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This Week's Singles: 10/05/10
This week I am fairly sure there is something for everyone. Even if you don't like Xenomania at their most shiny, or insanely pretty indie pop, or singles that wouldn't sound out of place at Wigan Casino (even though they come from Tel Aviv).
Also, someone, somewhere, is going to really regret giving me access to high res, press-only images of Tom Out Of Keane. »
Singles of the Year: 1st Quarter 2010!
A Spotify playlist of all the best singles? As in, them things that were hactually released - proper singles - not just common-or-garden 'songs'? Oh, go on then.»
This week’s albums ft Shearwater, Field Music and Xiu Xiu
Grüß Gott! Yes yes, it’s Monday, and yes, yes, here are some We7 players reflective of DiS’s top tip albums of the week. Go forth, and multiply.»
This Week's Singles: 25/01/10
Even though there is nothing worse than those who indulge in stress-based or who-is-the-most-busy competitiveness, I still intend to make a vulgar bid for the throbbing-veined, red-eyed rosette today. You see, not only did I move house (and not one of those 3 taxi-loads, from one end of the borough to another affairs - I mean a Proper Move, cross-country, involving the help of VANS and BURLY MEN who seemed to think it appropriate to CAST ASPERSIONS on my sexyal REPUTATION). I also went to Paris and back, did a tax return, DJed at a five year old’s birthday party and bore the weight of the BIGGEST, most CRASHINGIEST writing deadline you ever did hear about. Oh, I has it so very very hard. And there is you, swanning about there in actual jobland in actual offices. AY ME.»
Spotifriday #23 - This Week on DiS as a playlist
This week's Spotifriday playlist, featuring Camera Obscura, Daniel Johnston, Four Tet, Liars, Kelpe, These New Puritans and a gaggle more.»
CMJ Days 4 & 5: The DiS review
Read our coverage of Day 4 and 5 of CMJ festival.»
Time to get sheepish: a Latitude preview
There’s little point in pretending that we don’t want to have The Latitude festival’s children, so here’s a rundown of why it’s so awesome and what we're looking forward to the most, in no particular order. Apart from the bit about the sheep.»
Lightspeed Champion & London's Alt Country Scene
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...»
Emmy the Great and Lightspeed Champion discuss the work of comedian Steve Martin
Emmy wanted to end end her week with something which wasn't music. So she caught up with Lightspeed Champion (aka Dev Hynes) to discuss comedian Steve Martin, enjoy... »
Reading/Leeds 2008: Day Three report
Affectionately known as "the rock day" (devil horn hands optional), day 3 of Reading Festival (Day 1 of Leeds) perhaps offers the least excitement of the weekend band-wise»
Summer Sundae 2008: the DiS (stage) preview
The annual Summer Sundae weekender takes place at De Montfort Hall and Gardens, Leicester, on August 8-10. Here's the DiS preview»
Benicassim 2008: the DiS review
DiS is in Spain, again, to catch My Bloody Valentine, The Raconteurs, Justice and more at the annual Benicassim festival»
T In The Park Diary Part 1: Saturday 12 July
Feeling decidedly less sturdy of liver than it did this time last week, DiS brings you the first installment of its two-day jaunt round a bladder-battered T In The Park»
Singles Round-up (05/05/08)
Black Lips’ Cole Alexander and Jared Swilley assess a smattering of the week’s new singles. Check out the video for their forthcoming ‘Bad Kids’ and UK dates HERE. Their Single of the Week: Scarlett Johansson»
DiS Missive: How to tell the difference between eccentricity and a hair cut
DiS Missive #3 aims its sights at the 'New Eccentrics', comparing Foals and Lightspeed Champion to some true loons, like the bear-riding John Mytton. Also critiqued: all those mean-nothing genres us music writers are so fond of»
A Month In Records: January 2008
A strange first month: high-profile passings in the media, the axing of a national icon, real life snow; plus much-hyped albums falling wide of the mark. But let's not dwell: here DiS picks its favourite LPs of January , featuring anticipated debuts, rewarding follow-ups, and an ambitious fourth from a prog-rock super-power»
Champion sounding off: Dev Hynes talks Lightspeed inspiration
Dev Hynes, a.k.a. Lightspeed Champion, isn't into irony; when he says he loves something, he loves something. Sitting down in the DiSopolis, he tells us about recording his new Falling Off The Lavender Bridge album in Omaha, amongst the Saddle Creek massive, and possible Nirvana badge problems»
DiS's tale of the Jackalope: Comedowns littered like wheezing black holes
It's like a festival having been circumcised, serving a purpose but lacking in providing anything much in the way of true enjoyment. With reams of tickets going spare in tight pockets, curling like thin-cleaved skin we begin the joyless, 12-hour odyssey home to bed. No sleep on concrete, no sleep on trains, with little to rationalise the ache...»
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