In Depth
The Critic Sleeps Alone Tonight... Fighting Over The Postal Service's Give Up
A DiS party line?! These are the voices of two fervently passive-aggresive fanatics, shouting into the abyss to their hearts’ content, examining Sub Pop’s 10th anniversary reissue of The Postal Service’s landmark debut, Give Up.»
(This Is) The Dream Of Jimmy and Ben: 10 years of The Postal Service
On February 19th 2003, a band called The Postal Service released an album called Give Up. It was the product of a curious union between vocalist Ben Gibbard of Death Cab for Cutie and the producer Jimmy Tamborello, known as Dntel. The pair had been exchan»
"Sometimes a song kind of turns 3D" - DiS meets Dntel
Jimmy Tamborello is a bedroom producer. At least he was until a couple of years ago, when he finally moved his studio out into its own room at his home in LA. Still, the man better known as Dntel didn’t do too badly out of that bedchamber. It was, as they used to perpetually say on MTV Cribs, “where the magic happened.”»
Ben Gibbard chats to DiS about Randy Newman, The Cure and Death Cab's 7th Album Codes & Keys
As part of our Death Cab for Cutie takeover, we got on the phone with Ben Gibbard to find out more about their new album Codes & Keys... Speaking to Ben Gibbard, the band’s prolific principle song-writer and affable front-man, it’s clear this seventh effort together was shaped as much by physical changes as it was personal or psychological.... »
Drowned in Monday: Blue? Manic? Metal? - A Spotify Playlist
This Spotify playlist starts with the obvious "Monday Morning Anthems", moves into blissful half-awake territory, has a mid-morning doze before the guttural screams of WAKE UP! to catch anyone who might have drifted off at their desk. The second hour is an eclectic hodge-podge of requests and Monday-ishness. »
The Weekly DiScussion: What the hell happened to Tom Vek? (And others artists we're missing...)
It’s always strange, and rather unsettling, when an artist turns up in a blaze of glory, garners a degree of popular and / or critical success and then disappears back into the ether. Gareth Dobson wonders where all our favourite missing bands are, and what the hell they're doing...»
The 4-4-2 of Indie Rock: DiS's musical XI
With the nation’s – nay, the world’s – greatest football cup competition nearing its final stages, and with many a DiS-supported team still in the running to lift the FA Cup this May at Wembley, DiS’s Gareth Dobson picks his 4-4-2 of indie-rock. As we all know, football and music is closely entwined. And no, I'm not simply talking about Oasis' pronounced love for Manchester City...»
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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