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Wet the bed! Animal Collective may have already made one of the albums of the year in Merriweather Post Pavillion but that, it seems, is not going to be their only mark left on the year of our lord 2009.»
Watch the video for Death Cab's 'Meet Me On The Equinox', taken from the New Moon OST.»
Familiar as you may be with The Mail On Sunday's tendency to give away a covermount compilation CD by a charting or ageing pop band every week, The Times have now joined in on this practice, in giving away some of REM's new live record, as well as some of their hits past and present.»
Listen and download the DiS exclusive of Kelpe's new mixtape, Crispy Juice.»
Mercury nominees Sweet Billy Pilgrim have announced a new single - taken from the nominated record Twice Born Men - entitled 'Kalypso', which was also the track they performed at the Mercury ceremony. They are also due to set off on a UK tour at the end of October.»
Ah. So it was a misquote, then? Perhaps. You may remember that some people worked themselves up into a state when Radiohead hinted at there being little in the way of albums in their recording future. Others, however, were not in the slightest bit worried - somewhat sensibly - noting that the band had said as much before and, it turns out they were right.»
A veritable gaggle of up-and-coming, exciting and forward-looking bands are to play the Tom Robinson-curated Riverside Festival at the end of this month and the beginning of next, celebrating the second anniversary of BBC Introducing: Fresh On The Net.»
This week's content on DiS in the form of a Spotify playlist. Featuring Hefner, The Mountain Goats, Vampire Weekend, Pavement, Idlewild and about 13 more.»
Swedish indie-pop-folk duo First Aid Kit are on tour with the partially Swedish Fanfarlo and, as we were running the latter's tour diary, we thought it'd be a good idea to do the former's too. They make their first appearance in Part II, with both bands taking in the underrated town of Middlesbrough.»
Broadcast have announced their first UK tour in over five years, with shows taking in the Warp20 event in London, Wales and Scotland.»
South London rappist Jamie T has postponed the remaining dates of his current UK tour due to illness. Ticket-holders are advised to keep hold of their tickets as the tour will be rescheduled in the near future.»
Yet more intriguing details have emerged of The Black Keys' new hip-hop collaboration project which, operating under the name BLAKROC and featuring some of the most revered and respected names in the whole industry.»
Rejoice! American folkster Adam Green has posted the first track of his new album online, entirely for free, available for you wonderful and lucky people to download. »
Watch the brand new video for Enter Shikari's 'Zzzonked'.»
What Mumford & Sons have produced in Sigh No More is nothing more than an empty shell of a half-decent record.»
Canadian Piano-player extraordinaire Gonzales is all set to hit London next month with his piano talk show. »
Legendary and soon-to-reunite indie-rockers Pavement are to curate May 2010's All Tomorrow's Parties Festival in a move that is, in no other words, an indieverse wet dream come true. And some people said ATP had become predictable! Fools!»
Brit-folkstress Laura Marling is to head out on a UK tour in the coming months, after supporting the legendary Daniel Johnston on the dates of his UK tour. Ms. Marling has been working on the follow-up to 2008's Alas, I Cannot Swim, which will be released early next year, we believe.»
New additions to ATP's My Bloody Valentine curated Nightmare Before Christmas.»
The month that was September 2009 in records. Featuring Part Chimp, Paramore, Vitalic, Antipop Consortium and more.»
We all love Animal Collective a lot. True facts. That's why it is nothing other than fantastic news that they're going to re-issue their 2003 long-player Campfire Songs on their own record label, Paw Tracks.»
Lo-fi and ethereal freak-folkers A Grave With No Name have announced details of their debut long-player, Mountain Debris.»
Scottish pop-star and all-round nice geezer Edwyn Collins has been prohibited from streaming HIS OWN SONG on social network/music website MySpace, owned by the evil media overlord that is Sir Rupert of Murdoch. The website apparently weren't too convinced by Collins' argument that he, the songwriter and performer, owned the rights to 'A Girl Like You', The Guardian reports.»
Vampire Weekend have 'released' the first song off their forthcoming "sophomore" record (come on! it's college rock!) Contra, the record which had the ridiculous and confusing viral campaign last month, fooling us all into thinking that it may have been something it wasn't.»
It is with previously unreached levels of regret and sadness that we write to inform you that the remainder of RZA's UK tour has, unfortunately, been postponed. PROPERLY GUTTING, LIKE.»
Multi-national indie-poppers Fanfarlo are on tour. And, guess what? Yes, they're doing a tour diary for us, complete with pictures! Here they chronicle Part I of this particular adventure.»
Watch the video for new Los Campesinos! single 'There Are Listed Buildings'.»
Watch The Dead Weather's video for 'I Cut Like A Buffalo'.»
Why?'s fourth studio full-length is a more subtle effort than anything it succeeds and, yes, a somewhat drastic change in tone. »
Devendra Banhart has revealed there's a possible collaboration in the pipeline with the Wu-Tang Clan's GZA.»
