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Slowcore Week: Fifteen Years of Chairkickers Music with Low (part 2)

Part Two of our profile of Low, covering the albums and events of the years 2001 - 2008»

Slowcore Week: Fifteen Years of Temporary Relief, with Low (part 1)

In an early interview, from 1996, Alan Sparhawk joked that Low originated from an idea to make the slowest, most depressing music possible (“…and then I thought “Cool!”). As one of the longest-running bands still (reluctantly) tagged "slowcore", it's fair to say this week wouldn't have happened without them...»

Snowed in? DiS presents its playlist for a day of the white stuff

In Depth by Mike Diver

FROM THE ARCHIVE: Originally posted Feb 9th 2007... So there’s me, in bed, still in that delightful state of being neither fully awake nor out cold, and the girlfriend’s leaping about and the curtains are open and it’s all “snow snow snow” and the radio newsreader’s telling me not to travel unless I really have to and I’m desperate to drift off again but before I know it the duvet’s off and I’m marched to the kitchen window to gaze at a garden smothered with six inches of the stuff...»

End Of The Road 2008: The Review

In Depth by Laura Snapes

It’s a testament to End of the Road organisers Sofia Hagberg and Simon Taffe that not even the festival’s most professionally melancholy acts could contain their merriment at playing amongst peacocks, enchanted forests and parrots in the beautiful Larmer Tree Gardens»

Øya Festival: the DiS blog, part three

In Depth by A bunch of drunk DiS writers

Fatigue’s taking its toll, the money’s all but gone – no use denying it, DiS is in dire need of a kick in the pants.»

Øya Festival, Oslo: the DiS preview

In Depth by Alex Denney

Deep into the bloated innards of the festival season and DiS is headed in a north easterly direction to Norway – again - this time for the arrestingly-titled Øya Festival in Oslo...»

ATP Weekend One: The Dirty Three: the DiS diary...

In Depth by A bunch of drunk DiS writers

DrownedinSound.com went to All Tomorrow’s Parties’ The Dirty Three-curated weekender at the end of April. We arrived full of excitement, bubbling like freshly poured pints of £3-a-pop lager. Then we drank too many £3-a-pop lagers and fell over the garden furniture outside our chalet. Loudly. And annoyed our neighbour. Sorry...»

A Month In Records: April 2007

In Depth by Mike Diver

April is over. Done. Dusted. During the last month some might fine records – albums, or CDs, if you will – have been released. As is sort of regular, here we collect together our pick of the bunch. These are April’s finest releases, as assessed by the ears of the ever-reliable DiS review team...»

DiS is 6! Our 66, part 1

In Depth by Mike Diver

Let the DiScussing begin! We’ve been racking brains – prior to pulverising each other’s – at the DiSopolis these past few weeks to come up with our top 66 albums of the past six years; the very best records to see the light of day during DiS’s lifetime (yes, six years). Arguments have been won and lost, a handful of frankly incredible artists have improbably missed the cut through forgetfulness and space constraints, and we’ve all got quite, quite drunk along the way...»

ReDiScover: Low

In Depth by Jordan Dowling

Jordan Dowling takes a retrospective look at the career and music of Low; through obscurity, The OC and their trademark drawn-out chord changes and melody.»