To celebrate the longest running musical show since The Black And White Minstrels, there's a double CD out of some of the best performances over the past year or so and it features many wonderful artists and bands, including Jools himself, of course. Playing piano. Over someone. Somewhere. This time I think it's Adele.»
Femme-popster and voice of a broken generation Lily Allen has entered a ferocious war of words with indie darlings of the world over Radiohead, over the damage caused by ILLEGAL file sharing to the music industry. Except it's not really been that ferocious, nor has it been a war of words (via NME.com).»
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!* »
Russell Hart, chief executive of Entertainment Media Research commented "It is quite evident that an ISP-led strategy has bite, because illegal downloaders are fairly convinced that ISPs are currently monitoring their activities and are more likely to act against them than the courts."»
Kaiser Chiefs have announced their return, with the Off With Their Heads released on October 13»
From NME.com via Rolling Stone comes word that DiS's favourite Allen after Allens Woody and Clive may quit the music business if her second album tanks»
Pop gobshite Lily Allen - pictured not talking - has finished her second album, the follow-up to the mega-successful Alright, Still of 2006»
According to reports on popular but very much evil gossip 'blog PerezHilton, a music industry 'insider' said, "Lily Allen is peeved at Capitol. She feels like they've shoved her aside to focus all their energies on their new girl of the moment, Katy Perry.".»
That’s show business we suppose. Lily Allen, the new face of BBC3, has seen her woeful TV show given a boost by the announcement today that it’ll be allowed to limp on into a second series»
Adele is plotting to assemble a coven of former BRIT School girls for what she says would be “the best band ever”»
Lily Allen has been catching some flak from Isle of Wight Festival organisers after pulling out of the event yesterday»
Lily Allen has shot a glib ‘whatever’ the way of the Mail on Sunday after the paper published articles slagging her new TV show.»
The Trades Union Congress has chosen Lily Allen and the Levellers to star in a cartoon calling on workers to “improve their skills”.»
From domestic violence to flimsy frippery on DiS news; helped along the way, as per usual, by the grinning mug of Lily Allen.»
Following yesterday's books-go-pop announcement that the famous cheese farmer Alex James is to sit on the panel for the 2007 Costa Book Awards, the Orange Broadband Prize For Fiction has gone one better - they've only recruited Lily bleedin' Allen. The»
Despite reports to the contrary, Lily Allen will not be the new face of underwear brand Agent Provocateur.»
After not becoming the face and body of Agent Provocateur earlier this week, Lily Allen has landed her own TV show.»
A source has told DiS that rumours of Razorlight's impending demise are much exaggerated.»
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.»
Lily Allen has cancelled performances at a pair of continental festivals this week as she attempts to be healthy enough to play this coming weekend's V Festival...»
Lily Allen has had to fly back to LDN after being refused entry at the US border.»
Fans heading for the T In The Park festival today are being warned to leave extra time for travel following the terror attack in Glasgow last weekend.»
Assertive popstress Pink has revealed an admiration for the vices of fellow songbirds Amy Winehouse and Lily Allen.»
Currently caught in the middle of a DiS competition - click here - London-based pop lass Lily Allen has confessed via the medium of MySpace - but everyone is on Facebook now, Lily! - that she's a little too fond of the demon drink...»
A number of new bands have been confirmed for this year's DiS-associated Summercase Festival, held in Barcelona and Madrid in July...»
The line-up for this year's Summer Series of shows at London's Somerset House - it's by the river, yup yup - has been announced...»
Festival-centric website FestivalNews.co.uk has reported the leaked line-up for this summer's Glastonbury Festival...»
Organisers behind the now annual Eden Sessions series - held, of course, at the Eden Project in Cornwall - have really pushed the boat out this year, booking artists at the very cutting edge of their chosen fields...»
DiS is pleased to bring you news of a rather splendid two-day twin-site festival going down in Spain this summer. Summercase is to be held in Barcelona and Madrid on July 13-14, and DiS will be jetting out there to see what it's all about...»
Lily Allen has been spouting off again, this time attacking America for being "backward".»
Austin is awash with the global music industry. Chet is standing next to Mike who is buying a drink for Cristiano, and they’re all hoping to spot the next big thing.»
Lily Allen has hit out at MTV bosses for consigning her sweary single 'Smile' to late night TV while Paris Hilton gets to shove her tits in people's faces 24/7. Or something...»
Lily Allen is to appear - kinda - in the computer game The Sims 2...»
