Great lyricists are a rare breed amongst the modern alt-rock pantheon and it’s an even smaller collective of these who are immune to clamming up in interview. With a brand new solo album to promote, Craig Finn lacks the opportunity to ‘do a Turner’ and let his drummer do the talking but we suspect this Boston-born motormouth is rarely short of a word or two.»
As part of our 10-week "DiS is 10!" celebration, we have asked 50 of our favourite people to tell us about one of their favourite albums of the past 10 years. In our second "favourite 50" installment, DiS contributor and 'My Name Is Emo' columnist David Pott-Negrine, shares his choice...»
This weekend sees the Dot To Dot Festival hit Bristol (Saturday 23rd) and Nottingham (Sunday 24th). DiS is rather excited as this year's line-up is arguably the best one yet, so with a little help from MySpace and YouTube, we've compiled a mega mixtape of the best of this year's artists.»
Here's what the musical gods offered us in April 2009...»
Ahead of his two Valentine's Day shows and his special Valentine's day download, we asked Jeremy Warmsley to make a mixtape to woo his beloved...»
While newscasters went into a dizzy spin over somebody’s trip to Europe, DiS was in its bunker listening to the best music July had to offer»
DiS talks to The Hold Steady's Craig Finn about the Brooklyn band's acclaimed Stay Positive LP, and how they want to be like Husker Du.»
It's Father's Day on Sunday. You're wondering what record to buy pops. Coldplay's latest? Try harder. DiS offers some pointers. Do suggest yours»
Send one DiS writer to the first-ever Connect festival? We think not. Here, three intrepid festival-goers – Jordan Dowling, Dom Gourlay and Dave Kerr – bring us their experiences of three days that can only be summarised as: a muddy festival in Inveraray, Scotland. With some ace bands, as it happened…»
Having relocated to the sprawling expanses of Ormeau Park from the old Botanic Gardens site, this year’s Tennents Vital (held August 21-22) is quite clearly grasping at grandness. Unfortunately the choice of today’s headliner, Razorlight, singularly fails to excite. There are, by way of consolation, all manner of interesting bands further down the main stage bill, or playing in the Radio1 tent...»
For a whole week, we barely touched a drop: too expensive, too cold, not a thing like what us Brits are used to. A dry county, Hove might as well have been; not a sip, not a tipple. For a week, teetotal. Lies: we just didn’t eat...»
The Hold Steady welcome 2007 having released three albums in as many years; each one has been almost universally welcomed by punters and critics alike. They’ve toured just short of constantly around the recording of Almost Killed Me (2004), Separation Sunday (2005) and Boys and Girls in America (2006), but until this month they’d played just one gig in Europe, opening for Les Savy Fav and Todd in London in 2004. That night, sniffling indie kids, clustered-up clever kids, bartenders and bartenders’ friends on this side of the Atlantic got their first taste of what, for some, would become an addiction...»
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