Double whammy of DiS for Nottingham!
So, Nottingham's newest club night takes its first steps into Junktion 7 by bringing you the cream of the East Midlands' music scene for it's next venture...»
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(Review of nothing)
Sometimes, one man's quest for perfection in artistic terms is another man's idea of boredom. And yet, whilst it would be downright rude and nonsensical to dismiss the likes of 'Soundings' as just A.N.other Boards Of Canada/Tortoise soundalike, there aren't too many moments on here that reek of divine inspiration or indeed, individuality.»
Poison - The Best Of Poison: 20 Years Of Rock
If you believed all the incessantly cliched clubnights and retro fashion stockists currently taking up space on the block, you'd be of the inclination that the 1980s was all jodhpurs, crimpolene shirts, wedge haircuts and synthesised new romanticism. And you would also have missed the point by a country mile or two»
Little Flames, Arctic Monkeys at Nottingham Rock City, Thu 13 Apr
Twelve months can be a long time in this game – almost like an eternity in fact. This time last year the Arctic Monkeys were Soulseek and Limewire’s best kept secret, an online activist’s fantasy come true, as at least one of their MP3s landed in more inboxes than the last Trojan virus.»
New vinyl club courtesy of Melted Mailbox
New York experimental label Melted Mailbox are starting a vinyl singles club with a difference in July...»
Lost Alone single launch party at Derby First Floor, Fri 31 Mar
Whisper it quietly on the streets of Nottingham, but there is something of a revolution happening fifteen miles west along the A52...»
The Beauty Shop - Yard Sale
To pigeonhole Illinois trio The Beauty Shop as just A.N.other alt-country collective would be nothing more than a great disservice. Instead, their mostly downbeat, downtrodden blues-tinged fables are deserving of much higher accolades, as singer John Hoeffleur could easily be the half brother of both Conor Oberst and Stephen Pastel if their respective parents had got it together three decades ago.»
Elle Milano - Swearing's For Art Students EP
With names like Je'Suisse, Kobe Winona and Miss Betty K among others and a penchant for creating rackets that envisage Huggy Bear hamming it up with the Beastie Boys at Test-Icicles' leaving do, Leicester four piece Elle Milano surely can't go wrong, right?»
Dirty Little Faces - Finding It Hard
Every once in a while, it does one good to spend half an hour jumping around and gobbing off like a hyperactive schoolkid with tourettes. It's just finding that perfect excuse, an ideal trigger point if you like, that can manifest that "Kevin The Teenager" moment inside us all.»
Ludes - The Dark Art Of Happiness
Once upon a time the smart money was on Ludes being the next London squatrockers to follow The Libertines and (gasp) The Others (albeit brief) ascent into mainstream chart territory. »
Quartershade - Captain My Captain
Think Feeder before they got famous, U2 in their cross decade period at the end of the 1980s, or even the climactic disparate tutilage of the underrated Longpigs and you're imagination would probably arrive at the same place as that of Quartershade in no time at all.»
LostAlone - Blood Is Sharp
'Blood Is Sharp' throws together a smidgeon of the Pixies' obsolete way with words and melodies, a healthy dosage of Muse-like theatrics and rounds it off with the panache of a band who believe they're only here to fill stadiums, like a latter day Bon Jovi if Sambora and company had grown up in Spondon or one of the many under-nourished suburbs of Tony Blair-era Derby...»
Alex Kidding around the UK in April
The really quite wonderfully dreamy Sheffield-based quartet Alex Kid embark on their first major UK tour next week, kicking off with a Drowned In Sound club night this Saturday...»
The Rifles - Repeated Offender
What the world probably never asked for at this moment in time was yet another Mod revival...»
The Delilahs - This Is It
If the Arctic Monkeys are the new Oasis, Maximo Park the second coming of Pulp and the Kaiser Chiefs a northern reincarnation of Blur, then where are the Elasticas, Sleepers and Shed Sevens of this so-called Britpop revival?»
Morrissey - Ringleader Of The Tormentors
Having enjoyed a blistering return to form with 2004’s You Are The Quarry, anticipation isn’t merely at fever pitch. No, it’s actually on a scale far beyond that, universal even, as to what Steven Patrick Morrissey can serve up with his second album in two years...»
Was that Chikinki You Said?
After the release of their Island Records debut Lick Your Ticket in 2004, Chikinki seemingly disappeared from the face of the planet...»
Larrikin Love: Sparking Freedom
West London four piece Larrikin Love are currently hotter than a day spent sunbathing on the equator. Since the middle of last year, when the delightful ditty ‘Six Queens’ first cast its aspersions in the music friendly thinking man’s psyche, their profile has raised to the point where it's no longer a matter of “if” but now a not-too-distant “when” they'll join close pals the Mystery Jets on Top Of The Pops alongside the Chicos and Pussycat Dolls of this world. »
Televise - I Don't Know Why
London four piece Televise may well be cast as prototype shoegazers - they do feature one former member of Slowdive in their ranks after all - but to merely dismiss them under that heading would be nothing short of scandalous.»
DiScover: Good Shoes
With a sound that revels in a congealed montage of all that was good about the last three decades and a name that epitomises the meaning of style, London based quartet Good Shoes look set to be one of the names on the tips of a few wagging tongues this year.»
The Streets - When You Wasn't Famous
Once upon a time, Mike Skinner (aka The Streets) made an innovative, groundbreaking and intelligent record called Original Pirate Material. His clever use of hip hop and techno beats coupled with witty lyrical observations led some commentators to dub him the 21st century poet laureate...»
Bricolage - Footsteps
Having been endorsed by Franz Ferdinand and similarly sharing the same love of early Postcard singles as Kapranos and co, it would be easy to dismiss Bricolage as mere eighties throwbacks...»
Lupen Crook - Love 80
As a solo singer/songwriter of a particularly unique ilk, it would be an unjustified misjudgement to even mention Lupen Crook in the same sentence as other more commercially successful household names of a similar genre, so I won't.»
Misty's Big Adventure - The Black Hole
Misty's Big Adventure, aka the Birmingham Nine, are like a modern day equivalent of Sly And The Family Stone if they'd been brought up on Ansells bitter and soggy Westons pies whilst listening to the Mothers Of Invention, Julian Cope and the Divine Comedy.»
Nottingham DiS gets Dirty... Saturday night!
Next month we have a bill to kill for; the final Nottingham Drowned In Sound show at Cabaret before we move onto pastures new will feature the following:»
The Tamborines - What Took You So Long
London based trio The Tamborines sound for all the world like a band who should really be living somewhere on the west coast of America having inked a deal with K Records. Which of course is wishful thinking but not necessarily as far fetched as it may seem as a possible reference for the future...»
Mighty Six Ninety - Believable
Having previously delved into the burgeoning talents of the North of England for their wares, Kids have taken a drastic departure from the norm with Californian quintet The Mighty Six Ninety.»
The Upper Room - All Over This Town
After several false starts and a long-term hiatus, The Upper Room have finally got the record deal and financial backing their initial demos suggested would be a formality...»
Various, The Fall, The Membranes, The Ex, The Nightingales - Commercially Unfriendly - The best of the British Underground 1983 - 1989
Sometimes a title doesn't lie, and in this case, calling this album 'Commercially Unfriendly' couldn't be more spot on if it tried. »
Club NME at Nottingham Stealth, Thu 16 Mar
If Les Incompetents are like the first couple of beers on a perfect night, then Larrikin Love are a concoction of the finest cocktails in the bar all lined up and ready to go.»