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The Distillers - Coral Fang
Girls inspired us boys into picking up guitars and inventing rock music back when. It’s finally time for them to take back what is rightfully theirs. By the next album we won't even need to mention Hole.»
Wachowski Brothers - The Matrix Revolutions
Since the Wachowski Brothers seem insistent on treating us like illiterate children, DiS has reviewed their new film as if we were f*cking illeterate children...»
Curerbell - Waiting For The World
Every A&R scout spends hours of their day routing through truckloads of shit demos just to discover a band like Curerbell.»
The Afternoons - My Lost City
At its best, as on this, The Afternoons second album, power pop is a skyward-gazing celebration of love and life that can elevate the listener’s mood or bring a tear to your eye. This album pulls off both these tricks without even breaking a sweat.»
The Chemical Brothers - Singles 93-03
A few years back, The Chemical Brothers ruled the land of alternative dance and could name-drop celebrity guests more impressively than Tom Jones. So why does this collection fail to catch the thrills and spills of their extraordinary career?»
Enon - Hocus Pocus
Now on to their third album, Enon continue to mine their uneasy vein of hi-tech indie music. Part power pop and part lo-fi in origin, it's impossible not to marvel at the spooky wonder of ‘Hocus Pocus’»
The Webb Brothers - The Webb Brothers
With even more brothers on board than before, the Webb's self-titled third finds the Californians exploring new, spacier territory»
Alfie - Stuntman
Alfie still sound a fair bit like The Charlatans, but at least they’ve shed a few shades of twee since we last heard ‘em»
Siobhan Donaghy - Revolution In Me
For anyone who has somehow missed out, the story goes something like this... Four years back, three sultry young lasses dealing under the name Sugababes, sign up to London Records. The press go wild for �em and the kids go and buy their first single, �Overload�, in sizeable droves. Their album, <»
Spitalfield - Remember Right Now
Spitalfield are Chicago-based, impossibly young and dangerously close to overtaking Saves The Day in the race for the emo world domination. Yes, Spitalfield are all these things and much more. The freshfaced quartet have apparently materialised from nowhere to drop one of the debuts – nay albums – o»
Athlete - You Got The Style
Thanks to their thoroughly undeserved Mercury Music Prize nomination, Athlete are fast becoming this month’s Dido. Like her, they are a bland, boring after-effect of the late-‘90s indie scene. Also like her, they have nothing remotely worthwhile to say and fewer memorable tunes than David Blaine has fans. Averageness should not be encouraged or rewarded.»
My Morning Jacket - It Still Moves
My Morning Jacket are generally considered to be the grandmasters of modern country by critics, despite having yet to translate said kudos into concrete sales figures. Nevertheless, the Kentucky-based five managed to clinch a deal with BMG last year and ‘It Still Moves’ are the first fruits of the»
The French: Digital EP From Ex-Hefner Boyos!
Those lurvvely people at the Beggars Group are at it again. Get the new digital EP by The French, the new band formed by two ex-Hefner dudes. The EP consists of a whopping four tracks - 2 a-sides from the album ('Porn Shoes', 'Gabriel At The Airport') and 2 b-sides ('Punk Rock's Going To Die', 'N»
Cosmic Rough Riders - Justify The Rain
Despite commercial considerations, surely the best thing Cosmic Rough Riders ever did was to ditch their gurning frontman. Irritating and power-crazed, Daniel Wylie was a pesky fellow with an irritatingly smug demeanor. He also wrote all the songs and steered the band into a record deal with Poptones. OK, »
Electric Soft Parade: Touring Extras
ESP expand their tour through October and November. Further to our announcement of their September dates, the band are to head back out on the road in late October in support of their new album. 'The American Adventure' is release»
Small Victories, OK Go, The Webb Brothers at Camden Electric Ballroom, Camden, Wed 03 Sep
So, like, they say Camden’s not what it used to be. Is it still the bastion of homegrown talent it was in ye olde Britpop days? Well nah, there’re no Menswears getting signed after four gigs, and Suede and Blur have long since moved to newer, more inticing social pastures. Yet in place of the stifl»
Releases Coming Soon...
