Spotifriday #26 - This Week on DiS as a playlist
More Spotify based fun, featuring Panda Bear, Frightened Rabbit, Liars, Hot Chip, Field Music, LCD Soundsystem, Hefner and a bag more.»
More Spotify based fun, featuring Panda Bear, Frightened Rabbit, Liars, Hot Chip, Field Music, LCD Soundsystem, Hefner and a bag more.»
It’s perpetually 1972 at Kutsher’s Country Club, the utterly perfect location for the New York incarnation of ATP. The event may attract several generations of indie rock fan, but for the people who run the resort this is no different to a local weddi»
DiS is still mulling over the decade that was and pondering who the most important acts were, what the best gig was and which labels/events/moments really truly mattered. To soundtrack my thought process, I've compiled this playlist of my favourite songs of the decade and thought I'd join the opensource revolution and share this playlist with you all.»
DiS chats to Animal Collective's Geologist - aka Brian Weitz - about their new record Merriweather Post Pavilion, absent friends and the thorny issue of the day/month/decade: downloading.»
DiS' first listen to Animal Collective's new album Merriweather Post Pavilion suggests we're in for a spectacular aural treat come the second Monday of the New Year.»
It's October first... Happy Birthday to us! And now for an indulgent dose of nostalgia as DiS' founder looks back at previous incarnations of the site»
It’s been a slog – we’ve been arguing over this list for what feels like forever – but we’re here. The summit. The zenith. Et cetera. The best five albums of 2007 in detail and our full 50 in order, as ranked by the DiS editorial team from contributor nominations»
Cast your minds back, readership: at the start of November we invited you to vote for your favourite albums of 2007 from a shortlist of 50, selected by the DiS editorial team. Now we’re pleased to present the result of the thousands of votes received: the DiS readers’ top 25 albums of 2007»
We’ve had our albums of the year and our tracks of the year, and here DiS bids you adieu for 2007 with our favourite features of the past twelve months, for your instant-click consumption and eye-aching reading pleasure. Starring Animal Collective (pictured), LCD Soundsystem, Battles, Panda Bear, M.I.A., Gallows, Beirut, Björk and more»
With Christmas now peeking over the horizon, DiS invites its readers to vote for your top ten of 2007, from our editorially selected shortlist of 50. Choose five of your favourites here. Voting, it will close this Friday, December 7, with the results running December 14»
Side projects are traditionally a rum old do but this year's changed all that. Here, Alex Denney reasons why having a bit on the side is no longer a guilty pleasure. In his sights: Panda Bear, Grinderman, Von Südenfed, Sunset Rubdown and more»
Every year is made up of twelve months. This, any modern Roman Calendar will tell you. What said flap of paper full of boxes and reminders to call mum and book a visit to the dentist will also tell you is that every month is made up of four or five Mondays. And some other days, too, but mainly Mondays. They’re all that matter, really, as it is on Mondays that our record stores are full to bursting with new releases...»
Noah Lennox is more commonly known to the world as Panda Bear, a founding member of New York avant folk / noise / whatever you want to call it musical experimentalists Animal Collective. DiS recently sat down with Lennox in 93 Feet East’s slightly chilly courtyard before his recent London gig to discuss music, fatherhood and his love of George Michael’s last album...»