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Green Man Festival 2011 - The DiS Review
O festival season what ails ye? Why does this fractured summer of 2011 choose to raise its ire with the likes of Truck, Supernormal and the Big Chill? Aye there’s the saturation point, the tough times of the economy, the rising ticket prices; but these were festivals that had dug their own niche, the ones that were presumed solid on the basis that they were doing things “their own way.” The piles of un-stubbed tickets that are left lying in the printers are a metaphor for the festival season, so many would have you believe, ever more available but many fewer taken upon. Thank God for Green Man then...»
Øya 2011, Norway - The DiS review Part I
We report on the first two days of Oslo's Øyafestival, featuring Matthew Dear, Destroyer, Kanye West, Pantha Du Prince, Explosions In The Sky and a ton more.»
DiS meets Explosions In The Sky
To celebrate the release of Explosions In The Sky's sixth album, Take Care, Take Care, Take Care, guitarist and occasional bass player Michael James speaks to DiS about the album. »
Guide to 2011 - Part 2: Albums DiS is looking forward to in 2011
Yesterday DiS reviews editor Andrzej Lukowski revealed the 11 albums he’s most looking forward to in 2011. In part two DiS founder/editor reveals his eleven... »
Year 2000 - A Playlist of Songs Wot Soundtracked the Launch of DiS
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...»
Explosions' ATP: the DiS review
DiS does ATP for a second weekend, this time boarding the Minehead train for Explosions In The Sky's little lot, including De La Soul, Battles and Mono»
Explosions In The Sky's guide to ATP
This weekend, May 16-18, Explosions In The Sky curate the second ATP of the year. The band tell DiS about the background to their festival stewardship»
The Weekly DiScussion: when did post-rock jump the shark?
Post-rock's prefixing with 'much maligned' doesn't necessarily seem unfair in a climate of so many Mogwai rippers, but who is pushing the genre in new directions? And just when did post-rock 'jump the shark'? DiS has answers, and more questions»
The Weekly DiScussion: festival fever's early stages
That’s them, lurking, cluttering the horizon line, destroying your credit limit: festivals, assembling line-ups to die for, and just as many to run a mile from. This summer’s one weekend of sunshine will have a pre-determined soundtrack, folks. DiScuss it here»
The Weekly DiScussion: just who can you trust?
As Bella Union - one of the most reliable labels out there - turns 10 years old, we ask: what labels, if any, can you trust? Who is consistently releasing quality material? And who's treading a fine line between heartfelt adoration and absolute indifference...»
DiS @ Coachella: RATM, Arcade Fire, Björk and... Crowded House?!
Harnessing the energy of a rare minute in which a disparate range of artists from the past and present can look to the future and plausibly congregate on the same bill, the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival in Indio, California has steadily become world renowned as the proverbial melting pot, tripping over itself with cultural icons both obscure and ubiquitous...»
Label Focus #3: Bella Union
As they approach their 10th Birthday, DiS speaks to Bella Union founder Simon Raymonde about all things Twickenham, Texan and why the Reel to Reel society's ambitions were slam dunked by Margaret Beckett...»
Explosions In The Sky: "It’s shocking that we have any fans at all"
In an unassuming London hotel, one of many featureless temporary residences in the King’s Cross area, lurk two of the most inspirational instrumental musicians on the planet. Yet chances are you wouldn’t recognise them if they passed you in the street. Michael James and Munaf Rayani make up 50 per cent of Texan-born quartet Explosions In The Sky, one of this world’s most revered instrumental rock acts. DiS meets the pair ahead of the release of All Of A Sudden I Miss Everyone, EITS’s fourth album...»
Release Lightning! DiS's guide to 2007's early releases...
It does precisely what it says in the title: this is the DiS guide to some of the finest records coming your way in the first quarter of 2007. January, February and March: each will bear witness to some ace-o-rama releases, and here are just some of them...»
Our 66, the slight return: bands (etc) list their favourites
Here's the last little tidbit tangent to DiS's favourite 66 albums of the past six years, Our 66. Here, we present to you a selection of personal top sixes (of the last six years) from an assortment of musicians and label folk, starring Alan McGee, Sparklehorse, Howling Bells, Kaiser Chiefs and more...»
DiS is 6! Our 66, part 3
My, you’re patient sorts, dearest DiS faithful. We ran part two of our run down of DiS’s favourite/most inspirational/bestesteva albums almost two weeks ago, and yet you’re still champing at the bit to find out who has, and more importantly who hasn’t, made it into the top twenty of Our 66. Well, the time has come to quit your champing: we’re here, this is the penultimate countdown...»
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