In Depth
CMJ: The DiS Review
Coverage by Amanda Farah and Nick Neyland. The 30th anniversary of the annual CMJ Music Marathon brought plenty of surprises. Daft Punk and Phoenix jammed on a Close Encounters of the Third Kind riff at Madison Square Garden, Pitchfork set up its rival»
10 Years of Singer-Songwriters: Some Thoughts
Kicking off a week dedicated "solo" artists, is James Skinner's look at the most traditional of "solo" musician, that easily defined beast that is the singer-songwriter... He says: It’s a term that will send many music fans scarpering; one that a lot of singer-songwriters are seemingly tired of hearing themselves. But whenever people ask me that dastardliest of questions it is generally what I tell them.»
In Photos: Hop farm Festival 2010
Photos by Alan Dunlop»
Spotifriday #51 - This Week on DiS as a playlist
Following on from last week's landmark playlist of much innovation, this week's summing up will also be innovative. Sort of. What I really mean is that it'll be different. Mainly because I'll be trying to sum each song up in as few words as possible. Click here to access this week's edition of Spotifriday and listen away.»
Spotifriday #48 - This Week on DiS as a playlist
The latest weekly instalment of our Spotify playlists, themed around the content that's been up on the website in the space of a working week. This edition features Uffie, Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti, The Vaselines, Bonobo, The Strokes, Wild Nothing and many, many more.»
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»
Dot To Dot 2008: the DiS review
DiS heads to Nottingham for the third annual Dot To Dot festival; proceeds to pick its best, and worst, bands of the weekend»
(Untitled)
The second bank holiday in May is almost upon us and with it comes this year's Dot To Dot Festival, with a bigger line-up than ever before»
Singles Round-up (19/05/08)
In an age of flapping flibbertigibbets Johnny Flynn is a solid rock worth clinging on to; 'Tickle Me Pink' is our Single of the Week»
Underage Festival: wait a minute, these people are all children!
Washing into E3 on the crest of a wave of broadsheet-culture-supplement-saliva, frothing with such terms as “teen explosion!” and “youthquake!”, it was always going to be difficult for Sam Kilcoyne’s Underage Festival to stand up to its own expectations...»
DiScover: Johnny Flynn And The Sussex Wit
Singer-songwriter, actor, poet - Johnny Flynn’s been earning himself a reputation as a bit of a renaissance man round these parts. But you can banish any thoughts of thesp-ish melodrama right away: Flynn and his band The Sussex Wit impress with their unflashy, unsentimental rootsy stylings, which put them closer in spirit to Bonnie 'Prince' Billy or Two Gallants than the boho shenanigans of the antifolk set. DiS endeavours to find out more...»
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