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.»
One man’s cess pit is another man’s bath, so are we bathing in Evian or shit this week in the charts? Bit of both as usual.»
DiS ventured to Manchester International Festival to hear PJ Harvey preview new material from forthcoming album White Chalk. And we found the track listing. »
PJ Harvey will return with her seventh studio album this autumn.»
A number of new bands have been confirmed for this year's DiS-associated Summercase Festival, held in Barcelona and Madrid in July...»
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...»
Good news, everyone! PJ Harvey is working on a new record. Huzzah...»
PJ Harvey is to release a compilation of Peel Sessions next month...»
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...»
PJ Harvey's first-ever DVD is to be released in May. Please Leave Quietly follows the singer on her 2003 tour for last album-proper Uh Huh Her...»
PJ Harvey plays ATP...»
Fans and bands pay tribute to the legend live from Maida Vale.»
PJ Harvey's mum and dad don't like her swearing.»
With a new album under her belt, now is the obvious time for PJ Harvey to tour the UK.»
The Queen of Indie is b-b-back and in a state of undress...»
Polly a-go-go. Belle and Sebastian get busy too.»
The current Queen of Rock, Polly Jean Harvey, announces details of her seventh album...»
PJ Harvey's follow up to the Mercury Award-winning 'Stories From The City, Stories From The Sea' is complete.»
Josh went out into the Desert again and you can hear it all, here, for nowt... try before you buy and all that.»
Former Screaming Trees frontman Mark Lanegan is set to release a sixth solo album in January next year, entitled ‘Bubblegum’. ‘Bubblegum’ features guest spots from Greg Dulli, fellow Stone Age-rs Josh Homme and Nick Olivieri, P.J. Harvey and G n’R boys Izzy Str»
Rock-queen to play first ever rock show at the Tate Modern... Whilst readying her new album (to be previewed at festivals this summer) PJ Harvey, has announced that she is to play the first ever rock concert at The Tate Modern Gallery in London on September 1st. Tickets go onsale tomo»
Our Polly is melting our hearts again this summer, with a few festival appearances, previewing her new album, amid all this mobile phone tv advert exposure... PJ Harvey's performing @ The Eden Project 2003, in Cornwall on August 15th. This is one of her first shows since The Big Day Out, down under,»
The British institution wakes up and releases a DVD... The 21st Series of BBC's music show 'Later... with Jools Holland' is due to start up again in May. To coincide with the new series they're releasing a noisy DVD. Following on the DVD series from»
Virgin festival tickets are on sale as of 9am today (Saturday 8th March).. For £90 (don't forget the booking fee!) on August 16th/17th @ Weston Park, Staffordshire & Hylands Park Chelmsford, Essex.. you will see: Coldplay do their only English festival in 2003 »
You'd of thought Josh Homme might want a break from his life of excess but at the Big Day Out details are coming out about Desert Sessions 9.. For anyone who doesn't know, 'Desert Sessions' is a Josh Homme curated party in the middle of nowhere (a desert to be precise - dur!) with loads of instrumen»
Queen of the troubled teens and upwards, returns... A while back we heard rumbles that there was a new PJ Harvey album on the way and she's just confirmed it a bit more. Well, that it's close to completition. And that she tends to debut some of the tracks at Glastonbury this year - if it goes ahead.»
It's been quite a while since we last heard from PJ Harvey but after a bit of looking for info on the next album (there is no info yet, grrr!) we've found the following.. According to Murmurs.com, an REM fansite, the band's managem»
The BBC are looking for YOU! Well, maybe you, but they are looking for songwriters and stars... not false-icons! (not that it states that!) For a reality tv, meets documentary, meets quiz show... It's being billed as "the biggest prize in showbiz history" and although the adverts make it look»
The nominations are in for this year's Q Awards. Q Award nominations Best single - Ash, 'Burn Baby Burn'; Stereophonics, 'Have A Nice Day'; Feeder, 'Buck Rogers'; New Order, 'Crystal'; Weezer, 'Hash Pipe'; Charlatans, 'Love Is T»
The new Shortlist Prize in the USA is modelled on the UK's Mercury Music Award and aims to honour the most adventurous and creative albums in contemporary music.A panel of 15 judges, made up of names from the music industry such as Beck, Dave Grohl and Korn/Slipknot/At The Drive-in Produc»
The winner of the Mercury Music Prize 2001 is PJ Harvey for her album 'Stories From The City, Stories From The Sea'
The announcement was made this evening at a ceremony at the Grosvenor House Hotel in London, disproving the late betting run on other artists Zero 7 and Turin Brakes
P.J. Harvey Confirms UK Tour For September
Following her headline tour in America and European Festival dates, P.J. Harvey will return to the UK for a handful of live dates.
GLASGOW, BARROWLANDS 26th September
Box Office: Tel: 0141 221 5273 & 0141 331 8383
MANCHESTER APOLLO 28th Sep»
The shortlist for this year's Technics Mercury Music Prize has just been announced in London. The £20,000 prize was won last year by Badly Drawn Boy's 'The Hour Of Bewilderbeast'. The full shortlist is as follows:
Basement Jaxx - 'Rooty'
Ed Harcourt - 'Here Be Monsters»
Another year and it looks like another good Carling Weekender, Reading/Leeds festival to look forward to. The BBC Radio1 website today revealed the headliners, a day before tickets go onsale (April 24th). And the headliners are [dodgy drum roll]
Reading Friday 24th/Leeds Saturday 25th:
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