DIESEL

DUM acts get filmed for Vice! (247 views 5 comments)

There's still a few days left for YOU to become eligible for a live set at our rip-roaring, world-touring, ass-shaking, birthday extravaganza xXx parties on October 11th.

Not only are we flying the three winners out to one of the big city venues, not only do we showcase the slot online in front of millions of ...

New Tokyo xXx lineup additions (193 views 0 comments)

Here's another couple of bangers to the xXx fireworks:

First up, is GusGus – one of those bands that are always, just ‘there’. And after 12 years we wouldn’t have it any other way. We seriously don’t know how they do it, but they’re alway...

More Stock, Less Aitken & Waterman (132 views 0 comments)

Gone are the days when carving ‘4Real’ down your forearm and cultivating the biggest carbon footprint this side of the US on a groupie tour was enough to cement your place as a Superfan. Oh yes. Now, not content with having children named after them and meddling in the politics of Third World Debt, our mus...

Playing the Building (133 views 0 comments)

This weekend sees the closure of David Byrne’s steam-punk art installation Playing the Building, in which Byrne had rigged up an antique pump organ so it ‘plays’ the entire architecture of a vast 1909 municipal fe...

Falling Mercury Could Be Buried By Another Poor Choice (158 views 0 comments)

Now that everyone seems to have forgotten who won last year (for those of you struggling, it was The Klaxons), it's time to turn thoughts to September 9th's Mercury Music Prize ceremony and cross our fingers that for the first time in a while someone who truly deserves to win actually does.  Whilst this ...

Festival Tickets: A Buyer's Guide (209 views 0 comments)

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August 5
Scott Can't wait till Reading!
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August 15
Scott is still worried about his reading ticket!!
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August 16
Scott is very much sh*tting himself about his Reading ticket not turning up .
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Doherty 'dangerous', Cliff Richard 'well safe', say Wilshire police (202 views 0 comments)

This week's seen a particularly dangerous precendent set by Wiltshire police, of the like not seen since the 1994 Criminal Justice & Public Order Act cracked down on repetitive beats and excessive glowstick waving.  Whatever you may feel about Pete Doherty, you've got to admit the guy does get a crowd going (...

Everything Changes But You (244 views 1 comments)

Hammer any more nails into the major labels’ coffins and they’ll wind up looking like that guy from Hellraiser. Since you lot stopped buying records, the music industry juggernaut has taken a wrong turning off Easy Street and the incumbents now find themselves down Crack Alley with no petrol...

Radiohead announces music video winners (226 views 0 comments)

This week sees the announcement of the winners of Radiohead’s Animated Music Video contest. Hosted on the video portal, Aniboom, the competition received over 900 storyboards, leading to 4 grand winners, who will now receive $10,000 each to finish their animations...

The Bullshitter's Lexicon #2 - A glossary of reduntant music biz cliches (199 views 0 comments)

The Summer of Love It's June, which is usually about the time of year when the magazines and newspapers start oh-so-originally predicting the 3rd 'Summer of Love'. This year's been a bit different though. Glasto's struggled to shift tickets, Ibiza's adapting to new laws optimistically attempting to restrict the ho...