We know September's not over, not over, not over yet! However, we have so many things that we're loving at the moment that we thought, instead of putting them all on single pages for you to flick through, we'd do what we have been trialling for the past few months and dump them altogether in one page that you can bookmark and come back to.»
Music news these days can be kind of impossible to keep up with. It seems to be this constant scream of information, unintelligible by the sheer speed that it shoots by at, often borderline unintelligible in the first place – “what was that thumping past like an Olympic air defence missile about the one out of The Vaccines' twitpics from his holiday in Marbella again?” - and that being the case, DiS recently took the move to step away from news lest we're all sucked into some gaping cyber abyss of rumours, get-there-first reporting and regurgitated press releases. So instead, we'll be bringing you a digest of the important goings-on each month in neat mixtape form. This month - Frank Ocean issues a statement on his sexuality, Death Cab For Cutie's Ben Gibbard goes it alone, Animal Collective take to the radio, Lykke Li leads a Fleetwood Mac love-in and more...»
To get myself in the mood, I made this Spotify playlist of songs by folks that are playing SoundCity and I thought I might as well share it with you 'orrible lot to listen to too. »
So it begins. The elegant setting hides a seething battle, one that decides who, in the pedestal-clambering opinions of the shadowy judges, has crafted the best album in the last 12 months. The shortlist has been discussed, disseminated and dismissed sin»
The past 10 days has seen an extraordinary amount of column inches devoted to betting practices and corruption. It's been a sad period for cricket but nevertheless there is some more betting-related news that is bound to cheer us up! Paul Weller has become the clear favourite to take tomorrow's Mercury Prize with his odds being chopped from 20/1 to 10/1 which is, if I calculate correctly, 200 times more likely (via The Guardian).»
So, the Mercury Prize happens soon. Recently the names were announced. Were there many surprises? Not a great deal, although I Am Kloot seemed to be nominated for an appreciation of their overall career. All a bit Ryan Giggs. We, along with Barclaycard'»
To a hushed audience in a studio room in Covent Garden Lauren Laverne announced this years's Mercury Music Prize nominees. The expected names - The XX, Dizzee Rascal, Corinne Bailey Rae - were all there, as well as a few mild surprises - Villagers anyone?»
As DiS’s own Michael Dawson, thanks to my relatively late call-up to cover Glastonbury, there’s been no small amount of last-gasp poring over flipcharts, GANTT graphs, reading tea leaves, throwing bones etc. etc. as I try and deduct who the chuff I’m going to see over the festival’s duration. Plus, as it’s my first time, all of Wednesday and probably Thursday (and maybe even some of Friday) will most likely be spent wandering about gawping to no-one particularly interested that 'cripes, it’s even bigger when you’re actually here isn’t it?' Aside from that though I’m going to aim to see at least a handful of acts per day - that is if my brain doesn’t get turned to mush by the sheer logistics of it all (that’s what they call drinking these days is it?) The following is likely to be as clear as mud (b‘dm tsch) but does attempt to narrow down the many directions in which the next few days could take… »
If now whenever you listen to The xx you just can't do anything but think of putting an X on the ballot paper (very clever, BBC) then you've probably seen or heard that BBC Election 2010 advert with all the smoke and everything. Have to say it's devaluing the song a little bit, for me. »
Hey! We might not have actually gone to the Industry Fest that is SXSW. Nothing to cry about really, there's always next year etc. Still, the people at Babelgum have nicely compiled a whole host of beautiful and talented bands and artists performing in Austin, some of them more beautiful and more talented than others, but that's just the way GOD wanted it. »
London's lovely setting of Somerset House have announced the first lot of headliners for their Summer Series, which takes place over the course of 10 or so days in July this year. It's not as good as last year, in all honesty, but still worth a quick gander, like.»
The initial batch of headliners for this year's 2010 Latitude Festival has been announced and...it's pretty good all in all. Headlining the Obelisk Arena, which is the main stage, over the course of three days will be Florence + The Machine, Belle & Sebastian and Vampire Weekend. Just marginally underneath those three on the bill for that stage are Empire Of The Sun, The Maccabees and fast-fingered duo Rodrigo Y Gabriela.»
New York's Bonnaroo festival has announced the first batch of acts for its 2010 incarnation, which currently features about a trillion bands. Not all of them are listed below, though. It's sometimes possible to use it as a rough indicator of what bands will be around the whole festival scene the time the Glastonbury juggernaut rolls around.»
OH, they won AGAIN did they?»
Express: xx - x = y»
The xx have cancelled three forthcoming shows, starting yesterday, due to exhaustion.»
The xx sort of did a remix slash cover of Florence covering Candi Staton. It's interesting.»
This week's content in the form of a Spotify playlist.»
Remember we told you about Tramlines Festival, that free Dot To Dot-esque shindig going down in Sheffield from July 24th-26th? No? Well, we did, and now DiS has exciting news of the first wave of bands confirmed for the bash along our 'circuit' of venues,»
El Guincho is joined by The Big Pink, The XX and more at Goldsmiths SU this Friday. DiS has tickets and his LP to give away and it's dead easy to win them... »
These New Puritans (pictured) and Archie Bronson Outfit are among the DiS-approved acts playing the first-ever Nail The Cross one-dayer next month»
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