In Depth by Robert Leedham
Hello! Welcome to the seventh edition of DiS Does Pop where the Top 40 is placed under a microscope of revelatory declarations and humorous asides. Like the search for Sean Paul’s dignity, it’s tough going at times but we’ll plough on nonetheless. This month with One Direction having conquered America, Conor Maynard riding high in the UK charts and Justin Bieber still very much in existence, there seemed no better time to write the 10 Commandments of Teen Pop.»
In Depth by Robert Leedham
Welcome to the final DiS Does Pop of 2011 and in Smash Hits style we’ve made this one a bumper edition. Should you cast your eyes below, you’ll find the DiS Does Pop Awards, our Christmas Gift Guide, a preview of the festive Number 1 contenders, a playlist of our favourite tracks from the year gone by and a pleasantly surprising Straight To TV. So go on and gorge yourself on some pop goodness, we won’t tell anyone.»
In Depth by Sean Adams
Drowned in Sound’s top 75 albums of the year countdown starts here. But first, DiS founder and current editor, has his annual ponder about the year that was..»
In Depth by Christopher Alcxxk
DiS met up with America’s funnyman, Neil Hamburger and we played him some records...
_"When you’re done with this interview can you throw this computer into a river? Cos this is really quite a bad collection of songs you’re playing me. It really doesn’t give you much hope for the future, does it?" _»
In Depth by Wendy Roby
Though the ‘Silly Season’ is a term traditionally applied to news stories of the summer months in the proper presses, this week the seven inch single appears to be having one all of its own. For at least three of this week’s releases are seriously, worryingly foolish, and not all in a good way... »
In Depth by Rebecca Nicholson
The music industry appears to be back from its long Christmas holiday because there are loads of singles around this week. Most of them are very good indeed. So let's talk about the clever mix of Lily Allen's 'The Fear', a not-so-clever Britney-Diplo 'Circus', Bloc Party's new lyrical atrocity, try-hard mental-lady pop from Ida Maria and the sunny majesty of Sky Larkin...»
In Depth by Kev Kharas
Here are the most read news stories published every month this year on DiS. Among the stories featured: Arcade Fire vs ambition, Lily vs America, The Horrors vs Elvis, Everyone vs Bring Me The Horizon, and more»
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