Justify My Thug: The Perils of Being English, Middle-Class and Loving Hip-Hop
Kat Rolle considers the challenges for the middle classes when it comes to enjoying hip-hop...»
Kat Rolle considers the challenges for the middle classes when it comes to enjoying hip-hop...»
Our quarterly video round-up from a chap who watches a lot of music videos... »
DiS met up with America’s funnyman, Neil Hamburger and we played him some records... _"When you’re done with this interview can you throw this computer into a river? Cos this is really quite a bad collection of songs you’re playing me. It really doesn’t give you much hope for the future, does it?" _»
Festival season is generally fraught with tales of calamity or serious incidents (these usually include Field Day and on rare occasion, an actual Zoo Thousand) and sad postponements or cancellations – as in Offset, Beacons and Truck this year. Festivals»
It remains a great weekend with a plethora of superb, diverse music.»
We report on the first two days of Oslo's Øyafestival, featuring Matthew Dear, Destroyer, Kanye West, Pantha Du Prince, Explosions In The Sky and a ton more.»
DiS's Mark Muldoon happened to be in the area whilst the 12th Coachella festival was kicking off. So he swung by. This is what happened to him.»
Aaah, the morning after the Guinness the night before. Don't know about you but I'm in the mood for some nice ambient 'jams'. It's the end of the week, it's the playlist (here) of what we've covered on DiS over the past seven days and yeah, it's rather 'chill'... »
DiS sat down with him (ermm, on the phone) to discuss the release of Raekwon's new album, Shaolin vs. Wu Tang and to determine how exactly he continues to bring it. Coming across like a gentleman and a true family man, and nowhere near the incarcerated scarface one would expect from his back catalogue, we discussed the state of hip hop today, the burden of living up to a classic, and realized that he may be a bit mixed up about Justin Bieber… »
The albums' of the year countdown hots up with the main body of the list. The top ten follows tomorrow but for now, some thoughts from site founder Sean Adams who compiled this list... Somewhere, somehow, there is a link to be found between the rhyming i»
This week's Spotify playlist. With some songs from artists that featured in our content in the past week or so. »
So Beats week is over, next week we go back to our regularly scheduled program of writing about effete Brits and anonymous Swedish chillwave producers. It's been a wild ride; writing about Dipset, getting twitter-beefed (erm LA weekly, we're a website, not a blog, and we don't appreciate you miscategorizing our work like that).»
This is our attempt as hip-hop aficionados to take a step back and point out the few times when things got too ridiculous even for us. Many of them involve Cam’ron and Kanye West. Go figure.»
DiS arrives at Les Eurockéennes , a long-running French festival that takes place in a stunning location on the peninsula of Malsaucy near Belfort, just a hop over the Swiss border. It is very nice here: located on a strip of land between two massive lakes, it sort of has a Latitude-ish size and prettiness. One of the stages is called La Plage and is, if anything, more delightful than that sounds. There are also bands.»