the messenger! The Glassjaw uk dates have been postponed... Everyone's favourite rock-monster-CORE of a band Glassjaw have sadly had to postpone their October tour until December at »
Trash, the infamous, pioneering forefront of the london alternative club scene, is about to release a companion cd.. It's out on the 14th of October titled simply 'TRASH COMPANION #1' via Palare/End Recordings. The tracklisting shows off the diversity of the club and includes the following... »
At approximately 3pm on the 1st of October 2000 something happened. Drowned in Sound launched as an attempt to unite music fans, create a resource (regardless of scale or defined taste) and liberate via the wonders of the internet the people who really know what's going on. Maybe we think the mainstream media ha»
One of our big hopes for this year Kinesis, are finally pulling out all the stops and prooving to the rest of youse just how great they is! They're taking their Pixies mongelled with Muse, poinantly cynical suss, out on the road with big-haired men and have a new single... So, yeah, the new single is "B»
Span! Span! SPAAAANN! The second most dis-loved band of Reading this year, beaten only by the mighty =Weezer=, well, they are set to bring their stadium punk back to our shores throughout ROCKTOBER touring with Vendetta Red! Oh, and there's a single too!! Are We Excited? You betcha! The single, the»
'A', that band who've been around for what seems like forever and continue to keep rawkin, with synths and squeaky voices as their number 1 (oh dear) priority! In November they release 'Something's Going On' on the 11th and take their "Inner City Sumo Tour" around the uk: 18th - »
