Last week, AIM (The Association of Independent Music) announced the nominees for this year's Independent Music Awards, and DiS thought it might be an idea to make a playlist to help guide you through nearly all of this year's nominees.»
Nominees announced for the inaugural Association of Independent Music (AIM) awards.»
Björk will be honoured for her ‘Outstanding Contribution to Music’ at the inaugural AIM Independent Music Awards this November. The Association of Independent Music (AIM) also announced today that the ‘Pioneer Award’, which recognises an independent label founder, will go to Laurence Bell for his work establishing Domino Recording Company.»
PIAS, whose website has gone down due to a huge surge in traffic, have released the following short statement...»
Given that a lion's share of music news is of the "Hear this new song by..." variety, we thought it best to catch up on the past month or so within the context of the tunes themselves. At best, I hope to serve up a healthy dose of the cream of the crop, while the worst you might endure is a tasty feast for your ears above some recent facts to complete a well-rounded stew of new tune nutrition. So, without further ado, behold! The first-ever music news mixtape.»
Exciting? Or not exciting?»
BBC 6Music kindly let Drowned in Sound takeover the nations airwaves last night, for a special two hour 6mix(tape) featuring some of DiS founder Sean Adams’ highlights of the past 10 years. »
Thousands of you voted in our alternative Mercury Music Prize and we have a winner...»
Drowned in Sound's alternative to the Mercury Music prize returns... »
Those Arctic Monkeys release a new single from their current LP, Humbug, in 'My Propeller'. There's also a video for it, directed by Will Lovelace and Dylan Southern. The single will be released on March 22, and is another Oxfam related one, in that the charity will be selling the 10" version of the single exclusively in their 148 shops across the country.»
A veritable host of stars from the indieverse have been putting their efforts in recent days to raising money for Haiti and victims of the earthquake which shook the country some two weeks ago.»
A veritable host of stars from the indieverse have been putting their efforts in recent days to raising money for Haiti and victims of the earthquake which shook the country some two weeks ago.»
The shortlist this for this year's version of the hair-styling company sponsored NME Awards have been announced and, well, if awards were given out to awards shows, there'd be no prizes for originality in this case.»
Watch the Richard Ayoade directed video for 'Cornerstone'.»
Win an Arctic Monkeys record bundle!»
Arctic Monkeys truly need no introduction whatsoever, so there won't be one. They've just announced a UK tour for November, doing the usual arena stuff because well, they need to, don't they?»
On Monday night, Zane Lowe's Radio 1 show heralded the return of the Arctic Monkeys, with them doing a live set in the small tiny studio where everyone from Pulp to The Pixies recorded sets for John Peel. And probably much bigger bands like Pink Floyd and wotnot too.»
This week's content in the form of a Spotify playlist.»
Charity shops have long been the preserve of the record collector looking for a bargain among the bric-a-bric but now the worm has well and truly turned as the Arctic Monkeys are to release 'Crying Lightning' through Oxfam shops.»
Sheffield Superstars the Arctic Monkeys have made good on their promise to release their new album before the Leeds and Reading festivals.»
DiS shared a few words with Arctic Monkeys drummer Matt Helders yesterday in relation to Sheffield's new Tramlines festival, but ended up finding out a few things about his band's third record, which could be with us as soon as August.»
DiS trawls through all the recent music news so you don't have to.»
Russell Hart, chief executive of Entertainment Media Research commented "It is quite evident that an ISP-led strategy has bite, because illegal downloaders are fairly convinced that ISPs are currently monitoring their activities and are more likely to act against them than the courts."»
