TO BE FINISHED THIS AFTERNOON File-sharing, free music, p2p, mp3 blogs, etc, etc... it's a hugely complex issue and no-one seems to have come up with a solution yet. We've run several pieces over the past week and we'd like to know what you now think and what you suggest that government, music fans, the music business, the media and of course musicians themselves, should be doing about this so-called 'problem'...»
Kaiser Chiefs' Nick Hodgson wades into the great download debate»
Everyone's favourite boogie-woogie ivory tinkler cum presenter Jools Holland, returns to our screens tonight (16/9) with the latest series of Later...with Jools Holland»
Get your nanananah, rooobehroobehroooobay and ooooooh-woooooh-aaaahh's ready as popular pop band Kaiser Chiefs have a new album in the offing and plan to launch both it and a new venue at the same time. The Leeds lads will be hometown heroes on th»
Kaiser Chiefs have announced their return, with the Off With Their Heads released on October 13»
Word reaches us that Muse and the Verve will headline this year’s brace of V festivals.»
Christmas is coming, the goose is getting so fat both its ankles have broken and all the other fowl have begun to peck at its flesh. This goose is miserable, and it’s got a date with your dinner table.»
Kaiser Chiefs will play their biggest ever show in 2008, scheduling an appearance at Leeds United FC’s Elland Road stadium for next spring.»
Famous cuckold and plasticman David Gest has revealed a penchant for Leeds quintet Kaiser Chiefs.»
Q Awards: people win, no-one dies...»
Happy Birthday to DiS, Happy Birthday to DiS... »
The nominations for this year's Q awards have been announced.»
Kaiser Chiefs and Mark Ronson are the first two artists to confirm their part in this year's Electric Proms.»
Radio 1 have pulled together a thick brigade of popular artists for a retrospective covers compilation.»
New! Neu! Nouveau! DiS takes the weekend in outstretched palms, twists it about a bit and re-presents it, origami-like, in front of your eyes.»
It's been an odd week. With Glastonbury hangovers letting dark clouds encroach over Monday/Tuesday, the music industry newswires ambled back into life towards Wednesday, only to decide it couldn't really be arsed as the weekend approached.»
Obscure drone-metallers Kaiser Chiefs have announced their biggest-ever headline tour with ten dates at arena venues across the UK.»
The DiS-associated Hove Festival – held in the picturesque surroundings of Tromoy, on the Norwegian coast, from June 26-30 – has confirmed its final, pretty dang good actually line-up...»
Festival-centric website FestivalNews.co.uk has reported the leaked line-up for this summer's Glastonbury Festival...»
The line-up of Norway’s Hove Festival – one of a handful of DiS-associated events going down this summer, y’all – is taking shape very nicely...»
While musing on why the hell FA Cup Quarter Final replays are being held on a Monday, we also stumbled across the line ups for this year’s 02 Wireless Festival...»
Quick one this week, as I’ve sausages to get home to and Southampton are on the telly at 8...»
He’s gone! Rocked from the top of the singles chart by those merry Leeds men, Kaiser Chiefs. Ladies, gentlemen, breathe again: Mika’s infuriatingly rubbish version of a dozen good songs condensed into four minutes of intolerable shite, ‘Grace Kelly’, has slipped from number one. To number two. Which is so much more appropriate, really...»
Who’d have thought it? A good few weeks in and still ‘Grace Kelly’ is doing it for the people of Britain. Well, for the people of Britain who don’t like music, anyway...»
It’s pop, kids, but not as we like it. And it’s all over the charts like a bowl of cold custard tipped from a tenth-floor window onto the frail frame of a passing OAP. Sticky and yellow and just not proper...»
Nick Hodgson, drummer with popular northern poppers Kaiser Chiefs, has revealed that the contemporary music scene, which his own band is a part of, is "average" and many of its bands "shit"...»
Yorkshire tykes Kaiser Chiefs have sold-out a one-off show at Doncaster's Dome venue in, like, some seconds...»
Kaiser Chiefs have named their second album and the tracks featured on it ahead of the record's February release date...»
So, The Long Blondes have been announced in a supporting role for six of the Kaiser's gigs announced earlier today.»
Kaiser Chiefs will return to a stage somewhere near you in February, sometime after the death of panto season...»
Kaiser Chiefs have announced the completion of the follow-up to 2005 album Employment, with a release date scheduled for February...»
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...»
Kaiser Chiefs have apparently polished off their second long-player, currently scheduled for an early-2007 release...»
The British National Party (BNP) has upset northern pop-rockers Kaiser Chiefs after the political party used the band's 'I Predict A Riot' in a promotional video...»
Thanks to our good friends at Mean Fiddler, DiS has a pair of tickets for each site of this year's Carling Weekend: Reading and Leeds festivals up for grabs. The festival runs from 25-27th August at Bramham Park, Leeds and the Rivermead Leisure Centre, Reading.»
Speaking to excitable Radio 1 deej Zane Lowe last weekend, Ricky Wilson wowed all present with the revelation that his Kaisers have nearly finished work on their second album.»
The line-up for this October's Iceland Airwaves Festival, held in Reykjavík from the 18th to the 20th, is shaping up quite wonderfully...»
