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Latitude 2008: DiS's festival picks

The third annual Latitude Festival took place over the weekend in Suffolk. DiS picks its ten highlights, and shows off its flashy photo skills here»

Dig!!!ing through the catalogue: five of the best from Nick Cave

In Depth by Alex Denney

There’s no two ways about it: Nick Cave is so hot right now. Ahead of DiS's interview with the man next week, and the release of new Bad Seeds LP Dig!!! Lazarus Dig!!!, here we pick five of his best albums to date. And yes, we're still loving the ‘tache»

The votes are in: DiS readers' top 25 of 2007

In Depth by Mike Diver

Cast your minds back, readership: at the start of November we invited you to vote for your favourite albums of 2007 from a shortlist of 50, selected by the DiS editorial team. Now we’re pleased to present the result of the thousands of votes received: the DiS readers’ top 25 albums of 2007»

DiS's features of 2007

In Depth by Mike Diver

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: 25-21

In Depth by Mike Diver

Hi December! Nice rain you've got for us. Still, it's the perfect weather for staying in and checking out the slew of best-of lists littering music rags and websites alike. Welcome to DiS's, part one of five. Let the DiScussions begin»

DiS's albums of 2007: reader voting is now open!

In Depth by Mike Diver

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»

The Weekly DiScussion: Whose side are you on?

In Depth by Alex Denney

Side projects are traditionally a rum old do but this year's changed all that. Here, Alex Denney reasons why having a bit on the side is no longer a guilty pleasure. In his sights: Panda Bear, Grinderman, Von Südenfed, Sunset Rubdown and more»

ATP Weekend One: The DiS Preview

In Depth by Mike Diver

This weekend, Butlins in Minehead will be overrun by indie-rock sorts, all wearing bizarre band tees and badges and beards and fidgeting with digital cameras and LPs and wondering what Joanna Newsom sees in Bill Callahan and whether or not Nick Cave is some sort of god or something and what Warren Ellis hides in all that facial hair and deciding if three bottles of blow-your-head-off red for a tenner is a good deal or if the morning will be awful because of it and quite why the sun has decided to hide for three straight days... Some bands will play, too...»

A Month In Records: March 2007

In Depth by Mike Diver

Every year is made up of twelve months. This, any modern Roman Calendar will tell you. What said flap of paper full of boxes and reminders to call mum and book a visit to the dentist will also tell you is that every month is made up of four or five Mondays. And some other days, too, but mainly Mondays. They’re all that matter, really, as it is on Mondays that our record stores are full to bursting with new releases...»

A blindsiding project, not a 'side project': DiS meets Grinderman

In Depth by Mike Diver

Grinderman: there’s something about the name alone that carries certain connotations. Rawness, aggression, weirdness; there’s definitely something about the moniker that pricks the hairs on the forearm and dries the throat. And that’s before the four-piece’s music’s been sampled...»

Release Lightning! DiS's guide to 2007's early releases...

In Depth by Mike Diver

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...»