DiS went along to see the new Arctic Monkeys DVD last night and here's what our man at the scene thought... »
The Kills' Alison Mosshart has told NME.com about a song she recorded with Arctic Monkeys frontman Alex Turner»
Pritchard sticks it to a naysaying music teacher»
Manbags at dawn – it’s an indie bitchfight between Kooks frontman Luke Pritchard and head Arctic Monkey Alex Turner»
After all the conjecture back and forth, it’s good to finally have someone wade in and take the situation by the scruff of the neck: let’s face it, hip-hop and Glastonbury make about as much sense as mixed-race marriages and that Aerosmith/Run DMC collaboration»
Michael and Emily Eavis’ attempts to sell Glastonbury to the kids look set to backfire as rumours abound that Jay-Z - this morning confirmed to headline Wireless - is planning to pull out of the event»
Miles Kane and Alex Turner will cover David Bowie and Billy Fury on the b-side to their new single»
A new video from the side-project of Arctic Monkey Alex Turner and The Rascals' Miles Kane has been posted online»
For those of you not following the grand ceremony on TV, here’s a round-up of all the winners from last night’s NME Awards Show»
Whilst the DiS brethren were mincing round a dank Dalston for Cadence Weapon, pop’s elite gathered like hens round a cornfeed, pecking viciously for seed at last nights BRIT AWARDS 2008. Who went home with a contented belly»
The Last Shadow Puppets - the side-project featuring Arctic Monkey Alex Turner and the Rascals’ Miles Kane – will release their debut album this spring.»
Members of Arctic Monkeys, Mystery Jets, Supergrass and Reverend and the Makers have tethered together to form an ‘indie supergroup’.»
The Enemy's Tom Clarke has been flapping his jaw in the direction of Arctic Monkeys who won the South Bank award for best pop album this week. Meanwhile, Max has had a falling out and left the Kooks and the Wombats have announced a huge show at the Royal Albert Hall.»
A cast of half-famous faces joined Dev Hynes in London last night for a one-off covers show in celebration of the new Lightspeed Champion album.»
News from the Roundhouse»
The Ghost of Christmas Past haunts the charts this week, with classics of yesteryear from Mariah Carey, The Pogues and Kirsty MacColl, Wham! and Wizzard all reminding you of happier times and, by implication, what terrible people you’ve all become.»
Music + charity = not patronising, hackneyed and totally ineffectual? Arctic Monkeys have cracked something, working with the Big Issue to produce a special ‘collectors’ magazine for their forthcoming UK arena shows.»
Some of you probably heard about this yesterday on BBC6Music, but for those too dismayed by George Lamb to tune in, Arctic Monkeys have, apparently, released a new single under a different band name.»
Prepping the market ahead of a company jolly in January, Chester Bennington laid the ground for Linkin Park to develop enterprising new partnerships in the UK.»
The debut record from Alex Turner’s as-yet-unnamed side project is nearly finished, says producer James Ford.»
Reverend, of ...and the Makers fame, has claimed that one of the Arctic Monkeys has the title of one of his poems tattooed on his neck.»
Q Awards: people win, no-one dies...»
Sheffield's Arctic Monkeys have announced their grandest series of dates yet for December.»
The nominations for this year's Q awards have been announced.»
Time to put our pretend money where our ever-so-real mouths are: DiS is picking our individual favourites for tonight's Mercury Prize, and leaving them here so we can see who's right. And, more importantly, who is wrong and has to buy the biscuits tomorrow...»
Arctic Monkeys have slipped from joint-first in the betting on this year's Mercury Music Prize...»
Arctic Monkeys frontman Alex Turner will whisk away The Rascals’ Miles Kane to France this summer to record an album.»
The nominations for the Mercury Music Prize are hot off the press, folks, and it’s a rum old mix as ever. They are as follows»
Nothing like stirring up a bit of class resentment on a Friday afternoon, eh? Tom Clarke, dimwit frontman with The Enemy, has claimed that ‘working class roots’ mean better songs.»
Arctic Monkeys have slammed tomorrow’s Live Earth event in London as ‘hypocrisy’.»
Fans heading for the T In The Park festival today are being warned to leave extra time for travel following the terror attack in Glasgow last weekend.»
The full line-up for this year’s Glastonbury festival has been officially announced.
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Danger Mouse - pictured - may start a fashion label with Arctic Monkeys drummer Matt Helders. All together now: WTF...»
Sheffield's popular indie-pop types Arctic Monkeys look set to score 2007's biggest-selling LP with their second album, Favourite Worst Nightmare. So far, anyway...»
