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You will have heard on the news today, about the Pete Townshend child-porn controversy but the plot in recent hours has has thickened.. What seemed this morning like much a media-scandal-to-sell-papers-and-distract-us-from-talk-of-war do about nothing, appears to have turned into a lot more. According to n»
Turin Brakes.. details on their new single and a tour... The second single, from Turin Brakes second album 'Ether Song' (released March 2rd), is to be the track 'Pain Killer (Summer Rain)' on February 17th. NERD ALERT.... 'Pain Killer (Summer Rain)' was recorded in early »
Loveable Oxford pop-kittens, release a mini-album, extended player type thingy, on Truck... and they kick off a roadshow tour this week! Having recently left their deal with Virgin, and touring with the Flaming Lips, young turks»
The hardworking and drinking godfathers of the sk8-Punk scene, look set to release a DVD, EP and new album on the Fat ones label in 2003... Punkers with a capitol P, NOFX, have announced details of their release schedule for 2003. There's an album 'The War on Errorism' on May 6th, the »
Radio 1 are being proactive, again... You may have noticed this week, that amongst the Britney-a-likes, Retro-ists, Nu-Metal and Pop-Cheese on the BBC Radio 1 playlist, that there has been some little bands, unsigned infact, on their playlist. Infact, one of the bands, Four Day Hombre, »
Last seen on tour with iDLEWiLD those noizy, quiet, noizy; beardy scots return to the road...
Aereogramme will be supporting their label bosses at Chemikal Underground, The Delgados, on the following dates, apart from the first one..
January
29th Leeds, City Varieties»
"Raaaaarggghhh!! HOW GOOD WAS THAT?" seems to be the common response to seeing COF live, especially among the DiS ranks. And now you can catch them too, at a DiS gig or with iDLEWiLD, Dashboard Confessional and InMe. We've been raving about Colour of Fire since we first saw them at this years»
Critical, Intelligent, Loved-up, Hip-hop collective who kinda spawned the career of Jill Scott and had a hit featuring Erykah Badu, are on their way over to fix our souls.. It's rather apt that these UK dates as part of The Roots »
The (international) Noise Conspiracy have a live album coming out for Animal Liberation... Not ones to sit on their hands, proactive-party-punkz The (International) Noise Conspiracy, have a live album coming out on Your Choice Records. »
The rumours about Johns and Imbruglia have been going on for ages but now tis official.. Neighbours cutie turned pop-princess, #2, 27-year-old Natalie Imbruglia has gone and got engaged to her 23-year-old eating-disorder-ridden boyfriend Daniel Johns of Silverchair. Natalie Imbru»
Let me start, right from the off, by stating I hate - widda capital-8 - this 'ere record! This MUST be some kinda burger-group conspiracy, some lapse in cultural quality control, some joke... I shouldn't be so surprised, the last single was just as baaaaad, with that annoying grunt "this is real»
We promised you rawk to kick off 2003 and the first tour rolls out onto the road, with devil signs a-go-go and wacko jacko cranked up to 11, in just a few days! Firstly, the marketing bit, concentrate.. Reuben single 'Let's Stop Hangin Out' which hits on the M2 playlist this week, is now comi»
One of the coopers has been in hospital over xmas Bassist, occasional dis-writer (profile) and all-round cool-bloke, from The Cooper Temple Clause, Didz Hammond, has just left hospital. We spoke to drummerman Jon, who s»
Miss Black America, well, Seymour at least, are back and coming atcha soon.. Love 'em, hate 'em, over the course of 2002 you couldn't ignore them, their ranting and the media on the whole, raving about 'em. Amid, the news of their split, and then the news of them reforming, we can now reveal what the hell »
Firebombs at the ready, someone thinks it's clever covering Sigur Rós in their homeland! The eNMEy have reported this shocking news. If it wasn't enough that Coldplay are signed to one of the biggest companies in the world and go on about Fair Trade through the utterly pathetic means of scribbling a»
Oh what a year! Sometimes it takes a half-cut hack to let you know what you missed, because you're bound to have not seen or done or even half-remembered everything, if anything. This is a run down of what made up the year that was, 2002, for the purpose of history or propaganda or maybe just for enlightenment as to wh»
Tis the time o'year to rundown what happened over the past 12months and infamous hack Everett True and the CARELESS TALK COSTS LIVES crew are doing it online radio style.. This year "a true alternative to the decaying music press finally exists" as they bravely proclaimed themselves, hit the shelves»
On Boxing Day the Annual John Peel listener voted chart of 2002 was aired and without further ado, just look at this lil lot...
1 Saloon Girls are the New Boys
2 Cinerama Quick Before It Melts
3 Miss Black America Talk Hard
4 Nina Nastasia Ugly Face
5 Antihero Rolling Stones T-shirt
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It's New Years Eve, still looking for something RAWK to get upto? We've heard about the following worth spending your evening at..
Manchester (ashton under lyme)
@ The Witchwood: OCEANSIZE who're one of the dis new bands of the year, big rock sounds and various cooper temple clause suppo»
One of our new bands of 2002, release details of their 2003 release schedule... Manchester Music have let slip details of the next release from 6-minute-explosive-milky-way rockers Oceansize. The follow-up to the »
Here's the second part of Dan, frontman from the amazing Tyler from Exeter and the Fugazi-Slint-RageAgainstTheMachine school of rawk, with tales from the road with Hell is For Heroes and Reuben.
Day six- 30/11/02
After a day of relaxing and recuperation we head off to the treats of
Northam»
The untimely death yesterday (Sunday) of Joe Strummer (real name Joe Mellor) has just been announced. Early reports suggest that it was a heart attack that took the life of The Clash guitarist. Joe Strummer celebrated his 50th birthday only four months ago, on the 21st August 2002. He leaves behind»
One of the most influential bunch of rockerz upon today's scene are set to headline the big rockshow of the year! Reading wouldn't be Reading without some huuuge hairy rock legends somewhere on the bill and this year, we can announce that it will be Metallica at the top of the tree. The band »
Everyone does charts, why should we be any different? Here is the chart (made up outta the top 5 albums) voted for by 48 of the people who make this site what it is and keep it filled with information and opinions for you, all year (you could call them staff, hacks, alkies, whatever..). Each of these has »
HO, hO, HEY!
How ya diddlin' partykidz? You've had your Mclusky and eaten 'em, now it's time for the second part of the party. This is gunna seriously rawk! Anyway, to cut the introduction short, we're very excited to bring you...
DiS Xmas Party : Part 2
Wednesday 18th Decembe»
We've found out some info about the new sex, drugs and lots of drugged-sex filled 4th Warhols album...these are rumours only tho. Having droned and dazed their way through this summer's festivals, over-coming the stigma of being 'that band from the mobile advert', The Dandy Warhols have slipp»
The sixth Elliott Smith album, bound to be full of his child-like bitter visions and softly sung summaries of society is on it's way! (finally!) This has all been reported elsewhere earlier in the year but we thought we'd bring it all together... especially as the official website @ »
Hip-hop/punk legends to play post-rock festival? Only at ATP... Yes, yes ya'all, Chuck D, Flavour Flav, Professor Griff and Lord Asword, plis the S1W's, otherwise known as Public Enemy, will play on the Friday (4th) of the Autechre curated »
As we already announced, Jetplane Landing headline a Bull'n'Gate show for Charity, now the bill's got bigger.. Aldershotians with grunge under their finger nails, Reuben who head out on a »
This is gonna hurt!
It's been a while since Amen dragged their mutilated punk asses over from LA for a run of rock shows (mostly cus Virgin dropped them a while back, so the budget wasn't there!) but the wait is almost over. Look...
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