What is it about the country and folk modes that make them prime conduits for the disaffection and heartbreak of our nation's youth? What's made our kids put down the neon pink guitars and drum machine triggers and pick up banjos, ukes and washboards? Chris Nicholls takes a look at Alt Country UK...»
From the archive... The rain fell all day, but spirits at Field Day 2008, held in London's Victoria Park, couldn't completely be dampened. Here are our highlights»
Guest columnist Wears The Trousers guides us through the music of some terrifyingly accomplished young lady folk as we take a look at the best up and coming teenage artists out there...»
2008 has been quite a year for Laura Marling. Her debut album Alas I Cannot Swim was nominated for the Mercury Music Prize and received resounding praise from critics and fans alike. Here's some of the tracks that inspire her art»
A couple of weekends ago, DiS ventured to Wales to brave the incessant downpour for the sixth annual Green Man Festival. Here's some of what we saw»
After the Nationwide Mercury Prize announcement, DiS sizes up the chosen 12 and asks: just what is the award's point? Get DiScussing»
Truck Festival celebrates its eleventh birthday this weekend and DiS will be there, rocking about the place to the sound of our must-see acts»
If any proof was needed that Foals have been worth the hype, here it is. 'Red Socks Pugie' - 'Sox' if you must - is our Single of the Week»
Cripes! One minute we’re all “Yay Spurs” and loving the Beautiful Game; the next we’re ducking chimney stacks as Britain rocks to some Richter Scale madness. Bonkers. Still, the jolts have stirred DiS into collecting February’s key releases»
Yesterday we ran through our picks to break through at a low-ish level in 2008, to tickle the fancy of those with taste. Here, we’re upping the commercial ante: these acts are in with a shout of crossing over – brighter tomorrows, bolder ambitions, bigger budgets. Next-Steppers we are calling them»
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»
Tom King loses his senses over new, and very young, London singer songwriter Laura Marling: These words puke forth. I can’t write like this, it disgusts me. I know all this appears gushingly sentimental, naïve, ridiculously self-centered, and that worried me for a while»
DiS sends five of its finest out east for the first-ever Field Day festival. On-the-day gripes aside - beer and toilet queues being the biggest thorn in the debut festival's side - in hindsight the bill was one of the best around this summer. DiS gets stuck into it...»
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...»
We left it a week – it needed space to breathe. Even now, every time I read this back I feel like a shoddy, poisoned mess of a human being. It seems like a good time when you’re sober, doesn’t it...»
This Sunday, May 27, Nottingham plays host to the biggest Dot To Dot Festival yet - this year it's even got a sister festival, in Bristol. DiS's Dom Gourlay casts a critical ear over the Nottingham bill to pick a few choice acts from the slew of excellent bands performing across a variety of city centre venues... your legs are gonna be wrecked by the end of this Dot To Dot, that we promise...»
At the end of last week, on April 19 and 20, DrownedinSound.com went to Camden. This is nothing particularly unusual – our sorry, drunken bodies can be found slumped over the back of chairs in the north London borough most weekends – but this time we traveled up the Northern Line for a special occasion: The Camden Crawl...»
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