BBC Bulbs: Agaskodo Teliverek play Proms
With new record Psycho Goulash on the way, Hungarian jerk-merchants Agaskodo Teliverik have been announced as part of BBC Proms Electric Night.»
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Sticky Fingers: Animal Collective discuss Strawberry Jam
Although obviously a ridiculous title, Strawberry Jam somehow suits Animal Collective: for all the sickly sweet associations there is a reluctantly bitter taste to it all. DiS's Samuel Strang discusses the band's latest LP - and first for Domino - with members Noah Lennox and David Portner, aka Panda Bear and Avey Tare, discovering the duo's fondness for "messiness" and "visual music"...»
DiScover: HEALTH
As shrieking experimental Los Angeles noiseniks, HEALTH is a somewhat inappropriate moniker. The quartet - John Famiglietta, BJ Miller, Jake Duzsik, Jupiter Keyes (pictured clockwise from left) - provide honed brutality, with their eponymous debut record (released on Lovepump United this month) another sprawling, diverse export from LA’s currently burgeoning scene...»
The Weekly DiScussion: Don't Look Back?
For all the plaudits that Sonic Youth acquired off the back of the performances it calls into question the peculiar appetite with which the Don't Look Back events are lapped up. All things considered, should these records really be victim to such nostalgia-ridden retrospectives? Is there not a sense of the spoilt brat who missed the ride?»
Dan Deacon - The Crystal Cat
Jabbering away, Dan Deacon sounds disturbed, in need of an escape, curled up on the floor locked in a state of deranged childhood numbness...»
Comfort in the Chaos: Gang Gang Dance on Rawwar and beyond
After years on the outskirts contentedly beating away, Gang Gang Dance have suddenly provoked some interest around their noisenik carcass. For almost two years now the New York outfit have struggled to record and release the follow-up to 2005's God's Money, so DiS met up with Tim DeWitt and Liz Bougatsos ahead of their performance at Cargo and the release of new EP Rawwar...»
Winehouse and Rascal dominate MOBO nominations
Nominations for the 12th annual MOBO Awards have been announced. Dizzee Rascal and Amy Winehouse lead the charge with four nominations apiece.»
Chart round-up: Kanye's Harder, Stronger, Faster, Better
'Familiarity breeds contempt'. Nonsense. Familiarity breeds a chart-botherer.»
Iron and Wine tour UK with '...Dog'
After a close-quartered performance at The Spitz last week, Iron and Wine will tour these (our? your?) shores a little more comprehensively from October onwards...»
Kanye, Pharrell and Lupe hold hands as CRS
With Kayne West, Lupe Fiasco (pictured) and Pharrell Williams having taken a unified bow on West's recent Can't Tell Me Nothing mixtape, Fiasco has speculatively suggested that the makeshift collective - CRS (Child Rebel Soldiers) - have more lined up after originally all appearing on the Thom Yorke-sampling 'Us Placers'...»
The Polyphonic Spree - Running Away
Given the perpetually open-armed affections of The Polyphonic Spree the act have always seemed far more a distant marching band, softly gurning hand-in-hand, than any manic parade you particularly want to indulge your company in. 'Running Away' peddles the Dallas clan’s usual unashamed mild-mannered havoc...»
Liars - Liars
Soft-skulled and cut from caring with little more than a smeared porn pullout and half a bottle of brandy from their father's secret draw, Liars have packed their bags and left home in pursuit of something better...»
A Means To An End: Joy Division re-release catalogue
Joy Division are to re-issue their back catalogue...»
A Fistful of Fandango: promoters celebrate sixth birthday
Club Fandango celebrate their sixth birthday this September with six consecutive nights of music, with dates featuring British Sea Power, Malcolm Middleton, Maps and Shit Disco...»
White Heat celebrate turning four, tomorrow
Having kicked off celebrations in suitably overzealous fashion with Comanechi in Brighton last Friday, tomorrow (August 7) night sees White Heat mark its fourth birthday with a few of its finest affiliates - The Low Miffs, One More Grain and Eel Pie’s absurdist-collective Mystery Jets...»
Hack Attack: Jack White rants about journalists
In a somewhat hypocritical attack for a man who has constantly shrouded himself in huge cloak of mystique - particularly regarding his relationship with his darling drummer - Jack White has criticised journalists for piecing together inaccurate half-truths surrounding his renowned three-piece blues act The White Stripes...»
Milk tooth tales: Liars discover their inner-child
Liars have a new record. In something of a departure from an act that brought you such classics as 'The Frozen Glacier of Mastadon Blood' and 'Tumbling Walls Buried Me In The Debris With ESG', it’s simply titled: Liars. DiS's Samuel Strang catches up with the trio in London to talk the perceptions and parallels of concepts and re-evolution. Or is that de-evolution...»
Aesop Rock - None Shall Pass
No bravado necessary. With carousel chiming away contentedly Aesop Rock initially seems to have made a somewhat underwhelming return, but that’s never a safe bet where this artist is concerned...»
Blow Your Load: Double Black Dice release
Paw Tracks will now release the new record from Brooklyn's finest purveyors of experimental-cum-minimal dance-you-cannot-dance-to noise - Black Dice.»
Scarlett Johansson's Blues: Actress ropes in TVOTR and Yeah Yeah Yeahs for Waits record
Some are content with performing in The Horse Whisperer and having the opportunity to make a film with Bill Murray. Some are not.»
Pair of Clarks? Good Shoes offer free download
Morden-based pop sensiblists Good Shoes have made a free download available to you, common muck.»
Dan Deacon has poked UK. Poke back?
Opinion-splitting Baltimore-based oddball Dan Deacon is to bring his relentless electro-noise-nonsense to these UK shores in the next month.»
'She Moved': R Kelly back out the closet
R Kelly is to bolster the tap-drip phenomenon that is Lost In The Closet with ten new episodes.»
Oh Katrina: Black Lips let album details slip
Following the broken faced glory of Let It Bloom, Atlantan oiks Black Lips will release their fourth-record proper Good Bad Not Evil on September 11 on Vice Records...»
David Shrigley Gets Worried about Liars, TV On The Radio...
“I didn’t make a record. I couldn’t be bothered to make a record. It would have been too difficult. It was easier not to make a record.”»
British Sea Power at London Brixton The Windmill, Sat 21 Jul
Amid the light hustle and bustle, clad in their usual oddly-assembled attire - medallion twinned with hockey jersey, tweed clashing at waist with 100% cotton - British Sea Power return, having never really left. And so, with skulls drenched and hushed aplomb, another opportunity to showcase material from their tentatively-titled new record opens.»
Lethal Bizzle - Back To Bizznizz
In trying to embrace its various influences, Back To Bizznizz too regularly turns its back on Bizzle's initial success and instead provides a frustratingly mixed bag.»
Return of the Beard: Banhart announces album details
Having darted around various activites following 2005's Cripple Crow adventure, Venezuelan psych-folk loon Devendra Banhart will release fifth record proper Smokey Rolls Down Thunder Canyon on September 25 via XL.»
Wave of Mutilation? Pixies tribute record details
With the Concert For Diana programmes only freshly tucked away, details surrounding the forthcoming Pixies tribute record appear to have developed somewhat, albeit without some of the names that were initially slated to contribute to the release.»