Neptune Music Prize - Your Last Chance to Vote!
Today is your last chance to vote in the Neptune Music Prize.»
Today is your last chance to vote in the Neptune Music Prize.»
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.»
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...»
The folks at Fiction have given us this little player for DiS readers to listen to the Maccabees new album Wall of Arms.»
Thirty tracks to get you in the mood for this weekend's festivities. »
Here's a selection of videos that have bought light into our dull March days, and hopefully will do the same for you.»
The Camden Crawl has added another batch of whipper-snappers and elder statesmen to its expansive line-up.»
DiS trawls through all the recent music news so you don't have to.»
After repeatedly listening to their recent free download, 'No Kind Words', DiS asked those lovely chaps The Maccabees about their new album. They wrote us a lovely letter back...»
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»
Gang Of Four will join Wire in headlining the Offset Festival this summer, held in Hainault Forest Country Park on August 30-31»
This year’s Redfest has bailed from the summer calendar after poor ticket sales, joining Quart, Blissfields, Wax:On Live and others on the scrap-heap»
The Maccabees, The Rascals and Four Tet have been added to the bill for this year’s Underage Festival»
Seems like print had the jump on us this week, as London megazine Time Out carried the next batch of acts for this year’s Get Loaded before we even knew they existed. Deadlines save lives?»
Struggling to find a festival to accommodate your needs this summer? Perhaps Redfest can help, as it launches for its inaugural year with what is, in fairness, a decent line-up»
Vampire Weekend’s set at the ULU in London was brought to a premature halt tonight (21 Feb) when a fire alarm - triggered, some claimed, by Paul Simon - went off half-way through the band’s set. »
We got an email recently from men calling themselves Russ and Tom. On closer inspection they turned out to be boys, but funny boys at that. Their show, the spuriously-named ‘Oatmeal TV’, launched last week.»
The new video for the single features what’s been described by the band as ‘extreme snogging’ and is a lot more subtle and playful than some other muck we’ve been serving up today.»
Having given the proles the pleasure of trimming down the original list of 32, artists and “music industry types” will chose the winner of Xfm’s New Music Award from a shortlist of ten debut records.»
Brighton's best The Maccabees will release a new EP in limited numbers on Monday.»
Indie label of some standing Fierce Panda are celebrating their 13th birthday with a compilation - The Bakers Arms Dozen.»
The Maccabees will play a tiny show at the Buffalo Bar in Highbury as they get into gear for the Carling weekend.»
DiS - hello, that's us! - has a couple of pairs of tickets to give away for this Friday's Underage Festival in London, held at the city's Victoria Park, E9...»
Top young poplings from the outer edges of a county near capital city, England, The Maccabees, have announced a large-venue tour for this October.»
The charts. An Eden-like oasis of fun and frivolity, where Mika and P Diddy can play with each others' tingly bits in a guilt-free environment. But sometimes the charts go bad...»
A slew of new names have been confirmed for this summer's Carling Weekend, in Reading and Leeds...»
A number of new bands have been confirmed for this year's DiS-associated Summercase Festival, held in Barcelona and Madrid in July...»
If the tedium of 2007's UK festival headliners dominated February's headlines, then now at least we can look forward to a bit more variation as the next raft of bands are confirmed for this summer's bills.»
Quick one this week, as I’ve sausages to get home to and Southampton are on the telly at 8...»
The Isle Of Wight's the place to be come September time (7th 'til the 9th) for spotting the likes of Mike D, a pair of Adams and a Tom and Ed, as this year's Bestival is to be headlined by The Beastie Boys (pictured) and The Chemical Brothers...»
Have you seen The Maccabees new video? It's ace. Now the band want YOU to create another one for them...»
Brighton indie-rockers The Maccabees - quite the favourites on the DiS stereo these last few months - have announced a February tour. Perhaps you'd like to attend a date or two? Thankfully, there are a good number to choose from...»
One city, three nights beside the seaside, 14 venues filled with over 100 bands from all over the world and a Drowned in Sound Stage...»
Camden's annual beer, band and puke-a-thon has been unveiled for 2006»
One of Drowned in Sound's big tips for 2006, The Maccabees, invite you all to Brighton this Wednesday for a rootin'-videoshootin' time.»