In Depth
I'll Be Your Mirror artists pick their favourite B-Sides ft. Warren Ellis, Bill Wells & Aidan Moffat, Yuck
I'll Be Your Mirror acts as a sister event to the ATP Festivals and is named after the b-side to The Velvet Underground's original All Tomorrow's Parties 7" single. We asked some of the artists performing to tell us their favourite b-sides and 7" singles.»
Slottsfjell 2011, Norway - The DiS review
Slottsfjell is situated in Tønsberg, a medium-sized town on the Oslofjord. As a festival it is partly comparable and partly incomparable to anything in the UK, but on the whole more leaning towards incomparable. A festival is about music, but what makes a festival is often not the greatness of the line-up or performances alone. People and atmosphere are a huge part and you'll be hard-pushed to find a better bunch of people to party with than the Norwegians. »
10 Years of ATP: Sunday
Messrs Lukowski and Bloomfield offer up their final reflections on the last day of the last ATP festival of the first ten years.»
Spotifriday #28 - This Week on DiS as a playlist
This week's content in the form of a Spotify playlist, featuring Let's Wrestle, Mudhoney, Sufjan Stevens, Fucked Up, Peverelist, Gold Panda and more.»
Spotifriday #20 Side I: This Week on DiS as a playlist
This week's Spotifriday content-related playlist, featuring Muhdoney, Nirvana, Pixies, Sufjan, St. Vincent, Tom Waits, Weezer, A Place To Bury Strangers, Girls and many more!»
Fuzz Boxes, Day Jobs and Spotify: DiS meets Mudhoney
DiS chats to Seattle stalwarts Mudhoney's Mark Arm and Steve Turner»
Label Profile #20: Sub Pop
Our twentieth profile in this series fittingly finds DiS speaking to a label that recently celebrated its 20th anniversary. A record company which has firmly established itself as (debatably) the most esteemed and influential independent label of modern times»
Storas Festival 2008: the DiS review
Trolls, moonshine, stuffed owls, ageing hippies, dancing to a mobile sound system in a forest clearing, death metal, indie-rock and no logos»
Sub Pop 20: the DiS review
DiS crosses the Atlantic to join the celebrations at Sub Pop's 20th Anniversary, at a country park near (of course) Seattle»
The Weekly DiScussion: your festival travel nightmares
At the middle of the festival season, DiS asks readers for their travel nightmares. Stuck in the mud? Engine over-heated? Spill the beans»
Making their own luck: Mudhoney, 20 not out
Twenty years is a long time in music, but one band that's survived trends is Mudhoney. DiS speaks to Steve Turner about new LP The Lucky Ones and that debut»
The Two Weeks That Was: a fortnight with the new DiS
Two weeks of the new, improved DiS done and dusted. We'd like to thank you for your patience, and invite you to reacquaint yourselves with the staggering diversity of content that we've run this past fortnight»
The Tuesday DiScussion: what's the best best-of?
This Tuesday’s DiScussion piece focuses on best-of releases, past, present and future. What bands have ever really earned a best-of? Who's due one? DiScuss...»
Ilosaarirock 2006: DiS does Finland (again)
One whole per cent of the Finnish population has arrived in Joensuu this weekend for Ilosaarirock. Fair enough there are only two million people in the country, but that’s still quite a turnout...»
The United Sounds of ATP, weekend one, a preview
It’s that time of year – the sun’s peekin’ its way past the outer fluff of the clouds, and pale-faced indie boys are thinking about takin’ off their tops. They won’t, of course – we’re too shy for that. Festival-wise, there is but one event that truly whets the insatiable appetite of the indie boy: All Tomorrow’s Parties...»
Since We've Become Translucent
'Baby Can You Dig the Light', the opening track off 'Since We’ve Become Translucent', is over 8 minutes long. Mark Arm, frontman of those responsible, says it’s inspired by a 12 part BBC series about the journey of man. One is not sure to take him at his word, such is his demeanor. DiS hopes he’s n»
"I jumped into the crowd, threw a few drunken waterlogged punches, and got back on stage…"
Probe: I'm interested in your experience of different music scenes around the world, how audiences differ in different parts of the world. Also, how independent media compares in different parts of the world, and what part this plays in supporting non-mainstream music. So here are the questions. You are best k»


