I don't know about you, but my mental picture of Reykjavik does involve much rain. In fitting with that belief, Örvar, Gunni & Silla offer their guide to a rainy day in Reykjavík in 10 Polaroids. This guide might not be very practical, but then »
Artist 'n' Artist: Örvar from múm meets Sócrates. Thinking about the idea of interviewing another musician made me shudder. I generally get very bored of interviews with my colleagues and I always feel sorry for people who are forced to read intervi»
As part of their takeover, DiS asked múm to pick a theme and make a mixtape for DiS. Here's what Örvar Þóreyjarson Smárason has created for you.»
Hopefully you know the deal with these track-by-track's by now - essentially it's the band walking us through their album in a director's commentary kinda style. As part of our special Múm week on DiS, we asked them to talk us through their forthcoming album Sing Along to Songs You Don't Know.»
To kick off a special week of content from the skittering electronic Icelandic folks Múm, Örvar Þóreyjarson Smárason suggests three new acts from their home town that you should check out. »
For the last five Mugison’s been running the free Aldrei Fór Ég Suður festival (literally ‘I never went south’) with help from various locals, most notably his father, Papa Muggi, harbour master to Ísafjörður and also, oddly, a professional karaoke singer.»
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»
The ‘most wonderful time of the year’ has certainly become daunting. You’re forced to endure rubbish Christmas adverts for the better part of three months. DiS chats about the seasonal rush with Icelandic odd-pop collective Múm's Gunnar Örn Tynes»
Reykjavik is odd. It sits on top of the world in many respects: geography for one thing, as well as fashion, art and music. On the other hand, this town is bonkers. DiS's Rob Webb, Shain Shapiro and Gary Wolstenholme brave the cold, and booze prices, for the annual Airwaves festival»
Don’t want to read everything? Fair enough. In short, Primavera Sound ‘07 featured sun, sea, and almost no sand at all. There was some grass, and concrete, and a number of stages. Bands and DJs performed on them, and DiS danced. Yes, yes we did. And we didn’t get sunburned...»
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...»
It's Bestival this weekend (September 8-10), and while it's meant to be the last festival of the year, it's obviously not because there are more coming up. Or maybe it's just meant to be the best? Whatever. It's certainly the biggest Bestival yet, anyway, with some 250 acts - there or thereabouts - performing over three days...»
Brighton-based label Fat Cat are dogged by terms such as "ground breaking", "historically important", amd "soul bending". It must be such a hard life releasing all these amazing electronica-through-artnoize records that the press love, that fill peoples lives with so much pleasure and hope and joy. Records that »
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Sing Along To Songs You Don't Know
Marmalade Fires
They Made Frogs Smoke Til They Exploded
Dusk Log EP
Summer Make Good
Yesterday Was Dramatic - Today Is Okay
