Spotifriday #79 - This Week on DiS as a playlist
This week's content-themed Spotifriday playlist, featuring songs from Lykke Li, Razika, Beat Connection, Half Man Half Biscuit, Beady Eye and some more bands.»
In Depth
DiS meets Beth Ditto
“Can you give me a minute? I need to do a number two. You can put that in your article – Beth Ditto needs a poo!”. Kate Hutchinson tries to get some answers from the Ditto about going solo...»
Singles of the Year: 1st Quarter 2010!
A Spotify playlist of all the best singles? As in, them things that were hactually released - proper singles - not just common-or-garden 'songs'? Oh, go on then.»
Spotifriday #28 - This Week on DiS as a playlist
We're back! In a slightly slimline form. Still sexy, though.»
DrownedinSound's Singles of the Year: 2009
I have chosen 100 singles I really do implore you to get your sticky mits on. If I had had to put them in order I would have had a breadvan, so I am sure you will excuse the absence of cheap - and vaguely pointless - countdowning. »
Simian Mobile Disco Augment Reality
DiS popped along to the Simian Mobile Disco Temporary Pleasures album launch for a rather unusual experience...»
This Week's Singles: 03/08/2009
I love it when this happens. For this week is a genuinely mixed-up, schizophrenic bag of sevens that has something to recommend almost every genre you can think of. In the end I am plumping for the ambition and modernity of the caffeinated, fuck-up funk of Debruit, because he is new. But quite honestly there are at least three standout winners here.»
Field Day 2008: DiS's highlights
From the archive... The rain fell all day, but spirits at Field Day 2008, held in London's Victoria Park, couldn't completely be dampened. Here are our highlights»
Summer Sundae 2008: the DiS (stage) preview
The annual Summer Sundae weekender takes place at De Montfort Hall and Gardens, Leicester, on August 8-10. Here's the DiS preview»
Primavera Sound 2008: the DiS preview
Seriously, have you seen the bill (click for a handy pdf) for this year’s Primavera Sound? It's ace, and here are just five do-see picks»
Let It Bleep: Dancefloor dishevelment, electronic emissions and bassbin bastardisations
DiS invites Adventures Close To Home's Will McGillivray into our warm, but slightly clammy, embrace to shoot the proverbial about the latest 12"s and remixes to make the dance world stop and take notice. Bassline, it seems, is the buzz word: don't make our man get Old Skool»
Drowned in Sound launches ‘Drownloads’ ‘blog
DrownedinSound.com has been sworn in with the heroic team at RCRDLBL.com to launch a new audio and video ‘blog. We kick of with a brace of exclusives from Simian Mobile Disco»
Label Focus #10: Wichita Recordings
Rocking up the crest of their seventh birthday, DiS scribbler Gareth Dobson hacks away at the defences of Castle Wichita to reveal a set of rather contented innards, complete with tales of DFA1979 loss, guitar solos that never finished and why no-one got The Cribs for the first four years...»
Dour Festival 2007: the DiS review
Remembered through a haze, of dust, drink and sunshine, this was never going to be the most factual account. But it’s probably the most accurate version of events at the 19th Dour Festival, courtesy of Tom King and Adam Anonymous…»
Simian Mobile DiScussion: 3,000 spoons and some vintage synths
James Ellis Ford and James ‘Jas’ Anthony Shaw, better known to clubbers and indie kids alike as Simian Mobile Disco, are beating DiS and their PR at two-on-two pool in the back of an east London boozer. “Is this going to be one of those games where we spend 20 minutes chasing the black around the table?” Ten seconds later it’s Game Over as SMD sink the winning shot and we settle to talk Attack Decay Sustain Release...»
Hunting mammoths in the city of iron: Melt! festival, day two
Up we went, lead by Mammut, jumping the security fence. Stole in and bounded all stealthy over to the machine, the biggest machine in the park, over by the lake. We clamber over the gate and start our ascent, buoyed on dust and wander up through its rippling, rusty guts like monkeys in a metal thicket; ‘til we’re right up, legs dangling 100 tingling feet off the ground, grinning and half-gurning in the canopy...»
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...»
Glastonbury '07: three DiSsers, some booze and hella mud...
It serves them right to suffer. While some of us sat scratching our arses from the comfort of our living rooms, occasionally pushing the red button to keep Jo Whiley at bay, some idiots actually went to Glastonbury. But we're not bitter. No. It would have been nice to have an invite, but that's all history now. Here, DiS’s Ben Patashnik, Joshua Cole and Georgina Terry attempt to fashion coherent narratives from their weekends of mud-soaked madness…»
A Month In Records: June 2007
Traditionally things get reeeal quiet round this time of year in terms of quality album releases, but happily DiS has picked out a few blinders to soundtrack your hasty retreat from the sun's odious rays...»
DiS does Wireless... half the time, anyway
T’other weekend, London’s Hyde Park played host to the now annual (and twin-site) O2 Wireless Festival. DiS was on site to catch some of the acts. Not literally, you understand – that would require a net too large for men of our stature to handle...»
The Weekly DiScussion: our albums of the year, so far
Six months into 2007 (almost...) and there’s already a not-so-proverbial shit-tonne of albums in contention for the coveted Album of the Year ‘gong’ at DiS – again, the winner will be selected by you, the readers, from a shortlist compiled by us. Yup.»
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