Originally written by Sean Adams · 29 February 2004
Release Highlights
Albums 1st Compilation ‘Decade: 10 Years of Fierce Panda’ (News / Interview with S.Williams coming soon!) 1st Hundred Reasons ’Shatterproof Is Not A Challenge’ 8th TV on the Radio ‘Desperate Youth, Bloodthirsty Babies’ 8th CloudDead ’Ten’ 8th Minus ’Halldór Laxness’ (4.5/5 Review) 8th Squarepusher ’Ultravistor’ 15th The Shins ‘Chutes Too Narrow’ (4.5/5 Review) 22nd Outkast ‘The Videos’ (DVD) 22nd Weezer 'The Blue Album: Deluxe' (x2 cd) & 'Video Capture Device' (DVD)
Singles 1st Mars Volta ’Televators’ 8th Fountains of Wayne ’Stacy’s Mom’ 8th Stellastarr* ’My Coco’ 15th Courtney Love ’Mono’ For more forthcoming release info, check out the DiS Release Database here.
Tour Highlights
STEREOLAB are out on the road promoting their new record ‘Margarine Eclipse’ (4/5 DiS Review)… 1st Glasgow QMU 2nd Manchester Hop & Grape (Academy 3) 3rd +4th London Islington Academy 6th Nottingham Rescue Rooms 7th Brighton Concorde 2 Support on all UK dates comes from Domino Records To Rococo Rot.
SEACHANGE follow-up February dates with Oceansize and Pretty Girls Make Graves, by playing their first headline tour of 2004 in promotion of their debut album ‘Lay of the Land’ which is out on March 8th… 1st Cambridge, Portland Arms 2nd Hull, Adelphi 3rd Glasgow, King Tut's 4th Liverpool, University 6th Sheffield, Casbah 7th Bristol, Louisiana 8th Birmingham, Academy 3 9th Derby, Victoria Inn 11th London, Borderline
THE BOXER REBELLION these boys have been a big tip at DiS towers for quite a while, what with big Charlatans like soul sounds crashing into pits of Coopersy noise, songs and suss, we ain’t half suckers for that. With McGee’s Poptones ready to drop an album this summer, the guys are on the road near non-stop, catch ‘em if you can… 1st Liverpool Academy 3 2nd Leicester Charlotte 3rd Norwich Arts Centre 20th Bath Moles 21st Exeter Cavern 22nd Plymouth Phoenix 24th Bournemouth University 25th Brighton Pressure Point 26th Harlow Square 27th Amsterdam Paradiso - London Calling Festival 29th Oxford Zodiac (TBC) 30th Derby Victoria Inn 31st Sheffield Casbah 2nd APRIL Leeds Josephs Well 3rd Edinburgh Venue 4th Manchester Night and Day 6th Cardiff Barfly 7th London Borderline 8th Cambridge Anglia University
GRAHAM COXON releases a new single ‘Freakin Out’ on March 8th from his forthcoming album ‘Happiness in Magazines’. Before hitting the road with a big album tour in May/June, the country-obsessed former Blur man plays the following low-key shows… 9th Stoke Sugarmill 10th Bristol Firkin 11th Bedford Esquires 12th York Fibbers
CAT POWER is over at the end of the month with her lovely dusty blues, playing both weekends of All Tomorrow’s Parties and two of her own shows. Friday 26th Camber Sands ATP Weekend 1 Wednesday 31st London, Shepherd's Bush Empire + Entrance + Cass McCombs Thursday 1st April Edinburgh, Liquid Room + Entrance Sunday 4th April Camber Sands ATP Weekend 2
LAMBCHOP ends the month with shows in support of his double album release (Review)… 22nd Brighton Dome 23rd London Shepherds Bush Empire 24th Sheffield City Hall 25th Manchester Salford Lowry 26th Edinburgh Queens Hall 27th York Barbican 28th Dublin Gaiety
Also tours we recommend that we’ve done news stories about include: Bloc Party take their much-hyped intelligent funk-punk with hints of Blur out around the UK, Hull’s unhinged-poppers Fonda 500 tour, Snow Patrol + Astrid head out on the road together, The Fall end their UK tour, crazy Atdi-‘fro’ed Jap-mentalists Electric Eel Shock return, eMo kids beware Hundred Reasons + Biffy Clyro tour together this month with additional support from Senses Fail, Yankie popstars Fountains of Wayne are over, and there’s probably a billion more things on too, place your recommendations as comments…
Upcoming DiS Shows Thurs 4th @ 93ft East, London: Redjetson + Red Pony + DiveDive (Info) Fri 26th @ Upstairs at the Garage, London: NONE MORE ROCK new DiS night, taking off where DiScore began. Line-up announced soon. Fri 26th @ Night & Day, Manchester: Electric Eel Shock + Moco + Hollywood Ending
Also, starting in April, we have a new monthly DiS night in Southampton, interested local bands should contact kp@drownedinsound.com.
DiScuss: What're you looking forward to this month? Or Recommend?