Oh dear. Bad news for lovers of the heavy stuff as behemoths of the genre, Isis, have decided to call it a day, some thirteen years after their birth. It was a good life, for sure. The band detailed the reasons in a mammoth blog post on their...ahem...blog.»
This seems to be going pretty well, then. We're into the third week of Spotifriday and haven't run out of things to stick on a playlist. Here's the run-down of tracks reflecting content of the site in the last week. »
Those brilliant and hard-working people over at All Tomorrow's Parties have announced yet another raft of superb concerts in this country's capital this Autumn/Winter.»
Meat Puppets, Joe Lally, Os Mutantes, Mugison, Monotonix, and Taraf De Haidouks have all been announced to play ATP's Nightmare Before Christmas festival.»
With some commentators already calling it the best ATP of the past couple of years, this December's Nightmare Before Christmas has gone from great to greater with the addition of new acts»
Okay, so we're not really sure how new this video is. But we've only just seen it. And you should too. If you like, and if you're as big a fan of Isis as we are (well, I am)»
Seriously, are you as excited as we are? I doubt it - the DiS office is stinking, what with all the wet pants littering the place...»
California-based masters of epic metal, Isis, hve announced details of the support acts for their forthcoming UK dates. Their UK tour kicks off with a show at this weekend's ATP event at Minehead...»
Sorta-kinda-instrumetal quintet Isis are to tour the UK in May, following their appearance at the All Tomorrow's Parties Versus The Fans weekender (May 18-20)...»
Spain's Primavera Sound Festival is all but complete of line-up, with the latest announcement a true who's who of DiS's rocking and rolling wet dreams...»
The first few confirmed acts for this year's Primavera Sound festival have been announced...»
So ATP's Don't Look Back series - y'know, a one band plays one album kind of a deal - kicked off in London t'other night with Green On Red performing Gas Food Lodging at London's Koko venue. Granted, there's been a hitch already - Ennio Morricone has been forced to postpone his two nights - but read on, do...»
Californian metal-cum-post-rockers Isis are in the UK right now. If you've half a brain - half a brain that likes being battered silly by skyscraper-sized riffs and the kind of growls that only the Devil himself should be able to muster - then this is old news. This, though, is GOOD news: we've only gone and acquired ourselves a pair of tickets for the quintet's special Koko show, taking place this Sunday. »
Now, regular readers will remember a certain writer (hi) getting ridiculously excited about the fact that Isis, probably the world's greatest purveyors of slow-core rock dramatics, were chosen to appear as part of ATP's Don't Look Back series of gigs. What you might have missed, though (as I did until yesterday), is that the quintet are playing a few other European shows before their Koko date...»
So you missed out on Truck? Fuck. You missed out on Leeds? Puh-leeeze. Wake up and smell the avant-garde freshness of this year's SuperSonic Festival, held at Birmingham's Custard Factory. Then follow the smell 'til tickets are in your hands...»
Isis - if you don't know 'bout 'em you've no reason to point your eyes at this article - are to perform their masterpiece Oceanic as part of ATP's Don't Look Back season...»
Guitar-throttling slow-droning metallers Isis are to release a limited-edition recording of a live set, from a 2003 radio broadcast. When we say limited, though, we mean it: only 1,000 of these vinyl-only bad boys are being pressed, so get buying...»
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