So, you remember last week when those details about Joanna Newsom's new album, Have One On Me 'dropped'? Yeah. Good news and all that, but wasn't the album art a bit...dull? Uninspired? Bland? Just plain old shit? And Tacky? »
Not content with returning their tenth studio album in recent weeks, The Magnetic Fields have just announced that they're going to release their SEMINAL 1999/2000 triple album, 69 Love Songs on DELUXE VINYL. Just in case you aren't aware of this album's near-unrivalled greatness, then listen to some of it here. If you're not blown away, I don't ever want you to make yourself known to me.»
Leeds four-piece These Monsters release their debut long player on 1st March. Entitled Call Me Dragon, the album was recorded at Foel Studios in Wales with Chris Fielding, whose previous credits include Klaxons and Napalm Death. »
Now, it's not very often that we do totally serious, but occasionally a time does come when a cause or campaign is genuinely worthy of our support and reporting. Today is such one of those days. Amnesty International have today launched a campaign to find the whereabouts of two Iranian music journalists who have recently been arrested in the country.»
You have to wonder how much longer it is before bands start giving away whole albums entirely for free, eh? Oh. Right. Yeah, well, we mustn't scoff at artists who do find the kindness and perhaps common sense in their hearts and heads to offer us, the general public, tracks free to download from their records.»
Listen to The Knife's new album, in full, on here.»
Multi-talented Simon Green, alis Bonobo will return in March with a new full-length LP, entitled Black Sands, and a full European tour to boot. »
Returning rap-pioneer Gil-Scott Heron is among the first bunch of names confirmed for the South Bank Centre's 2010 Ether Festival, which takes place over the course of 10 days, in London, later in the year.»
Over in the United States of America, that Obama bloke has been working on a 'stimulus package' which, in economic terms, means something like a major cash injection into the economy. Also in America, rappist Freeway and producer Jake-One have been working on their own stimulus package, specifically an album which goes by that name.»
Like you'd not had enough audio-visual content from us in the past day, with THREE whole videos AND a brand new Yeasayer song. Well, here's yet another one, this time from that bunch of musicians who call themselves the Yeah Yeah Yeahs for their new single, 'Skeletons'.»
So, for the last day or so, we've been sitting on our hands waiting for the new video from the Danger Mouse and James Mercer collaboration that goes by the name of Broken Bells to show up. Thankfully it now has, and we can show you it. »
Arty weirdness from AnCo.»
We want more.»
More free stuff.»
Watch the wonderful new video from Efterklang.»
A veritable host of stars from the indieverse have been putting their efforts in recent days to raising money for Haiti and victims of the earthquake which shook the country some two weeks ago.»
Spiritualized will get ANOTHER chance to do the 'Don't Look Back' thing later in the year, as they'll perform their seminal album, Ladies & Gentlemen We Are Floating In Space at the Matt Groening-curated ATP in May. Nice.»
The upcoming White Stripes film, Under Great White Northern Lights, is to get a UK cinema release, coinciding with its release on DVD and CD in March.»
Shows. And LP.»
The shortlist this for this year's version of the hair-styling company sponsored NME Awards have been announced and, well, if awards were given out to awards shows, there'd be no prizes for originality in this case.»
James Murphy does SOMETHING, watch...»
THIS IS THE GOOD STUFF.»
The hactual track list is finally revealed. Rejoice if you won something, curse if you didn't, get annoying because there's no new material.»
Calories + William X free download = HAPPY.»
Hallo! Welcome to Los Campesinos! week on DiS. As you can imagine, the band have plenty of thoughts and insights to share this week but we thought it might to be nice to ween you in gently with this tour video. »
Some people call the indie-pop scene pretty incestious. Not in that way, but in the way that these blokes and blokettes with instruments aren't afraid to link up with their chums for the sake of music. I guess it's kind of like hip-hop in that way...»
Twitter
Main /
Feed /
Site Status /
Live /
Link your account to Twitter
Facebook
Become a Fan
Last.fm
Group
SoundCloud
Group
MySpace
Page
Friendster
Profile
RSS
Site feed /
Subscribe via email
Spotifriday #32 - This Week on DiS as a playlist
Spotifriday #31 - This Week on DiS as a playlist
In Photos: Is Tropical @ Nation of Shopkeepers, Leeds
In Photos: Johnny Foreigner @ The Harley, Sheffield
