In Depth
"My guitar...It’s a machine to make pop music" - DiS meets Johnny Marr
Johnny Marr is quite clear that what he does is pop music. And pop, emphatically, is no dirty word.»
Time to put the dog down? Why I'm going to miss HMV...
A couple of years back I found myself jobless and took a part time gig in the Bromley branch of HMV to cover the Christmas period. It was mental; hugely busy every day, but everyone there was lovely and I genuinely enjoyed myself, particularly as working in a record shop had been one of those things I always felt you had to do at some point. The problem is, I wasn’t working in a record shop. Not really. This wasn’t High Fidelity; it wasn’t even Empire Records.»
DiS meets Johnny Marr & Nile Rodgers - "The greatest artistic motivator in music is jealousy"
DiS' David Edwards and Simon Catlin talk guitars, music and collaborating with two icons of late twentieth-century guitar playing: Johnny Marr and Nile Rodgers.... we kick off an interview with such lines as “When I was playing with Bowie” and “When we were recording ‘There is a Light that Never Goes Out’” mentioned almost as casual asides. »
Spotifriday #82: Raekwon, Bjork, Bieber, FlyLo, The Smiths
Aaah, the morning after the Guinness the night before. Don't know about you but I'm in the mood for some nice ambient 'jams'. It's the end of the week, it's the playlist (here) of what we've covered on DiS over the past seven days and yeah, it's rather 'chill'... »
The Insider: Beyond The Death of The Critic
In the latest edition of The Insider, the art of criticism in the world of Web 2.0 is put under the microscope.»
Mark Bowen of Wichita's tribute to Rough Trade
This tribute comes from Mark Bowen, who once was an A&R man for Rough Trade. He now runs his own independent label Wichita Recordings, which is home to the likes of Bloc Party, The Cribs, Los Campesinos! and many more... »
Simon Raymonde of Bella Union's tribute to Rough Trade
We asked several of the leading lights of independent music to tell us what Rough Trade means to them. First up we have Simon Raymonde, formerly of the Cocteau Twins who now runs the Bella Union label, home to the likes of Fleet Foxes, Midlake and many more... »
Tech (No) Logic #3: Cassette From My Ex
Cassette From My Ex.com's Jason Bitner tells us of the hows and whys behind his great site full of mixtapes, and their stories»
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...»
Oh, what a lovely day to drink some English tea: Britpop in 2005
It’s been less than two years since John Harris’ most excellent ‘The Last Party’ documented a certain period in music, roughly 1993-97, when British bands decided to give a jolly good kick in the teeth of grunge. For a while, it looked like we mig»
The Smiths: In My Life
“People say to me: ‘don’t have a go at Morrissey, he helped me get through my depression’. No he didn’t! YOU helped HIM get through HIS depression!”
~ Jerry Sadowitz
I sometimes wonder if The Smiths didn’t royally fuck things up for me. At least for a while there, during my typically English, angsty a»
Songs to die in a nuclear holocaust to...
Every day we’re told what a dangerous world we live in. Terrorists are ready to detonate a “dirty” nuclear bomb in a major city, say the papers, and rogue states will soon be peppering these shores with weapons of mass destruction. And let’s not forget North Korea recently restarted its nuclear weapons programme»
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