A noticeable lack of high new entries in the singles chart this week, but plenty of jostling for position among the top five, the Arctic Monkeys' 'Brianstorm' valiantly doing battle with a stellar cast of pop’s elite to clinch the number two spot behind Beyoncé and Shakira...»
Good news, aging Scottish popsters: you, The Proclaimers, are still number one on the UK singles chart. Ish, as you’ve got those comedy people with you, but nevertheless: bravo, you. Inappropriately battered snacks all round...»
Ahead of the release of their new single 'Brianstorm' - out April 16 and available to download now - Arctic Monkeys have told popular red-top rag The Sun that domestic radio is pretty rubbish...»
Festival-centric website FestivalNews.co.uk has reported the leaked line-up for this summer's Glastonbury Festival...»
Arctic Monkeys have unveiled the cover art to forthcoming second album My Favourite Worst Nightmare.»
Sheffield's Arctic Monkeys this morning announced details of a fresh April tour.»
Dizzee Rascal joined the ranks of Arctic Monkeys recently to spit rhymes over the top of one of the Sheffielder's new album tracks...»
Arctic Monkeys - they're a band - have announced a secret but-not-really show for tomorrow night, at Middlesbrough's Town Hall...»
The organisers of T in the Park have announced details of who will be playing when at this year's festival...»
They're not particularly Arctic, nor are they monkeys (quiet at the back there) but they are playing another 'secret' gig at Morecambe Dome this Saturday, 17th February...»
The first few confirmed acts for this year's Festival Internacional de Benicassim have been announced...»
Arctic Monkeys have announced details of two new shows via their internet forum...»
Last night DiS sat down at home, a bottle of M&S red and some spaghetti before us, and flicked our telly over to channel three. Russell Brand! Not talking about his ball bags! It could only mean one thing: we’d tuned into the first live Brit Awards since that whole Sam and Mick fiasco...»
Arctic Monkeys played a secret show in Sheffield at the weekend, previewing material from their forthcoming second LP, Favourite Worst Nightmare...»
Here are what we think are the top ten most newsworthy news stories of the week. Enjoy this, the weekend starts here. Unless you're a football steward or you work in a bar. Salut!»
Sheffield's most indie-poppin' of kids Arctic Monkeys - they must've done their mocks by now - have confirmed a handful of details about their much-anticipated second album...»
That anger's a gift is a given, but the chances of Rage Against The Machine playing this year's Coachella Valley Music (and Arts) Festival, not so. But they bloody well are, y'know...»
Alex Turner, frontman of popular group Arctic Monkeys, has announced that his band believe their current recording studio to be haunted...»
Ghostface Killah is licking his wounds after being ditched on by The Killers...»
Alex Turner of Arctic Monkeys fame has been talking about his band's new record, which is due out this Spring...»
The results are in, and all arguments in the DiS office have died down – we can’t alter our final top ten albums of 2006, anyway, as they were very kindly voted for by you lot. Reckon you can guess the winner? Is that photograph a clue...»
A duet between Dizzee Rascal and Arctic Monkeys, arguably the two most lauded 'street' acts in the UK at the moment, is the subject of red-top speculation this morning...»
Good day to you, dearest of dear readers, and welcome to what we’re calling an ‘interactive activity’. Because we’re busy – bloody busy – at the DiSopolis, we’re asking you to decide our album/s of the year...»
Arctic Monkeys have announced a massive show to take place when the sun returns next summer...»
Beth Ditto has been named numero uno in NME's Cool List 2006, in a top ten that - shock, horror - contains just as many women as it does men...»
Take That picked up a Q Idol Award at the magazine's annual awards bash yesterday, only be be called "bollocks" by fellow winners Arctic Monkeys. Ooooh, someone wash those boys' mouths out...»
This year's nominees for the annual Q Awards, the award ceremony offspring of dad-rock bible Q magazine, have been announced. Whoa, there, Q - way to get radical on our arses...»
