Bloc Party rewangle Intimacy
DiS favourites Bloc Party return with a remixed version of their third album Intimacy »
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Spiritualized to play Ladies and Gentlemen... live in London in Oct
Spiritualized will perform their seminal album Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating in Space live, in its entirety, in London this October.»
Video Premiere: Jeffrey Lewis 'To Be Objectified'
DiS premières the new video from musician and illustrator Jeffrey Lewis. »
Glastonbury 2007: Sean's Blog - Day 1
DiS's Sean Adams tells his own tale of Glastonbury 2007 - from the backstage to the moshpit and right up to the stars - in three parts. Here, he finds Björk magical, the Monkeys rather muted, and Martha on song...»
The Field + Battles = excitin' forthcoming album news
Yesterday And Today the follow-up to From Here We Go Sublime will include the drummer from Battles.»
Bright Eyes' Conor Oberst confirms UK release for 2nd solo album
Outer South gets a UK release date and more info.... »
The Maccabees: A Letter to DiS
After repeatedly listening to their recent free download, 'No Kind Words', DiS asked those lovely chaps The Maccabees about their new album. They wrote us a lovely letter back...»
Great Escape 2009 to include Kasabian, BSP, B.Kweller, JoFo
The first list of notable names for The Great Escape 2009 have been announced. DiS can also confirm that we will once again be hosting a stage.»
Portishead to 'do a Radiohead'
Portishead are no longer signed to Island Records and are thinking about what they could and should do next. DiS has a few suggestions... »
Trent Reznor announces Nine Inch Nails 20th Anniversary farewell tour
In a blog post on NiN.com, Trent Reznor has said that "corporate rock STILL sucks" and in "this current climate mostly dominated by poseurs and pussies" it might be a good time to "disappear for a while", as the band reaches the 20 year anniversary of their first release.»
Gang Gang Dance dates cancelled due to fire on first night of tour
Some sad news for fans looking forward to seeing artsy-bloopy rockers Gang Gang Dance.»
Sonic Youth reveal details about new album The Eternal
Sonic Youth's sixteenth album The Eternal is due for release on June 9th via Matador. Here are all the details.»
Jeremy Warmsley's Valentine's Mixtape
Ahead of his two Valentine's Day shows and his special Valentine's day download, we asked Jeremy Warmsley to make a mixtape to woo his beloved...»
Hugely popular music-streaming site Spotify opens up to all in the UK
We know there's been a lot of fuss on the boards about legal alternative-to-p2p Spotify, so we thought we'd share their news about the site going invite-free and link you to some playlists.»
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Here's a selection of videos we've seen and liked lately for you to watch over your Monday lunch break.»
Gang Gang Dance add extra date - win wristbands!
Daydreamy, bloopy, art-rockers Gang Gang Dance have sold out their London show at Dingwalls and added an extra date at Rough Trade East. DiSsers can win wristbands to ensure entry... »
DiS' Guide to Musicians on Twitter
Twitter, Twitter, Twitter! It seems to be absolutely everywhere at the moment. Musicians have signed up in their droves, documenting their days in the studio or sharing anecdotes from the road and letting their fans know what's going on. »
DiSmissive: In defence of Twitter
Over the past few months you may have heard of something called Twitter. DiS has spent some time exploring it and stalking musicians in order to bring you "A guide for music-y things on Twitter" »
Freshly Inked to Fat Cat: We Were Promised Jetpacks
Scots We Were Promised Jetpacks have just been signed by the folks from FatCat Records, home to amongst others Frightened Rabbit, Nina Nastasia, Brakes and at one time or another to the likes of Sigur Ros, Animal Collective, No Age and Múm. DiS decided to quiz the label to find out more about their new signing.»
What some of our favourite musicians hope for in 2009...
As part of our vague 2009 preview week this week, we thought it might be nice to catch up with some of our acts of last year and new acts we're excited about and ask them what they're looking forward to in 2009. This is what they said:»
DiS' Class Of 2009 #9: School Of Seven Bells
Fans of Broadcast, Electrelane, Ladytron, Au Revoir Simone and lushgaze acts like that: I do hope you're reading this, as Brooklyn's School Of Seven Bells have been rummaging in those closets full of Velvet Underground drones, My Bloody Valentine haze and throwing in some electronic(a) sounds for good measure.»
Musicians: share and discuss Your Music on our new DiS board
DiS has added a new board for musicians to discuss and share their music, so you can now JAG away to your heart's content...»
DiS' Class Of 2009 #4: Data.Select.Party
Call it math-pop, call it Top-Shop art-rock - call it what you want - but I'll bet my favourite black skinny jeans on the fact that these lot will be all over daytime radio and sneaking their way up festival bills and onto the T-shirted chests of those around you before the year is out.»
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You may remember last year, amid all the excitement about Idlewild playing all their albums Don't Look Back style, that their front man, Roddy Woomble, was partaking in some extra ciricular folky activities, on an album featuring, amongst others, Blur's Graham Coxon. Here we have an exclusive free track from a related project, which took place around the same time... »
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DiS receives an awful lot of emails asking us to feature videos and downloads of bands, and every so often we find a gem amongst the turd. This week's gem is Lanterns on the Lake.»
Coming up on DiS in 2009!
Phew, the first week of the year is nearly over for us. We thought we'd let you know what we've been up to, where our heads are at, what we're plotting. We also thought it might be nice to fill you in on some of our stats from last year... »
95% of music downloads in 2008 were illegal - DiS reacts and suggests two solutions
Today, Music industry body the IFPI has released a report which claims that more than 40 billion songs were illegally downloaded from the internet in 2008. DiS discusses how the music industry is missing out on a potential £48 billion worth of revenue.»
Mastodon giveaway: free t-shirts for fifty DiS readers
Rock behemoths Mastodon have fifty t-shirts to give away to DiS readers to celebrate the imminent release of their new album Crack The Skye...»
Röyksopp unveil Junior album sleeve via DiS
DiS is pleased to exclusively reveal the cover for the new album from Röyksopp...»
Favourite Five: 5 Acts' favourite 5 Albums of 2008 (Part 4)
Before the break we were asking some of our favourite acts of 2008 what their albums of the year were but you can guess how busy some bands are, and a few folks took a little longer to get their top 5's to us. So, in this final part Tilly and the Wall, Rolo Tomassi, Dananananaykroyd, Johnny Foreigner and Friendly Fires reveal what their top 5 albums of 2008...»