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Spotifriday #38 - This Week on DiS as a playlist
The 38th weekly instalment in our content-related Spotify playlist, featuring Big Star, White Stripes, Jonna Lee, Broken Bells, Shy Child, White Hinterland and MANY MORE. »
Year 2000 - A Playlist of Songs Wot Soundtracked the Launch of DiS
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...»
Shoegaze Week: Mixtape #36 - The Ultimate Shoegaze Mixtape...?
Ok, so what with this being Shoegaze Week here on DiS, we thought what better way than to round the whole thing off than by compiling the ultimate Mixtape for the genre.»
The Weekly DiScussion: the best festivals EVER
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»
DiS Missive: Rotten nostalgia and Smashing bores as Billy ploughs on
DiS Missive returns (first here), focusing on the faltering comeback of The Smashing Pumpkins from one perspective, and bemoaning the destruction of cherished memories by a band - ironically - not in touch with any Zeitgeist»
Reading & Leeds '07: DiS down the front
It's been pretty miserable at times - heavy, pluvial skies pathetic fallacy for debut all-dayers and long weekenders that have sometimes spluttered rather than flown out of the traps. The weather and the times - to an extent at least - brightened last weekend, with the traditional sign off from music in the sun that is Reading and Leeds. And that, I suppose, is reason enough to break from cynicism just this once. It was a bind, but there were finer times. Time to gather thoughts and lighten brows...»
The Weekly DiScussion: your band is dead, long live your band...
With news of The Verve’s reformation still ringing in DiS’s collective ears, this week’s DiScussion is a simple one: who’s worthy of another shot at everything rocking, and who should just stay silent...»
Primavera Sound 2007: the DiS Review
Don’t want to read everything? Fair enough. In short, Primavera Sound ‘07 featured sun, sea, and almost no sand at all. There was some grass, and concrete, and a number of stages. Bands and DJs performed on them, and DiS danced. Yes, yes we did. And we didn’t get sunburned...»
DiS @ Primavera Sound: the preview
DiS is, to say the least, pretty damn excited: tomorrow (tomorrow, in this case, being May 31, 2007) we fly to Barcelona for the annual Primavera Sound festival. The bill is literally a perfect who’s who of our favourite bands – some returning heroes, some breaking-through young bucks. Feel our sweaty skin, do – we are that excited...»
Forget Greatest Shit, Get The Greatest Hits!
Q: What do Backstreet Boys, Steps, Five, Gabrielle, Abba, Eddi Grant, The Corrs and All Saints have in common? A: They're all fucking rubbish and are ripping us off with new Greatest Hits compilations. Of all of them, only Abba and perhaps E»
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