Alt Country Week: Silver Jews - A Morality Play in Six Acts
David Berman may have retired from Silver Jews for now, but his unmatched version of American Surrealism will continue to define one strand of the perennnially tangled Alt Country...»
In Depth
DiS meets Marble Valley
Although best known for being one of the drummers in seminal lo-fi outfit Pavement, Steve West has never been one to rest on his laurels as far as veering off and doing other things are concerned. His "other project", Marble Valley, first came to fruition almost three years before Pavement's dissolution...»
The Wild Kindness: A Eulogy of Sorts for the Silver Jews
Last week, news came through of the end of the Silver Jews; their frontman, David Berman, announced he was wrapping up the band after nearly twenty years. Here, briefly, is a eulogy of sorts for a very special and very underappreciated band.»
Silver Jews' David Berman in conversation
David Berman is talking, DiS is listening. The Silver Jews frontman has plenty to say. You would, if you barely toured your much-acclaimed LPs»
Explosions' ATP: the DiS review
DiS does ATP for a second weekend, this time boarding the Minehead train for Explosions In The Sky's little lot, including De La Soul, Battles and Mono»
Versus The Fans, the preview: The ATP Perspective...
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…»
The Wild Kindness: A Eulogy of Sorts for the Silver Jews
Last week, news came through of the end of the Silver Jews, their frontman David Berman wrapping up the band after nearly twenty years. They were all about romanticism; obfuscation mixed with biting; the profoundly philosophical put against the puerile; kings of sombre understatement; ‘90s indie-rock infused with a strand of fiercely progressive country music.
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