Fluorescent yay!: DiS's exclusive Kranky cloudcast
We genuinely can't recommend this enough for those who like their music Lynchian and lovely.»
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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 2009: DiS's highlights
Primavera Sound 2009 had one of the best bills we've ever seen, with an eye-boggling array of talent on offer. Here's what our intrepid writing team came back babbling excitedly about.»
Spotifriday #5 - This Week on DiS as a Playlist
Here's the highlights of this week on DiS as a Spotify playlist, with commentary from DiS' Editor...»
Double Deal-ing: DiS reviews ATP Curated By The Breeders
After a somewhat brutal weekend (musically and physically) at ATP Vs The Fans Part II, it was with some trepidation that DiS loins were re-girded for its sister weekend. But actually we had a quite lovely time; maybe it was the more cohesive line up begat from having a proper curator; maybe it was something to do with it being sold out; probably it wasn’t the uber-tetchy security (um, did they spend so long looking over the top of the girls’ cubicles as the gents’?); whatever the case, a fine weekend, and one of the better overtly indie editions.»
Shoegaze Week: Drowned in Shoegaze - 50 Essential Albums
DiS has compiled a Spotify playlist of fifty hazy, ethereal, swooping, swirling, static-drenched albums from the pioneers of Shoegaze and the makers of Shoegaze 2.0»
Shoegaze Week: "There’s no such thing as Nu-Gaze" by Sonic Cathedral
Nathaniel Cramp has been running the increasingly successful Sonic Cathedral club night since 2004, before launching the record label two years later. Here, he discusses the merits of so-called "nu-gaze", and what the whole shoegaze revival means to him.»
Drowned in Sound's 50 albums of 2008
We decree that 2008 belonged to the lone, computer-toting musician and a few good (guitar-wielding) people. Herein lie the records which we, the writers and regular readers, have spent the past twelve months lost in. These are the albums we found ourselves coming back to again and again... These are Drowned in Sound's 50 albums of 2008.»
A Month in Records: August 2008
August, then: a month of festivals, and all that entails (mud, booze, excess, tiredness, sleep - usually in that order) - but also a pretty good time for album releases based on this little lot»
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»
Hove Festival 2008: DiS's final word(s)
While some did Glasto, a handful of adventurous sorts headed to Norway's Hove Festival. Here: DiS's final thoughts, plus exclusive interviews»
The Weekly DiScussion: the best of 2008's forthcoming albums
We've presented our faves to date, now we're getting you excited about what 2008 is yet to reveal in full: our pick of albums coming your way»
Hove Festival 2008: DiS diary, day two
It's day two at Hove Festival, and DiS brings word of Stars: the Canadians will never play Norway again, as too many people are having sex»
My Bloody Valentine: peer pressure from five potential successors
My Bloody Valentine's influence has never sounded louder, and as the pioneers return live DiS looks at five potential successors to their shoegaze crown»
Primavera Sound 2008: DiS diary, day three
It's the third and final day of Primavera Sound, and DiS has reached an unanimous verdict: this year > last year, by some margin»
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»
DiS's features of 2007
We’ve had our albums of the year and our tracks of the year, and here DiS bids you adieu for 2007 with our favourite features of the past twelve months, for your instant-click consumption and eye-aching reading pleasure. Starring Animal Collective (pictured), LCD Soundsystem, Battles, Panda Bear, M.I.A., Gallows, Beirut, Björk and more»
DiS's albums of 2007: 15-11
Here we are: halfway through our top 25 of 2007 – we’ll be running through the full 50 come Friday, but breaking our very favourites into fives makes for a neatly week-shaped series of articles, don’t it?»
DiS's albums of 2007: reader voting is now open!
With Christmas now peeking over the horizon, DiS invites its readers to vote for your top ten of 2007, from our editorially selected shortlist of 50. Choose five of your favourites here. Voting, it will close this Friday, December 7, with the results running December 14»
Deerhunter: troubled Atlantan souls brighten 2007's album horizons
With their second album Cryptograms a certified DiS favourite of 2007, we catch up with Deerhunter to discuss the quintet's rise to wider attentions this year after such turbulent beginnings»
DiStimulation: August Bank Holiday 10 Things To See / Hear / Do
Aaaah thee long weekend: a chance to frolic in fields and set fire to paper cups or read the newspaper with a nice cuppa green tea. You may notice we’ll have our feet up too, so consider this blog-like list of stuff DiS Founder Sean Adams is digging, as something to tide you over ‘til we’re back on Tuesday.»
DiS Radio: DiScover five: tours and shows and stuff!
This instalment of our regular DiScover podcast – let’s call it DiS Radio: DiScover five – finds Sean and Mike playing some top-quality tracks from up-and-coming types alongside a handful of ace songs from bands doing DiS things soon. Like tours. And shows. Mainly tours and shows...»
DiS @ SXSW: the review
DiS went to South By Southwest t’other week. Perhaps you saw our amazing preview content? Touch wood. While there we did some stuff – you know, stuff – but between sessions of stuff doing we saw some bands. Some good. Some great. Some neither. Some best left unmentioned. You won’t read about them here...»
DiS @ SXSW: Our Picks, part four...
Here we are, then: day five of our South By Southwest preview, and part four of our picks for your attention. Another four from the sea of many hundreds playing Austin, each pulling cards from sleeves and jumping through hoops for a few column inches in the British press. Seems a bit much for some sucker at Magazine X to give a month-long f*ck about you, doesn’t it? But far be it for us to highlight the fickleness of this whole process, ‘cause these bands are the business...»
Rainwater Cassette Exchange
Microcastle
Fluorescent Grey EP
Cryptograms
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