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In a leaked memo, MTV Europe have made "recommendations" for some crazy censorship... Apparently, during these times of hardcore reality tv, the BBC showing uninterrupted bloodshed and war live on CNN, that because of "heightened public sensitivity to representations of war, soldiers, bombing, destructi»
Dum-dish, dum-dum-dish, dish, dish... eeereeekk... boom-ba-doom... The beatbox revolution has started. On Saturday 26th April you can witness the world's very first (apparently) Human Beatbox Convention @ Imperial College (London - adjacent to the Royal Albert Hall). You do know what a human beatbo»
15 years in the life of a label and it comes down to this... Don't be fooled. 'Terminal Sales' is a two-cd compilation commemorating the decade and a half since 1988, of throbbing, funky, grainy, grungey, gravy, rock greatness which Sub Pop has produced. You only need to look at »
PLACEBO release their latest album of Sonic Youth affected, neo-goth, post-glam, sub-drone, chart-devastating-pop, rock, next week! And you can hear it all this week.. The lovely folks at Hut/Virgin fully understand the try-before-you-buy-thang and have put us on another of their webwheels - in the past we»
DiS called them "Builders in drag!" not so long ago. Then they got dropped and disappeared. Surely it wasn't our fault? Anyway, the 'dora are double-A back! Birmingham's finest glam ressurectors return with a limited edition double A-side single 'Born to Lose' and 'Kamikaze'»
Leeds-based, Radio 1 playlisted back in January, DiS giggers in February, dizzying, Frames-meets-Coldplay, spring breeze popsters, release their debut single... 'The First Word Is The Hardest' will be the debut single for Four Day Hombre, released on Monday 28th April. The single's bei»
Aereogramme are just yer average band. Art-rock is all over MTV. Boards of Canada, Godspeed and that pesky legend Will Oldham are all still on the Radio 1 A-list, yet the dissident youth of today are still searching for their very own neo-nazi, homophobic icon after the assassination of Eminem.<»
Not content with DiS nights in London, Colchester and Cardiff, we now venture out to EXETER! We've teamed up to co-promote this new monthly night with ROBOT ROCK @ Exeter Cavern (Cavernclub.co.uk). The night is run by Dan from the amazing band that»
When the DiS tour hits London, the DiS crew come out drinking til 4am… We don't wanna sound too much like we're masturbating up each others backs, but it was a fantastic night, totally and utterly sold out, down at our favourite London venue (fact!), the Underworld in Camden. Redjetson (»
Lemonheads man in uk dates shocker... To coincide with next weeks debut studio album 'Baby I'm Bored' (March 17th via Setanta Records) Evan Dando plays at HMV in London and has just announced a tour.. oh and he's doing th»
Hot on the heels of playing a DiS show at the underworld and supporting Placebo this week, them pesky, big-haired, guitar-thrashing, rock-godz-in-the-making hit the road... To promote the release of their debut single 'Decisions, Decisions' next Monday (March 17th via Riverman), DiS-faves Colour »
Mad swan woman working on new album, on a lake, with a bunch of dates... After the success of last year's Best of, avant icon Björk is hard at work in her homeland of Iceland, on her 6th solo album. The exact locati»
Have we entered a time warp? Or is it a sign o'times that infamous, groundbreaking, magazine Creem is set to return..? DiS can reveal that seminal American rock rag, once edited by Lester Bangs and contributed to by Cameron Crowe, Creem, is soon to be back! Totally by accident we stumbled acr»
Ask yourself: How can such a shit track come from such a constipated sounding band? Yes, yes ya'all, trapped turtle head rock is back! And this time it's dribbling like a balding oldie in a club full of underage girls. Saliva are mates of Chad Nicklecrack - and with friends like that, who indeedy-d»
BRMC have sorted out their visa problem with a bit of help from Bono... Black Rebel.. British drummer Nick Jago lived in the States when the San Francisco cool catz were hitting the big time, the thing was, he was breaking the law and the feds/rozzaz stopped him re-entering yankie-land. He basically»
