Manics, Kooks and loads more for Oxegen 2008
In the latest update to this year’s festival season, Manic Street Preachers and The Kooks are among those who have joined the bill for Oxegen Festival in Co. Kildare, Ireland»
In the latest update to this year’s festival season, Manic Street Preachers and The Kooks are among those who have joined the bill for Oxegen Festival in Co. Kildare, Ireland»
Beck will be releasing a new album – his first since 2006 – very, very soon if reports from MTV.com are to be believed»
Cat Power will play a self-contained set of dates in England this summer.»
Cat Power’s new covers/tribute/homage album, Jukebox, is out in a couple of weeks through Matador. To this end, the label have kindly given us a handful of posters to thrust in your big, gurning faces.»
The soundtrack to Juno, featuring Sonic Youth, The Moldy Peaches and Cat Power, is getting a UK release to coincide with the film’s arrival in cinemas here next month.»
Cat Power will play a one-off London live show in the new year.»
The first track to be lifted from Chan Marshall’s new record winds up on iTunes today; the Dylan-toting ‘Song To Bobby’ available exclusively through the media store across the entire world.»
A new covers album by Cat Power will be available to buy in January next year.»
Hormonal mewler Cat Power will release a 'new' covers record in January.»
Cat Power has been rewarded for recording The Greatest with this year's Shortlist Music Prize.»
It’s hardly a new concept – Band X allowing ‘Song Y’ to be used to soundtrack a television advertisement – but now, more than ever, it seems acts from the margins of popular taste are being exploited – or should that be given a boost? – by marketing men with their ears tuned to the sounds of the underground...»
The powers that be at ATP have revealed the running order - well, the daily line-ups - for the first of two weekenders forthcoming at Butlins in Minehead...»
The bill for this year's Triptych series has been announced...»
Popular-around-'ere rapper El-P releases his new LP, I'll Sleep When You're Dead, through Def Jux on 20 March...»
The people behind Cat Power's MySpace site - located right here and frustratingly only featuring one song - have called the singer's fans "harbringers of dark magick" in a bulletin...»
Last night - well, afternoon really - DiS tubed it all the way to Hammersmith for the launch do for 2007's Brit Awards. The two-hour recorded-for-telly show - which went out 'live' on ITV2 last night - was presented by Fearne Cotton and featured live performances from The Fratellis, James Morrison, Lemar and The Feeling. And some free wine. Which was bad. But we still had several glasses...»
More names have been confirmed for this year's Dirty Three-curated ATP weekend in Minehead...»
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...»
A handful of DiS's favourite acts - including Yeah Yeah Yeahs (pictured) and Snowden, who played a DiS gig last night - appear on a new album raising money for the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation...»
Yoko Ono has assembled a varied cast for a covers album of her own material. The record, entitled Yes, I Am A Witch, is out in February...»
Chan Marshall - known to record store racks everywhere as Cat Power - might appear in future advertising campaigns for Chanel...»
Chan Marshall aka Cat Power has explained why she cancelled a series of live shows, including a date in London, earlier this year (see our report from the time here).»
Cat Power's The Greatest long-player is to be re-issued by Matador later this month...»
Chan Marshall, aka Cat Power, has released a new EP via iTunes...»
Another Rough Trade Shops compilation is due to hit store shelves pretty soon. Rough Trade Shops: Singer Songwriter 01 will be released via Mute on July 3rd...»
Chan Marshall, aka Cat Power, has rescheduled her previously postponed American tourdates following a spell away with health issues (specifics are still far from forthcoming)...»
Chan Marshall's recent cancellation of US dates has, rather inevitably, led to today's announcement that the artist better known as Cat Power is to miss her date at London's Barbican on March 4th...»
Organisers of the 80,000-capacity Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival, to be held in Manchester (that's in Tennessee, sorry) from June 16th to the 18th, have announced a fantastic line up...»
Chan Marshall has got DiS all in a spin again - hear her new album a week early...»
Drowned in Sound will be out there in full force, and is helping to curate the Bootleg BBQ on Saturday afternoon with British Underground. It takes place at the Mean Eyed Cat on Fifth St, which is a Johnny Cash bar that was formally a chainsaw shop, The Cut-Rite as featured in Chainsaw Massacre 2. »
ATP Concerts will launch a season of concerts in August called Don't Look Back. Starring: Mudhoney, Belle and Sebastian, more...»
Patti! Patti! Smith! Smith! Meltdown bill announced...»
If we at DiS may suggest another festival to you fine people…»
Cat Power stars in experimental film.»
That unpredictable fringed lady, who puts the roll into alt-folksy, is releasing a DVD and playing some interesting charity shows...»
Indie heaven returns to Camber in March/April with Sonic Youth, Mogwai, Tortoise, Shellac and Malkmus picking the bands...»
Every (fey-)indie-boys sex-kitten pin-up, Chan Marshall, hath announced more UK dates.. So much for this tour being a London only love-affair. The butterscotch-tones and slinky-folk-pop of that Cat Power lady is gonna be pouring all around the country in a coupla weeks. You best bake some cakes with»
When Chan comes to London town, ya'll better be there.. We love Cat Power! You should too. Her latest LP 'You Are Free' features some Grohl drumming and there's some Eddie Vedder slipped in there too. Not that these names should affect y»
It almost doesn't seem right but Cat Power's next album has a couple of rock godz on it... 'You are Free' is the title of the second album Cat Power (aka Chan Marshall) out on February 18th, but the website of Matador Records (a»