Back on the scene at Renee's "Celebration of Life" extravaganza, Drita's make-up talk with Karen takes a vicious turn.

Tip's head explodes when he finds out his youngest daughter Deyjah has a boyfriend.

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Steve and Joann follow up with the ladies of Tough Love Miami eight months after bootcamp.

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A boy and a girl collide one night under Tokyo’s neon sky. They stay up for hours fighting it out over Blondie and The Ramones. A bunch of cool, tough-as-fuck songs and one long plane journey later and they’re ready to take on London.

Following innovators can be a tough task. Trick number one: Get absolutely sh*t-wasted...

186 years old and still (sort of) rocking...

It begins with a disclaimer, of sorts: “I’ve just had tonsillitis,” says drummer Steve, a chest-bearing throat-shredding front man in a former musical life. We’re to forgive him if his vocals crack under the strain of recent illness. As it happens, they go the distance fine...

The second of Mudhoney’s Don’t Look Back shows follows the exact same trajectory as the previous evenings’, i.e. they play Superfuzz Bigmuff from start to finish straying not once from the predetermined route...

Dear Franz Ferdinand,
The least you could do is pronounce "want to" properly.
Yours,
DiS x

Tim Vanhamel's uber heavy stoner funk punk band chew up the Barfly and leave it cheering for more...

'Thanks For The Simulacra' is the greatest punk-funk single to hit shelves this year...

In in the indie-pop playground, Architecture In Helsinki are the kids sitting expectantly by the window, waiting for a breaktime they'll spend spinning around pretending to be aeroplanes.

‘C I AM 15’ does very little for the majority of its duration but hang in the air like a proverbial bad smell; problem is that once you’ve taken a shine to it, it’s as hard to dislike as it is to ignore...

Damn! This record's broken, and certainly not in the Roy Castle sense. When Reuben complain about having to quit the band and get a real job, given this album’s workmanlike nature, you’d be hard-pressed to see a difference.

Dylan Thomas, perhaps Wales’ most celebrated alcoholic, once stood back, cast his poetic gaze across the town of his birth and declared Swansea “…the most romantic town I know…crawling, sprawling, slummed, unplanned, jerry-villa ‘ed, and smug suburbed by the side of a long and splendid-curving shore.” So what the hell happened a few miles down the road in Newport where “…it was about last week, it really got me thinking about how your missus goes nuts when we go drinking. Last week she ended up on a binge, she got off her tits and showed the bouncers her minge”?

"There is no doubt that they have the ability, but whenever it seems like something new is going to thrown into the recipe its subtly withdrawn."

Pretty they may be, but Comanechi rage like they’ve been thrown down a well for 15 years and have come back, hair over face, to rain down bloody revenge.

Opeth are not only the ultimate Swedish prog-doom merchants of recent years but also one of the most important heavy rock bands around today, having arguably never released a bad album. This ought to be the epic soundtrack to the bleakest, most mysterious Fantasy Fiction they never made a film of.

These Bones Will Rise To Love You Again is booze-soaked blues stir-fried in some fiery southern rawk, one eye on the doting wife and another on the dollar whore. It's brilliantly bipolar and deliciously decadent; it's considerably more 'authentic' in feel than a million others masquerading as 'punk'...

Forget the increasingly weary contrivances of a year of guerilla gigs in trees, subways and zebra crossings; Mystery Jets prove that within the confines of four walls, rock 'n' roll can still be dynamic, hopeful and mercifully cliché-free.

'Disposable Fiction' is a remarkable collection of songs, and certainly well above the average batch of "sounds like so-and-so" demos often received at DiS Towers...

So, you make a droning record; a record with a pop hit about heroin chic and support Bowie a few times; co-write a single with Evan Dando and make the amazing - some might say era-defining - Thirteen Tales from Urban Bohemia with some output all over a mobile phone advert; follow it up with a pop record with Nick Rhodes from Duran Duran… then whatcha gonna you do?
DiS dives into the hedonistic world of the new Dandy Warhols LP.

