Dizzee Rascal : Songs about dirtee dancing and indie romancing

To tackle unemployment, jobseekers should be offered a placement in a Dizzee Rascal video. Why can't Steve the engineer from Darlington feature in the brilliant tongue-in-cheek video for Dirtee Disco? Irene, psychology graduate from Stoke-on-Trent, could easily fit the role of a dancer. If it worked for One True Voice victim Daniel Pearce, who lays some too-smooth-for-the-dole-queue croons over the top of this typically Dizzee party-time rap, it could work for anyone.

Slow Club – Giving Up On Love
With a barnstorming chorus from Rebecca Taylor, nonchalantly cool verses by Charles Watson and a video featuring comedy star Mackenzie Crook, it seems Slow Club have finally blossomed into a proper band. Giving Up On Love is the kind of thing that's earned the likes of Los Campesinos! success in the last couple of years (BBC 6Music loves it) and if they keep writing songs like this then their headline date at London's Koko on 1 June will be no big deal at all.

The Divine Comedy – At the Indie Disco
Little does Neil Hannon know that most indie discos – with their cider, shoegazing and requisite three tracks from Pulp – are now filled with the sound of bum-shuffling dubstep and silly amounts of fertiliser-based drugs. Or maybe he does. With winsome lyrics and saccharine keys, this is nostalgia-flavoured stuff.

Dizzee Rascal Joins ‘NME Breakthrough’ Comp For Unsigned Bands

If you want to be in with a chance of winning and performing at the July 16-18 festival in London’s Victoria Park alongside the likes of Dizzee,Bombay Bicycle Club, Hot Chip, The Maccabees and Mystery Jets, and the iconic and never tame Grace Jones. This is one of most eclectic line-up’s of any of the festivals this year and your in for one of the biggest treats. For bands who want to play and be part of this you really should sign up to NME Breakthrough now!
NME Editor Krissi Murison, who is also on the panel for the Loveboxcompetition, praised the bands who have signed up to the service already saying:
“The quality of artists who have signed up to the service already is incredibly impressive. With more signing up each day it’s clear that me and the other judges are going to have our work cut out in finding the best of the bunch to play at this year’s Lovebox.”

Dizzee Rascal among artists in window display project

Music artists Dizzee Rascal and Florence Welch are to create window displays at London store Selfridges.
They are among 10 artists given free rein to create their designs, based around one of their songs, in a project called Sounds Of The Mind.
Others involved in the project include Hot Chip, Empire Of The Sun and Paloma Faith, as well as hotly tipped bands The XX and Marina And The Diamonds.
The project, which launches in May, is intended to celebrate lyrical power.
It has been timed to tie in with the start of the festival season.
Dizzee Rascal chose to build use hit song Bonkers as his theme while Welch, who fronts Florence And The Machine, chose to illustrate her track Cosmic Love.
"The concept behind this is crazy. I want people to be blown away, to see how creative we can be visually with my music," Dizzee Rascal said.
Meanwhile, Ms Welch said the project was about "creating a representation of the song in a visual sense" to envisage "what a song would look like instead of hearing it".
The windows will be part of a themed sequence of displays which includes others by Selfridges' own experts.

Dizzee Is One Luck Rascal

Dizzee Rascal has sorted out the perfect ticket to the World Cup - he's signed up to perform a gig at the Cool Britannia festival site in Cape Town, South Africa.

The festival has room for 10,000 footie fans to watch all the live games in a safe environment. And later on there are DJs and live acts playing into the night.

Best of all, it's just a stone's throw from the Green Point stadium, where much of the action will be taking place.

It doesn't get much better than that.

Arcade Fire - Guns N' Roses Headline Reading

Guns N' Roses Arcade Fire and Blink-182 have been confirmed as headliners for this year's Reading and Leeds festivals, with The Libertines, Queens of the Stone Age, Dizzee Rascal and Biffy Clyro among other artists on the bill.

Guns N' Roses, Arcade Fire and Blink-182 have been confirmed as headliners for this year's Reading and Leeds festivals.

The US groups will each top the bill on one night of the three-day event - which takes place on two sites between August 27-29 - with Dizzee Rascal, Paramore, Biffy Clyro and Queens of the Stone Age also performing.

As has previously been reported, The Libertines - Carl Barat, Pete Doherty, Gary Powell and John Hassall - have reformed for the event, playing their first shows together in almost six years.

Guns N' Roses - who play Reading on the first day and Leeds on the final night - are still fronted by Axl Rose, but feature no other original members.

Other artists playing across the three-day event include Lostprophets, Limp Bizkit, Weezer, Mumford and Sons, The Gaslight Anthem, LCD Soundsystem, We Are Scientists and Bloc Party frontman Kele Okereke.

Crowd goes Bonkers - Dizzee Rascal Big Day Out Akl 2010

The Prodigy Headline Ibiza Rocks 2010, Florence and the Machine and Dizzee Rascal are also announced

The Prodigy have been confirmed to play a special fifth birthday party at this year’s Ibiza Rocks which takes place all summer long on the legendary party island.Also confirmed to appear during the season are Dizzee Rascal, Florence and the Machine.Calvin Harris and Delphic will also be there while Bloc Party frontman Kele Okereke is also set to play one of his first ever solo shows.Ibiza Rocks kicks off on June 8th at the Ibiza Rocks Hotel in San Antonio and goes right through until September