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American alt.country legends Wilco are set to tour Europe this summer, in support of their as yet untitled seventh studio album as well as releasing a live DVD, Ashes of American Flags ,on April 18.»
So, Madvillainy just a legendary album, right? WRONG. Thanks to Cubeecraft there's now card-based fun for all the family.»
Here's a collection of videos we've liked from over the past few weeks. Featuring, St. Vincent, BLK JKS, Feist and Kevin Drew, Tiga, Trent Reznor, Phoenix, Moby & David Lynch and more...»
Having already given the feel-good, sample-fest '80s masterpiece that is Paul's Boutique a remastered reissue, their 1992 follow-up has now been given the same treatment.»
Good news all, the lineup for the already star-studded Summer Sundae Weekender - the best Leicstival by far - has grown once again. Among the acts added to the bill are Eel Pie islanders the Mystery Jets and New York based, iPod ad soundtrackers, Chairlift.»
This Saturday sees the second international Record Store Day, with all sorts of delights on offer around this isle to celebrate independent music and all it does. Here's a few of the best bits...»
You'd might be forgiven for thinking that Ryan Adams could take a bit of criticism, what with being a pro musician 'n' all. You would still, however, be completely wrong for ever thinking this.»
Those wonderfully innovative people responsible for the Black Cab Sessions are up for a Webby award, and we think they're pretty deserving winners. Ergo, we're urging you all to vote for them and stick an award on their mantlepiece.»
Afro-licious prog-rockers The Mars Volta have set the release date for their fifth studio album, Octahedron. They're also due to play two London dates in July,»
To celebrate this performance at the Ether Festival on April 20, pioneering-pianist Hauschka aka Volker Bertelmann has recorded one of the finest videos - thanks to director Andreas Huth - yet to showcase exactly how his 'prepared piano' thingamy works. DiS has an exclusive here. Watch and enjoy.»
DiS speaks to HDIF head honcho about Pat Nevin, piracy and the ethos of a successful club night.»
Long-haired lothario Russell Brand is teaming up with mono-browed Parker from Thunderbirds lookalike Noel Gallagher for two-hour special on talk-a-load-shit-but-we'll-still-air-it radio station TalkSport. Yes. Both of them. Together.»
Enchanting Icelandic songsmith Ólafur Arnalds has been a favourite at DiS for a while now but he's only gone and endeared himself even bloody more now! In an ambitious endeavour, Arnalds is writing, recording and releasing - for free - a song a day for the whole of this week.»
Let's cut to the chase here: My Bloody Valentine are the curators for ATP's Nightmare Before Christmas festival, in December this year. Sonic Youth, De La Soul and The Horrors are brilliantly on the bill.»
To mark its 27th birthday, The Hacienda is having a home-coming party at Sankey's, Manchester. With Peter Hook and The Whip hitting the decks, not to mention FAC 51 fave The Temperance Club making a return for one night only, it should be a ball.»
If it seems like an annoyingly long time since DOOM's (he dropped the MF in another act of re-baptism) last release, it's because »
Though it's billed as a concept album, Pram Town is only one in name. »
On Anni Rossi's debut Long Player, her myriad merits have been amplified through the legendary hands and ears of Steve Albini. But the most frustrating part of the brilliance is that it is all too fleeting... »
An unknown quantity and a general unknown Teitur may have been before the release of The Singer, but there's not a second on here that suggests this should continue to be the case. It is by no means a flawless album but the criticisms are few and fairly insignificant and are so emphatically outweighed by everything else.»
Josh Tillman is the drummer for Fleet Foxes, and Vacilando Territory Blues is actually his sixth release as a solo artist and as good a record as anything his day-job band have produced.»
Frank Black teamed up with his wife, Violet Clark, went into a studio, had a few arguments, made songs and came out with these tracks which ended up as Grand Duchy's first LP, a refined piece of work known as Petits Fours.»
Though the front cover is strikingly similar to his last full-length, the content of Squarepusher's latest EP, Numbers Lucent, is at least several worlds away. »
Mars Volta/At the Drive-in/De Facto's Omar Rodriguez-Lopez latest solo offering sounds as if it was lopped off the end of TMV's Amputechture. Prog-wankery? You betcha!»
It's a pleasant listen, and Jain's alto tones are subtly beautiful throughout, but The Inbetween's a release which sadly borders too far on the side of boredom.»
Christmas is a-coming so we've taken a look at a selection of seasonal offerings from the likes of Glasvegas, The Raveonettes and lots lots more...sleigh bells at the ready.»
The raw elements are present in Afton, but Rossi is only 22, and has much time to develop. Nevertheless her debut 4AD EP is a consistent 20 minutes of raw beauty, and holds as much worth in itself as it does in the anticipation of what could follow.»
The bleakness throughout It's Midnight In Honolulu can leave a feeling of cold, harsh emptiness. Optimism and hope is something you're unlikely to find in abundance when listening to large chunks of Palms' debut.»
Diane Cluck, Lou Barlow, CocoRosie, Casiotone For The Painfully Alone, Marissa Nadler, Times New Viking and Jens Lekman (plus a few hundred others...) all play a live radio session down the phone. Sounds good? Yeah, it is actually...»
Shearwater's Jonathan Meiburg gives us his rundown of his band's latest album Rook, which features in Rough Trade's top 50 albums of the year. »
His is voice is barely much heavier than the air we breathe, yet manages to cut its way through the room and into the heart as each autobiographical memoir is played out in this rather grandiose setting. »
