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The Kills - U.R.A Fever
When the drums drop you’re plugged back in contact with the universe of The Kills’ VV and Hotel. It’s all Reznor-approved head-rolling around here before you’re awoken, all jazz-hand clicking and as wide-eyed as a silent movie when the electric guitar shocks the automaton stalking in the shadows»
Friendly Fires - Paris
Single of the Week... Friendly Fires' 'Paris' doesn't reinvent anything or challenge anyone, but it is nevertheless the single of next summer's festival season.
Read more reviews of this week's singles here»
The Weekly DiScussion: mp-free for all or right click to save the industry?
Ahead of DiS's new Drownloads feature, we're asking: is mp3 blogging killing the accepted industry framework, or is it simply adding even more choice to a world full of new music looking for direction? DiScuss»
PJ Harvey: "There are no rules, and you can make anything up you want"
With her seventh long-player, the piano-orientated White Chalk, out now, DiS's Sean Adams catches up with PJ Harvey to discuss countryside roots, beautiful cityscapes, and the confusion aroused by one artist's mixing of influences from the two. "Yes I am a songwriter," she's recently realised; instruments are merely there for bed-making...»
DiS is seven! Happy Birthday to us!
Happy Birthday to DiS, Happy Birthday to DiS... »
PJ Harvey - White Chalk
Title-related cliché which will riddle its way into 70word reviews of this album, which'll generically-talk about how “she's rediscovered Hardy's bleak Dorset tones and added piano-key white hues of the drug-specters of the after-life.” They'll talk not of the ways this record touches the listener like a chilled doctors hand or how the piano keys sound at times like tears entering the gutter of the wrinkles which show a life-lived. »
Justice at Koko, Camden Town, Thu 06 Sep
Vroom-vroom-voom-vroom... The following pulse of beats grabs you by the ass cheeks and take the lead. Whips of noise hook every other member of the crowd’s heads, flinging them around bends and over jumps on Mario Kart...»
DiStimulation: August Bank Holiday 10 Things To See / Hear / Do
Aaaah thee long weekend: a chance to frolic in fields and set fire to paper cups or read the newspaper with a nice cuppa green tea. You may notice we’ll have our feet up too, so consider this blog-like list of stuff DiS Founder Sean Adams is digging, as something to tide you over ‘til we’re back on Tuesday.»
Kate Nash - Made Of Bricks
She put her tracks up on MySpace, full of hope. She got lucky: Lily Allen top-8’ed her and the girl got some music biz buzz. She then graced the pages of Observer Music Monthly, signed and went into the studio to make her debut album Made Of Bricks, which was so eagerly anticipated that the label dragged the release date forward a whole month. Kate Nash's debut has a lot to live up to...»
Get Flood. Do Truck Benefit. Friday!
Show your support... »
Truck Off... to Oxford Brookes!
Rain doesn't snuff out Truck Ten...»
PJ Harvey White Chalk more album details revealed
DiS ventured to Manchester International Festival to hear PJ Harvey preview new material from forthcoming album White Chalk. And we found the track listing. »
Glastonbury: Sean's Blog - Day 3
DiS's Sean Adams tells his own tale of Glastonbury 2007 - from the backstage to the moshpit and right up to the stars - in three parts. Here, Jamie T owns all...»
Glastonbury: Sean's Blog - Day 2
DiS's Sean Adams tells his own tale of Glastonbury 2007 - from the backstage to the moshpit and right up to the stars - in three parts. Here, Switches are threatened, boots are stepped on, and a stage invasion is missed... d'oh...»
Arctic Monkeys - Fluorescent Adolescent
...it’s sure to make The View throw those stinking jeans away and get their Gregg’s overalls back on.»
The Icarus Line at London Old Blue Last, Tue 29 May
...my limbs are possessed by rock 'n' roll, my head swinging, hung in the riffs of The Icarus Line Mark III, kicking ass with bits from album three. A band so volatile they go through band members so hard they have to join Nine Inch Nails as way of retreat...»
Emily Haines (Metric / BSS) free download
To give you a taste of the debut solo album by Emily Haines & the Soft Skeleton, Drowned in Sound Recordings (that's our bit on the side) today release a free download single 'Dr.Blind' from our MySpace. myspace.com/disrecords»
DiScover: Land of Talk
Mixing the sprawling fuzz of Sonic Youth with the popsome goo of The Cardigans, The Sundays, Throwing Muses and something unique we can’t quite put our fingers on, Applause, Cheer, Boo, Hiss is the exceptional debut EP by Land of Talk. If my last.fm is to believed we’ve listened to it rather a lot in the DiS office, especially since catching the threesome at Canadian Music Week and a couple of times at South By South West. We like this band rather a lot. »
The Sea & Cake - Everybody
If you've never heard The Sea & Cake you're missing out on several classic albums already, albums which should be on your disorderly shelf beside The Shins, Broken Social Scene, My Morning Jacket and The Beach Boys...»
Elliott Smith - New Moon
For those not familiar with the work of Steven Paul Smith (aka Elliott Smith), he was a legend. He is a legend...»
Pop of the Flops: Bye Bye Popworld
Last week we heard news of the Popworld magazine launching then rather sharply being closed after a mere 9,000 sales, now Channel 4 have decided to cut the cord and axe the TV show too. »
Blood Red Shoes bored by the seaside, so tour some more
Steve and Laura-Mary release new single, their first for V2 and tour some more...»
DiS meets Conor Oberst: "I wanna be an explorer!"
As the curtain rises seductively on the new album from Bright Eyes, a women's voice informs you that you got the death card but - she says like a science teacher talking about evolution - that can just mean change... Welcome to Cassadaga.
DiS's Sean Adams meets Conor Oberst to talk about the new record and its makers' calming of his formerly wild ways...»
Explosions In The Sky not to be seen in Manc' or Glasgow
"We're sad to say that, on account of some insane and severe storms that have been hammering the eastern seaboard of the US, we have had to cancel our shows in Glasgow and Manchester."»
Emily Haines: UK tour and debut album release
Emily Haines & The Soft Skeleton have announced five shows in May and June, including a performance at the Homefires Festival, at the Conway Hall in Holborn, on Sunday June 3...»
Au Revoir Simone - The Bird Of Music
last para needs clarifying
The album is peppered with a hushed breeze as if it was composed at a sleep-over trying not to wake their parents in the next room. This record doesn't deviate from what the blog-savvy might have heard on their 2005 debut Verses of Comfort, Assurances and Salvation and with this follow-up they look at least like they'll be your Tilly and Wall or a more successful The Like for Summer 2007, if not a little gentler and more kitten-like.»
Bowie Fest: Gervais, Arcade Fire, Spree, Deerhoof, Johnston...
That leg-end David Bowie, yeah him from Labrinth and as seen on Extra's last night, has announced details of his Meltdown-esque NYC festival...»
DiS messes with Texas: SXSW Party Details
Polish off your novelty Stetson and bring out your flashy-berry e-mail gadgets that make you think you're a Jetson, as it's that time of year again. The time when music biz troublemakers and alcoholic rock scribes descend on the world's live music capital: Austin, Texas... and DiS is holding a party!»
Idlewild - No Emotion
There are few bands that crawl so deep into your purple soul, bringing boys ’n’ girls who should know better out in mini earthquakes of emo-shapes...»