So did everybody watch that three-part Beeb documentary series The Sound and the Fury that aired throughout February? It took a succinct and uncomplicated look at twentieth-century classical music, calling upon New Yorker critic Alex Ross’s bestselling »
DiS' most read features, reviews and messageboard threads of the first half of 2012... »
15 classic albums from the year of our Lord, 1997 - yeah, it was a good one. Included: Missy Elliott, Elliott Smith, Spiritualized, Wu-Tang Clan, Mansun, The Chemical Brothers, Portishead, Company Flow and some band called Radiohead.»
The countdown of DiS' albums of the year reaches a climax but before reveal our five favourite albums of the year, here are some words from the site's founder and current editor..»
Drowned in Sound's albums of 2011 countdown continues, as does the ponderneering on the year that was from our editor...»
Soundwaves is a four day festival that takes in a whole range of sound artists from England and beyond and gives them a platform to put their stuff out there.»
With a weekend of Glastonbury's sheer magnitude, it's nigh on impossible to try and capture everything within a single review - although we've made a fair attempt with our Glastonbury Diary. Here we offer DiS writers' musical highlights of the festival, from the audiovisual showdown that was Beyonce's Sunday night headline set to Radiohead's 'secret' set and psychedelic dance-pop from Caribou.»
DiS' Rory Gibb pilgrimaged to Pilton, and here's his diary.... "There are so many stages, bars, themed areas and tiny oddities to discover across the course of five days that it’s no longer necessary to worry about being at a certain place for a certain band at a certain time. That’s something the BBC’s TV coverage only ever touches upon, and even commentary from news outlets like the Guardian often downplays its importance, beyond spouting vague pronouncements about the ‘Glasto spirit’."»
Our Death Cab for Cutie takeover continues with their guitarist/producer Chris Walla's "Ten Things To Not Expect Your Record Producer (me) To Have A Cogent or Completely Satisfactory Answer For". Chris has produced all seven Death Cab for Cutie full length albums and also albums by many artists over the years including the Decemberists, Hot Hot Heat, Tegan & Sara and The Thermals..»
We spoke to Count Buckules, aka Adam Buxton, of Adam and Joe fame about his enduring partnership with Mr Cornish and, of course, music videos.»
DiS has found a man who watches loads of music vids, so you don't have to. He knows all there is to know about the bestest music videos around, and here is his very first column...»
With only one sleep to go before the big day, DiS asked blogger and record shop lover Gareth James to share his views regarding Record Store Day, and to help explain why you might want to camp over night to grab that rare 12"...»
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»
Glastonbury Part 2: Friday Wherein me and Sean Thomas, despite in no way making contact throughout the weekend, act like we totally did, and bring you a collaborative effort… Read Part One of our Glastonbury content here. Simon Jay Catling: Frida»
Yo. This week's 'content in the form of a playlist' Spotify playlist is here, so I'm gonna cut the crap and just get to it. Go here to get this week's Spotifriday playlist.»
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...»
So, it's that time of year again that the major festival season draws to a close, and while sister site Reading is viewed as the (slightly) more mature of the two, Leeds has often been renowned for bowing out in a blaze of glory...literally.»
Reading and Leeds Festival photo galleries: In Photos: Leeds Festival 2009 - Day 3 Leeds Festival In Photos: Kings of Leon In Photos: Leeds Festival 2009 - Day 2 In Photos: Reading Festival 2009 - Day 2 Leeds Festival In Photos: Radiohead Leeds Fest»
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: Reading Festival 2009 - Day 2 Leeds Festival In Photos: Radiohead Leeds Fe»
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 In Photos: Reading Festival 2009 - Day 2 Leeds»
This week's content in the form of a Spotify playlist.»
DiS delves into the Radiohead re-issues for a re-appraisal of three of the bands finest albums. »
So, in no particular order, here are the twenty acts DiS' editor is most looking forward to seeing this weekend. »
You've probably heard of Nigel Godrich. He's been recording bands in studios for a number of years (his C.V., of course, includes Radiohead, Air, Beck, Paul McCartney, Pavement and R.E.M.), but you might not be so familiar with his "hobby", From The Basement, where he takes bands and records their performances for broadcast. We spoke to him about this, and other stuff...»
In celebration of managing to wheedle Glasto review tickets and a photopass for the first time (oh, and also it being one of the biggest musical and cultural events in the British calender), DiS is having a wee Glastonbury week this week, in advance of everybody actually going buggering off next Wednesday. We kick off with a ponder over what the festival is meant to mean to the average indie kid in 2009.»
Concluding our week of Radiohead-related content, here's another first-hand account of touring with the band, this time from Deerhoof drummer Greg Saunier. --- Somehow I'd been convinced by people who don't know Radiohead that they'd be pretentious and »
Prompted by Radiohead Week, a raft of re-issues from, erm, some record company or other and the shameful knowledge DiS awarded Kid A a scathing 4/10, way-back-when. It’s time to make amends...»
