Win tickets to see El Guincho playing in London this Hallowe'en
El Guincho is joined by The Big Pink, The XX and more at Goldsmiths SU this Friday. DiS has tickets and his LP to give away and it's dead easy to win them... »
el Guincho News
VITOREO! El Guincho's Alegranza gets worldwide release
Young Turks/XL have finally got the legal green light to get the psychedelic wash of El Guincho’s Alegranza out worldwide»
WIN! Tickets for this summer's Field Day festival, London
DiS has a pair of tickets to give away to Field Day - an all-dayer featuring Foals (pictured), Efterklang, The Field, Les Savy Fav, of Montreal, The Mae Shi and many others»
WIN! Tickets to this summer's Wireless Festival in London
Good news, city-locked Londoners wanting some festival action this summer: DiS has two tickets to give away to each day of this year's O2 Wireless Festival»
Field Day: final line-up confirmed
The final line-up has been announced for this year’s Field Day»
Bella Union bringing el Guincho, Emmy the Great, Duke Spirit to Wireless
Bella Union, the fine independent label started by Cocteau Twin Simon Raymonde just over a decade ago, have been given their own stage at this year’s Wireless festival. Guess what? They have some of the best line-ups of the weekend»
Conor Oberst, Dead Meadow and el Guincho among new End of the Road additions
Conor Oberst and the Mystic Valley Band, as well as Dirty Three, will co-headline the Friday night at this year’s End of the Road Festival»
El Guincho, Lykke Li, Pete and the Pirates, Sam Sparro added to Bestival - tickets running out
More acts have been announced for this year’s Bestival, as ticket stocks are plundered, dropping the remaining number to just 500»
A Week in Drowned in Sound: 04/04/08
Fighting fit, with the rep to back it up»
Hot Chip, Sigur Ros, Gnarls Barkley and el Guincho make Benicassim even better
Spain’s the place to be this summer, it seems, as an impressive array of acts are freshly confirmed for this year’s Benicassim festival»
Liars, No Age, Xiu Xiu and loads more appear on free Björk covers record
Stereogum have pulled together a fine line-up of acts to contribute to a downloadable tribute to Björk’s 1995 album Post»
Summer gets better as el Guincho's debut album gets UK release
I’m not fond of the term ‘DiS fave’, as it implies a consensus view among our writers that just doesn’t exist, but if I was, I’d use it to describe el Guincho, whose debut album will be made widely available in the UK through XL/Young Turks for the start of summer»
London-centric: this month at White Heat
There aren’t many club nights in London that can hold a torch to White Heat when it’s in the mood. Stuck away in the lowlight of Madame Jojo’s on Brewer Street, the self-proclaimed ‘heart of Soho’s darkness’ plays hostess to great acts pretty much every Tuesday. You should head down if you don’t already, is what we’re trying to say. The vodka is cheap»
OMG: latest raft of acts for Primavera Sound includes Public Enemy, Shangri La; blows minds
More acts have been confirmed for this year’s Primavera Sound festival in Barcelona.»
A Week in Drowned in Sound: 18/01/08
The cut of Drowned in Sound's jib.»
A Week in Drownload: HEALTH, High Places, el Guincho, Invisible Conga People
Another week, another slew of free downloads for you via our Drownload link to our friends at RCRD LBL. 'Drownload'... it's still not getting old. This week: HEALTH, el Guincho, High Places, Invisible Conga People»
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