Spotifriday #23 - This Week on DiS as a playlist
This week's Spotifriday playlist, featuring Camera Obscura, Daniel Johnston, Four Tet, Liars, Kelpe, These New Puritans and a gaggle more.»
In Depth
Spotifriday: ID:09 Special - 20 Must-Have Independent Albums of the Year (SO FAR!)
Based on a range of factors, from board discussions, reviews so far this year and utterly subjective personal opinion, DiS' editor has compiled the twenty best independent albums of the first half of 2009 to coincide with Independent's Day.»
Spotifriday: ID:09 Special - 20 Must-Have Independent Albums of the Year (SO FAR!)
Based on a range of factors, from board discussions, reviews so far this year and utterly subjective personal opinion, DiS' editor has compiled the twenty best independent albums of the first half of 2009 to coincide with Independent's Day.»
Spotifriday #6 - This Week on DiS as a playlist
Plenty of goodness to choose from this week, we've had a whole raft of albums reviews, mostly well received records and then the Brand Neu! compilation. Phoenix and Future Of The Left both scored 9s, as did Camera Obscura. Funny what a little sunshine does to people's moods, eh? Anyway, in the time honoured tradition of representation of DiS's content - both editorial and board-wise - here's the week in the form of a Spotify playlist. Get it here.»
Shoegaze Week: Drowned in Shoegaze - 50 Essential Albums
DiS has compiled a Spotify playlist of fifty hazy, ethereal, swooping, swirling, static-drenched albums from the pioneers of Shoegaze and the makers of Shoegaze 2.0»
Shoegaze Week: Some Velvet Mourning #3
Scott Causer, owner of the shoegaze/psychedelia label Northern Star pens this month's Some Velvet Mourning column and offers DiS readers an exclusive free download in the process. Can't be bad...»
DiSmissive: In defence of Twitter
Over the past few months you may have heard of something called Twitter. DiS has spent some time exploring it and stalking musicians in order to bring you "A guide for music-y things on Twitter" »
Something old, something new – fit the fifth: F*ck Buttons
Rough Trade 50 People's Choice nominee F*ck Buttons get the Everett True treatment...»
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»
Year of the Gig: live music matures in Shanghai in 2007
Throughout 2007, more and more Western bands - including Sonic Youth and Linkin Park - have been drawn to China, where a live music scene is finally beginning to make an impact on the domination of discos»
Talking 'bout my reformation: in defence of Don't Look Back
DiS's Him Tall takes a look at the Don't Look Back series and its roots in 1980s indie-rock, posing all necessary why and how questions. All Tomorrow's Parties' Barry Hogan, Sebadoh's Lou Barlow and Mudhoney's Steve Turner are on hand with the answers»
The Weekly DiScussion: Don't Look Back?
For all the plaudits that Sonic Youth acquired off the back of the performances it calls into question the peculiar appetite with which the Don't Look Back events are lapped up. All things considered, should these records really be victim to such nostalgia-ridden retrospectives? Is there not a sense of the spoilt brat who missed the ride?»
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...»
DiS @ Coachella: RATM, Arcade Fire, Björk and... Crowded House?!
Harnessing the energy of a rare minute in which a disparate range of artists from the past and present can look to the future and plausibly congregate on the same bill, the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival in Indio, California has steadily become world renowned as the proverbial melting pot, tripping over itself with cultural icons both obscure and ubiquitous...»
Sonic Youth's Kim Gordon on the band's April shows in China
Legendary New York noise-rockers Sonic Youth – 26 years and counting – visited China for the first time ever earlier this year, playing a pair of shows in April, in Beijing and Shanghai. DiS got on the phone to the band’s Kim Gordon to talk about their trip...»
Sweet dreams or haunting horrors: ATP's Nightmare Before Christmas in summary
This December’s Nightmare Before Christmas – ATP’s now-annual end-of-year blow-out, helmed by one prominent figure or other orbiting alternative music circles – filled a fair few DiSsers with not a little fear: with Sonic Youth’s Thurston Moore at the controls, any semblance of melody, anything resembling a tune you could hum, looked certain to be blown to smithereens by noise bloody noise. DiS reports back from the warzone...»
DiS is 6! Our 66, part 2
So here we are, fellow travellers through the last six years of DiS’s favourite sounds: part two of Our 66. Believe you me, this section – which collects together the albums we’ve placed at numbers 44 to 21 – was no easier to assemble than the preceding chapter (click here if you’re yet to look over our selections from 66 to 45). In fact, we’ve suffered more headaches over the last few weeks, because of this undertaking alone, than at any other time in our lives. Perhaps, anyway: we do enjoy the odd pint...»
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The Eternal
The Eternal
Daydream Nation (Deluxe Edition)
The Destroyed Room: B-sides and Rarities
Rather Ripped
Goo
Rough Trade Shops: Counter Culture 2004
Corporate Ghost DVD
Nurse
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