New Shearwater record due early next year
Exciting times. For Shearwater fans.»
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Guillemots man Fyfe Dangerfield confirms solo shows and album
Guillemots frontman and all-round nice bloke, Fyfe Dangerfield, has confirmed a number of shows to support his blossoming solo career, for which there will also be a debut album in the year new. »
Watch: Bob Dylan - 'Must Be Santa'
Watch Bob Dylan's 'interesting' video for 'Must Be Santa'.»
First Aid Kit announce full UK tour to support debut album
First Aid Kit will tour quite a bit early next year.»
Listen: Beach House - 'Norway'
Listen to a Beach House track, taken from their forthcoming album, Teen Dream.»
Skream, Flying Lotus, Hudson Mohawke, Daedelus, Falty DL + more for NSEW project
Various dance music and electronica luminaries from across the world wide globe have joined forces (sort of...) for a new cross-art project which mixes photography and music. Entitled North, South, East, West, it is a project for which Bleep have teamed up with master photographer Shaun Bloodworth and GiveUpArt, for the project, which features much unheard work from artists such as Flying Lotus, Daedelus, Mike Slott, Kotchy and Falty DL.»
Watch: The Cribs - 'We Share The Same Skies'
Watch The Cribs' video for 'We Share The Same Skies'.»
Metallica, Daft Punk and The Streets make it onto Zane Lowe's Masterpieces 2009
Records from Metallica, The Streets, Daft Punk and The Clash have made it onto Zane Lowe's Masterpieces 2009, as featured on popular music radio station BBC Radio 1.»
Watch: Good Shoes - 'Under Control'
Watch Good Shoes' new video for 'Under Control'.»
Grizzly Bear and Twilight Sad involved in separate tour bus related dramas
Um, so, being in a band and going on tour in a big (or little) tour bus and all that isn't always completely rosy, as two separate both both pretty bad incidents this weekend point out.»
School of Seven Bells announce 'alternate' album
This is a new one, in name at least. An 'alternate' version album from the School of Seven Bells is what they're releasing, for last year's SMASH HIT Alpinisms. Yes, we are certain that it's just a pretty much re-badged 'outtakes' sort of record, but they're calling it an alternate version, so it'd be rude not to at least humour them.»
4 or 5 Magicians - Empty Derivative Pop Songs
No-fi may be a 'thing'. If it wasn't a 'thing' in the beginning, it has almost definitely become a 'thing'. That is to say, a genr»
Watch: Monsters of Folk - 'Say Please'
You must all be absolutely barmy with waiting for a video from the supergroup that is Monsters of Folk, well, you will have to wait no longer. Here it is, for 'Say Please', featuring the people you'd imagine would be in it.»
Watch: Animal Collective - 'In The Flowers'
Watch the video for Animal Collective's 'In The Flowers'.»
xx - x = y: The xx now officially a trio
Express: xx - x = y»
Jamie T reschedules cancelled tour, makes people happy
South London geeeezer-bloke Jamie T (not to be confused with Toddla T), has quite kindly rescheduled his UK tour which got very much cancelled due to an illness to the man himself. »
Watch: Tune-Yards - 'Real Live Flesh'
Watch Tune-Yards perform 'Real Live Flesh'.»
Asobi Seksu turn to their fans for tour help
Touring is an expensive business, especially abroad. I mean, you've got flights, food, renting a tour van or bus and about a million other things to do. Lotta dollar, to be frank. We've just found out that New York quartet Asobi Seksu are all too aware of that and, as a result, they're asking their fans to help fund (in a way...more retrospectively) their upcoming UK tour with White Lies.»
Madlib to release 12-CD, 6-LP series
Madlib, a.k.a The Beat Kondukta and approximately a million other pseudonyms is fairly prolific, as well as equally high-quality. We've seen that all with Madvillian. Things won't be changing in the near future, either, as Stones Throw have revealed they are to release a whole TWELVE CDs and SIX LPs in a news series.»
New Magnetic Fields album due in January
Indie-pop behemoths The Magnetic Fields are to return to the recording fold with a new record early next year, their first since 2008. Realism will be released by the Stephin Merritt-led band on January 26 2010, almost exactly two years after their previous studio album, Distortion»
Watch: The Northwestern - 'What Did I Do'
Watch the video exclusive for The Northwestern's 'What Did I Do'.»
Watch: Trailer for upcoming Mogwai film Burning
Watch the trailer for Mogwai's upcoming live film, Burning.»
Watch: Three Trapped Tigers - '6'
Watch Three Trapped Tigers - '6'.»
Rock Action Round Up:Mogwai to release film and live album, Part Chimp extend tour
Mogwai will release a live album and video, plus more Part Chimp dates for your viewing pleasure.»
Watch: Oh No Ono - 'Swim'
Watch the video for Oh No Ono's 'Swim'.»
Pavement to release best-of compilation?
It's been about two or three weeks since the last Pavement reformation news hit these pages, so it's high time for another update, you'd think. You'd be right, too. This time it's on the subject of a prospective best-of, a sure fire tool to get those peop»
New DOOM EP on the way, details sketchy at present
Daniel Dumile, alias DOOM, seems to be a pretty busy man these days. The other week we told you about the new Madvillain album and even let you hear a bit. Before that there was the news of Unexpected Guests, though that was just a compilation of already recorded tracks.»
Fiery Furnace vs. Radiohead 'feud' carries on, Friedberger 'clarifies'
How long can this go on for?!»
Spotifriday #23 - This Week on DiS as a playlist
This week's Spotifriday playlist, featuring Camera Obscura, Daniel Johnston, Four Tet, Liars, Kelpe, These New Puritans and a gaggle more.»
A Month In Records: October 2009
A review of a month in records on DiS, featuring Atlas Sound, Lightning Bolt, BEAK>, Russian Circles, Efterklang and more more more!»