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Spotifriday #71 - This Week on DiS as a playlist
This week's Spotify playlist. With some songs from artists that featured in our content in the past week or so. »
Spotifriday #43 - This Week on DiS as a playlist
Sincerest and most super apologies for a recent deficiency in Spotify playlists. We get all the way to 42 without missing a single one and then BAM! there's only one in three weeks. That's just how these things go sometimes. But we hope we make up for it with this week's varied offering, featuring Crystal Castles, Grails, Tweak Bird, Zola Jesus, Atlas Sound, Toro Y Moi and plenty more for you to get your lugholes round. »
A Month In Records: October 2009
A review of a month in records on DiS, featuring Atlas Sound, Lightning Bolt, BEAK>, Russian Circles, Efterklang and more more more!»
CMJ Days 1, 2 & 3: The DiS review
Our eyes are held open by matches and our ears have taken a hell of a pounding, but DiS has survived the annual five-day multi-venue reign of terror that is the CMJ Music Marathon 2009. This 29th incarnation of the festival was marked by the usual hype and rumors, and DiS fought off torrential rain, huge queues, and a brush with the NYPD to bring you this report. »
Spotifriday #21 - This Week on DiS as a playlist
This week's content-related Spotify playlist, featuring Wavves, Jamie T, Copy Haho, Biffy Clyro, Atlas Sound, Sufjan Stevens, Rolo Tomassi, Eels and many more.»
ATP New York 2009: the DiS review
It’s perpetually 1972 at Kutsher’s Country Club, the utterly perfect location for the New York incarnation of ATP. The event may attract several generations of indie rock fan, but for the people who run the resort this is no different to a local weddi»
Primavera Sound: DiS' 2008 festival highlights
From the archive... Team DiS picks its highlights of Primavera Sound 2008; invites fellow attendees to give us your top bands of the fest held in Barcelona»
In conversation: Liars and Deerhunter
Strap yourself in for an epic: DiS sits Deerhunter's Bradford Cox down with Liars and lets the tape roll. The temperature soon rises»
2008 to date: our favourites on their favourites
Six of DiS's featured twelve responsible for our Essential Dozen albums of 2008 to date give us their favourite acts and records of the year so far»
An Essential Dozen: 2008's best albums, so far
Part three of three finds us diving deep to dredge for treasures from 2008 to date that your average chain store employee probably hasn't heard of»
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»
The Weekly DiScussion: South By Southwest in focus (and our tips)
It can’t have escaped attentions that there’s a shindig going down stateside: the yearly South By Southwest conference starts today. DiS wants to know your thoughts on the world's biggest music festival. Plus, check out some of our tips»
A Month In Records: February 2008
Cripes! One minute we’re all “Yay Spurs” and loving the Beautiful Game; the next we’re ducking chimney stacks as Britain rocks to some Richter Scale madness. Bonkers. Still, the jolts have stirred DiS into collecting February’s key releases»
Out-there brother: Bradford Cox on Atlas Sound's debut album
Deerhunter lynchpin Bradford Cox reveals all to DiS about his debut solo effort as Atlas Sound, Let The Blind Lead Those That Can See But Cannot Feel. He calls it "a young boy’s record", and reveals a fondness for The Bunnymen and Arcade Fire»
It's great in 2008, yeah: DiS's Early Doors picks
One thing that DiS has proven itself very good at over the past couple of years is predicting what bands are going to matter a year ahead of schedule. With this in mind we’ve divided our 'Bands For 2008' into three articles, Early Doors representing the newest kids on our check-'em-out block»
It's great in 2008, yeah: DiS's anticipated albums
There was us thinking that 2007 was a pretty splendid year for albums, and then we get a look at this little lot. Ahead of feature pieces outlining our acts of the year (to be), here DiS scans a number of upcoming releases»


