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...»
In Depth
Moving Pictures - Videos of the Year: 3rd Quarter 2011
Our quarterly video round-up from a chap who watches a lot of music videos... »
Playing records with Neil Hamburger
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?" _»
DiS in Australia: Splendour In The Grass 2011
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»
Big Chill 2011: the DiS review
It remains a great weekend with a plethora of superb, diverse music.»
Øya 2011, Norway - The DiS review Part I
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 in the Desert: Coachella Festival 2011 Reviewed
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.»
Spotifriday #82: Raekwon, Bjork, Bieber, FlyLo, The Smiths
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'... »
Interview: Raekwon on Kanye, Justin Bieber and Shaolin vs. Wu Tang
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… »
Drowned in Sound's albums of the year 2010: 50-11
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»
Spotifriday #71 - This Week on DiS as a playlist
This week's Spotify playlist. With some songs from artists that featured in our content in the past week or so. »
10 Years in... "Beats" week: Bangers of the Decade - A Spotify Playlist
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).»
The Funniest Things that Happened in Hip-Hop in the 00's
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.»
Perdu sur la plage: DiS does Les Eurockéennes
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.»
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