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DiS Does Pop Interviews: Marina and the Diamonds, Jessie Ware and Ruby Goe
It's DiS Does Pop's very first birthday and we decided to celebrate by interviewing three of our favourite popstars: Marina and the Diamonds, Jessie Ware and Ruby Goe. We chatted about why Fiona Apple can’t cheer up a bit, the perils of living around crack addicts and what makes a good knuckleduster. It’s pop but not as you know it...»
DiS Does Pop #8: Is retromania ruining pop?
Hello, and thanks for tuning into the eighth edition of DiS Does Pop. The pop column which judges Cheryl Cole on a purely musical basis, only to be pissed off with yet another shite solo album. This month we were reading Simon Reynold's Retromania and thought, 'There's far too much here on Throbbing Gristle and far too little on Take That'. So we decided to investigate the wave of pop nostalgia that has arguably reached its peak in 2012.»
DiS Does Pop #7: The 10 Commandments of Teen Pop
Hello! Welcome to the seventh edition of DiS Does Pop where the Top 40 is placed under a microscope of revelatory declarations and humorous asides. Like the search for Sean Paul’s dignity, it’s tough going at times but we’ll plough on nonetheless. This month with One Direction having conquered America, Conor Maynard riding high in the UK charts and Justin Bieber still very much in existence, there seemed no better time to write the 10 Commandments of Teen Pop.»
Reeperbahn Festival Preview
A three day display of European and continental talent, Reeperbahn Festival's fifth year provides visitors with a hefty bunch of exciting new bands, a few favourites and a snapshot of Hamburg's creativity and culture.»
This Week's Singles: 02/08/10
This week I have reinstated the Singles Bike Ride system of appreciating music and then writing about it. I don’t know why I abandoned it. What a fool. »
This week’s albums ft Efterklang, Quasi and MORE
Dzien dobry! Here in London, England, it’s a drizzly Monday indeed, and frankly we at DiS towers would be so despondent we’d contemplate checking out the film Precious - ‘just to see what the fuss was about, like’ - were it not for the magic of the sweet, sweet, sweet music, music that is legally available today. That said, we remain in moderate despair, as for once virtually none of the music we rate this week has made it to either we7 or Spotify. But we’re still not going to watch Precious.»
Favourite Five of 2009 from Marina & the Diamonds
Marina Diamandis' favourite five albums of 2009...»
This Week's Singles: 16/11/09
After the torrent of superlatives doled out to Animal Collective last time, I will admit to toddler-high expectations for this week’s singles. I thought it could only be a hopeless, pleather jacket shop-bought sort of rockness and disappointment; a glass of warm Lambrini served in Styrofoam compared to last week’s vintage bubbles in cut glass. [OH SHUT UP, WENDY.] But it turns out there are a few surprises, one of which * exclusively * reveals THE COLD HARD TRUTH about the XX. Oh yes, it do. »
In Photos: Swn Festival Day One
A selection of our snaps from Day One of Cardiff's Swn Festival.»
This Week's Singles: 15/06/2009
This week I am choosing to ignore obvious comparisons with prior hits, building a Tech House from double dutch and am introduced to some cats who can do harmonies a tiny bit like James Mercer. For sure it is a mixed bag, but one which hopefully offers a sweet treat for everyone. »
Dot To Dot: The DiS review
This year's Dot To Dot festival line-up was arguably the best one yet in its five year history, so DiS went along mob-handed to both the Bristol and Nottingham legs on the second bank holiday weekend of May.»
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