In Depth by Luke Slater
There is just something about Iceland. In reality it is not one single thing but a combination of them, from the people, the weather, the city of Reykjavík and, above all, all of these distilled in a few days in the middle of October that make up the annual Airwaves festival. Although 2011's edition was marked by several performances of Björk's Biophilia at the resplendelty and long-awaited Harpa Music Hall, it's quite arguably not what Airwaves is about. That said, every festival is helped by a "marquee" performance or two and Sinead O'Connor made an appearance, too.»
In Depth by Luke Slater
This week's hand-picked Spotifriday playlist, featuring Idiot Glee, Wild Beasts, FaltyDL, Murcof, Mazes, Jeffrey Lewis and many more. »
In Depth by Cate Blanche
On the 7th and 8th of May, the Barbican celebrates the legendary composer Steve Reich with six unique concerts under the title 'Reverberations: The influence of Steve Reich'. Ahead of the event, we got some of the artists performing to talk about Reich's influence on their work:»
In Depth by Ben Yates
DiS travels to the Bentwaters Air Base in Suffolk, home to the Faster Than Sound festival some June evening every year. And it's not just about the music»
In Depth by ?
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...»
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