Klaxons (pictured) and Jamie T were among the winners at last night's Shockwaves NME Awards, held at the doomed Hammersmith Palais...»
The self-proclaimed "biggest midget in the game" - suppose it's better than her on the game counterpart - has taken a swipe at Lily Allen, saying that the 'Smile' singer has only made it to where she is 'cause of her dad...»
Lily Allen, last pictured by the popular press waving one of her shoes around in a strange protest over the size of heels nowadays or something, has suggested that The Brit Awards were sorta kinda fixed...»
Last night DiS sat down at home, a bottle of M&S red and some spaghetti before us, and flicked our telly over to channel three. Russell Brand! Not talking about his ball bags! It could only mean one thing: we’d tuned into the first live Brit Awards since that whole Sam and Mick fiasco...»
Welcome, weekend readers! (unless you’re reading this on a Monday. Or a Tuesday. Or… yeah, hi.) Here, DiS is pleased to present a digest, if you will, of the week’s most interesting (?) news stories. Hopefully, assuming we remember to do it, this will be a weekly thing – every Friday evening, a neat little summary of the week’s comings and goings in the world of music...»
Britain's new princess of pop has taken the opportunity to slag off Madonna...»
Lily Allen wants to marry a man with money, apparently...»
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...»
Lily Allen has been reunited with her English Bull Terrier Margaret 'Maggie' May, but only after being forced to pay dog-nappers a £500 ransom. It's true, look...»
Despite holding on at the top spot of the singles chart for another week with 'Patience', Take That seem certain to lose out on a Christmas Number One once X Factor winner Leona Lewis, pictured, releases her version of 'A Moment Like This' on Wednesday...»
Lily Allen will play a freak's handful of dates at venues across the UK next March...»
So we’re back from ATP and shattered, physically and mentally: what better time could there possibly be for a trawl through the ups and downs of the last seven days in the UK singles and albums charts...»
Lily Allen has claimed that she dealt drugs in Ibiza as a 15-year-old...»
Lily Allen has opened her regularly free-flowing gob - proverbially - on her MySpace page to have a pop at NME and the magazine's editor, the award-winning Conor McNicholas...»
Beth Ditto has been named numero uno in NME's Cool List 2006, in a top ten that - shock, horror - contains just as many women as it does men...»
This year's nominees for the annual Q Awards, the award ceremony offspring of dad-rock bible Q magazine, have been announced. Whoa, there, Q - way to get radical on our arses...»
On the new entry front, Lil’ Chris makes nineteen with ‘Checkin’ It Out’. Clearly, despite all the time he spent outside of English class making not-so-sweet music with Gene Simmons, the cap-sporting whippersnapper knows his way around an apostrophe or two...»
Never one to miss an opportunity to open her gob in the presence of anyone with a tape recorder, Lily Allen has told the NME that she thinks the majority of indie-rock bands are "doing what S Club 7 and Steps did"...»
Pop-rap sensation Lily Allen is to begin her effort to crack the States with a digital EP release, Smile. The title track, quite obviously, is the same song that went straight to the top of the UK singles chart not so long ago...»
Seven days may have passed since last we, DiS, delved into the charts in any detail, but little has changed: Shakira remains top of the singles pile with ‘Hips Don’t Lie’, with Rihanna’s ‘Unfaithful’ at two and Christina Aguilera just below her with ‘Ain’t No Other Man’. We’re still digging that last one; t’other two can naff off...»
So Top Of The Pops is dead. Anyone watch the last one? I didn’t. Had better things to do. Like eat pasta and catch a train. I thought about recording it, specifically to find out what was atop the pile o’ short-play records we in the business call the ‘singles chart’, but then I remembered: the DiS round-up, this round-up, will set me straight! Not least of all ‘cause I’m the foo’ writing it...»
According to the tabloids - red top goss', we love it - Lily Allen is richer to the tune of £20,000 after label bosses felt a shred of sympathy for her Alright, Still long-player not making the Mercury Music Prize cut (clicky)...»
DiS does like to play pop, from time to time, but for every ‘Back In Black’ there’s a ‘SexyBack’ just around the bend to trip you over with its initially impressive skitter and slide. To ensure you don’t suffer likewise, we’ll do our very utmost to provide you with a weekly guide to what’s what, chart-wise. So, here’s the runners and riders – and fallers and non-starters – for the week beginning July 17. THAT’S TODAY. Wow, the Romans were great…»
The shortlisted albums in contention for 2006's Mercury Music Prize will be revealed next week, with Jools Holland making the announcement on Tuesday, July 18...»
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