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Weezer add exclusive cover versions to album as UK release brought forward

Kev Kharas — Wed, 14 May 2008 18:19:06 +0100

Has the new Weezer album leaked yet? Us law-abiding childer at DrownedinSound wouldn’t know, but what we do now know is that the UK version of Weezer’s new album will come with two exclusive tracks

The Verve at New York WaMu Theatre, Mon 28 Apr

Karen Ruttner — Wed, 14 May 2008 17:52:40 +0100

The Verve's New York return points to an ecstatic future while simultaneously giving the suited meatheads something to bounce along to

Mogwai at London Queen Elizabeth Hall, Mon 12 May

Luke Turner — Wed, 14 May 2008 17:14:12 +0100

Ten years ago Mogwai were at the vanguard of the Scottish acts pouring across the border. Now, they’re here to lead the counterattack against the Yanks

Arcade Fire soundtracking new film from Donnie Darko director

Kev Kharas — Wed, 14 May 2008 17:09:39 +0100

Arcade Fire are scoring The Box the new film from Donnie Darko director Richard Kelly

Watch: Sigur Rós mincing around doing new album stuff

Kev Kharas — Wed, 14 May 2008 16:27:19 +0100

Icelandic glaciers Sigur Rós have a new album out in the future. It might even be that it arrives in the near future i.e. this summer, but we don’t know because we can’t understand a damn thing they’re saying. Still – they’ve had the decency to communicate what might happen visually, in the form of this video

The Gutter Twins add UK dates to summer diary

Kev Kharas — Wed, 14 May 2008 15:41:21 +0100

The Gutter Twins will tour the UK later this summer to coincide with the release of a new single

Babyshambles: Afrobeat

Kev Kharas — Wed, 14 May 2008 15:17:45 +0100

Babyshambles drummer Adam Ficek has told the Daily Star that his band’s new record will ditch pop nonsense for tribal beats and adventurous experimentation

New album: Ratatat follow Classics with Old Soul on LP3

Kev Kharas — Wed, 14 May 2008 15:02:11 +0100

Ratatat will release their third album this summer

Nate Dogg: ‘I’m not dead’

Kev Kharas — Wed, 14 May 2008 14:21:18 +0100

Reports of Nate Dogg’s demise have been greatly exaggerated according to the rapper’s manager

Animal collection: Ox.Eagle.Lion.Man ready EP, tour in earnest

Gareth Dobson — Wed, 14 May 2008 14:18:54 +0100

Prog freak-out crazies Ox.Eagle.Lion.Man are to release a new EP, The Lay of the Land; The Turn of the Tide, on Transgressive Records on June 9th.

Subtle - ExitingARM

Billy Hamilton — Wed, 14 May 2008 14:15:16 +0100

Not unlike Why?’s peerless Alopecia Subtle's latest is without question an album to discover over time - it could take weeks, months, or even years to excavate the entirety of its bulging musical trajectory

Coldplay like living with their grandmother

Kev Kharas — Wed, 14 May 2008 13:33:34 +0100

Well, it was either that headline up there or Coldplay won’t be ‘doing a Radiohead’. Which as well as being slightly tiresome in itself has already kind’ve been used, so we have this, news that Coldplay won’t be ditching EMI disguised as a semi-humourous jibe. Stirring stuff

The Great Escape 2008: the DiS preview

Mike Diver — Wed, 14 May 2008 13:13:58 +0100

Look! It’s Wednesday! Which means tomorrow is Thursday and, more pertinently, Thursday May 15, which means… it’s time for The Great Escape. Here we present our top ten must-see acts at the seaside festival

The Raconteurs, Beck and M.I.A. among new Hove additions

Kev Kharas — Wed, 14 May 2008 13:02:04 +0100

More names have been added to the bill for this year’s Hove Festival

RIP: from Spector to spectre, Larry Levine passes away

Kev Kharas — Wed, 14 May 2008 12:42:29 +0100

It’s with sad eyes today that we greet news of the death of Larry Levine, the studio engineer who was instrumental in the construction of Spector’s famed wall of sound

Skream, Flying Lotus, Apparat: up for a two-day festival in Slovakia for £14?

Kev Kharas — Wed, 14 May 2008 12:11:44 +0100

Floating up the Danube comes news of Bratislava’s Wilsonic festival, billed as “central and eastern Europe’s celebration of cutting edge, adventurous and forward thinking music”

Tapestry Goes West: Jeffrey Lewis, John Power among first confirmations

Kev Kharas — Wed, 14 May 2008 10:49:32 +0100

Wales finest rock and re-enactment festival returns this year, as Tapestry Goes West

WIN! Tickets to Telepathe's London show this Saturday + free entry to Push for a year

Kev Kharas — Tue, 13 May 2008 18:18:23 +0100

We've five tickets to bestow, as well as free entry for a year to Push which takes place at the Mean Fiddler on Charing Cross Road every Saturday. In fact, just by entering you can get yourself on the £4 cheap list

Psychedelic Horseshit ready UK single

Kev Kharas — Tue, 13 May 2008 17:30:15 +0100

Half Machine Records will put out a five track 7" in July

Pendulum - In Silico

Mike Diver — Tue, 13 May 2008 17:12:51 +0100

“We are going to a different place,” state Pendulum on their second album, and they’re absolutely right: this is going to more than tickle the top end of the albums chart come Sunday’s countdown