Santa Clyro: Xmas sends Biffy 'Semi-Mental'
Beardy Scots Biffy Clyro will release their first new material for two years on Christmas Day.»
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Television Personalities to release 10th studio album
'Cult' London blog-punk pirates The Television Personalities have announced details of a new album to be released early next year...»
Dive Dive: new album, tour
Oxford's Dive Dive, membered by the residue from wicked UK rockers Dustball, have just announced details of a new album. Membered? Residue...»
Gossip or fact? Beth Ditto used to eat squirrels?!
Beth Ditto, the voice of US disco-punkers The Gossip, has drawn the ire of animal rights groups by claiming that she used to kill and eat squirrels...»
Liam G: "I'd bum Lennon"
In more Sun newspaper/Oasis news, younger brother Liam has told the tabloid that if he were to meet John Lennon today he'd "probably bum him"...»
Matchsticks - Duvet
The rolling, diving synth riffs and the crowded, stuff-in-as-much-as-possible production qualify it for adjectives like 'trashy' and 'banging' and 'pop'. But 'trashy' doesn't always equal 'good'...»
The Little Ones - Lovers Who Uncover
As the song shocks into action, its singer yelps out like The Shins' James Mercer pining for his purple bottle; blunt, ice-pick guitar chiming away in the background like CYHSY if they were about 10,000 times more enthusiastic...»
Twisted Charm - Boring Lifestyles
Pigeons scuttle and cameras watch; here comes the wag with the sunken eyes and the vodka breath and the borrowed copy of Ballard's High Rise rolled up in the arse pocket of his jeans...»
Bloc arty; Bloc parties
Poster boys for majestic, funk-rock miserability Bloc Party have pulled back the curtains to reveal their new album's artwork, just over there. Ooh. Aah...»
Jamie T-racklisted: New album details
Wimbledon's Jamie T has revealed the tracklisting for his newly-titled debut album Panic Prevention...»
NME Cool List 2006: Are you in it?
Beth Ditto has been named numero uno in NME's Cool List 2006, in a top ten that - shock, horror - contains just as many women as it does men...»
Keane tour more, I snore bored
After selling out a UK and European tour this year, country boys Keane bring their wet blanket to arenas around the Isles in February next year...»
CSS do London again, with mystery Britpop 'icon'
Brazil's lightning bolt electro-brats CSS have announced details of a one-off show in London next month...»
Rapper in underage proposition
P Diddy struck a blow for the entourage recently when a 17-year-old fan popped the question on live TV...»
Errors in information overload: "They've come to take the capital!" she cried
Glaswegian trio Errors have announced details of a tour to take place before 2006 dies its inevitable death...»
I'm from Barcelona finally go Mute
Insufferable Swedish indie knobs I'm From Barcelona have announced a deal with Mute to distribute their stuff in North America...»
TGTBTQ: Albarn's album due January
So I was coming into the office today, and I was on the train going through East London, and it was GREY and raining on all the old, terraced estates and dripping off bridge arches and flooding through gutters and then I thought of 'Herculean' because that's what it sounds like...»
Wacko Jacko's back, but CACK
Michael Jackson is famous for many reasons, but isn't really renowned for his hard-nosed grit or steely nerve. The polar opposite is, in fact, probably true. Well, our survey says that Jacko's ego probably didn't want to get out of bed this morning, after being heckled offstage last night at the World Music Awards at Earls Court...»
Bono: better than the bible
The Mirror is reporting that Bono is making inroads in his quest to literally be God...»
New dates: Deftones on the March
DiS likes Deftones. We always have, in fact; and we reckon you probably do too. You'll be pleased to know, then, that they've announced an 11-date tour of England and Scotland for next year...»
Goldie Lookin' Christmas: December Tour
Welsh wordsmiths Goldie Lookin' Chain continue to grope their way through their post-ironic, post-humour haze by embarking on a set of dates leading up to Christmas...»
Corporate bootlegging charts new waters
'Bootlegs' of singles played live and then sold legally to the audience after the show are to count towards top 40 sales...»
Souls She Said - As Templar Nites
Souls She Said’s debut is not a record that you would’ve expected Joe Cardamone to make - though it was always probable that there would be more to him than his tongue-in-cheek, raised-in-shack-on-the-edge-of-town persona gave away. You can’t spend your entire life drenched in spit and abuse...»
The Good The Bad & The Queen - Herculean
The city always did look better in grey. 'Herculean'’s London is the home address of Mr Benn and imperial architecture, restraint and emotional suppression, humility and lagging Union Jacks...»
Jamie T at London King's Cross Scala, Thu 19 Oct
The 20-year-old grins as he gushes about how he likes this last song best because playing it makes him feel like Johnny Cash. "So let me pretend, and maybe you can pretend this is a prison, and you’re prisoners, and these are the guards…" He’s pointing to security, who are the only ones not smiling and punters are rattling their cages overhead...»
Paul The Girl - Little Miss Weird
In Paul The Girl's world names are important. As hers suggests, she seems to struggle to get comfortable in her own, pale skin. Her throat curdles on the testy red edge between sore and sound, and her scratched guitar itches with the sort of insistence that drives all in earshot to distraction...»
Various, Babyshambles - Back To The Bus
I've spent too much time trying to figure out why this record exists to end up with the stupidly mundane answer of 'cash'...»
Larrikin Love - The Freedom Spark
You don't have to be the finished article to leave an impression. In the same way, you can be influenced by something without claiming to be a match for its beamish glory or to understand and absorb it completely...»
The Mighty Roars - Whale
Please, someone re-invent what it means to be 'pop' and 'fun' and 'single' so that I can stop feeling guilty for trashing on something that only ever sought to entertain me for a few minutes...»
Lily Allen - LDN
Pouting babyfaced from record sleeves that could be torn from the pages of prodigious crayola colouring books and gobbing off at the entire world is allowed when you carry that playfulness and fun through into the tunes...»