Seeing as how EMI's Radiohead reissues didn't do something as helpful as round up the B sides in one place, DiS has put together a mixtape that you could happily play as an album, which also works as a brief history of Radiohead at their most conventional... and sometimes most experimental. »
For two weeks back in August 2008, Grizzly Bear's Ed Droste got to live out a dream and tour America with the band he loves, Radiohead. Here's how it was for him.»
The task facing author Trevor Baker when he embarked on a mission to cover the life and work of Radiohead's frontman, armed only with back issues of Q and Melody Maker, telephone numbers for some of Thom Yorke's old Exeter Uni buddies and an internet connection, was an unenviable one. No surprises (!), perhaps, that the end result isn't an especially illuminating read.»
When Radiohead ditched the guitars on Kid A, a lot of people got angry. In hindsight, says Andrzej Lukowski, they were wrong.»
Radiohead are among the biggest bands in the world, period. Ahead of dates home and abroad, drummer Phil Selway talks about In Rainbows' industry impact and why the band always need a new learning curve»
To an awful lot of people, Radiohead are a pretty big deal. So it's with a degree of scepticism and trepidation, perhaps, that we should greet the news of their former label EMI reissuing the band's first three albums this week»
DiS readers might want to focus on the last 80 pages of The Rest Is Noise, which explores Minimalism (as Classicists refer to it), and basically sees instrument-builder Harry Partsch invent Tom Waits; gamelan-enthusiast Henry Cowell [sic] invent Timbaland; John Cage & Terry Riley invent post-rock; Steve Reich & Phillip Glass invent electronica and most sequencer-based music that isn’t 19th century barrelhouse music played on synths.»
Ahead of his two Valentine's Day shows and his special Valentine's day download, we asked Jeremy Warmsley to make a mixtape to woo his beloved...»
Long time Radiohead collaborator, Stanley Donwood, has started a label. DiS caught up with him to find out more... »
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»
2008 might not have produced too many truly classic festival moments but there's lots to come. Excited, DiS here looks over seven of the best festivals ever»
After the Nationwide Mercury Prize announcement, DiS sizes up the chosen 12 and asks: just what is the award's point? Get DiScussing»
Fresh-faced synth-pop four-piece Late Of The Pier have finished their Fantasy Black Channel debut. Celebrate! With a mixtape»
Remember when festivals were exciting? This excitement seems to have transfered to stadium rock. Is it back? DiS waffles on»
With ATP firmly on DiS's agenda for the next two weekends, we invite some industry types to suggest their favourite acts yet to play the celebrated festival, and you to DiScuss the potentials»
On April 1 Radiohead played to competition winners at the BBC's Radio Theatre, the show recorded for domestic networks and beamed to a massive online audience. DiS was there to catch the action, twice»
This week's winning 45 might seem obvious, but with the singles pile largely comprised of meh releases Radiohead's latest shines brightly as the best. 'Nude' (as heard on E4, et cetera) is our Single of the Week»
We seem to be in a second summer of love for all those acts who defined our fun times over a decade ago. DiS wonders if this a good thing, and whether we should be reassessing the '90s already»
What with the news of EMI compiling a Radiohead best-of (read), DiS decided to try and call the major’s bluff by assembling our own 15-track career-summary CDs. Here we've two, and it's over to you for your own best-of mixes»
Despite January's hype, one of DiS's most popular artists of the month was Radiohead. They enjoy not only an incredible influence over many up-and-coming acts, but also retain a formidable fanbase. DiS asks: who could follow in their footsteps from the current clutch of indie-rockers? DiScuss away»
DiS takes a moment to reflect, and to appreciate the bands that made us the site we are today, basically; the Gateway Acts that opened up new doors of exploration. From Band A to Band Z - nothing would've been possible without that kick-starting someone. With our selections 'outed', it's over to you for your own choices»
That’s them, lurking, cluttering the horizon line, destroying your credit limit: festivals, assembling line-ups to die for, and just as many to run a mile from. This summer’s one weekend of sunshine will have a pre-determined soundtrack, folks. DiScuss it here»
Here are the most read news stories published every month this year on DiS. Among the stories featured: Arcade Fire vs ambition, Lily vs America, The Horrors vs Elvis, Everyone vs Bring Me The Horizon, and more»
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»
In Minehead for the third time this year, DiS is freezing cold, fighting against an evil wind, a bitter breeze, to get to ATP on time. The clock's ticking... through the doors, into the Skyline, eyes front. What? The Horrors? Not even the biggest Portishead fan saw that coming»
Part four of five, and pressure’s building. What record will scoop our Album of the Year title, and will its makers expect a reward for their efforts? We’re hoping not, as the budget's been blown, again, on booze»
Do you think of The White Stripes, Battles, Radiohead etc as ‘DiS bands’, or has the site’s highlighting of a select group of smaller acts from time to time made them ‘ours’ in the place of major label alternatives»
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»
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»
Best known for their critiques of popular rock bands, either via their own website or in interviews with other magazines, Mogwai have something of a reputation. DiS turns the tables, asking Stuart Braithwaite to write about something he thinks is positive, namely Radiohead's In Rainbows»
On Wednesday, DiS opened its doors for readers to submit their own personal reviews of Radiohead's seventh studio album, In Rainbows. Such was the style of its arrival - like you didn't hear about it - that we felt the best way to assess it from a critical perspective was to let the same fans the band were inviting to download it, for whatever they wanted to pay, review and rate it. Here is the final verdict...»
