Truck 15: the DiS review
A successful, if unspectacular weekend, then, but the potential to build for next year is present in abundance. »
In Depth
This Week's Singles: 1/11/10
This week's singles is about men who make tidy sportwear LOOK GOOD. Also: Batchelor's Super Noodles, wilderness periods, Jolt cola, soundscapes, bad short films, circularity.»
In Photos: Tramlines Festival 2010, Sheffield
Follow DrownedinSound Events on Twitter, and/or 'Like' the DiS Events Page on Facebook to keep up-to-date with our live activity. Coming soon: A Hawk and a Hacksaw, MV & EE with The Golden Road, Grammatics, Women and more...»
Spotifriday #51 - This Week on DiS as a playlist
Following on from last week's landmark playlist of much innovation, this week's summing up will also be innovative. Sort of. What I really mean is that it'll be different. Mainly because I'll be trying to sum each song up in as few words as possible. Click here to access this week's edition of Spotifriday and listen away.»
Spotifriday #43 - This Week on DiS as a playlist
The forty-third instalment of 'This Week On DiS as a playlist' through the medium of Spotify. As you can see, this week features Hot Chip, Mystery Jets, Kate Nash, Harvey Milk, worriedaboutsatan, We Have Band and plenty more»
Rhys from Good Shoes' Tips for 2010
Rhys Jones from the band Good Shoes takes us through his tips for the coming year, including some video links for you all to gawp at. Take it away Rhys, with a little help from his friends...»
2010 Preview: Mystery Jets' third album - exclusive listen
Last week DiS was kindly invited down to the Rough Trade office/bunker to have an exclusive listen to the first five tracks from the new Mystery Jets record. Due in mid-April, the boys are still not letting the daddy tour with them, but that's the way it goes some times. »
Field Day 2009: the DiS review
Spurred on by the repeat mantra ‘there’s no way things can go wrong a THIRD year in a row', DiS’s Charles Ubaghs and Andrzej Lukowski headed down Victoria Park way last Saturday to sample the delights of this year’s capital-based Field Day festival. And barring some rain, things didn’t go wrong: bar queues? Nuh-uh. Lines for the toilet? Seemed pretty non-existent (or at least from a gruff, manly perspective). There were a few other issues, mentioned below, but here be our highlights.»
Vote for DiS and for your alternative Mercury prize winner
Here's a double-whammy of democracy for you. This is your last chance to take part in the voting for the Pluto Prize (DiS' alternative to the Mercury music prize) and we're also asking you to vote for us in the BT DMA's»
Reading/Leeds: what the photographers snapped
Camera-phone let you down again? Don't fret, DiS was right down the front, in the pit in front of the pit, snapping these fine photos all weekend.»
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The Sunday morning acidic hangover is here and so too is the rain but that's as good an excuse as any to delay braving the outdoors and run-down on day two at Reading. In the past few years Saturday at the Festival has established itself as the "i»
Summer Sundae 2008: the DiS (stage) preview
The annual Summer Sundae weekender takes place at De Montfort Hall and Gardens, Leicester, on August 8-10. Here's the DiS preview»
DiS's Pluto Prize: get voting now!
Voting for the first-ever Pluto Prize, celebrating the British acts whose albums missed the Mercury Prize cut, is open now. So get voting»
The Weekly DiScussion: who should make the Mercury shortlist?
The shortlist for 2008's Mercury Prize is announced next week. DiS asks: just who does deserve to win this year's award after Klaxons' success in 2007»
2008 to date: our favourites on their favourites
Six of DiS's featured twelve responsible for our Essential Dozen albums of 2008 to date give us their favourite acts and records of the year so far»
An Essential Dozen: 2008's best albums so far
As the end of June looms, DiS looks back over the past six months, picking out a dozen essential LPs. Here, part one of three picks four frontrunners»
Father's Day buyers guide: five records for the (old) man in your life
It's Father's Day on Sunday. You're wondering what record to buy pops. Coldplay's latest? Try harder. DiS offers some pointers. Do suggest yours»
Singles Round-up (02/06/08)
A pretty bog-standard bunch redeemed entirely by Mystery Jets' summer bombshell 'Two Doors Down, our superb SINGLE OF THE WEEK»
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The second bank holiday in May is almost upon us and with it comes this year's Dot To Dot Festival, with a bigger line-up than ever before»
A Month in Records: March 2008
We’ve enjoyed a veritable banquet of beauties in March - whittling our favourites down to ten was tough work. Expect to see a number of these LPs in December’s end-of-year best-of list, so good is March’s crop»
Breaking dens: Mystery Jets ditch prog's grey cage for Young Love and pop fun
After a quiet couple of years since waving goodbye to mentor Henry Harrison, Mystery Jets cast off the prog shackles and return sounding more colourful and vital than ever before»
Singles Round-up (10/03/08)
Proving there’s nothing like firing your dad for raising spirits and getting the creative juices flowing, there’s suddenly a spring in the step of Eel Pie Island's Mystery Jets their contemporaries can’t get near. 'Young Love' is our Single of the Week»
Field Day: the DiS review
DiS sends five of its finest out east for the first-ever Field Day festival. On-the-day gripes aside - beer and toilet queues being the biggest thorn in the debut festival's side - in hindsight the bill was one of the best around this summer. DiS gets stuck into it...»
A Review of 2006: DiS is what it's all about, yo
2006 has been a year that’s lived up to and exceeded all expectations. With enough fantastic albums to treble the length of my Albums of the Year list, and a gig list long enough to frighten even the hardiest tour manager, I’ve seen plenty of goodness this year. Luckily we’re on hand to jog those memories and help you reminisce about the good times and the couple of sad moments which brought us all back down to Earth with a big bump. This is 2006...»
DiS is 6! Our 66, part 1
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...»
Venturing Out: Latitude Festival in review
2006 has given rise to a brand new event: Latitude Festival. An idyllic setting, a variety of arts, weird and wonderful scenery and a laid-back atmosphere are the framework for the gathering in a park in the heart of Suffolk, or as some ignorantly call it – the middle of nowhere...»
DiS preview: Latitude Festival
Latitude Festival makes its debut this year, boasting a fantastic line-up of music, film, poetry, and other arts. DiS will be there to watch it all, so here are the top seven acts to watch out for during the weekend.»
Mystery Jets: "All of our songs have a place and a meaning…"
The Mystery Jets are one of those baffling anomalies that come around every so many years. The music they make is borne out of each of their members’ eclectic tastes, varying age gaps and a shared love of their West London upbringings and surroundings....»
How the West has won
Tonight, outside Brentford football club there's a longer queue than when Saturday comes. The clientele, however is somewhat different; scores of well-coiffured, undernourished teenagers line up down the road, waiting to see if they'll be lucky enough to gain entry to the Stripes bar, the Bees' adjacent-to-stadium drinking hole and now host venue to 'Way Out West'. Call it a scene, call it whatever the fuck you want, but you can't ignore a beautiful uprising and you certainly can't ignore a brilliant song.»
FREE TONIGHT! Brave New Ideas #11 + Loads of amazing proper great gigs
Happy new bloody year. Do you feel better, do things seem better? No? Still cold and skint and full of the realisation that actually, it’s all the same? Hmmm. Well, not to worry, we’ve got some new bands. They’re new. Oh, and Iceland nights, and our Tsunami Charity gig and.. it's ALL GOOD.»
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