Gorillaz, Kaiser Chiefs and New Order are among the winners at this year's Ivor Novello Awards...»
Ricky Wilson, singer in the Kaiser Chiefs, was struck by a car while crossing a road in his hometown of Leeds, it has been revealed...»
'Learnt My Lesson Well', 'Highroyds' and 'Heat Dies Down' were all premiered at the Kaisers' Glasgow show on April 18th.»
The management team at London's Somerset House (pictured) have warned that online adverts for a series of gigs in the summer are false... »
Iceland's premier music festival returns in 2006 with the Kaiser Chiefs announced as initial headliners, alongside Wolf Parade, Jenny Wilson and local SXSW heroes Jakobinarina who our scribe T. Judge picked as the highlight of last year's Airwaves.»
Despite rumours all over the press last weekend to the contrary, the Kaiser Chiefs have said they've no plans to record a song to accompany the England football team's bid for World Cup success this summer...»
Brit winners Kaiser Chiefs are perfectly content with their domestic success, stating that they're not keen on pushing their wares across the Atlantic a la so many other homegrown talents that have subsequently failed to break the US market...»
No, we didn't report who won what at this year's Brit Awards, and neither did we get all chest-puffed proud 'cause the Kaisers romped their way to three wee statues (well done guys, seriously), but this is mildly interesting: the television coverage for the Earls Court event scored the lowest-ever viewing figures in its history...»
The nominations for this year's NME Awards makes for some mighty fine readin' if you're one of them Kaiser boys - the band are up for no fewer than (*counts, rapidly*) six awards...»
Twelve months ago it was so peaceful, so tranquil, daytime radio airwaves. Yes, we had Westlife and their spawn, delivering ballads to mums about the land, but they were easily ignored; also, we had the enduring Robbie, remaining chirpy and cheeky alongside the new batch of made-by-telly stars. Then, suddenly, Blunt.»
Leeds' finest success story of 2005, Kaiser Chiefs, are to headline next year's Heineken Green Energy festival in Dublin...»
Another week, another A-lister taking swipes at those beneath them... or something: Noel G has told an Aussie radio station that British bands are rubbish...»
Leeds-based pop-rockers Kaiser Chiefs are to release a DVD just in time for Christmas...»
Oasis are shortlisted for a whopping five nominations at this year's Q Awards. They've made their way into the running for the Best Track, Best Live Act, Best Album, Best Video and Best Act In The World Today gongs...»
A significantly healthy choice of the UK's finest talent are in studios across the world as we speak/write recording Help: A Day in the Life' for the Warchild charity.»
Kaiser Chiefs are the favourites to scoop this year's Mercury Music Prize, according to bookies William Hill...»
The Sun has reported that Bloc Party and Kaiser Chiefs might get it together for a little festive fun this Christmas, recording a seasonal single to rival Sir Cliff...»
Kaiser Chiefs are to re-relase 'I Predict a Riot' this August as a double A-side with new track 'Sink That Ship'»
So, the charts then;»
Some bands what were dissed somewhat by ol' big-maaaf Liam Gallagher in the New Musical Express t'other week 'ave hit back at the band what panned 'em, sayin' all kinds of potty-mouthed shite.»
Conor has commented, "I'm flabbergasted but tremendously pleased. This really is a victory for the whole team around NME. The judges mentioned NME's speed of response and that's something you can only achieve by everyone working together." »
'Every Day I Love You Less And Less' is the next single, with a surprising (sort of) cover version...»
Hello Tuesday. DiS managed to miss our Monday chart bulletin by an hour and then decided it was worth it anyway. Why? Cos there’s like, some interesting activity in the soon-to-be-non-existent charts this week. Or so we think.»
Those NME Awards headlines in full; Green Day also win two; New Order declared 'God-like'; Pete Doherty no-show; The Others win John Peel Music Innovation award. Yes, really.; and -ohmygodican'tbelieveit! - former DiS Records signees Kaiser Chiefs win an award too! Hurrah!»
Franz Ferdinand, Keane and comedian Peter Kay are among those who will appear at this April’s run of Teenage Cancer Trust events at the Royal Albert Hall.»
Kaiser Chiefs have announced a top of the crops April tour to big up their forthcoming LP 'Employment'.»
Indie pop hopes, Kaiser Chiefs are to play a one-off show at Leeds Joseph's Well this Friday, 7th January»
The provisional line up for this year's South By South West festival, which takes place in Austin, Texas in March, features a number of UK acts and one or two surprises.»
news guff»
Kaiser Chiefs, top of the pops?»
Former DiS employees, Kaiser Chiefs, have announced details of their debut single on B-Unique records, as well as a handful of tour dates.»
Cheeky northern indie-pop scamps tour...»
Reading and Leeds, or The Carling Weekend, if you're into corp'isms, has announced more bands...»
DiS Recordings in the Top 75. Oooooh.»
The Casbah is indefinitely postponing all gigs booked from Saturday 1st May.»
Chikinki, The Koreans and the DiS labels very own Kaiser Chiefs (who won the NME single of the week plaudits last week) hit the road in the name of DiS starting tonight at Metro on Oxford St, London...
Come, discover...»
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