Here we are now, entertain us. Or don’t: whatever, we’re yours to mould in the palm of your collective hand, Radiohead; so giddy are we after the first time through of In Rainbows that our scrambled senses can only offer fractured initial thoughts. More to follow, no doubt; more from you, post here. Or, simply discuss Radiohead's genuine-event new album here...»
It’s always strange, and rather unsettling, when an artist turns up in a blaze of glory, garners a degree of popular and / or critical success and then disappears back into the ether. Gareth Dobson wonders where all our favourite missing bands are, and what the hell they're doing...»
Barry Hogan is, to many an extent and purpose, the brains behind All Tomorrow’s Parties, which this weekend stages its first-ever fans-curated event. Versus The Fans’ line-up is built, primarily, of acts voted for by the attendees, by those buying tickets for the three-dayer. Which means DiS didn’t get a vote, as we didn’t pay. We’d have asked for Battles, Mogwai and Trans Am… what’s that? They’re all there? Amazing…»
With the nation’s – nay, the world’s – greatest football cup competition nearing its final stages, and with many a DiS-supported team still in the running to lift the FA Cup this May at Wembley, DiS’s Gareth Dobson picks his 4-4-2 of indie-rock. As we all know, football and music is closely entwined. And no, I'm not simply talking about Oasis' pronounced love for Manchester City...»
My, you’re patient sorts, dearest DiS faithful. We ran part two of our run down of DiS’s favourite/most inspirational/bestesteva albums almost two weeks ago, and yet you’re still champing at the bit to find out who has, and more importantly who hasn’t, made it into the top twenty of Our 66. Well, the time has come to quit your champing: we’re here, this is the penultimate countdown...»
One of the true big boys amongst the ever-growing festival throng, V Festival is almost upon us. This weekend, teenagers and thirty(plus)-somethings alike will converge on the festival’s twin sites – one in Chelmsford, the other in Staffordshire – to drink expensive warm lager while the dulcet tones of Sandi Thom, James Morrison and Lily Allen aid their gentle drift to a wonderful plane of serenity…»
Pixies reformed. Muse played in daylight. Bright Eyes stormed the second stage. Radiohead ended their world tour. The Cure were even fatter than the Pixies. The Flaming Lips were late. The Cooper Temple Clause were monumental. Temperatures soared. There was no rubbish on the floor. Coachella was the stuff of dreams.»
Who won? Who lost? What were the best records of the year? Our staff votes have been counted and the top 75 albums of 2003 are...»
Fearful of being harmed by The Cooper Temple Clause, who are still stalking the backstage area almost a day after they should have left, we make for the hills and spend the morning eating pony shit, in buns made of farmers’ skin scrapings. The hippies call them bean burgers. On the way we catch a bit of <»
It’s Glastonbury time again, and whilst we all froth at the mouth at the prospect of five days of whacked-out, solstice bliss in the Somerset countryside, we should remember the wider implications of the festival. Throughout the eighties Glasto was known as the CND (Campaign For Nuclear Disarmament) »
The first of our two-part survival guide for festival first-timers. Festival prices may be going up, but the age of the average festival goers is going down faster than coked-up soap stars off balconies. Email me valid points you feel may be of interest in the next instalment. IF YOU DON’T HAVE A »
I've just been scooting around a well known music business discussion board, as you do. And I stumbled across someone - hiding behind a fake name, obviously - moaning about rock kidz (TM) not being happy when one of 'their bands' gets to numero uno in the UK's official singles chart, like Evanescence just»
DiS-scribetographer Andrew Future ventures into the Radiohead photopit at the second Shepherd's Bush show to snap and stare. But something happens. This is not a review. Ignore the tin. Don’t give me any of that message board crap about lack of focus or writing selfishly in the first person, et»
Dear Mr. Kim Howells, As promised here is my reaction to the problem... It’s three o’ clock in the morning and I’m not sure what just happened. Apparently Glastonbury just sold out. Huh? Cheap Trick’s 'Surrender' is on the stereo next door. I’m scared. But I’m also angry.»
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