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the ting tings

The Ting Tings do the tour ting

News by Mike Diver

Love 'em or hate 'em, The Ting Tings are touring in the autumn and there's nowt you can do. Well, if you do love them, you could always buy a ticket»

cool kids

The Cool Kids play free London show tonight

News by Mike Diver

Between riding BMX and having a fish-fry, hip-hop duo of substantial buzz The Cool Kids sometimes manage to record music and perform live. Tonight: the latter»

Battles @ Astoria, 14.05.08

Update! Battles and Soulwax WILL play Wild in the Country

News by Mike Diver

Following yesterday's news that Björk has pulled out of the day-long event, held on July 5 at Knebworth Park, word reached us that two more bands would pull»

Efterklang by benjamin Kurstein

Acclaimed Danes do look back: Efterklang to do Parades in full

News by Mike Diver

Delicious Danes Efterklang are to 'do an Ash' in September, performing their much-acclaimed Parades album of 2007 in full, from start to finish»

elephant

Chart round-up: Elephants, Foxes, Ne-Yo

News by Mike Diver

This week’s chart round-up arrives a little later than usual in the day as DiS has been busily Spring cleaning… again, we’re doing that a little later than we perhaps should’ve. Anyway»

radiohead kevin westenberg

Radiohaters: band still grumbling about EMI best-of

News by Mike Diver

While it's well established that Radiohead aren't exactly over the moon with EMI's recently released best-of package, collecting their 'greatest hits' for the label, still they're chattering about the album»

amy winehouse

Getting punched by Winehouse "part of the Glastonbury experience"

News by Mike Diver

The Glastonbury-goer whacked by Amy Winehouse during the singer's Pyramid Stage set at the weekend has spoken to the BBC about his brush... battering... with fame»

lightspeed champion

Is there a festival Lightspeed Champion isn't playing? Him and more for Surfstock

News by Mike Diver

Lightspeed Champion, The Gossip, Alphabeat, Black Lips and The Go! Team are among the acts performing at this year's Surfstock festival at St Agnes, Cornwall»

verve wamu

The Verve's 'Mover' available as free download

News by Mike Diver

Glastonbury headliners The Verve - watch their set here - have made a new track available as a free download»

Lily Allen

Lily Allen completes second album

News by Mike Diver

Pop gobshite Lily Allen - pictured not talking - has finished her second album, the follow-up to the mega-successful Alright, Still of 2006»

bjork

Björk blows off Wild In The Country

News by Mike Diver

Björk has pulled out of this summer's Wild In The Country festival, which was set to be her only festival appearance in the UK this year»

grace jones wall of sound

Grace Jones signs to Wall of Sound for Hurricane's release

News by Mike Diver

Grace Jones - pop icon of the '70s and '80s - has signed with Wall of Sound to release Hurricane, her first album since 1989's Bulletproof Heart»

jaguar love

Jaguar Love: DiS-supported tour kicks off this week

News by Mike Diver

Jaguar Love - the Seattle trio spawned from the detritus of the shattered forms of The Blood Brothers and Pretty Girls Make Graves - arrive inthe UK this week for their first shows here»

the last shadow puppets

The Last Shadow Puppets: first live shows

News by Mike Diver

The Last Shadow Puppets are to perform properly live for the first time in August, with more dates confirmed for the autumn»

buff nuff

Singles Round-up (30/06/08)

In Depth by Mike Diver

Our greatest rapper returns with a song about attracting girls with ice cream and silly wigs... Roots Manuva's 'Buff Nuff' is our Single of the Week»

alkaline trio

Hear the new Alkaline Trio LP on MySpace

News by Mike Diver

Chicago goth-punks Alkaline Trio have made their new album available to stream on MySpace»

johnny foreigner ghost by amy brammell

2008 to date: DiS's tracks of the year so far

In Depth by Mike Diver

Three of DiS’s core operators list ten of their tracks of the year so far - a simple premise, and a simple article for you to have fun listening along to»

tom waits

Tom Waits given a key to El Paso

News by Mike Diver

Tom Waits - currently on tour under the banner 'Glitter and Doom', playing venues stateside before coming to Europe - has been presented with a key to the city of El Paso, Texas»

franz ferdinand

Franz Ferdinand to make surprise Glastonbury appearance

News by Mike Diver

Franz Ferdinand are to play Glastonbury this weekend (the three-day festival started properly today)»

Battles

Two weeks 'til Supersonic: have you got your ticket to the Festival of the Year?

News by Mike Diver

This year's Supersonic Festival - named Festival of the Year by our friends at Plan B - is only two weeks away»

charlatans

Independents Day: online eBay auction live now

News by Mike Diver

As Independents Day looms - July 4, mark your calendar - events bubble surfacewards, and eBay is currently hosting a topical auction»

romance at short notice

Dirty Pretty Things - Romance At Short Notice

Review by Mike Diver

Dirty Pretty Things frontman Carl Barât has a brilliant album in him, but this isn't it. The band's developed, that's evident, but they're not peaking just yet»

lite phantasia

Lite - Phantasia

Review by Mike Diver

Easy to admire but tough to love, Japanese quartet Lite deliver the sort of balance-troubling post-rock with math overtones that gets tech-heads in a giddy spin of pleasure»

love to make music to

Daedelus - Love To Make Music To

Review by Mike Diver

Daedelus' latest is a summery, instant-fix assortment of genre-muddling fun. Don’t take it particularly seriously and you and it shall have a ball»

radiohead

More Radiohead news: band's live album available on iTunes

News by Mike Diver

Radiohead - presently on tour in the UK - have made a special live album available via iTunes»

oasis

Oasis on new LP: "more hypnotic, more driving"

News by Mike Diver

Oasis' seventh album proper, Dig Out Your Soul, will be released on October 8 via Big Brother»

kanye west

Kanye rants: rapper angry at criticism of Bonnaroo set

News by Mike Diver

Kanye West hasn't taken kindly to online criticism of his set at the recent Bonnaroo Festival»

adam gnade book

A novel exclusive: read an extract from Adam Gnade's new book

In Depth by Mike Diver

DiS presents an exclusive excerpt from the debut novel of one of our favourite songwriters, Adam Gnade. Get a taste of Hymn California here»

el guincho

2008 to date: our favourites on their favourites

In Depth by Mike Diver

Six of DiS's featured twelve responsible for our Essential Dozen albums of 2008 to date give us their favourite acts and records of the year so far»

primal scream

Watch: new video from Primal Scream

News by Mike Diver

'Can't Go Back' is released on July 14, its parent LP Beautiful Future following on July 21; a DiS feature on the band will run soon»