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Melt! 2011, Germany - The DiS Review
It's easy to forget you’re en route to a music festival when you take the 140km coach ride south of Berlin, winding through acres of sunflower fields and wind farms before reaching the monumental steel city of Ferropolis. It's my second time here, and a»
This Week's Singles: 27/06/11 Theophilus London, Patrick Wolf, Kreayshawn, Art Museums
Some mornings you wake up and realise Beyonce Knowles’ 'Run The World' will not result in the immediate dismantling of the Patriarchy. Thankfully I have managed to restrain myself from writing 500 words on this subject for a pointless blog and have writ»
Spotifriday #95 - This week on DiS as a playlist ft. Patrick Wolf, Bon Iver, Brian Eno + more
This week's Spotifriday playlist featuring some songs by the likes of Brian Eno (not really a song...), Future Islands, Bon Iver, Patrick Wolf, Art Brut and Mclusky. And a few more, of course.»
Spotifriday #93 - This week on DiS as a playlist ft. Lady Gaga, Suede, Gil Scott-Heron + more
This week's content themed Spotify playlist featuring St. Vincent, Death Cab For Cutie, The Antlers, Lady Gaga, Patrick Wolf and a few more, for good measure. Click here to listen to it, will you! 1. St. Vincent - 'The Party' We nearly had a party our»
"Less of my dirty laundry & more of the things I find inspirational": Patrick Wolf on Lupercalia
You could never, by any stretch of the imagination, accuse Patrick Wolf of a lack of effort, invention and drive. In the nine years since he emerged blinking onto the scene as a quixotic, blonde wonderboy armed with a treasure chest packed full with the weird and the wonderful, he has crafted no less than five albums and two EP’s; each one a significant variation and progression on the musical themes of its predecessor. »
Guide to 2011 - Part 2: Albums DiS is looking forward to in 2011
Yesterday DiS reviews editor Andrzej Lukowski revealed the 11 albums he’s most looking forward to in 2011. In part two DiS founder/editor reveals his eleven... »
Artwork Day: Top Ten Record Covers of the '00s
Welcome to DiS is Ten's 'Artwork Day'. How are you? Well, I hope. As the title suggests, there'll be some features on artwork: there'll be a good artwork top 10, and a bad artwork top 10. And then a couple of record label people are having their say, co»
The Insider: Dear Paul Morley, IF YOU DON’T LIKE IT, F^CK OFF!
When two things collide sometimes it just really gets to you. For me, those two things this week were the Mercury Music Prize and the Review show / Newsnight Review / whatever they’ve rebranded it to with a panel of ‘experts’ discussing whether the music industry was up the shitter on Friday night. Paul Morley, Krissi Murison, Tom Service (Guardian classical music editor) and Miranda Sawyer shouted over each other, deferred to Paul Morley’s endless endless banging on about Marx / Philip Glass / anything else that makes him sound like the preening egotist he truly is for 45 minutes interspersed with the thoughts of Chairman Mills (Beggars Group) and some other industry types on the Mercury red carpet who, surprisingly, decided that the music industry isn’t dead. Oh, and Dave Ellis got some face time to claim T In The Park (founded 1994) as one of the ‘original’ festivals. Jesus. This followed reams of tedious opinions about how The XX (sorry, theallinlowercasexx) were the ‘dull but right’ choice for the Mercury. Yawn.»
Reading 2009: Day Two roundup
Day two of Reading begins with that smudged, slightly hungover feeling. Everyone seems quite happy, despite the hiding sun and the wind which has died down a little from last night's cut-through-you brrr-ness.»
In Photos: Reading Festival 2009 - Day 2
Reading and Leeds Festival photo galleries: In Photos: Leeds Festival 2009 - Day 3 In Photos: Reading Festival 2009 - Day 3 Leeds Festival In Photos: Kings of Leon In Photos: Leeds Festival 2009 - Day 2 Leeds Festival In Photos: Radiohead Leeds Fest»
In Photos: Pukkelpop 2009 - Day Two
Pictures from the second day of Pukkelpop Festival in Belgium - including Kraftwerk, Placebo, Snow Patrol, Patrick Wolf and more.»
Spotifriday - Listen to the 12 Neptune Music Prize Nominees
The (nominees were announced on DiS yesterday](http://drownedinsound.com/news/4137495-dis-alternative-music-prize--the-neptune-nominees-announced) but before you rate the albums, we thought you might like to listen to all of them. You've got until 8th of September to vote so take your time, form your opinion and then score them out of 10. »
Spotify Playlist: Drownedin... 100 Songs of 2009 (So Far)
A Spotify playlist of 100 of our staff's favourite tracks of the year (SO FAR!!!) from 100 of the year's finest acts, clocking in at 7 hours 40ish minutes . »
Spotifriday: ID:09 Special - 20 Must-Have Independent Albums of the Year (SO FAR!)
