'I like you Gary, you've got 'Balls'': BFB new album
The Broken Family Band finish new album while frontman Steve Adams reveals solo album title...»
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Massive Attack - Live With Me
Quality Blue Lines throwback lifted from Massive's best-of collection...»
David James Herbert - Turn Up Your Silence
Scots born gravel voiced newcomer promises great things.»
The Broken Family Band, The Shivers at Cambridge Junction 2 The Shed, Thu 02 Mar
"We got five out of five in The Sun!". Cambridge's prodigal sons The Broken Family Band return home to hero's welcome.»
Mystery Jets at Cambridge Academy @ ARU Students Union, Sat 03 Dec
Mystery Jets touchdown in Cambridge. Were they a roaring success? Find out here!»
My Latest Novel - Sister Sneaker Sister Soul
Bittersweet, brutal and brilliant Scottish indie pop.»
New mag alert: Amped turns up the volume
New music title Amped launches amid news of increased music mag sales...»
Various - Artist Rising
A 21 track new music showcase promoted by The Band Agency including tracks by Absent Kid, Dustins Bar Mitzvah, Lazenby, Sound Explosion and much, much more.»
The Tenderfoot - Save The Year
Duffel coated alt. country with an English twist from Brightonians The Tenderfoot»
Gorillaz - Demon Days
'Dizzying, disorientating and sometimes directionless' but with Danger Mouse, Dennis Hopper, Roots Manuva, Shaun Ryder et al on board could it be anything but?»
Antony And The Johnsons - I Am A Bird Now
Antony And The Johnsons are led by New Yorker Antony - actor (he played an androgynous convict in Steve Buscemi’s Animal Factory), artist, but above all musician with an utterly unique look, style and indeed voice.»
Art Of Fighting
Melbourne’s Art Of Fighting have just released second, superlative album ‘Second Storey’, one which reduced this cynical hack to a gibbering wreck. AoF plan to play the UK this autumn but for now DiS extended a handshake across cyberspace with guitarist Miles Browne and singer Peggy Frew, to chat about love, relationships, song writing, weather and the small matter of just who is going to win the Ashes...»
'Stop. Collaborate and listen...'
'Ice is back with my brand new invention.' He is you know!»
William Hut - William Hut Versus The End Of The Fashion Park
'...a hopelessly romantic record of love, loss and longing. Hut is an accomplished singer/songwriter with an ethereal voice that will draw comparison to Paul Simon or Michael Stipe.'»
The Lodger - Many Thanks For Your Honest Opinion
Leeds' The Lodger request our honest opinion about their, er, '...Honest Opinion'. Will they get it? Find out here.»
Bikini Atoll - Eve's Rib
Bikini Atoll is the north Pacific island which the American’s used for nuclear testing during the 50s. 'Eve's Rib', the latest single from the Bella Union sleaze rockers of the same name, doesn’t quite, ahem, explode but is still pretty damn fine nonetheless.»
Dears don't do Astoria show
Canadian sextet scratch London show due to 'personal reasons'.»
Spoon - I Turn My Camera On
Sinister-sounding single from Spoon's sixth album.»
The Suffrajets - Sold
A quick three minute rock 'n' roll fix from The Suffrajets»
Kaiser Chiefs, Nine Black Alps at Cambridge Junction, Tue 19 Apr
Even the Kaiser's road crew are in on the act, one roadie juggles bottles of water, while the sound engineer is seen waving his hands in the air at the mixing desk like he's trying to taxi in a jumbo jet. Ker-azy guys.»
Laura Veirs - The Triumphs And Travails Of Orphan Mae
Vivid pictures of myths and fables from the American west. A storybook in song form then and a thoroughly absorbing one at that.»
Art Of Fighting - Second Storey
'A breathtakingly bleak but eerily beautiful album which is up there with anything by Bright Eyes or Arcade Fire. Yes, really, that good.'»
Decoder Ring - Somersault (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
A suitably atmospheric, and challenging soundtrack to the critically acclaimed Australian film 'Somersault'.»
I Am Kloot - Gods And Monsters
Three years on from their eponymously titled second album, I Am Kloot's third , 'Gods And Monsters', adopts a stripped down and simple approach, and will, perhaps inevitably, draw comparison to Badly Drawn Boy.»
The November Five - Part Of The Process
'Upon closer inspection, title track ‘Part Of The Process’, has a definite touch of The Stranglers about it, and comes complete with what sounds like a chorus of crack addled pigeons.'»
Oasis announce small scale shows
Get up close and personal (sort of) with the brothers Gallagher and chums.»
Fans Of Kate - I Don't Know What To Do With My Hands
'There’s nothing complicated about Fans Of Kate: they write brilliant pop songs. That’s it.' This is one of them.»
The Features - Blow It Out
A three minute pop poem to the simple joy of listening to music or more specifically listening to music on record players.»
Pure Reason Revolution - The Bright Ambassadors Of Morning
All hail the colossal, 12 minute 15 second wonder that is ‘Bright Ambassadors Of Morning’. This is a song with as many twists and turns as a decent Hollywood thriller, one that could tie the listener in knots just trying to get to grips with it.»
The Bees - Chicken Payback
Given the fact ‘Chicken Payback’ is both stupidly catchy, and incredibly cheesy, it will either drive one clucking mad or leave one cock-a-doddle-doo-ing with joy.»
"More bands should split up" - Brett Anderson opens up to DiS about the return of Suede
Drowned in Manchester #15 – May 2013
armchair dancefloor 39: Mount Kimbie interview, Bobby Browser, Powell, Move D, Leon Vynehall...
DiS meets John Lydon - Part 1: The Man
DiS Does Singles 20.05.13: Paramore, Laura Marling, The Replacements
DiS joins the Music Alliance Pact + May 2013's global MAP compilation
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