Following their Mercury Prize win on Tuesday night, Arctic Monkeys were almost prevented from partying at the awards' aftershow, as bouncers at the Met Bar weren't convinced that the band were of legal drinking age...»
Another year, another Mercury Prize (sorry, Nationwide Mercury Prize), and an ultimate feeling of deflation once the dust’s settled. The bookies got it right, we got it wrong; Arctic Monkeys are the critics’ as well as the consumers’ favourites, and who are we to stand in the way of their sweeping-aside-all-before-them power and popularity...»
The Sun has reported that a 27-year-old girl was raped at the weekend's Leeds Festival, and that the attack was witnessed by many an attendee...»
Hot Chip have told MTV that they think Arctic Monkeys will scoop the on-our-doorstep Mercury Music Prize...»
Thanks to our good friends at Mean Fiddler, DiS has a pair of tickets for each site of this year's Carling Weekend: Reading and Leeds festivals up for grabs. The festival runs from 25-27th August at Bramham Park, Leeds and the Rivermead Leisure Centre, Reading.»
Another Monday, another round-up of the movers and shakers in the UK singles chart. Well, we say ‘movers and shakers’, but nothing much has changed since last week to be honest...»
Cheer up, Thom! Your only-just-released debut solo album, The Eraser, is among the twelve long-players shortlisted for the 2006 Mercury Music Prize, sponsored by Nationwide...»
Stand-in Arctic Monkeys bassist Nick O'Malley will take up the position full-time following original member Andy Nicholson's decision to leave the band for good...»
The fat one out of Crazy Frog-influenced four-piece Arctic Monkeys has opted out of the band's North American jaunt, booked for June.»
Axe-manglers and fret-fondlers rejoice! It seems that rock is, once again, the supreme force in contemporary music...»
The management team at London's Somerset House (pictured) have warned that online adverts for a series of gigs in the summer are false... »
Popular indie boys Arctic Monkeys are to beat the boo-boys at their own game by releasing a song to precede the all-too-inevitable backlash...»
No, we didn't report who won what at this year's Brit Awards, and neither did we get all chest-puffed proud 'cause the Kaisers romped their way to three wee statues (well done guys, seriously), but this is mildly interesting: the television coverage for the Earls Court event scored the lowest-ever viewing figures in its history...»
Arctic Monkeys, currently on tour with Maximo Park et al on an NME-sponsored jaunt, have recorded an acceptance speech in advance of tonight's Brit Awards...»
"Fuck off." That was Arctic Monkeys' singer Alex Turner's reaction to hometown crowd calls for his band to play their much-aired cover of Girls Aloud's 'Love Machine'. Manners, in my day we had them.»
Scottish children, beware: buying the new album by the Arctic Monkeys is a risk to your health...»
Arctic Monkeys are doing a tour in April. Here are the dates. Tickets go on sale on Thursday February 2nd. So DO NOT come to us complaining that we didn't tell you. Come to us with cake instead. And ale. Thanks...»
Recently remodeled pop types Sugababes will belt out their cover of the AM's breakthrough single, ‘I Bet You Look Good On The Dancefloor’, on the b-side to forthcoming single 'Red Dress'...»
Depeche Mode have rather let the cat out of its proverbial bag: although organisers of this summer's Wireless Festival, held in London's Hyde Park, haven't yet revealed the initial line up, the three-piece have posted the event on the upcoming shows page of their website...»
Many a news source, including The Sun, is today reporting that last night's NME gig in Dublin didn't go particularly brilliantly for headliners Maximo Park...»
The nominations for this year's NME Awards makes for some mighty fine readin' if you're one of them Kaiser boys - the band are up for no fewer than (*counts, rapidly*) six awards...»
NO! To Top Of The Pops. YES! To the fastest-selling rock record EVER...»
We've been delightfully informed that the kings of Leeds, ¡Forward Russia! are currently sitting in the Top 20 in the midweek charts.»
Cheeky Sheffieldian fun-rock maestros Arctic Monkeys are another of Domino's current slew of signings and they take their infectious rock on tour this October in support of a new single.»
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