Battles announce tour dates
Loveable NYC four-piece Battles - featuring none other than John Stanier from Helmet - are to tour some the UK this coming May in support of their forthcoming album...»
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The Weekly DiScussion: where now for experimental music following the demise of Radio 3's Mixing It
In light of the axing of the popular experimental music show Mixing It, DiS pays its respects to the death of new leftfield music on the BBC, and questions the BBC's motives in marginalising music outside the confines of the mainstream...»
Peace Burial at Sea: the post-rocking Zombie Undead?
Following the release of their self-titled second LP, DiS managed to grab a few words with Newcastle post-post-rockers Peace Burial At Sea via the medium of e-mail. Topics up for discussion: labels, movies and, of course, zombies...»
Eluvium - Copia
Copia sees Matthew Cooper revert back to using a traditional palette of instruments, straying away from the bombastic swirl of guitars that delivered When I Live By The Garden And The Sea and Talk Amongst The Trees...»
Gallows get set for headline shows
Gallows, the five-piece punk outfit who released their debut album Orchestra Of Wolves to high-acclaim last year, are readying themselves for a small headline tour in March...»
Baja - Maps / Systemalheur
Maps / Systemalheur is a record which will appeal to both free-jazz enthusiasts and fans of minimalist electronics...»
Arbouretum - Rites of Uncovering
The dark alt-country ballads of Arbouretum’s second album are only likely to interest those with an acquired taste. If you’re looking for straightforward rock ‘n’ roll, then you’ve come to the wrong place...»
R*E*P*E*A*T Christmas Party at Cambridge Man On The Moon, Sat 23 Dec
Popular Workshop explode onto the stage like inebriated brothers of The Futureheads, playing dirty rock ‘n’ roll with swagger and skill without any forethought for the state of their instruments or the audience’s ears...»
Kat Vipers - Summer Bloody Time EP
I recently encountered piano-playing virtuoso Kat Vipers on the rather brilliant Mixing It show aired on Radio 3. Although the show is diverse in the range of acts it plays, I was caught unaware by the three-minute jazz-punk confederation that was to follow...»
aMute - The Sea Horse Limbo
The Sea Horse Limbo is the sound of escapism; congenial experiments of both art and the mind. Not only is it music to be heard, but music to be felt too...»
Frank Turner - Vital Signs
Frank Turner isn’t really bringing anything new to the table, breaking boundaries or obscuring expectations. I know that, you know that, Frank knows that. He’s just practising what he loves: great songwriting...»
Findlay Brown - Don't You Know I Love You EP
I hate having to use the clichéd phrase, but words just can’t describe how lovely these tracks are...»
Peace Burial at Sea - Peace Burial at Sea
This album is a spirited comeback from Peace Burial At Sea, but moreover one of the undiscovered greats of its kind in 2006. Brilliant stuff...»
Desalvo - Brown Flag / Cock Swastika
Desalvo - as I’m sure they’d be the first to tell you - are a metal act. However, there is a distinct lack of cohesion in lead-track ‘Brown Flag’; between intermittent fluctuations of noise of effervescent drum patterns, disorientation sets in...»
DiScover: Tiger MCs
Tiger MCs – a project which sees James Butcher experiment with summery, twee folk-pop and lo-fi acoustic pleasures. Needless to say, it’s absolutely lovely.»
Brakes - Hold Me In The River
Instrumentally, ‘Hold Me In The River’ is almost synonymous with British Sea Power’s punkier moments, and as a cause, is modestly infectious...»
+44 - When Your Heart Stops Beating
Blink-182 aficionados will find plenty to enjoy here, but for those who grew wearisome of the stale pop-punk formula years ago, +44’s debut album is an unnecessary purchase...»
Open Mouth at Bury St Edmunds Studio 3, Thu 23 Nov
Those who admired Miss Black America only for their punk-rock quotient should meet an Open Mouth gig with some disdain – gone is the teenage angst, sense of rebellion and zealous rock gusto. Instead, the remnants of what made Miss Black America special are re-moulded into the framework of Open Mouth’s singer-songwriter acoustic backdrop...»
The Upper Room split
UK indie-types The Upper Room have decided to call it a day, following the split from major label Columbia...»
Eagles Of Death Metal - I Got A Feelin' (Just Nineteen)
The band’s animated effort Death By Sexy is a great rock ‘n’ roll album – fun, loud and raucous. The second single from the aforementioned effort is, rather predictably, fun, loud and raucous...»
Winnebago Deal - Reeper
‘Reeper’ manages to accomplish in two minutes what Kyuss’ lesser acolytes would get done in four...»
Virgins no more: former band member Lucas Renney talks about The Golden Virgins' split
Former singer and guitarist Lucas Renney agreed to talk to DiS about The Golden Virgins' split through e-mail, following their farewell gig on October 27...»
Head Like A Kite - Random Portraits Of The Home Movie
Dave Einmo draws from a large number of genres for Head Like A Kite: trip-hop, electronica and - to a lesser extent - punk. Opener ‘Words Of A Friend’ sets the score for the album, which fuses soundscape-like rock in the vein of Secret Machines with blasts of electronics and sickly production techniques...»
Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin - Broom
Broom may well be two seasons too late, but it should see you through until the next record from The Shins, at least...»
Orko - Creating Short Fiction
The term ‘emo’ is branded about far too often these days, but Orko really do seem to fit the description, and draw heavily from the indubitable godfathers of ‘emo’, Far and Rival Schools...»
Placebo - Placebo (Collectors Edition)
Placebo is undoubtedly one of the best alternative rock records of the 20th Century. Every song features flair, passion and a dizzying amount of creativity...»
Various - Svenskt
It’s unlikely that you would have come across many of the artists on Svenskt. That’s what makes this compilation stand out from so many others on the market at the moment...»
Shibuya Crossings - Songs For Lovesick Teenagers
If Declan Harrington’s Shibuya Crossings breaks into the mainstream, expect your office radio to become the bane of your existence...»
Seachange - On Fire, With Love
Seachange don’t claim to be pushing the boundaries of what we define as ‘music’, nor do they flirt with experimentalism. Seachange stick to what they know best: writing honestly crafted indie-rock...»
Bernard Fanning - Tea & Sympathy
The press release states that Bernard Fanning is a “total legend in Oz”. We can only hope that the British public have more sense than to buy into this poorly constructed caricature of an alt-country record...»