Spotifriday #21 - This Week on DiS as a playlist
This week's content-related Spotify playlist, featuring Wavves, Jamie T, Copy Haho, Biffy Clyro, Atlas Sound, Sufjan Stevens, Rolo Tomassi, Eels and many more.»
In Depth
This Week's Singles: 31/08/2009
I didn’t realise quite how angry I was until I started writing up this week’s singles. But it appears I am really quite furious if shouty caps are anything to go by. For which, of course, massive apollies- I have calmed down now. »
DiS' 20 Must-See Acts at Reading & Leeds 2009
So, in no particular order, here are the twenty acts DiS' editor is most looking forward to seeing this weekend. »
Slight return: DiS's tips for 2007 reprised
This time last year DiS was outlining its tips for the following twelve. Next week we’ll be doing similar – bringing to your attention the bands we think will matter in 2008 – but before we get stuck into the future, let’s dwell upon the past a little»
DiS's albums of 2007: 5-1 (and full top 50)
It’s been a slog – we’ve been arguing over this list for what feels like forever – but we’re here. The summit. The zenith. Et cetera. The best five albums of 2007 in detail and our full 50 in order, as ranked by the DiS editorial team from contributor nominations»
DiS's albums of 2007: reader voting is now open!
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»
Mercury Music Prize, worldwide: DiS assesses the awards...
As the Nationwide Mercury Music Prize looms, DiS wondered what other countries do to recognise their best new artists. We also wondered how the British talent would match up to their international equivalents...»
Reading & Leeds '07: DiS down the front
It's been pretty miserable at times - heavy, pluvial skies pathetic fallacy for debut all-dayers and long weekenders that have sometimes spluttered rather than flown out of the traps. The weather and the times - to an extent at least - brightened last weekend, with the traditional sign off from music in the sun that is Reading and Leeds. And that, I suppose, is reason enough to break from cynicism just this once. It was a bind, but there were finer times. Time to gather thoughts and lighten brows...»
Hunting mammoths in the city of iron: Melt! festival, day one
Rust-ridden to their dockings, five imperious coal excavators dominate Gräfenhainichen’s bleak landscape; 100 foot high industrial behemoths that hark back to the decline this East German area felt after the wall fell...»
Glastonbury: Sean's Blog - Day 3
DiS's Sean Adams tells his own tale of Glastonbury 2007 - from the backstage to the moshpit and right up to the stars - in three parts. Here, Jamie T owns all...»
The Weekly DiScussion: our albums of the year, so far
Six months into 2007 (almost...) and there’s already a not-so-proverbial shit-tonne of albums in contention for the coveted Album of the Year ‘gong’ at DiS – again, the winner will be selected by you, the readers, from a shortlist compiled by us. Yup.»
DiS's Tips for 2007, Part Two
As promised, here’s part two of DiS’s Tips for 2007. Each and every one of the acts mentioned below have been getting the powers that be at the DiSopolis particularly excited of late, and we’re predicting bigger and better things for them over the next twelve months. Might they touch you? They just might…»
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...»
The Christmas DiScussion: who are you tipping for 2007?
Hey, you! Chew that turkey properly and then give us a hand. We want to know about your tips for 2007...»
DiS's interviews of 2006: DiScoveries, heavy-hitters and silly Some Questions
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.»
V Festival: the DiS preview
One of the true big boys amongst the ever-growing festival throng, V Festival is almost upon us. This weekend, teenagers and thirty(plus)-somethings alike will converge on the festival’s twin sites – one in Chelmsford, the other in Staffordshire – to drink expensive warm lager while the dulcet tones of Sandi Thom, James Morrison and Lily Allen aid their gentle drift to a wonderful plane of serenity…»
Panic Prevention: At the drink with Jamie T
On a ridiculously gorgeous day, on the 42 bus, I make my way over Tower Bridge; making dents just South of the shimmering river Thames to Terminal Studios in Bermondsey. A lot of Jamie’s output so far was made to soundtrack days like today. Roll out the easy, sun-kissed tracks like ‘If You’ve Got the Money’ and ‘Back In The Game’ for hazy days stained by beers and barbeque grease. Others seem made more for when the heat reaches a head later on – ‘Salvador’ cutting a shady disco path through stormy summer evenings set in the capital and its outskirts.»
How the West has won
Tonight, outside Brentford football club there's a longer queue than when Saturday comes. The clientele, however is somewhat different; scores of well-coiffured, undernourished teenagers line up down the road, waiting to see if they'll be lucky enough to gain entry to the Stripes bar, the Bees' adjacent-to-stadium drinking hole and now host venue to 'Way Out West'. Call it a scene, call it whatever the fuck you want, but you can't ignore a beautiful uprising and you certainly can't ignore a brilliant song.»
DiS at the Barfly: Six Tips for 2006 this Friday!
DrownedinSound.com's biggest show to date is this Friday. Six artists, six tips and perhaps even a six-drink minimum?»
Vote for your tip for 2006! Last day of voting!
VOTING NOW CLOSED, PLEASE LEAVE IN QUEUE»
Kings And Queens
Sheila
Panic Prevention
Calm Down Dearest
Sheila
Betty and the Selfish Sons EP
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