To paraphrase Billy Piper, Latitude is pretty much honey to the b for the middle class legions of the DiS writing team, and thus it was in considerable numbers that we fell upon this year's edition of the idyllic Suffolk festival. Here are our reviewers' highlights.»
There’s little point in pretending that we don’t want to have The Latitude festival’s children, so here’s a rundown of why it’s so awesome and what we're looking forward to the most, in no particular order. Apart from the bit about the sheep.»
Jeffrey Lewis has become known as one of the world's foremost exponents of that indefinable genre (as much as any genre is definable. What is pop? Don't even start...) known as antifolk.»
Rough Trade Records is 30. DiS asked Everett True, who is an authority on all things Rough Trade, to compile a mixtape of his favourites from the label's hugely influential catalogue. »
It’s a testament to End of the Road organisers Sofia Hagberg and Simon Taffe that not even the festival’s most professionally melancholy acts could contain their merriment at playing amongst peacocks, enchanted forests and parrots in the beautiful Larmer Tree Gardens»
The annual Summer Sundae weekender takes place at De Montfort Hall and Gardens, Leicester, on August 8-10. Here's the DiS preview»
Love is, apparently, in the air. To mark Valentine’s Day, we asked a number of artists for their favourite songs of either love or hate. Contributors: The Futureheads, British Sea Power, The Bronx, Jeffrey Lewis, Adam Green and more»
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»
Two weeks of the new, improved DiS done and dusted. We'd like to thank you for your patience, and invite you to reacquaint yourselves with the staggering diversity of content that we've run this past fortnight»
back in August we asked readers to submit questions to anti-folk icon of some renown Jeffrey Lewis. He was to respond to a selection via the medium of cartoon. Here, we present his chosen answers»
DiS caught up with Jeffrey Lewis before an afternoon show at Brixton’s Windmill to talk about why he chose to release an album of Crass covers, as well as about Lou Reed, Jonathan Richman, and what his next record, of his own material, will sound like...»
DiS’s Sam Lewis met Jeffrey Lewis about two months ago, in a strange, almost school hall-like theatre in Sale for the Twisted Folk tour; playing alongside him was Nina Nastasia (read a review of the tour here). Here Jeff talks about anti-folk, his latest album City & Eastern Songs (recorded with his brother Jack, who he’s pictured with here), and his place in the 'pantheon' of musical greats…»
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12 Crass Songs
Still Unravished: A Tribute To The June Brides
City & Eastern Songs (with Jack Lewis)
The Last Time I Did Acid I Went Insane And Other Favourites