If these guys and their brand of effortlessly cool synth rock are the head of another wave of great upcoming Canadian bands then we are in for a treat.

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Broadcast album, meaning it's one of the better things you'll put in your ear this year. 70 Playlouder The Birmingham band's finest hour yet. 67 Entertainment Weekly Overall, the depleted group's signal is weakened. [

Nada Surf a distinctive sound in an increasingly crowded genre and rocking hard enough that they rightfully should earn a second shot at radio.

American Analog Set album-- and probably the least essential at that. 60 PopMatters The band could use some clearer lyrics and a stronger focus. And leave the instrumentals to groups with more than two prominent instruments.

The pairing of Kris Kristofferson and Steve Earle that opened this year's UCLA Live 'Jazz and Roots' series could have provided an enlightening look at two gene. /

There's not a clunker on 'The Weight is a Gift,' even if the band never veers far from the of vague melancholia. '

But the 7-song 'In the Reins,' the two bands' first collaboration, squelches the very things that make each band unique.

Super Furry Animals have been peddling their of for a decade, and the idiosyncratic Welsh quintet keeps evolving with its latest release, 'Love Kraft.' Pairing with producer Mario Caldato Jr.,

Barely 40 people are present, and it's quiet enough to hear the band's feet tapping. Another one, then, whose album and ticket sales will never quite match the critical acclaim.

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A calypso-laced stylish slice of wonderful, Sixty Six Steps uses jaunty island influences to create a tranquil, unaffected reminder of life's quiet spaces.

Recorded in such disparate locales as a lava-walled studio in Iceland and an abandoned theater in a town on the outskirts of Luton, England, Hex Enduction Hour is easily the most cantankerous Fall album there is.

In many ways, A.R.E. Weapons bring to mind the brief phenomenon of the Audio Bullys. A couple years back, in the halcyon days of 2003, the Audio Bullys crossed the Atlantic on a wave of advance hype.

The American Analog Set are the indie rock equivalent of a stage whisper. You know that it's supposed to be quiet in relation to everything else, but the volume is still almost normal thanks to microphones and good acoustics.

Can it be? The dog days of summer have already sped past? The sun isn't up quite as long. Days are still hot, but the occasional cooler breeze creeps in to cut through the muck.

September 19, 2005 'We're going to try something we've never tried in this city before,' said a modest Sufjan Stevens midway through his set. ' The human pyramid.'

But in a live setting, Pearl Jam is arguably mightier and more unpredictable than ever.

by confiscate both the pirate-DJ and the loudspeaker tank logo.

The quartet consists of Harding, country/jazz chanteuses Kelly Hogan and Nora O'Connor, and bass-blessed actor Brian Lohmann.

These days, you can predict the array of guest vocalists on a famous DJ's solo album about as easily as you can the cast of characters in a B-list action movie.

Who's to say that Joplin can't do the same as he finally branches out on his own? Well, here's hoping he's just getting his feet wet as a solo artist, because honestly, listening to Jaywalker kind of hurts.

Excitement, thy name isn't Clapton, Eric. Yes, we are past the point of expecting E.C.

So it should be no surprise that there are no surprises on the new Goldfrapp album, as it sticks with the same formula as Black Cherry, only slightly simplified, with a few minor variations here and there.

Franz Ferdinand's Weekly Soundbites Franz Ferdinand front man Alex Kapranos has started writing for the Guardian newspaper.

Arts Music Missing: Babyshambles Album Artwork Luggage containing artwork for Babyshambles' debut album has been lost.When he'd arrived in Ibiza on Friday Pete Doherty discovered the case ...

THERE'S something just effortlessly cool about the Crims. Cliche or not, they just have a vibe that promotes warmth, well-being and a New York cool that's almost enviable. Even when lead singer Huey Morgan is sporting an eye-patch.

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But it's one thing to admire the sheer bizarre splendor of something like the Chopped & Screwed version of United States of Atlanta, but another entirely to offer up genuine praise.

Thank heavens for NorthSide.

Adding to their amazing and bewildering catalogue, Stereolab are simultaneously releasing three new singles.