Field Day 2008: DiS's highlights
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»
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Coachella: DiS' 2008 Review
From the archive... Powering through the desert at as close to 666mph as laws allow, DiS wonders exactly how this Coachella will surpass the mania of last year»
Primavera Sound: DiS' 2008 festival highlights
From the archive... Team DiS picks its highlights of Primavera Sound 2008; invites fellow attendees to give us your top bands of the fest held in Barcelona»
Hove Festival 2008: DiS's final word(s)
While some did Glasto, a handful of adventurous sorts headed to Norway's Hove Festival. Here: DiS's final thoughts, plus exclusive interviews»
Hove Festival 2008: DiS diary, day one
DiS is in Norway for the second Hove Festival - on day one we catch Les Savy Fav at their breathless best, and headliner Jay-Z»
Primavera Sound 2008: DiS diary, day three
It's the third and final day of Primavera Sound, and DiS has reached an unanimous verdict: this year > last year, by some margin»
Les Savy Fav discuss Inches
DiS spends some quality time on the South Bank with Les Savy Fav's Tim and Harrison, ahead of the band's biggest-ever London show, to talk about the forthcoming reissue of their Inches album (article contains exclusive live footage)»
In photos: Les Savy Fav, Future of the Left, Los Campesinos! at the London Astoria
DiS was in central London on Sunday night to catch Brooklyn's Les Savy Fav play their largest-ever London show, ahead of the release of their Inches album (Wichita, March 10). We got some photos. Bingo»
The Weekly DiScussion: festival fever's early stages
That’s them, lurking, cluttering the horizon line, destroying your credit limit: festivals, assembling line-ups to die for, and just as many to run a mile from. This summer’s one weekend of sunshine will have a pre-determined soundtrack, folks. DiScuss it here»
The votes are in: DiS readers' top 25 of 2007
Cast your minds back, readership: at the start of November we invited you to vote for your favourite albums of 2007 from a shortlist of 50, selected by the DiS editorial team. Now we’re pleased to present the result of the thousands of votes received: the DiS readers’ top 25 albums of 2007»
DiS's features of 2007
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»
...to lose your mind to
Holy racket, Batman: 2007 brought some serious noise fuckery to our ears»
DiS's albums of 2007: 15-11
Here we are: halfway through our top 25 of 2007 – we’ll be running through the full 50 come Friday, but breaking our very favourites into fives makes for a neatly week-shaped series of articles, don’t it?»
DiS's albums of 2007: reader voting is now open!
With Christmas now peeking over the horizon, DiS invites its readers to vote for your top ten of 2007, from our editorially selected shortlist of 50. Choose five of your favourites here. Voting, it will close this Friday, December 7, with the results running December 14»
Label Focus #10: Wichita Recordings
Rocking up the crest of their seventh birthday, DiS scribbler Gareth Dobson hacks away at the defences of Castle Wichita to reveal a set of rather contented innards, complete with tales of DFA1979 loss, guitar solos that never finished and why no-one got The Cribs for the first four years...»
Les Savy Fav: more quality, less quantity
Back once again come the renegade masters, punk-rocking party-starters supreme, ready to kick out the jams afresh. New material? You got it: Les Savy Fav’s Let’s Stay Friends might just be the Brooklyn-spawned quartet’s finest long-player yet. DiS catches up with Syd Butler ahead of the band's arrival in the UK next month...»
ATP Versus The Fans: DiS Versus The Fans!
In keeping with the spirit of the ATP Versus The Fans festival, here we present the experiences of three DiS writers as well as three fans. Here’s hoping they don’t put the ‘professionals’ out of a job...»
DiS podcast: ATP Versus The Fans special
This special, one-of-a-kind, ATP Versus The Fans preview podcast comes at you with presenter Mike Diver trying his best not to swear and failing. Perhaps you'd like to listen to it on the way to Minehead...»
The Weekly DiScussion: An Open Letter To Muse
So Muse have only gone and sold out Wembley Stadium, before the thing's even open! Now they've added a second show for June 2007. Shitting crikey! Congratulations... now, can we suggest some support acts...»
DiS is 6! Our 66, part 2
So here we are, fellow travellers through the last six years of DiS’s favourite sounds: part two of Our 66. Believe you me, this section – which collects together the albums we’ve placed at numbers 44 to 21 – was no easier to assemble than the preceding chapter (click here if you’re yet to look over our selections from 66 to 45). In fact, we’ve suffered more headaches over the last few weeks, because of this undertaking alone, than at any other time in our lives. Perhaps, anyway: we do enjoy the odd pint...»
DiS does ATP's Nightmare Before Christmas
The road was both long and winding – and not even a road but a railway line, if we’re being entirely accurate – but DiS finally made it back from The Mars Volta-curated All Tomorrow’s Parties festival, The Nightmare Before Christmas. Only now have we regained strength enough to put our experiences into words; to reassemble the muddled memories into some kind of coherent piece...»
The Valentines Eve Massacre
We caught up with Les Savy Fav before their appearance at new London venue 93 feet east, as part of Southern Records' showcase night, billed as the "Valentine's eve massacre". Formed in New York, Les Savy Fav are one of the more well known and quirky bands in the art-punk, post-hardcore scene, receiving increasing m»
Inches (Reissue)
Patty Lee / The Sweat Descends
Let's Stay Friends
What Would Wolves Do?
3/5 (reissue)
Inches
Go Forth
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