50, not out: Monsters celebrate half century with massive compilation
Oxfordshire indie label Big Scary Monsters has reached its 50th release, and will celebrate by issuing a special 50 Not Out compilation»
Various News
BT Digital Music Awards: DiS nominated
That's right, Tom and Kev - get the booze in, as we're in a celebratory mood. Sort of: DiS is nominated in a couple of categories at this year's BT Digital Music Awards...»
DiS exclusive: tickets to rescheduled Truck now available
And a festival: the rescheduled Truck Festival is to take place on September 22 and 23 at the regular site in Steventon. Hopefully it won't be so soggy on site next month....»
WIN! Hallam Foe goodies...
Hallam Foe is a new film due for release on August 31. Starring Jamie Bell, the picture follows the protagonist of the title as he searches for clues regarding his mother's passing. Which is, of course, just the beginning of the story. DiS has ten copies of the soundtrack album and ten t-shirts to give away...»
Breaking news: Truck Festival postponed
News just in, folks: following the flooding of the festival site in Oxfordshire, this year's Truck Festival has been postponed...»
Aldershut: West End Centre to close?
Aldershot’s only venue of note – the council-owned West End Centre – may well be on its way out...»
Royalty hikes still scheduled to cripple internet radio
Internet radio in the US is about to be dealt a stiff blow...»
BSM: taking itself not so seriously on new sampler
Acclaimed Oxford label Big Scary Monsters is to release a new sampler later this year entitled Record Label Schmecord Label. LOLZ...»
Festival tickets competition: today's the last day!
Today is the deadline for entries for a number of our current competitions, so if you want to win a pair of tickets to Rock Ness in Scotland, Dour in Belgium, or Summercase in Spain, you'd best get clicking...»
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Oh please... it can't, it won't... will it? If it rains at Glastonbury this year, again, DiS will very probably cry real tears. But, more importantly, WIN A LOAD OF TICKETS HERE...»
CD Wow: pay up, now!
Online music retailer CD Wow has been orded to pay UK record companies a staggering £41 million after the company was found guilty of breaking a previously arranged deal to cease the importation of foreign CDs...»
BigSexyLand relaunches: new venue for London club
Popular with those-what-are-popular club night BigSexyLand re-launches next weekend at a new venue in the capital, The Phoenix on Cavendish Square...»
Truck tickets: on sale next week (but register now!)
Tickets for this year's Truck Festival, now in its tenth year, are on sale from next week...»
Escape to the sea: Great Escape tickets going fast...
Tickets to this year's three-day jolly by the Brighton seafront, The Great Escape, are going fast. Consider this your warning: if you're not ATPing on the weekend of May 18-20, get some of this...»
Truck Festival turns ten: update from the organisers
So you’re yet to hear owt about this year’s Truck Festival, huh? Us too, ‘til this dropped into our inbox, all crispy and fresh like the morning papers dipped in sizzling vegetable oil...»
Indy Music Awards set to reward London's unsung heroes
The Indy Music Awards ceremony will be honouring top independent venues, promoters and artists at London’s Clapham Grand on May 15... »
V2 offer upcoming labels a leg-up...
V2 Music, as part of its tenth anniversary, is offering bedroom labels the continent over the chance to win a business development grant with their Cooperative Music venture...»
SXSW is done. DiS is tired...
DiS is back from its few days stateside; while across the Atlantic, we partied with native New Yorkers in, um, New York actually, and drank ourselves silly in Austin hotel suites...»
Stars sign CDs: Hot Fuzzers in London, tomorrow
Usually it'd be a case of 'CD signing, so what?'. But we like Spaced and Shaun Of The Dead, so in this instance we're making an exception...»
The Weekly DiScussion: where now for experimental music following the demise of Radio 3's Mixing It
In light of the axing of the popular experimental music show Mixing It, DiS pays its respects to the death of new leftfield music on the BBC, and questions the BBC's motives in marginalising music outside the confines of the mainstream...»
Tesco to cease singles sales
Leading supermarket Tesco is to stop selling CD singles in its stores...»
Photo I.D. required for Glastonbury 2007 tickets
Beardy Glastonbury man Michael Eavis, pictured, has told fans of the festival that their new ticketing system - the ticket-buyer will need to submit a passport-style photograph of themself - is much fairer than anything done in previous years...»
DiS.com nominated for Shockwaves NME Award
DiS.com - hi, you're reading us - is pleased to report that we've been nominated for a Shockwaves NME Award this year, in the category of Best Website. Well d'uh: we were hardly up for shortlisting in the Worst Dressed category...»
Save Hammersmith Palais! Protests begin
A group of music fans have launched a campaign in an effort to grant the Hammersmith Palais listed status, and thereby prevent its imminent demolition...»
The Weekly DiScussion: Is this the death of the singles chart?
With effect from January 1st, the UK singles chart rules have been changed. As well as the physical single rules being relaxed (a single is now chart-eligible if 25-minutes long, an increase from the previous 15-minute limit), a larger change is liable to alter the UK charts forever, be it for better or worse...»
Camden Crawl to span two days in 2007
Next year's Camden Crawl event is to take place over two days in April...»
An introduction to In The Red: a Static Disaster
Fairly freakin' ace label In The Red is issuing a sampler disk, entitled Static Disaster, on June 13th.»
Return Of The Mack... To Goodison Park?
The UK's most (in)famous bad boy rapper Mark Morrison has signed a new 3 album deal worth £2.8m, but his choice of label is slightly surprising...»
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