DiSection: Late of the Pier debut album track-by-track
Home-brewed British pop is great again! (Part One)
DiS caught up with the art-pop kids with lazers, Late of the Pier, to garner some insight into their debut album Fantasy Black Channel»
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And the Mercury Music Prize winner is... ELBOW
Elbow have won the 2008 Mercury Music Prize..»
And the DiS Pluto Prize winner is...
A short while ago the annual Mercury Music Prize wheeled out its somewhat predictable list of names. DiS took exception to the several notable omissions. There are releases which have enriched our worlds and could have done with the leg-up that the Mercury was established to provide. Rather than mope around and moan on messageboards we decided to set-up our own award.»
Play your food: Japanese blogger makes edible albums
Albums you can nom-nom-nom... The web is full of weird and wonderful things and this morning Boing Boing, have brought to our attention a fascinating/stalkerishly scary blog of record covers made out of seaweed, sour plum, cabbage, ham, fish cakes, papri»
Vote for DiS and for your alternative Mercury prize winner
Here's a double-whammy of democracy for you. This is your last chance to take part in the voting for the Pluto Prize (DiS' alternative to the Mercury music prize) and we're also asking you to vote for us in the BT DMA's»
The Weekly DiScussion: what's on your Summer '08 megamix?
Which tracks have made this summer special for you? DiS' returning Editor kicks off with a mixtape for you to continue»
Smashing Pumpkins release 'G.L.O.W.' via Guitar Hero
Reformed nineties epic-rockers Smashing Pumpkins will debut their new single via a popular computer game»
The end for London venue The End
The people behind influential club The End, have announced that they'll be closing their doors on January 24th but that they plan to go out with a month long party.»
Who will manage me now? (Your mum!)
Morrissey has parted ways with his management, but never fear Holy Moly have a rather good suggestion for Mozza»
dEUS in the UK this October
The finest Belgian band of all time, and arguably one of the greatest odd-indie-pop bands ever, dEUS, have confirmed three new UK dates»
Death Cab do politik blog
Death Cab for Cutie's Chris Walla has written a political blog for RollingStone.com.»
An Open Letter to Ryan Adams
Dear Ryan Adams... Read your blog today, with the retort to my report.»
Reading/Leeds '08: What Our Writers Thought
Another year, another big weekend at Reading and Leeds festival. DiS sent along some of our finest scribes and asked them to scribble about their five favourites of the weekend. Here's what we got back from them»
Reading/Leeds: what the photographers snapped
Camera-phone let you down again? Don't fret, DiS was right down the front, in the pit in front of the pit, snapping these fine photos all weekend.»
In Photos: Foals at Reading Festival
Foals photos from Reading Festival, taken by Holly Erskine.»
Eagles of Dough Balls, Taking Back Sundae and more create RockStar Menu
Rock stars grill, fry and feed the late night munchies at Denny's stores across America.»
Ryan Adams to release book, tour UK
DiS was surprised to DiScover this morning, upon dipping into our RSS reader, that Ryan Adams has posted a blog about his first book.»
DiS is moving. Please update your records
A little bit of house keeping.»
Cut Copy in Koko colours
Antipodean blog-favourites Cut Copy have announced their first UK headline show in eons. »
Watch: Glasvegas 'Daddy's Gone' live in Glasgow
Scottish, Johnny-Cash-clad, Dr.Marten-gazers Glasvegas, whom you may know because of Alan McGee, BBC Culture Show or from their faces featuring upon the cover of a certain music weekly, have a new single out this week and we have a live video of it.»
In Photos: Crystal Castles at Reading and Leeds
To whet your appetite of our Reading/Leeds coverage, here are some shots of one of the acts of the weekend, the highly photogenic Crystal Castles. This is what was going on that you could only catch glimpses of through the billowing smoke and the sea of arms'n'bodies in their crammed late afternoon sets in the Dance Tents at each site. »
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The Sunday morning acidic hangover is here and so too is the rain but that's as good an excuse as any to delay braving the outdoors and run-down on day two at Reading. In the past few years Saturday at the Festival has established itself as the "i»
Watch: No Age 'Goat Hurt'
For those of you who love shoe'-punks No Age but don't follow their blog, they just posted the following:»
Reading/Leeds 2008: Day One Report
This year's Reading and Leeds Festival has just entered its second day. Here's what happened on day one at Reading, and we also bring you some pictures from Leeds.»
Frightened Rabbit hop around the UK
Acclaimed Scot-rockers Frightened Rabbit begin a tour next month»
Rage Against Reading: relive, contrast and compare previous performances
Will they rock Reading & Leeds as much as they did years ago? Contrast and compare; plus a bit of rubbing it in for those who're not there»
Preview: Reading & Leeds 2008
The countdown is over. Are you ready to see this year's buzziest bands and most monolithic of rockers in a field? What must you see? Here's what DiS suggests»
Bloc Party 'do a Radiohead', new album available digitally from today
In what is slowly but surely becoming the sensible way for bands to release albums the boys from the Bloc and the folks at Wichita have teamed up with Sandbag, better known as a band merch company, to release their third album. »
The Horrors: Fantasy Faris and Portishead-related new album info
In news posted over at the Youth Turks blog there's evidence that Faris Badwan (aka Rotter), is currently sixth out of 1,274,118 teams! If you spot Sour Face FC in the papers then yes, that's him.»
Watch: The Stills 'Being Here'
Watch the new video from The Stills taken from their new album Oceans Will Rise. »