Music industry lives! Gorbachev's debut bought for £100k
Baldy Soviet type Mikhail Gorbachev's debut album has been bought at an auction for £100,000, The Guardian reports.»
Baldy Soviet type Mikhail Gorbachev's debut album has been bought at an auction for £100,000, The Guardian reports.»
Those Mars Volta dudes are pretty predictable, right? I mean, you just KNOW that there's gonna be a whole lot of prog-wankery, noodling and wails from all corners. They'd never make a P-O-P record, right? WRONG, apparently.»
DiS has a pair of signed copies of Pat Graham's new Silent Pictures book to give away...»
The Mars Volta will release a new album next year.»
Following a rather long gestation period, At The Drive-In will finally see their 'best of' released this summer.»
Afro'd mexi-'mo-core legends, to release an Anthology and re-release their back catalogue...»
Sparta, one of the groups to have emerged from the ashes of At The Drive-In, are reported to be releasing a new album this summer.»
From the ashes of At the Drive-In, sprung The Mars Volta... and you can hear the new album in full! You know the score by now. The folks at Peoplesound have put together a stream of the entire album (out this week - June 23rd!) so you can try before you buy. To hear it: »
The British institution wakes up and releases a DVD... The 21st Series of BBC's music show 'Later... with Jools Holland' is due to start up again in May. To coincide with the new series they're releasing a noisy DVD. Following on the DVD series from»
The two afro'd parts of At The Drive-In are touring stadiums already? And working with superstars? Cedric and Omar's band The Mars Volta have nearly finished recording their debut album in L.A. with Rick Rubin who's worked with SOAD, RHCP and RunDMC. We've heard that Flea (RHCP) plays bass on the re»
ARTISTdirect Records and producer Ross Robinson announce the formation of a new imprint, I AM/ARTISTdirect Records, announced today by ARTISTdirect CEO Ted Field. Under this production agreement, Ross Robinson will oversee the imprint's A&R activities, contribute to the development of its talent as »
Sparta, the band featuring the non-afroed remnants of At The Drive-In - Tony, Jim and Paul - have announced a short UK tour for May and June. Tickets have now gone on sale. Details are as follows...
May
21st Coal Exchange Cardiff
26th Manchester University
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Ex-ATD-I members, The Mars Volta are to release a split single with The Apes and Les Savy Fav, as well as their own debut record release, both around the time of their upcoming March Euro tour The Mars Volta, featuring former At The Drive-In members Cedric Bixler and Omar Rodriguez, are set t»
Ex-At The Drive-In members Omar Rodriguez and Cedric Bixler have posted mp3 versions of two tracks by their new band After this summer's (final?) break up of At The Drive-In, Cedric and Omar, now members of the band Mars Volta have posted mp3s and RealAudio tracks online at their official we»
The "indefinite hiatus" announced by At The Drive-In earlier this year had been seen as a possible end of ATD-I as a functioning band with members turning to their own side projects. These included De Facto, a reggae side project featuring frontman Cedric Bixler and guitarist »
After cancelling UK dates in Nottingham and Cardiff, due to flu and exhaustion, the planned tour of last year's postponed US dates has been scrapped as well. From the band's guitarist Omar Rodriguez "After a non-stop six-year cycle of record/tour/record/tour, we are going on an indefinite hiatus. We need time to rest u»
It's called Defacto and its said to have a "dub-like" sound.
Defacto features Cedric Bixler, Omar Rodriguez, Ikey Owens and Jeremy Ward,
brother of ATDI guitarist Jim Ward. They've already recorded material with Mario
Caldato Jnr. (Beastie Boys producer) for an album expected out in th»
DiS is 6: Our 66, the top sixElliott Smith - New Moon»
DiS is 6: Our 66, the top sixElliott Smith - New Moon»