Glasto is Go! But tickets ain't just yet... We've heard warnings from the officials at Glastonbury that fake tickets are circulating. Tickets are not officially on sale until March 31st for this summer’s event, which is taking place from June 27,28 and 29. Someone, somewhere, is making a killing as »
There's a new sooper-groop and they're all called Ben.. This week down-under, in the land of Oz, a new band called The Bens, featuring Ben Folds, Ben Lee, and Evan Dando's ex-Radish mate Ben Kweller, are touring. Starting in Brisbane on March 14th, The Bens will be playing solo, backin»
The British institution wakes up and releases a DVD... The 21st Series of BBC's music show 'Later... with Jools Holland' is due to start up again in May. To coincide with the new series they're releasing a noisy DVD. Following on the DVD series from»
=DiS *LONDON* LISTINGS= We've another packed few months ahead of DiS-gigs in London. Already this year we've had some rammed shows featuring the likes of Span, Kinesis, Reuben, Colour of Fire, Winnebago Deal, Miss Black America, Four Day Hombre, Jarcrew, Seachange, Engerica, Plans and Apologies, Redjets»
Virgin festival tickets are on sale as of 9am today (Saturday 8th March).. For £90 (don't forget the booking fee!) on August 16th/17th @ Weston Park, Staffordshire & Hylands Park Chelmsford, Essex.. you will see: Coldplay do their only English festival in 2003 »
After last years Charlatans headlined, apparently poor ticket selling, Isle of Wight Festival, famous for Hendrix rockin' it back in the day, returns for 2003.. On 14th & 15th June @ Seaclose Park, Newport, Isle of Wight you will be able to wrap your seabreezed senses around: Paul Weller, Starsailor, Ig»
This is probably my tenth or eleventh listen to that long-awaited follow-up-me-bob to the Mercury Nominated, blah, blah, insert predictable 'it sounds a bit folky', blah, blah, 'it's going to sell well whatever I say' ends... Easy. Job done. "Remind myself that I'm not just in it for the money"<»
DiS "pet-band" THE COOPER TEMPLE CLAUSE return to the live scene next month with a bunch of shows previewing stuff from the new album.
Anyway, enough crap, go order your tickets! Here's the where, when, numbers, etc...
April
25th: Dublin Whelans, 1890 925100
26th: Be»
Some UK shows to promote the new 'ol's album... woohoo woo.. Sex, Drugs and Rock'n'Rollers - as previously reported - release their fourth album 'Welcome to the Monkeyhouse' in May and to help promote it, they're doing a uk tour which Di»
Little pixie man with the big voice and geetar/pie-ano genius and his two mates who're a bit good musically too.. yes, they're coming back! DiS can reveal that Muse are recording their third studio album with Rich Costey who's previously produced Rage Aagainst The Machine, Wu Tang and Jurassic 5, am»
Aidan's been drinking again.. On April 21st 2003 it will be raining perverse prose over filthy beats and beautiful sounds... Arab Strap album number five, 'Mondays At The Hug & Pint' is released. Rumour is they will be touring in April with Bright Eyes (this might be in the US of»
The tours been going great so far, few extra bands added...
February
Wed 26 Edinburgh Venue +Mercury Tilt Switch + Sucioperro
Thurs 27 Perth Twa Tams +Mercury Tilt Switch + Sucioperro
Fri 28 Dundee Reading Rooms +TBC + Sucioperro
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Death to the BNP! A date for your diary! The second, Love Music, Hate Racism Carnival, takes place in Burnley on Sunday April 27th which is just four days before May's local elections when two of the Nazi BNP's Burnley councillors are up for re-election. The line-up announced so far includes »
The D team up with Sifl and Ollie man to make a movie.. Ironic, mega-rock stars, Tenacious D (aka comedy combo Jack Black (High Fidelity) and Kyle Gass) have teamed up with wudevah-man Liam Lynch for a film. President of movies makers New Line production Toby Emmerich, had this »
February, it's not even spring yet, but there's something collecting on the breeze 'round these parts. Yeah, there's this whole war thing, a lot of DEMONstrators being all "anti" and there's really not enough people being PRO-peace. It all seems like it's a little too late to me, this 'protest' sho»
