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!»
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!»
DiS chats to Seattle stalwarts Mudhoney's Mark Arm and Steve Turner»
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»
Trolls, moonshine, stuffed owls, ageing hippies, dancing to a mobile sound system in a forest clearing, death metal, indie-rock and no logos»
DiS crosses the Atlantic to join the celebrations at Sub Pop's 20th Anniversary, at a country park near (of course) Seattle»
At the middle of the festival season, DiS asks readers for their travel nightmares. Stuck in the mud? Engine over-heated? Spill the beans»
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»
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»
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...»
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...»
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...»
'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»
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»