The Rapture announce release of new record
Har, bloody har.»
Har, bloody har.»
France's premiere music festival La Route Du Rock is back for 2010 with a stellar twentieth-anniversary lineup. The Flaming Lips, Massive Attack, Foals, Liars, Caribou, Dum Dum Girls, Owen Pallett and many more play three idyllic stages in French coastal town St Malo.»
New York post-punk partiers The Rapture are releasing a compilation LP of inspiring tracks gummed together with their own finest DJ glue. Released on October 20th Tapes is the latest in the DJ Kicks series which has seen contributions from Hot Chip and»
They remix well, The Rapture – check out reworkings of their tracks on the various DFA comps for proof. You’ll be delighted then - naturally - to hear that we’ve got a remix for you to download for free.»
Off to Latitude this weekend? DiS is. Hope you've got your tickets, too, because the three-dayer's sold out as of now...»
The DiS-associated Dour Festival - if you've missed the first few detail-riddled articles, click here - has announced a batch of newly confirmed bands. And we're all like wow and stuff...»
New York dancey-rock types The Rapture have set up their own label. Its name? Rather more metal than you might've imagined: Throne Of Blood Records...»
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...»
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...»
New Yorkers on roller skates The Rapture are to play twice, both times for free, in London pretty darn soon...»
New York's danciest-punkers will tour these isles o' ours come October in support of their second album. All those that call it a 'sophomore effort' in the British press shall be flogged...»
The Rapture's forthcoming follow-up to 2003's Echoes will emerge signed, sealed and delivered by chart-topping producer Danger Mouse...»
Corporo-giants Mean Fiddler have agreed with fellow wonga-magnet Universal Records a deal to offer MP3 downloads of live performances from this year’s Reading/Leeds weekend.»
DiS favourites Funeral For A Friend will headline the annual NME Awards tour in January next year. Appearing alongside the Welsh wunderkids will be The Rapture, The Von Bondies and Domino signings Franz Ferdinand.»
Ooooh, yeah, the Rapture are gonna getcha... So, The Rapture, one of the coolest bands in the world right now, mangling disco with retro rock sleaze chic, have a new album called 'Echoes' out on September 8th. Therefore, we have goodies a-go-go. The promo single for the album is called »
As always happens bands are being added to the bill late and others are being taken off... We're happy to be able to let you know that SPAN, Amen, The Polyphonic Spree, [SPUNGE] and The Rapture. And rumour has it Queens of the Stoneage will be joining the Foo Fighters onstage to»
Sex Pistols in the Park... fuck the jubilee... good new bands.. blah, blah... From a bit of snooping at sex-pistols.net we discovered the bill for Saturdays, Pistols in the Park, show at Crystal Palace Sports Centre, now features new punkers: »