And the winner is: Speech Debelle scoops the Mercury Prize
Yes! The Mercury Prize judges have come to a final conclusion, after all has been seen, done and heard and the winner is...Speech Debelle»
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Florence + The Machine favourite for Mercury, to tour a bit
Will she? Won't she? She is?! Why is she?! Yes, it's that time of year again where everyone gets pent up about the Mercury Prize before claiming that they don't really care much for it anyway. Mostly. And who is the favourite at this stage to claim the coveted prize? It's Florence + The Machine of course, for her/their album Lungs.»
The Horrors announce winter 'UK' tour
Band of the decade and possibly century so far The Horrors have just announced a tour around England and some of Scotland in December.»
Programmes! Get your Field Day Festival stage times here.
DiS is very excited to reveal the stage-times for Field Day Festival which takes this Saturday, followed by the DiS after-party at the Old Blue Last.»
Mercury Prize 2009 shortlist in 'mix of predictable and unpredictable announcements' SHOCKER
It's that time of year when everyone in the indiesphere leaps onto the high horse of telling everyone else what is wrong with this year's Mercury Prize shortlist, charges round the racetrack of rigorously protesting how uninterested they are by said list, leaps over the fence of stating the obvious about some of the nominees not being that famous, and then probably heads off for a good feed in the stables of pointing out that M People won it once. So let's do that.»
Win: trip to La Route Du Rock to see MBV, Horrors, Deerhunter, Grizzly Bear & more
One of the festival lineups of the summer has to be that of leading French festival La Route Du Rock, who this week announced a UK festival party at London's Luminaire... plus, win tickets to the festival.»
Spotifriday #2 - This Week on DiS as a Playlist
Roll up, roll up! It's our second weekly Spotifriday and this is your second 'This Week on DiS' in a musical playlist, via the medium of Spotify. A bit more of a 'short and sweet' one this week, but we've Mr Lukowski has already done an ATP playlist and we've done the Great Escape one, too. So here it is...»
Drowned-Up: Mars Volta, Britney Spears, The White Stripes and more
DiS trawls through all the recent music news so you don't have to.»
My Bloody Christmas: ATP announce Nightmare '09 curators
Let's cut to the chase here: My Bloody Valentine are the curators for ATP's Nightmare Before Christmas festival, in December this year. Sonic Youth, De La Soul and The Horrors are brilliantly on the bill.»
DrownedinSound's forty favourite songs of the first quarter of '09 (Spotify-centric)
DiS has gone through all the albums, singles and b-sides of the year (so far!) and put together a playlist of our favourite forty tracks for your listening pleasure.»
Happy Horror'ween! Enter our fancy dress contest.
DiS really rather loves The Horrors and they just happen to also be the perfect band for Hallowe'en. So we've got hold of some copies of the US version of their album and some American EPs and othersuch stuffs to give away. All you need to do is show us what you are/were wearing this Horror'ween... »
The Horrors: Fantasy Faris and Portishead-related new album info
In news posted over at the Youth Turks blog there's evidence that Faris Badwan (aka Rotter), is currently sixth out of 1,274,118 teams! If you spot Sour Face FC in the papers then yes, that's him.»
WIN! Tickets to this year's Underage Festival in London
Eighteen years old or under? What are you doing reading this site?! We use naughty words, like bum and poop. Your parents would be _so_ mad if they found out. S'alright though, we won't tell. What's more, how's this... DiS has a pair of tickets to give»
Gallows, Foals and The Horrors to play this year's Underage Festival
Gallows have been chosen to headline this year’s Underage Festival»
Chris Cunningham to make production debut on new Horrors album
An interesting twist. The Horrors have recruited video director Chris Cunningham to produce their second album»
Fucked Up: LCD, Black Lips, Horrors, Nelly Furtado, Chromeo and more for Christmas single
Fucked Up have roped in many many members of their extended family to celebrate the holiday period with a Christmas single.»
Berk: Linkin Park targets collaborations with Horrors and more
Prepping the market ahead of a company jolly in January, Chester Bennington laid the ground for Linkin Park to develop enterprising new partnerships in the UK.»
The Horrors dismiss 'boyband' rumours
Noiseniks of some refine the Horrors have swatted away rumours that they are a manufactured band.»
Hove Festival 2007: final line-up confirmed
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...»
Reading/Leeds: new names, some good
A slew of new names have been confirmed for this summer's Carling Weekend, in Reading and Leeds...»
Dour Festival update: Bright Eyes, Wilco, The Horrors and more confirm Belgian festival appearance
A number of new names have been confirmed for this year's DiS-associated Dour Festival, held in Belgium from June 12-15...»
DiS in digest: our pick of the week's news stories...
Wow! It's this week's news in a handy, easily digestible format! With enough exclamation marks to raise a gudgeon's eyebrows!»
'art-break Hotel: The Horrors destroy porcelain Elvis
The Horrors were forced to abort a gig last night in Boston after they destroyed a 2 foot tall figurine of Elvis Presley.»
Chart round-up: if it were sausages instead of chips in the 'daddy or chips' thing...
Quick one this week, as I’ve sausages to get home to and Southampton are on the telly at 8...»
Horror-shows: dandy band tour the land
Sartorial elegants The Horrors will tour this Spring to support the release of their debut album, Strange House...»
Call the RSPCA: The Horrors "Raping a dead pig" say The Automatic
In the wake of comments accusing the band of "flogging a dead horse", The Automatic's Rob said of The Horrors: “They’re raping a dead pig”...»
The Horrors unveil debut album
Southend dandies The Horrors are to release their debut album on March 5th...»
WIN! Tickets to Frog's NYE party at London's Forum
We've a pair of tickets to give away for FROG's NYE bash at the Forum, in Kentish Town (9-17 Highgate Road, London NW5), and a bundle of other goodies, too. Appearing live on the night will be The Young Knives, Rumble Strips and Larrikin Love, and winners will receive signed records and t-shirts from the first two acts upon entering the venue. Best take a bag, then...»
NME Cool List 2006: Are you in it?
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...»
The Horrors announce first-ever headline tour
If you're also the type of drunkard that likes to shake a tail feather to songs like 'Count In Fives', albeit when none of your proper punk-rock friends are looking on, then you'll be interested in the dates below. They equal the band in question's first-ever headline tour. Which is nice...»
Oh, the Horror: singer assaulted on stage
The Horrors frontman Faris Badwan has again been assaulted, albeit this time while performing. The singer was attacked in Whitechapel earlier in the year...»
Nick Zinner to buy The Horrors a pint... of blood?
London-based punks with silly names The Horrors have been busy at work on their debut album alongside Yeah Yeah Yeahs guitarist Nick Zinner, who says he'd like to "reward each of them upon completion of their final takes with a pint of virgin blood". »
The Horrors: a pair of last-minute shows
The Horrors are a band. A band that sound a bit like Eighties Matchbox, albeit with all the fun removed. Still, some kids, they dig The Horrors, and since DiS is a public service an' all, here's some news about the band in question. The Horrors, you understand. Do try to keep up...»
WIN! Ibiza Rocks double-disc albums
See me, I wouldn't be caught dead in Ibiza. It's too sunny, its beaches are full of stinkin' Brits abroad, and its clubs play that thump-thump-thump shite that the Vauxhall Nova brigade used to pump out of their crappy cars when I was in sixth form...»
The Monday chart round-up: TOTP is dead, so what?
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...»
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