"Drunken drifters and a river that feasted on suicides" - Buck 65 on Anais Nin
Following on from last week's foray into the Fifty Shades phenomenon, DiS gets all 'literary' again as Buck 65 writes an exclusive piece for us about Anais Nin.»
In Depth
Spotify playlist: 10 Years of Solo Artists - Part 2: Beats, Bleeps, Björk & Beyonce
I didn't have the attention span to stick to one genre, so in my headphones and on this playlist, there's some lazer-guided missles of misery and really-silly raps and utterly ridiculous bits of yoddelling (O HAI GWEN STEFANI!). This is my voyage through these dizzy digital days and the "solo" artists who pixellated my heart... »
Anticon, Def Jux, and the Problem of "Underground" HipHop
The question of what's underground in hiphop is a difficult one - ever since hiphop started infiltrating the charts and the major labels, numerous acts have been labelled "hardcore hiphop", "alternative hiphop", and even "avant-hiphop". Two labels can claim to have produced some of the most radical, abrasive, weird, and often politicized hiphop of the past decade... problem is, the artists involved are mostly white»
Here comes the rain: Buck 65 reads DiS the weather
DiS gives iconoclastic MC, DJ, producer and rumpled troubadour Rich Terfry a penny for his thoughts on Elvis, Malcolm McLaren and the zeitgeist before the 'hip-hop hobo' AKA Buck 65 tours this week»
DiS at The Great Escape 2006
Who would have thought that DiS would descend upon Brighton's music industry showcase extravaganza in such fashion. Without a soul in sight waiting to 'network' with a single one of our merry shambles of a crew, we set to work on actually seeing bands. Despite the cruel, bitter wind that insisted on hurtling toward us with near-freezing drizzle as its freight, we actually saw some bands. My word, we saw some rather spectacular bands at that...»
Lex Records Profile: An Interview With Tom Brown
Tom Brown is the chief of the much praised Lex records, the roster of which includes (among others) Sage Francis, Prince Po, Boom Bip and Andrew Broder. He spoke on his plans for what's already shaping out to be the best year yet for the label.»
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