Neptune Music Prize - Your Last Chance to Vote!
Today is your last chance to vote in the Neptune Music Prize.»
Today is your last chance to vote in the Neptune Music Prize.»
After your rampant enthusiasm last year for DiS ' Pluto Prize (our reader voted alternative to the Mercury Music Prize) we're doing it all over again for 2009 with a new name: The Neptune Music Prize. DiS' award highlights 12 out of this world albums that we felt missed the Mercury cut go head to head for the alternative title of best album of 2009.»
London femme-folk protagonist Emmy The Great is to enrapture the general public with her music once more as she releases a new EP, The Edward EP next month.»
Locomotive-themed indie-pop festival Indietracks have confirmed that their Sunday headliner will be none other than Scottish four-piece leg-ends, Teenage Fanclub. They'll play the outdoor - Elefant - stage. We all know lovely pop music and steam trains g»
Those wonderfully innovative people responsible for the Black Cab Sessions are up for a Webby award, and we think they're pretty deserving winners. Ergo, we're urging you all to vote for them and stick an award on their mantlepiece.»
The Class Of 2009 has now been DiSmissed, but in case you missed any of the week's inductions, here are some teasers and links to the bands in question. Plus a preview of our forthcoming New Music coverage.»
Lightspeed Champion, The Gossip, Alphabeat, Black Lips and The Go! Team are among the acts performing at this year's Surfstock festival at St Agnes, Cornwall»
The full line-up for this summer's Green Man Festival - held August 15-17 in Glanusk Park, Brecon Beacons - has been revealed»
New news! A slew of new names have been confirmed for this year's Green Man Festival, which DiS is the official online partner of. Yay us»
Bella Union, the fine independent label started by Cocteau Twin Simon Raymonde just over a decade ago, have been given their own stage at this year’s Wireless festival. Guess what? They have some of the best line-ups of the weekend»
Tickets for the eleventh Truck Festival go on sale tomorrow»
Dev Hynes on Lightspeed Champion's debt to comic books, plus details of a spring tour and new single»
Emmy the Great will play eleven shows scattered across the UK next month before heading to Austin, Texas and SXSW.»
Another month, another DiScover Club at London's Notting Hill Arts Club. The date: Saturday October 20. Again, the show's a free-entry event and open to anyone aged 18 or over. Doors, they're at 4pm, and kick-out time's four hours later. In between, some bands...»
The DiS-supported Nasty Fest returns to Leeds' Faversham early next month, and tickets for the all-day do are available for just £12 now...»
Happy Birthday to DiS, Happy Birthday to DiS... »
Emmy the Great has made arrangements for her maiden headline tour.»
Emmy The Great is to release her debut EP on August 20...»
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.»
London-based singer-songwriter of no little loveliness Emmy The Great is taking her acoustic guitar on the road later this month...»
Don't ever say we don't give you anything, because this coming Wednesday (14th), well, we are.»
Time for change. It’s with a heavy heart that DiS today gazes at a new horizon following the departure of Editor Colin Roberts, but with this restructuring comes new roles...»
Having just picked up a coveted DiS tip for 2007, as well as a significantly less important tip from womens' institute almanac (NB: humour) Vogue, Emmy the Great headlines East London's Hoxton Bar and Kitchen this Thursday.»
Like us, the folks at the University of Sheffield love their music. So much so, in fact, that they've handed over their intimate Raynor Lounge venue to us, DrownedInSound.com, for one special evening in March»
Izumi Records are releasing a charity Christmas album, to be made available through iTunes from December 6th...»
London, wake up: DiS is putting on a pair of shows for you - yes, you! - over the next two nights. You think we book these things just so we can go out and get drunk? Well stop thinking that - it's only partially true...»
So, we're turning six this year; October to be precise. To celebrate, we're promoting, branding and putting our name to a number of events and shows. We'll cut straight to the chase - you should come to as many of these as you humanly can. They're going to be what the French would call 'really good, bruv'.»
The first-ever End Of The Road Festival is all but upon us, so what better time for a wee update on the line-up and stuff...»
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.»
I'm still updating this, you bastards - crabLOL
Many of you may know Raziq Rauf as the voice of rock, metal and the general downfall of society in Britain. After him pressuring us for months and launching an online petition that at least seven Kerrang! readers signed, we've allowed the man to come in and co-curate 40 minutes of rock frivolity with DiS' antipodean guest host of choice - Flash Taylor.»
Tilly and the Wall return to the UK this May for a rather spangly tour, supported by the wonderful Emmy the Great. You can look at the dates by clicking the story to the right hand side of this article.»
Emmy The Great, punk folk troubadour and rollerskating cake queen, is going on tour with Tilly and the Wall. And releasing a record. Dang!»
Check out the best of the best from this year's In the City conference and win CDs and tickets!»
Late cancellation on the DiS stage but a replacement has been found...»
REDJETSON winter tour dates and free show tonight.»
Duels - 'Do You Hear What I Hear?' Envelopes - 'Pink Christmas' Ingo Star Cruiser Ft. Gaby Froden - 'Just Like Christmas' Iain Archer - 'Little Drummer Boy (Black Forest Version)' Duke Special & David Ford - 'Of Whoredom & Falconry' El Perr»
DrownedinSound.com play host to Room 3 of Scala-based club night Chalk, with George Pringle, White Heat and Emmy the Great accompanying our own renowned disk jockey collective (a.k.a. Mike and Gareth)...»