Based on a range of factors, from board discussions, reviews so far this year and utterly subjective personal opinion, DiS' editor has compiled the twenty best independent albums of the first half of 2009 to coincide with Independent's Day.»
Dot To Dot: The DiS review
This year's Dot To Dot festival line-up was arguably the best one yet in its five year history, so DiS went along mob-handed to both the Bristol and Nottingham legs on the second bank holiday weekend of May.»
Review: The Great Escape, Brighton (Saturday, 16th May)
Alex Tudor talks us through his highlights of The Great Escape festival...»
Dot To Dot preview: A DiS mixtape
This weekend sees the Dot To Dot Festival hit Bristol (Saturday 23rd) and Nottingham (Sunday 24th). DiS is rather excited as this year's line-up is arguably the best one yet, so with a little help from MySpace and YouTube, we've compiled a mega mixtape of the best of this year's artists.»
Back to The Bachelor - DiS meets Patrick Wolf - Part 3
In this concluding part of our chat with Patrick Wolf, he talks to DiS' editor about being an accidental enigma, his blogs, Derek Jarman, Tyra Banks, Dylan Thomas, Angela Carter, Hans Christian Anderson, The Cure, Paris, Berlin, Seattle, Porn and lots more.»
Alec, Kate, Joni and Bjork talk - DiS meets Patrick Wolf - Part 2
In part one (here) Patrick Wolf and DiS Editor Sean Adams began discussing Patrick's forthcoming album The Bachelor. In part two Patrick expands on much of this (especially about the fan-funded Bandstocks way he's releasing the album), his contemporaries and much more...»
Biscuits with The Bachelor - DiS meets Patrick Wolf
DiS opens its gob, presses record on the dictaphone and talks to Patrick Wolf about his forthcoming album The Bachelor»
This Week's Singles: 20/04/09
I am not quite the excitable teenager of last week, having had to contend with repeated exposure to the bottom of Patrick Wolf and the fact that I am, essentially, well ancient. Still, it’s not all sex, sex, sex. At least until we get to Sebastien Tellier, after which you may feel the need for a nice, hot bath.»
DiS exclusive: Patrick Wolf The Bachelor by Paul Morley
Paul Morely says: "Loves the vivid embrace of pop stars but remembers his grandfather talking about ghouls and banshees and the grim reaper. He. Remembers fighting, digging, yearning to find a stranger, odder, murkier Englishness that was beyond his aunties giving him tea and visiting the garden centre and watching Antiques Roadshow. That was outside Britpop and union jack guitars. Finding Thomas Hardy and Derek Jarman. He. Stands out against the uniform grain of the Oasis age. He."»
In Photos: Patrick Wolf and Micachu @ London KOKO
Patrick Wolf and Micachu played London's KOKO on Friday, and DiS sent Burak Cingi along with his camera.»
DiS is 8! A stumble down memory lane...
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»
Connect Festival 2007: the DiS review
Send one DiS writer to the first-ever Connect festival? We think not. Here, three intrepid festival-goers – Jordan Dowling, Dom Gourlay and Dave Kerr – bring us their experiences of three days that can only be summarised as: a muddy festival in Inveraray, Scotland. With some ace bands, as it happened…»
Underage Festival: wait a minute, these people are all children!
Washing into E3 on the crest of a wave of broadsheet-culture-supplement-saliva, frothing with such terms as “teen explosion!” and “youthquake!”, it was always going to be difficult for Sam Kilcoyne’s Underage Festival to stand up to its own expectations...»
Latitude Festival 2007: the DiS review
Latitude has swiftly become a deep-rooted fixture on an ever expanding festival circuit, offering weary Glastonbury revellers an opportunity to recharge under the Suffolk sun and various meeejia folks the chance to check out a series of fine 'adult-orientated' headliners. DiS dispatched a handful of critical sorts to Henham Park, in Southwold, and asked them to select their personal standouts and new DiScoveries...»
The Weekly DiScussion: our alternative Mercury list...
So the Mercury nominations for this year aren’t so bad, a couple of proper WTF examples aside (The View? Really? Come on…). However good this year’s nominations generally are, though, we at DiS got the old grey matter burning away to compile an alternative list of twelve that could have made the cut...»
A Month In Records: October 2006
Yes, we realise this month’s A Month In Records is roughly a week late, but we’ve been suffering from something of an Our 66 hangover (click it for a link!). It’s okay, though: the painkillers have finally kicked in and, a few sour faces aside, we’re firing on all cylinders again.»
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...»
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