In Depth
“There’s space for politics in music right now” – DiS meets And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead
With the corpse of last years’ astounding Tao Of The Dead barely cold, And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead are already back with their latest album, Lost Songs. Before the album’s release we skyped one-half of the band’s core nucleus, guitarist Jason Reece. In loud Austin drawl that pleasantly reverberates around your skull, Jason talked us through the place of politics in music today, what recording in Germany was like and why eight albums and 13 years down the line Trail Of Dead are not even close to splitting up. »
DiS meets ...And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead
…And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead are a rarity in an increasingly disposable age of music: childhood friends Conrad Keely and Jason Reece have been making a career out of the band for the past seventeen years. They survived being dropped by a major label and bounced back with their own imprint, and they made a DiS recommended with Tao Of The Dead, an album that included a mind-bendingly epic 16 minute long track. »
Poker, the press and independence: DiS talks to ...Trail Of Dead
Finally liberated from major label shackles, DiS speaks to ...And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead's Jason Reece about new album The Century Of Self, humorous Internet rumours, and playing poker with Steve Albini...»
Trail of Dead talk evolution and misfortune ahead of new LP
As …And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead piece together their sixth album, frontman Conrad Keeley talks to DiS»
Explosions' ATP: the DiS review
DiS does ATP for a second weekend, this time boarding the Minehead train for Explosions In The Sky's little lot, including De La Soul, Battles and Mono»
Explosions In The Sky's guide to ATP
This weekend, May 16-18, Explosions In The Sky curate the second ATP of the year. The band tell DiS about the background to their festival stewardship»
DiS's interviews of 2006: DiScoveries, heavy-hitters and silly Some Questions
2006: twelve whole months of DiS running about the country, up stairs and down basements, into hotel rooms and outside into pub gardens, chasing bands. It's what we do, so that you don't have to.»
Trail Of Dead: no plans, no restrictions... no sixth album?
Texas-spawned trailblazers of fiery rock ‘n’ soul …And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead have been demolishing stages and popping eardrums since the mid 1990s. DiS fired some questions the way of key songwriter Conrad Keely following the release of fifth album So Divided, and he was kind enough to reply...»
DiS is 6! Our 66, part 3
My, you’re patient sorts, dearest DiS faithful. We ran part two of our run down of DiS’s favourite/most inspirational/bestesteva albums almost two weeks ago, and yet you’re still champing at the bit to find out who has, and more importantly who hasn’t, made it into the top twenty of Our 66. Well, the time has come to quit your champing: we’re here, this is the penultimate countdown...»
Drowned in Sound SXSW Must See Bands
Before we ironically don a Stetson and fill our tattered suitcases with Alka Seltzer, Berocca and Drowned in Sound Recordings label samplers; here's a guide to some DiS highlighted acts that we think you should take a moment check out, regardless if you're going or not. Please post your own suggestions and recommendations as comments below. And if you're throwing any parties please drop us an email with invites as our media accreditation was turned down and we don�t wanna miss out. »
Sean's Top Records of The First 5 Years of DiS
DiS celebrated 5 years in October 2005. Here's DiS founder Sean's list of favourite records.»
A Tale Of Two Trails
DiS gets up close and personal with the frontmen of Texas trailblazers ...Trail Of Dead, Conrad Keely and Jason Reece. In the process we learn about art, eBay rip-offs and the mounting of hearts upon stakes. Us, scared? Sh*tting it, mate...»
A Month in Records: January 2005
In a reprise of a previous short-lived regular feature, DiS gives you the ten records that aren't necessarily the best, nor the most high-profile, but arguably the LPs which have raised the most eyebrows or sent people limp with disappointment.»
DiS Joins Friendster
Wanna be our friend? Wanna see who our friends are? Wanna work out how many degrees of separation you are from Har Mar? (If it's more than 2 degrees you should get out more!)»
The ‘Official’ Drowned in Sound.com Top 41 Albums of 2002
Yeah, so you got the tentative version of a Top 20 at the arse end of 2002 but a couple more votes came in which helped The Streets to win by a virtual mile. Eventually a nice round 50 votes were cast and this allowed Biffy Clyro to sneak in at the expense of Doves. Cheeky. A massive total of 130 different albums we»
Raz on The Raz @ Reading
Yeah, yeah yeah, Reading Festival. What’s the big deal, huh? Get filthy. Get tired. Get battered. Sing. Watch some bands. Great. It bloody well is, alright!?! Did you love it? Were you even there? I was.
N.B. To be read aloud in a Geordie accent
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Reading Preview #2: Gen, Adam and Raz's Picks
With Reading/Leeds (aka The Carling Weekend) nearly upon us, select members of the dis team, have selected 3 bands each that you musn't miss. This is the second part, so click here for part 1. Name: »
Pistols at The Palace
It’s the SeX PiSToLS Jubilee, just like the Queen's one but for the people who can’t afford towers of cake, champers or to live outside of relative poverty. 25years ago the Sex Pistols were living in squalor, with barely enough cash to eat but the brains to get by. Most importantly they had the empowering»
YOU'RE IN NATION: Trail o'dead vs NME @ Astoria
Loads of philosophers talk about the death of the subject. It’s the whole idea of people reaching a point where they no longer truly exist, much like the eeek-rumble-crash of tree’s falling if there is noone anywhere near to hear the dead wood tumble. To really understand this would take a whole essay and this is meant»
the Reading Report, Part 3
The Reading Report part 3 Saturday 25th. Mid morning. Camp Dis: Brown Camp L. Today there is very little on, people have been here for 2 days already and in 2 days time they'll be making their way home again, wondering why their bus driver thinks that this was the first Reading Festival and why there»
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