DiS has spent some time exploring Instagram in search of musicians to follow (you can follow me as @seaninsound here and @DrownedinPhotos if you so wish. We also just signed up as @DrownedinSound, we'll use it a bit, but it's mostly so no-one pretends to be us), and seeing as last week Instagram launched web profiles, here are a 10 accounts we recommend and 40 more musicians/bands we think you may want to follow:»
15 classic albums from the year of our Lord, 1997 - yeah, it was a good one. Included: Missy Elliott, Elliott Smith, Spiritualized, Wu-Tang Clan, Mansun, The Chemical Brothers, Portishead, Company Flow and some band called Radiohead.»
This week's Spotifriday playlist, featuring lots of stuff from the year 2000, including At The Drive-in, Coldplay, Outkast, Deftones and Eels. »
On White Pony, it wasn’t so much what Deftones were doing, it was how they were doing it. The colossal, stonerized riffs, on first listen, belie the sheer complexity and depth of the music on offer. Finally, the band realised the extreme genre fusion they had only touched on with previous releases, as metal, rock, rap, shoegaze, New Wave, electronica, trip-hop, ambient and just about everything else possible were thrown into the melting pot. What emerged was a kind of glittering, jagged-edged gold, the likes of which only the band themselves could equal...Deftones took the last thirty years of music and made it their own with White Pony. »
Ahead of their sold-out headline show at London’s Shepherd’s Bush Empire, DiS meets Deftones’ Frank Delgado (electronics) and Sergio Vega (bass). »
DiS' records of the year twenty ten. After a week of teasing, confusing and enraging some of you, our countdown of the albums we have loved the most in 2010 concludes with this top 10.»
Whilst one big site-defining list with somewhat arbitrary positionings, full of compromises and a whiff of fair-play politics is all well and good, the far more fascinating thing is the ONE album people believe stands on a column, far above all others. Over the past 10 years, this has usually been pretty much the same four or five albums topping people's list, making the job of picking the top five albums of the year, somewhat easier. Not in tweeny-ten, oh no. This year, as you'll see below, has been the least lacking in consensus since records began (ok, as we're sure you know as we keep banging on about it, it was only 10 years ago we launched, so this clearly isn't the most scientific of research!). »
This week I've arranged the playlist in alphabetical order. I will argue with those of you who think that The xx shouldn't be filed under "X" but will probably lose because I have not known tiredness like this since about yesterday. As such, the descripti»
For more photos, reviews, setlists and interviews from Download Festival 2010 please visit Thrashhits.com»
Twenty-four hours ago I couldn’t have told you the last time I was caught in a mosh, as I couldn’t remember. Million Dead’s see-ya-later show at the Underworld, maybe. Today, I can: last night, ULU, Deftones. Me, friends never before met and never t»
The 38th weekly instalment in our content-related Spotify playlist, featuring Big Star, White Stripes, Jonna Lee, Broken Bells, Shy Child, White Hinterland and MANY MORE. »
Welcome to Friday. A marginally more beefy Spotify playlist for you this week, mainly on a whim. Enjoy it while it lasts. Plenty of highlights this week, though, including a lovely piece from the armchair dancefloor column, and a rare chance to hear Roy Harper.»
DiS' founder and current editor Sean Adams compiles a playlist of songs that could be heard in the year 2000 (a rough theme we've set for you to build a Spotifriday playlist around - more details here) when this very website was in its embryonic stages. First, a bit of prologue...»
Radiohead? Radiohead? Screw that. Reading and Leeds are rock festivals, damn it, and I’ll have mine with Jaegermeister and a distortion pedal, thank you very much. Sure, there’s no ‘metal day’ as such this year, but there’s still plenty going on, thanks to a liberal smattering of heavy bands across the three largest stages, and the two-day Lock Up tent. So then: black t-shirt and board shorts at the ready, I take to the moshpit.»
DiS is onsite at both Reading and Leeds Festivals this weekend and through a haze of dust, here's DiS' editor with a quick rundown of Day One at Reading...»
This week's content in the form of a Spotify playlist.»
So, in no particular order, here are the twenty acts DiS' editor is most looking forward to seeing this weekend. »
Pictures from the first day of Pukkelpop Festival in Belgium - including Deftones, Faith No More, My Bloody Valentine, and more.»
It's October first... Happy Birthday to us! And now for an indulgent dose of nostalgia as DiS' founder looks back at previous incarnations of the site»
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»
2006: twelve whole months of DiS running about the country, up stairs and down basements, into hotel rooms and outside into pub gardens, chasing bands. It's what we do, so that you don't have to.»
So Muse have only gone and sold out Wembley Stadium, before the thing's even open! Now they've added a second show for June 2007. Shitting crikey! Congratulations... now, can we suggest some support acts...»
Yes, we realise this month’s A Month In Records is roughly a week late, but we’ve been suffering from something of an Our 66 hangover (click it for a link!). It’s okay, though: the painkillers have finally kicked in and, a few sour faces aside, we’re firing on all cylinders again.»
Stephen Carpenter seems relaxed. The Deftones guitarist slouches in his chair, backstage at London’s Electric Ballroom venue; behind him a table is covered in fruit and snacks, while in his hands he rolls a joint, almost certainly not his first of the day. He’ll smoke it throughout our time together...»
Autumn is, traditionally, something of a busy time for the industry: record labels race to release albums that, if delayed and distributed to stores in November or December, would almost certainly be consumed by the flood of best-of compilations and cash-in festive compact-discs filling shelves in the run-up to Christmas. Evidence of this is sat right in front of each office-based DiSser: mountains of records, far too many to ever get through completely, are piled here, there, everywhere...»
There is a Heavy Metal pedigree afforded to Donington Racetrack that can not and will not ever be surpassed by another venue. It doesn’t matter how many metal gigs you put on or even which bands. This famous circuit is steeped in tradition of the filthiest kind. Well, forget about all of that. The fact of the matter is that Download 2006 is here, it’s happening and there’s a motherf*cking heatwave going on right above our heads. »
The most impressive line-up of the year is upon us this weekend and it’s only June. Download Festival 2006 is hosting a fleet of bands certain to go down in hard rock history flanked by stars of the future is always a good move. DiS will be doing really Heavy Metal things like sporting a mullet, wearing a denim jacket with the sleeves cut off and also generally being smelly. Here are The Top 9 (Nine) Bands You Need To See At Download Festival 2006!!!»
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