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by Wendy Roby
This year, DiS was an official media partner at Latitude Festival. What this meant, is that we got a portakabin in back of the Lake Stage, and spent all weekend luring bands to it with the promise of a bacon and cheese toasties, a game of RISK, or an opportunity to learn How To Speak Suffolk Proper. Fun was had. Inappropriate jokes were told by Josh T Pearson. Haribo marriages were proposed to Sharon Van Etten. Here's Part One of our highlights.»
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by Sean Adams
We live in a time now where remixes can sometimes outnumber original songs twelve-to-one... Epic & Blues an instrumental EP of remixes and original material will be available to download for free on his Facebook page on the 23rd July»
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by Sean Adams
This year's festival takes place Little John’s Farm in Reading and Bramham Park in Leeds on the August Bank Holiday Weekend. There are still more names to be announced but the bill so far - which weirdly features The Shins sandwiched between Odd Future and Enter Shikari?! - looks like this...»
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by Sean Adams
Drowned in Sound's albums of the year countdown continues... »
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by Kevin EG Perry
Below me, on what used to be ice, eighty tables full of music industry suits and Barclays bankers chilled out in places which reportedly cost £2,000 a head. Meanwhile I was swiftly escorted towards the press enclosure, where the only bar sold bottles of beer for £8 and a bottle of wine for over £30. Not being a banker, I reached for the bottle of whiskey I’d secreted about my person...»
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by Kevin EG Perry
The winner of the 2011 Barclaycard Mercury Prize for Album of the Year will be announced tonight, Tuesday 6 September, at an awards show in London.
PJ Harvey is the 6/4 favourite to take home the prize, which would make her the first person to win on t»
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by Sean Adams
Tomorrow, we'll announce our number 1 (can you guess what it is yet?) but for now, here's a quick Spotify playlist reminder the songs that made us wiggle, yelp and blub....»
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by Sean Adams
11 albums we (DiS writers and regulars) have been liking so far this year. Plus a text file that you can download to your Kindle or Smartphone to easily read the reviews of these records, and a few interviews, on-the-go... »
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by Luke Slater
Metronomy are a vastly underrated band, right? Well, perhaps, but let's hope any of that stops with the release of their new album, hitting shelves in 2011. It's called The English Riviera and will be out by Springtime, we hope. There's now a video for a track from it, which is 'She Wants'. You can watch this here.»
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by Luke Slater
Metronomy recently finished work on their forthcoming third full-length record. It'll be released in March 2011. Looking forward to it muchly, are you? They've also just announced a batch of UK tour dates where they'll play material from that album. It's not mega-long but long enough, I guess.»
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by Luke Slater
It's not often that we sing the praises of other publications here, aside from stealing all of our news from Pitchfork, that is. Not because we don't want to, but mainly because it'd be a bit...weird...to do it all the time. »
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by Luke Slater
Another instalment of line-up additions, in essence.»
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by Luke Slater
Brighton electro merchants Metronomy (new line-up, above) have been announced as one of the first artists to be feature in BBC Electric Proms' New Music Shorts.»
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by Luke Slater
Get your mits on a pair of tickets to London Airwaves, taking place September 19.»
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by Ashraf Dumile
Celebrating their tenth anniversary, Iceland's Airwaves festival comes to East London, with eight venues (including 93 Feet East and Cargo) hosting performances from the likes of Metronomy and Wild Beasts»
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by Mike Diver
Super-synthers Metronomy - soon to release their second album, Nights Out - have made a Mad Decent remix of their track 'A Thing For Me' available for nowt»
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by James Gwyther
Metronomy will release their new single, ‘Heartbreaker’, from their forthcoming album Nights Out on Monday September 1»
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by Mike Diver
Gang Of Four will join Wire in headlining the Offset Festival this summer, held in Hainault Forest Country Park on August 30-31»
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by Kev Kharas
Dozens of new names will be providing entertainment at this year’s Secret Garden Part»
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by Kev Kharas
Another bunch of names have been shot DrownedinSound’s way by the team organising Latitude festival»
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by Kev Kharas
Please don’t mistake the excitable tone of the headline for goonish hysteria – it’s urgency, is all, as we have a pair of tickets to give away for a handsome-looking show in London TONIGHT»
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by Kev Kharas
Metronomy will tour in the next couple of months ahead of the release of a new album.»
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by Kev Kharas
CSS will tour in December, taking some high-calibre comrades out for support.»
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by Kev Kharas
The line-up has been announced for this year's Truck festival.»
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by Gareth Dobson
War Child, the charity who actively highlight the plight of children in war-affected areas of the world, have announced a London late night show.»
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by Mike Diver
Brighton will play host to a new all-dayer event this summer, Loop...»
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by Mike Diver
A new one-day festival, to be held in London's Victoria Park, has been announced...»
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by Mike Diver
Hello Britain, how's tricks? DiS is in New York right now - it's currently 11.50 in the morning and the city is surprisingly quiet - 'cause tomorrow we're partying (all the time, party all the time, party all the time) at the Live From London event...»
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