Spotifriday #19: This Week on DiS as a playlist
This week's content on DiS in the form of a Spotify playlist. Featuring Hefner, The Mountain Goats, Vampire Weekend, Pavement, Idlewild and about 13 more.»
In Depth
DiS meets The Twilight Sad
Fresh off a US tour with Mogwai, DiS caught up with Twilight Sad frontman and lyricist James Graham before their recent Fat Cat Records showcase at this year's Great Escape...»
The Great Escape 2009: DiS' Festival highlights
Last weekend, DiS venture to the seaside to catch the best of 350+ bands playing in 35+ venues, spread across Brighton over 3 nights. The Great Escape was a whirlwind but we've reconvened and decided these were the best bits of that festival that we managed to see:»
Latitude 2008: DiS's festival picks
The third annual Latitude Festival took place over the weekend in Suffolk. DiS picks its ten highlights, and shows off its flashy photo skills here»
T In The Park Diary Part 1: Saturday 12 July
Feeling decidedly less sturdy of liver than it did this time last week, DiS brings you the first installment of its two-day jaunt round a bladder-battered T In The Park»
Label Focus #14: FatCat
Based in Brighton, indie label FatCat Records has grown into one of the most celebrated stables for emerging and established talent in the UK. DiS pokes about its roster with founder Dave Howell, discovering how a record store became one of the best labels out there»
It's great in 2008, yeah: DiS's Next-Stepper picks
Yesterday we ran through our picks to break through at a low-ish level in 2008, to tickle the fancy of those with taste. Here, we’re upping the commercial ante: these acts are in with a shout of crossing over – brighter tomorrows, bolder ambitions, bigger budgets. Next-Steppers we are calling them»
The votes are in: DiS readers' top 25 of 2007
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
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»
DiS's albums of 2007: reader voting is now open!
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»
The Twilight Sad: talking with fireworks
One of 2007's breakthrough acts, The Twilight Sad's 2007 has seen them support their brilliant Fourteen Auntumns & Fifteen Winters debut album however possible. DiS sits down to let 'em catch a breath or two»
Connect Festival 2007: the DiS review
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…»
The Twilight Sad: bright horizons follow fifteen winters
Scottish four-piece The Twilight Sad are responsible for one of 2007’s best debut albums, Fourteen Autumns And Fifteen Winters. DiS caught up with the band's Andy MacFarlane to talk audiences stateside, the critical reaction to their output to date, and why the aim of the game is to deafen all onlookers...»
The Weekly DiScussion: our alternative Mercury list...
So the Mercury nominations for this year aren’t so bad, a couple of proper WTF examples aside (The View? Really? Come on…). However good this year’s nominations generally are, though, we at DiS got the old grey matter burning away to compile an alternative list of twelve that could have made the cut...»
The Weekly DiScussion: just who can you trust?
As Bella Union - one of the most reliable labels out there - turns 10 years old, we ask: what labels, if any, can you trust? Who is consistently releasing quality material? And who's treading a fine line between heartfelt adoration and absolute indifference...»
A Month In Records: May 2007
With Paris Hilton languishing in a prison cell somewhere in California, what better time to reflect on a month in wonderful albums? Like, whateverrrr…
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