Charlotte Hatherley likes her science fiction. “Look at Blade Runner,” she says, sat in a deserted Islington bar. “I mean, what’s the story in Blade Runner? It’s so fucking simple. 1984? it’s just a love story really. That’s the thing with »
Tomorrow, as I’m sure you’re aware, is record store day. All week ‘journalists’ and comment box fillers, have been trying to neatly file themselves into two piles. Either you buy everything on 180gram vinyl and have never even dreamed of torrenting an inferior quality MP3 file or you sincerely believe Spotify should be free and sometimes think to yourself they should paying you a wage for the amount of free music you consume. However, things, as always, are not quite as black and white as that, at least not for me. »
This week I have reinstated the Singles Bike Ride system of appreciating music and then writing about it. I don’t know why I abandoned it. What a fool. »
Not so rad news everyone: Wendy Roby is away. This leaves me, the site's founder, the unenviable task of filling our most popular columnist's Reebok hi-tops and writing about new releases by the likes of Uffie & Pharell Williams, Here We Go Magic, Elbow, Ash and more... »
The fourty-second Spotify playlist is a little like the fourty-second President of the USA in that it's a bit of a dark horse. And is quite long. It features Rolo Tomassi, Rusko, Blood Red Shoes, HEALTH, Dark Dark Dark, Summer Camp and an awful lot more. That Rusko track absolutely demands your attention, though. »
This week's content in the form of a Spotify playlist.»
What can we say about Wednesday? Not a lot. It's the middle of the week yet it's more like the week has half started, rather half over. »
In this special edition of Freshly Inked, DiS caught up with Korda Marshall, former Warner Brothers MD and the man who started Infectious Records, whose career has involved everyone from Muse to Sea Sick Steve via Symposium (one of your humble scribe's favourite bands), Ash, Take That, Garbage and The Enemy; to find out about his new signing The Temper Trap and to learn more about his new "music company."»
Back in September we offered three lucky readers the chance to attend Jack Daniel's birthday celebrations in Lynchburg, Tennessee. One of our competition winners tells you all about what went down with the drinking, the barbecues and the music...»
It's been pretty miserable at times - heavy, pluvial skies pathetic fallacy for debut all-dayers and long weekenders that have sometimes spluttered rather than flown out of the traps. The weather and the times - to an extent at least - brightened last weekend, with the traditional sign off from music in the sun that is Reading and Leeds. And that, I suppose, is reason enough to break from cynicism just this once. It was a bind, but there were finer times. Time to gather thoughts and lighten brows...»
In the wake of the news that Northern Irish indie-rockers Ash would be making no more traditional albums after the July release of their fifth long-player, Twilight Of The Innocents, DiS's Mike Diver got straight on the phone to the band's Mark Hamilton for some straight answers...»
Freshly pruned to their original trio, Ash are back in the UK to promote their forthcoming fifth album, Twilight Of The Innocents. DiS's Tom Edwards finds five to talk about the new album with the Northern Irish three-piece...»
Reading may seem like a distant memory, so just to bring it all flooding back, the DiS staff have put together an account of their festival experience. Without the mud!»
10 years, five albums, no signs of losing the plot just yet. The Killers, Franz and glamorous '80s chic may be in vogue once more but in Ashworld fashion means nothing. Prepare to Meltdown...»
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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Do you remember the time when they were stars? I don’t know if you know that; Ash played at a place with a capacity of only one hundred and fifty, in the same town as DiS HQ - Weymouth. Well now you do. The gig was part of a national tour of intimate venues around the Uk and Ireland. So why would a band who’ve known th»
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