And the winner is: Speech Debelle scoops the Mercury Prize
Yes! The Mercury Prize judges have come to a final conclusion, after all has been seen, done and heard and the winner is...Speech Debelle»
Bat For Lashes News
Florence + The Machine favourite for Mercury, to tour a bit
Will she? Won't she? She is?! Why is she?! Yes, it's that time of year again where everyone gets pent up about the Mercury Prize before claiming that they don't really care much for it anyway. Mostly. And who is the favourite at this stage to claim the coveted prize? It's Florence + The Machine of course, for her/their album Lungs.»
Mercury Prize 2009 shortlist in 'mix of predictable and unpredictable announcements' SHOCKER
It's that time of year when everyone in the indiesphere leaps onto the high horse of telling everyone else what is wrong with this year's Mercury Prize shortlist, charges round the racetrack of rigorously protesting how uninterested they are by said list, leaps over the fence of stating the obvious about some of the nominees not being that famous, and then probably heads off for a good feed in the stables of pointing out that M People won it once. So let's do that.»
Bat For Lashes touring the UK this Autumn
As well as Pixies having decided shuffle around (mostly Northern) Europe, the fairytale spinning Natasha Khan - aka Bat For Lashes - is going to traipse up and down this island playing the finest Bars and Music Halls. Or mid to large sized venues...»
Video Drowned-Up: The Mars Volta, Micachu & Speech Debelle, Lord Cut Glass, Lily Allen and more...
Your June instalment of the seemingly now monthly Video Drowned-Up brings you all sorts of wonderful artistic pieces. Think of the ones that didn't make it in!* »
Video Drowned-Up: Bat For Lashes, Patrick Wolf, Pendulum, Blackout Crew, Tortoise and more
A selection of video tasties from the last few days and weeks for you. Thankfully none of them involve F.C. Barcelona or North Korean rockets, though the Pendulum one may have you yearning for destruction on an unprecedented scale.»
Teitur, Little Boots, Mew, Golden Silvers, Slow Club all added to Latitude Fest
It's that time of year again where the myriad of festivals across the country start regularly adding bands, artists and the odd comedian to their bills. This is exactly what Latitude have done.»
Somerset House announce summer treats: Mars Volta, SFA, Grace Jones, Bat For Lashes and more
Summer is on its way, honest, and - as much in celebration as in hope - Somerset House have announced their Summer Series line-up for 2009 with The Mars Volta, Super Furry Animals, Bat For Lashes all finding their way onto the bill.»
Drowned-Up: Bat For Lashes, Maccabees, Stone Roses and more
DiS trawls through all the recent music news so you don't have to.»
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DiS trawls through all the recent music news so you don't have to.»
Bat for Lashes reveals her band for Radiohead supports
Bat for Lashes writes a letter to explain what she's been upto...»
Bat For Lashes announces pair of Radiohead warm-up dates
Bat For Lashes has announced a pair of live shows for June»
Liars, Clinic, Low: Radiohead pick team for Daydream Festival
The line-up for the Radiohead-curated Daydream Festival in Barcelona has been announced today»
'Sexual ghost voices' convince Radiohead to hire Bat for Lashes as UK, European tour support
Anyone crossing fingers for Liars may as well give-up and get the colour back in their digits: as it’s Natasha Khan and Bat for Lashes who've been confirmed as tour support to Radiohead on their forthcoming tours of Europe and the UK»
DiS is seven! Happy Birthday to us!
Happy Birthday to DiS, Happy Birthday to DiS... »
Chart round-up: nation forgets to buy chocolate
Hello! Here’s some news about the latest chart-botherers for you, the chart-bothered.»
Klaxons scoop 2007 Mercury Prize
Klaxons have scooped this year’s Nationwide Mercury Music Prize...»
Mercury Prize: DiS picks its winners-to-be, waits to be right...
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...»
Mercury odds update: Arctics out, Bat For Lashes up
Arctic Monkeys have slipped from joint-first in the betting on this year's Mercury Music Prize...»
Mercury Prize nominations announced
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»
Latitude: sold out
Off to Latitude this weekend? DiS is. Hope you've got your tickets, too, because the three-dayer's sold out as of now...»
WIN! Tickets to Field Day
You might not know this, what with all our adventures at festivals in foreign lands, but DiS is actually a sponsor at this summer's first-ever Field Day event, a one-day festival held at London's Victoria Park, Hackney. And now you do know, how's about a little treat to celebrate...»
WIN! Tickets to the Homefires festival
Got an unseemly gap in your social calendar this coming weekend? DiS has got two pairs of tickets for each day of this year's Homefires festival to give away.»
Field Day for the Saturday: festival line-up update
Following the announcement HERE earlier today regarding their new LP, Liars appear to have casually joined the Field Day Festival line-up...»
Latitude update: Annuals, Cold War Kids, Bat For Lashes and more confirmed for July festival
A number of new bands have been confirmed for July's Latitude Festival, held in Southwold in Suffolk...»
New festival news: Field Day
A new one-day festival, to be held in London's Victoria Park, has been announced...»
iLiKENOTTiNGHAMDiS: new DJ set announced for this weekend
Dave Martin and Simon Fogal from Leeds' favourite purveyors of historical post-rock iLiKETRAiNS will be the guest DJs at this Saturday's (that's the 10th March) Drowned In Sound show at Nottingham's Junktion 7...»
Bat For Lashes: 'Prescilla' single forthcoming
That Bat For Lashes girl and her girls, on The Culture Show t'other night they were. And Klaxons were on something, too, all chatty about stuff, stuff like touring and the like. The Like! When are they gonna get the break that never came their way last year? When they get good? Wut...»
Bat For Lashings of February tour dates
Natasha Khan is taking her Bat For Lashes project on the road in February...»
VOTE! For DiS's album of the year! WIN! A massive pile of CDs from Our 66!
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...»
Bat For Lashes: September tour dates, October single
Bat For Lashes - or Natasha Khan to her friends - has announced a handful of headline dates in anticipation of her debut long-player, Fur And Gold...»
DiS & Pineapple Folk presents... Gang Gang Dance, Bat For Lashes, Emmy and more
We've palled up with ace promoters Pineapple Folk to bring you a delightful evening of dual-staged folk, psych-folk and americana-tinged acoustica. Check out those ridiculous genre terms I just used. IT'S JUST GOOD MUSIC, YO.»
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Battles. Archie Bronson Outfit. Liars. Electrelane. Four Tet. Bat For Lashes. Foals. Justice. Vetiver. Glastonbury line-up has apparently leaked but this opening line of acts somewhat trumps that Sunday Pyramid stage at Pilton. We’d rather update you»
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