DiS' founder and current editor Sean Adams compiles a playlist of songs that could be heard in the year 2000 (a rough theme we've set for you to build a Spotifriday playlist around - more details here) when this very website was in its embryonic stages. First, a bit of prologue...»
'Ding! 'Ding! As part of DiS' Reading Festival preview, we've made a mixtape of the festival's greatest hits but first, a little prologue from DiS' editor.... »
This Spotify playlist starts with the obvious "Monday Morning Anthems", moves into blissful half-awake territory, has a mid-morning doze before the guttural screams of WAKE UP! to catch anyone who might have drifted off at their desk. The second hour is an eclectic hodge-podge of requests and Monday-ishness. »
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»
Voting for the first-ever Pluto Prize, celebrating the British acts whose albums missed the Mercury Prize cut, is open now. So get voting»
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»
Our Berlin correspondent says it's time to bury the diva – and bring on more Polly-Jeans»
Call up the Kleenex lorry! 2007's virtual album factory churned out some proper old tear-jerkers»
Hi December! Nice rain you've got for us. Still, it's the perfect weather for staying in and checking out the slew of best-of lists littering music rags and websites alike. Welcome to DiS's, part one of five. Let the DiScussions begin»
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»
With her seventh long-player, the piano-orientated White Chalk, out now, DiS's Sean Adams catches up with PJ Harvey to discuss countryside roots, beautiful cityscapes, and the confusion aroused by one artist's mixing of influences from the two. "Yes I am a songwriter," she's recently realised; instruments are merely there for bed-making...»
And so you might well spit, Jose, at the manner of your premature departure from the Bridge. But cry thee not, our Portuguese special one: the month of your skedaddling from a sinking ship coincides with the release of many – and that really is many – a fine album. Here are the must-own LPs in our eyes. Or ears, we guess...»
DiS heads to Barcelona for the second time this year - following Primavera at the end of May - for Summercase. What we find: a drunk Lily Allen, a chilled-out Chemical Brothers, and some dodgy scotch...»
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.»
So here we are, fellow travellers through the last six years of DiS’s favourite sounds: part two of Our 66. Believe you me, this section – which collects together the albums we’ve placed at numbers 44 to 21 – was no easier to assemble than the preceding chapter (click here if you’re yet to look over our selections from 66 to 45). In fact, we’ve suffered more headaches over the last few weeks, because of this undertaking alone, than at any other time in our lives. Perhaps, anyway: we do enjoy the odd pint...»
DiS celebrated 5 years in October 2005. Here's DiS founder Sean's list of favourite records.»
DiS gatecrashes the Peel party at BBC's Maida Vale studios and sees The Wedding Present's first live set in seven years, marvels at Belle & Sebastian, gawps at PJ Harvey and ogles Mary Anne Hobbs. Woof. Ahem... Plus Coxon & Albarn seen in same room together along with Hefner, Trencher, Melys and more. Read on.»
It feels like there are too many bands playing, well, kinda.. isn’t it annoying that last year you missed half the bands who’ve changed your world in the past year? Maybe. Maybe not. Anyway, here’s a guide to bands that Sean(who likes his live stuff loud, proud and entertaining), editor of Drownedinsound.com will hopef»
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The Piano
White Chalk
PJ Harvey - The Peel Sessions 1991-2004
Rough Trade Shops: Singer Songwriter 01
This Is Love / You Said Something
Stories From The City, Stories From The Sea
