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DiS' 20 Must-See Acts at Reading & Leeds 2009

So, in no particular order, here are the twenty acts DiS' editor is most looking forward to seeing this weekend. »

Spotifriday - Listen to the 12 Neptune Music Prize Nominees

The (nominees were announced on DiS yesterday](http://drownedinsound.com/news/4137495-dis-alternative-music-prize--the-neptune-nominees-announced) but before you rate the albums, we thought you might like to listen to all of them. You've got until 8th of September to vote so take your time, form your opinion and then score them out of 10. »

This Week's Singles: 06/07/2009

In Depth by Wendy Roby

Alright, I admit it. I have cheated this week, enlisting a particularly excitable friend of mine whose favourite musician is ‘Paul McCartneys’. His name is Jem, he is four – sorry, I stand corrected – four and a half years old, and he is helping his Aunty Wendy while I attempt to instruct him in the finer points of alt-hip-hop in the process. He thinks it is crashingly hilarious that anyone should be named ‘Beans’ but has not helped on all the records, because there were some Stickle Bricks which needed playing with. You know how it is. »

A Young man's game: Glastonbury Diary 2009, Friday

In Depth by Andrzej Lukowski

Part two of DiS's monolithic attempt to process the UK's biggest fest. Part one can be found here --- Wake up at the blessedly late hour of 11am to the steady clip clop of a mild downpour, which gives up the ghost around noon. Though there were some oth»

The Singles by The Lipster 16.02.09

In Depth by Wendy Roby

With a dizzying surfeit of noises from Passion Pit and Empire of the Sun, this week’s singles might also be evidence of the coming Spring, were a lot of these records not actually available last summer. Something needs to be done about release dates, then, and everyone apart from School of Seven Bells could do with some sort of red-pen-wielding, aural editor.»

The Weekly DiScussion: How great is the BBC?

In Depth by Dean Samways

The BBC are going make their vast archive of music history available online. What are you looking forward to seeing/hearing? DiS has picked five to get you thinking»

The Weekly DiScussion: no more (local) heroes anymore?

In Depth by Mike Diver

Arctic Monkeys made it on their terms, refusing to hit London in pursuit of fame. So why do so many bands continue to pile into the capital? DiS asks readers to support their own scenes by revealing the local heroes»

The Futureheads vs The Maccabees, part two

In Depth by Kev Kharas

The second part (one here) of our exclusive meeting of musical minds - on one side The Futureheads, the other The Maccabees - finds DiS's guests waxing lyrical about druids and drag queens, Wookies and Communist microphones»

First love: The Maccabees meet The Futureheads

In Depth by Kev Kharas

A memorable three-way, at London's Social: DiS, The Futureheads and The Maccabees, shooting the proverbial about life after the dreaded drop and how all guns're blazing for new LP This Is Not The World. Part one, here; part two, next week»

Slight return: DiS's tips for 2007 reprised

In Depth by Mike Diver

This time last year DiS was outlining its tips for the following twelve. Next week we’ll be doing similar – bringing to your attention the bands we think will matter in 2008 – but before we get stuck into the future, let’s dwell upon the past a little»

Artist Mixtape #3: The Maccabees

In Depth by Kev Kharas

Continuing with this, the third episode in our Artist Mixtape series, it's the turn of The Maccabees' Felix White to bare all in audio form, the likes of the National, Richard Hawley and the Rumble Strips making the cut»

The votes are in: DiS readers' top 25 of 2007

In Depth by Mike Diver

Cast your minds back, readership: at the start of November we invited you to vote for your favourite albums of 2007 from a shortlist of 50, selected by the DiS editorial team. Now we’re pleased to present the result of the thousands of votes received: the DiS readers’ top 25 albums of 2007»

DiS's features of 2007

In Depth by Mike Diver

We’ve had our albums of the year and our tracks of the year, and here DiS bids you adieu for 2007 with our favourite features of the past twelve months, for your instant-click consumption and eye-aching reading pleasure. Starring Animal Collective (pictured), LCD Soundsystem, Battles, Panda Bear, M.I.A., Gallows, Beirut, Björk and more»

Dear hearts, precious time: Maccabees awkward in an ironic present

In Depth by Kev Kharas

Approaching the end of an arduous two-year stretch, The Maccabees seem, finally, in a position to progress. Orlando Weeks and Hugo White take one last look out over the London of the last half decade as both stunted victims and lone survivors»

DiS's albums of 2007: 20-16

In Depth by Mike Diver

Will the year's Mercury winners rank higher than the year's best album by The Shins? Will people continue to bemoan the lack of Biffy in the list? Will anyone buy the Mathew Sawyer album? Time, it'll tell»

DiS's albums of 2007: reader voting is now open!

In Depth by Mike Diver

With Christmas now peeking over the horizon, DiS invites its readers to vote for your top ten of 2007, from our editorially selected shortlist of 50. Choose five of your favourites here. Voting, it will close this Friday, December 7, with the results running December 14»

Reading & Leeds '07: DiS down the front

In Depth by Kev Kharas

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...»

A Month In Records: May 2007

In Depth by Alex Denney

With Paris Hilton languishing in a prison cell somewhere in California, what better time to reflect on a month in wonderful albums? Like, whateverrrr…

DiS @ The Great Escape, part three: Saturday

In Depth by Kev Kharas

The last day of music and we wake up sluggish, still drunk and in the same clothes. The only remedy is tea and full English so down we all go to ground level in search of a café. I’m only telling you this because of the dirt I have on Rob Webb...»

"It's madness": DiS meets The Maccabees, mid-ascent

In Depth by Dom Gourlay

These past 18 months have been something of a supernova-directed launch-pad for Brighton five-piece The Maccabees. DiS's Dom Gourlay catches up with the band in Nottingham to talk about their forthcoming debut album, their rapidly rising profile, and silly-money demos on eBay...»

DiS's Tips for 2007, Part Two

In Depth by Colin Roberts

As promised, here’s part two of DiS’s Tips for 2007. Each and every one of the acts mentioned below have been getting the powers that be at the DiSopolis particularly excited of late, and we’re predicting bigger and better things for them over the next twelve months. Might they touch you? They just might…»

The Christmas DiScussion: who are you tipping for 2007?

In Depth by Mike Diver

Hey, you! Chew that turkey properly and then give us a hand. We want to know about your tips for 2007...»

The Tuesday DiScussion: Your favourite music videos of the past six years

In Depth by Sean Adams

We're compiling a phat list of videos we would like shown on MTV2's 120 Minutes, especially ones you'd almost never see. What we'd like is for you to suggest some of your favourite videos of the past six years (with links to youtube.com or Google Video, if you can find them) and say why you like it. Why? Because we'll be running quotes from you lovely people across the screen when our selections are broadcast...»

DiS at The Great Escape 2006

In Depth by Raziq Rauf

Who would have thought that DiS would descend upon Brighton's music industry showcase extravaganza in such fashion. Without a soul in sight waiting to 'network' with a single one of our merry shambles of a crew, we set to work on actually seeing bands. Despite the cruel, bitter wind that insisted on hurtling toward us with near-freezing drizzle as its freight, we actually saw some bands. My word, we saw some rather spectacular bands at that...»

Camden Crawl 2006

In Depth by DiS Festivals

The Camden Crawl™ is an incessant pitch of desperate dreams and stained ale teeth; a rotter’s journey to the centre of the Dublin Castle [indie development hell] that celebrates punctuality and order over diminished responsibility and leather jackets. A playground for the sensible band warrior, offering Joe Punter the opportunity to see all his favourite junior artists in one long stretch, over a concrete path of Converse-tread doom. »