Although by no means a comprehensive list, here are a few of the albums you should consider shelling out for over the next few months. Better start saving now, it's Christmas soon ya know...
BASEMENT JAXX
Title: 'Kish Kash'
Due: October
Basement Jaxx’s long awaited third a»
Courtney: Return Of The Punk Rock Princess
Courtney unleashes her solo debut next month! Dido runs and hides! 'America's Sweetheart' will finally reach the stores on October 27th, corresponding to an October 28th release in the US. The album was recorded with the help of The Distillers' frontgrrrl Brody Armstrong, who len»
Siobhan Donaghy: Twisted Sister
The former Sugababes star books more low-key dates and announces album. Siobhan's debut album, 'Revolution In Me', is set for a September 22nd release, and has already received a brace of ecstatic reviews from the music press. The track listing is as follows: Nothing But Song »
Electric Soft Parade: New Adventures
Brighton's biggest chart-bothering brothers announce new album and tour... The Whites have been down to the legendary Abbey Road studios to master the follow-up to their debut album, last year's 'Holes In The Wall'. The recordings were largely made on analogue tape in Brighton, for an "unique»
The Raveonettes - That Great Love Sound
Jesus, moooore garage rock? Haven’t you people got bored of it already? Can’t we get back to ripping off the ‘80s now? Haven’t any of you foreign types heard of Duran Duran, Associates, or erm… Bow Wow Wow??? I know!! Let’s have a nice big indie rock update of ‘Go Wild In The Country’ »
MTV Awards Winners In Full
The MTV Awards ceremony hits New York. We yawn. OK, so here's this year's list of nominees and winners (in bold). As usual the UK was woefully overlooked, represented only by Coldplay, Radiohead and suprise winners Duran Duran, who picked up a well-deserved Lifetime Achievement Award. »
The Bluetones - Never Going Nowhere
The Bluetones are often unfairly lumped in with Britpop losers Shed Seven, Menswear and the like, yet they’ve always held a small place in my heart. While little of their material has been outstanding, they’ve never released a bad single as such. ‘Never Going Nowhere’ doesn’t st»
Bowling for Soup - Punk Rock 101
If Bowling For Soup had half a brain cell between them, they’d probably be post-post-ironic. Sadly, they’re fucking idiots and this horrific attempt to slate ‘fake’ punk bands is woefully clumsy and at least two years too late. For a band with only one previous hit single - which not only ripped off Bli»
The Capes - Regional Heats
What can you say about the current British indie scene? There are a lot of no-hoper bands out there and even the better ones are being ruthlessly ignored by the majors. After all those long years of ripping the piss out of Australia for being utterly devoid of musical worth, they’ve suddenly churned out a veritable fle»
Delays, Tim Burgess at London King's Cross Scala, Wed 20 Aug
One of the most promising acts of the new British indie pack, Delays (no 'the's here!) are a captivating hybrid of The La’s and Geneva. Led by the brothers Gilbert, they’re all floppy hair, model cheekbones and heavenly harmonies. The band have really tightened up their sound over the past f»
Rufus Wainwright: Album No. 3 Announced
Rufus Wainwright returns with new album in September... The follow-up to the 2001 critical fave, 'Poses', will be released in the USA on September 23rd. Dreamworks are handling the release internationally and will soon be announcing the UK street date (likely to be September 22nd). The »
Good Charlotte - The Anthem
As with every other above-par punk pop band around, Good Charlotte only have two decent singles per album. It’s something both Blink-182 and Sum 41 are consistently guilty of and this lot are no different. ‘Lifestyles Of The Rich And Famous’ was a bombastic triumph and, while ‘Girls And B»
The Strokes: New Album In October
The Strokes' second opus is due out in October, according to the band... Despite their being no official press release as yet, the NY fivesome recently told Billboard that the untitled new album will be released Stateside through RCA on October 21st. This corresponds to an October 20th release in the»