It's August Bank Holiday weekend and it's raining, which can only mean one thing: Leeds Festival. While this year's line-up can best be described as a mixed bag, it hasn't deterred DiS from turning out in force. Here, Daniel O'Dell and Dom Gourlay describe some of the highs and lows from the first day's festivities. »
Yesterday, winner of DiS' alt-Mercury, The Neptune Music Prize, who also came highly placed in our albums of the year list, SBTRKT, kicked off Lauren Laverne's week of 6 Music tenth anniversary celebrations at Maida Vale. »
This year's festival takes place Little John’s Farm in Reading and Bramham Park in Leeds on the August Bank Holiday Weekend. There are still more names to be announced but the bill so far - which weirdly features The Shins sandwiched between Odd Future and Enter Shikari?! - looks like this...»
The Association of Independent Music (AIM) confirms second awards show...»
Latitude festival reveals the first taste of its 2012 line-up...»
DiS' editor runs through the year's most read, as well as his favourite things published on DiS, and elsewhere, in 2011. Plus a competition to win a subscription to the brilliant Stack magazine club.»
Following on from the excellent and well-acclaimed self-titled debut album (which Bronya Francis acclaimed with a 9/10 review here), SBTRKT has just confirmed a set of shows for February and March next year, which will altogether make a headline tour. It ends with the biggest headline show to date, in London on March 1 at KOKO.»
If you don't know by now (this number one hundred and twelve, where you been?), Spotifriday is basically a weekly playlist of the best bits of our past seven days. Think of it like one of them cover mount cassettes you used to get with Melody Maker but without all that strange rubbery glue with torn bits of paper that you'd find weeks later attached to your favourite hoodie. Anyway, fire up the playlist by bashing your mouse here and listen whilst perusing the following links.»
Nominees announced for the inaugural Association of Independent Music (AIM) awards.»
New video from the Neptune Prize winner.»
The votes have been counted and verified, and we can reveal the winner of Drowned in Sound's two-thousand-and-eleven Neptune Music Prize, is... »
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Another year, another Mercury Music Prize, and another DiS selection of alternative album choices, which probably should, in a just world, have made the Mercury list.»
What a strange week this week has been. I hope you've not suffered as a result of this idiocy and that you got out there and helped in whatever way you could to not let these i-want-iwantiwant little shits nicking (do)riotos from PoundLand and smashing up charity shops, turn our tea-slurping land into a haven for assholes. The fascists can fuck off too.»
Last week SBTRKT's self-titled debut record scored 9/10 from us and was also put onto the Recommended Records category on our frontpage. You can read Bronya Louise Francis's review of it here, but she described it as: "Representing UK production at»
Stream this much-talked about artists debut album in full...»
To get you in the mood for this weekend's festivities, I've put together this Spotify playlist featuring tracks form acts on the bill... »
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