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Consider this an apology of sorts, to those acts and record companies and public relations people who, as is their tendency, sent their records generously the way of these ears and fingers. Sadly, these ears and fingers were lazy in their offering of an assessment, an appraisal, until now...»
Another Rough Trade Shops compilation is due to hit store shelves pretty soon. Rough Trade Shops: Singer Songwriter 01 will be released via Mute on July 3rd...»
Talk about jettisoning one’s proverbial load a little earlier than hoped...»
(No no, we don't mean with explosives.)
Well, it's not really that surprising, is it? Better late than never, DiS has heard that Madonna was booed during her performance at the Coachella Valley Music Festival last weekend. Seems a bit unfair, doesn't it? She's hardly Daphne and Celeste...»
Christina Aguilera is to return to record-releasing ways this summer, with an album that's said to contain more than a hint of jazz.»
Y'see, there's blowing one's own trumpet, and then there's this. One can only assume The Killers' Brandon Flowers prefers to purse his lips against a Harold Bishop-style tuba...»
You know a corner's been turned when nobody refers to you as 'former Dead Or Alive singer Pete Burns', preferring instead to simply precede the funny-faced loon's name with 'Big Brother star'. Anyway, the news - for what it's worth - is that ol' Pete is in the slammer for violating bail conditions slapped down just last week...»
London-based purveyors of slightly skewed post-punk-rock-stuff, twentysixfeet, went on a distribution rampage t'other day, slotting copies of their debut album into the racks of a number of central London record stores...»
Despite reports claiming he's fighting fit following a fall in Fiji at the weekend, The Sun today claims that Rolling Stone Keith Richards is actually in a more serious state than previously though...»
So Wednesday's all but done and thoughts turn to Friday's merriment - how can they not, with but a few hours' work between then and now? Should you be stuck for something to do come this week's end, DiS can help you: we've a pair of tickets to give away for the Snow Patrol show at London's Kentish Town Forum...»
Sometime pop singer and seemingly full-time baby-maker Britney Spears is indeed preggers once more, so sayeth a source considering themselves close to the family...»
Mogwai have provided the soundtrack to a forthcoming film about French footballer Zinedine Zidane...»
Classical prodigy turned crazy chick Charlotte Church is taking time out from music to do a little telly work. The Welsh songstress is to present a resurrected version of The Big Big Talent Show...»
London's finest purveyors or starry-eyed skycraping rock Redjetson have pieced together a quite wonderful all-dayer line-up for the forthcoming end-of-May bank holiday...»
Quasi-classical post-rockers Tarantula A.D., whose current album Book Of Sand is a personal favourite of the year thus far, tour the UK this month...»
Linkin Park have recorded over 60 songs for their new album, the follow-up to 2003's Meteora, according to MTV...»
Axe-manglers and fret-fondlers rejoice! It seems that rock is, once again, the supreme force in contemporary music...»
Love them or loathe them, that’s your prerogative, but to deny that Panic! At The Disco are the second phenomenon-proportioned act of 2006 thus far is to demonstrate sour-faced ignorance...»
US indie outfit The Features have parted company with Universal after the four-piece refused to record a cover song for a television commercial...»
So you missed out on Truck? Fuck. You missed out on Leeds? Puh-leeeze. Wake up and smell the avant-garde freshness of this year's SuperSonic Festival, held at Birmingham's Custard Factory. Then follow the smell 'til tickets are in your hands...»
Thom Yorke and Jonny Greenwood of Radiohead performed on behalf of Friends Of The Earth at London's Koko venue last night, airing no fewer than three new songs during their set...»
To be honest, you'd be forgiven for thinking David Bowie was already taking time out from the music industry - his last album was released back in 2003 - but now pop's first true chameleon is officially taking time out from the business...»
This Is Menace - the metal collective formed by former Pitchshifter members - have announced details of their forthcoming second album...»
Kylie, Jason, Stefan Dennis... many have parted company with Aussie soap Neighbours to pursue a career in pop, and not all with any great success. The latest to place their head on the block is Natalie Bassingthwaighte, better known to students countrywide as Ramsay Street's resident drug-muncher, Izzy...»
Matthew Friedberger - he of Fiery Furnaces fame - is to release a double-disc solo album this summer, Winter Women / Holy Ghost Language School...»
While it’s truly a beautiful thing that folk music is enjoying a resurgence of popularity – look no further than May’s All Tomorrow’s Parties line-up for the evidence, and the increasing profile of The Green Man Festival – the threat of saturation encroaches ever nearer...»
Peter Buck of REM has joined forces with Robert Fripp of King Crimson to form Slow Music. The new band also features former Ministry drummer Bill Rieflin, who has manned REM's kit since the departure of Bill Berry in 2003...»
One-man-band, ish, Casiotone For The Painfully Alone is/are (oh just delete as you see fit) touring the UK next month in support of his/their (likewise) recent album, Etiquette...»
He's proper pissed off that the only thing the papers want him for is his DRUG-fuck self-destruction, the ambulance-chasing scumbags, but that doesn't stop our Pete Doherty from being very silly...»
Band-what-are-popular-over-there Tapes n' Tapes have put pen to paper on a deal with XL Records. Thus, the UK will now get an official version of their album, The Loon. »
