Spotifriday #102 featuring WHY?, Toddla T, Jens Lekman + more
This week's content-themed Spotify playlist from the past seven days, featuring tracks from Vivian Girls, Viva Brother, Blood Orange, Casiokids, Wu Tang Clan and a few more.»
Why?
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Liars, Wild Beasts, of Montreal, Sky Larkin, Blood Red Shoes, & more pick their favourite artwork
As part of artwork day we got some of DiS' favourites to contribute some words on their favourite record sleeves. Keeps 'em out of trouble, doesn't it? They were only too happy to help, their selections are below, and run the gamut from psychedelia to soul to performance art. Going by the age of the records, it either says something about the death of good artwork by the rise of 50 pixel squares on an iPod screen, or something about album artwork having less of an impact on our psyches once we're no longer in our formative years. There's nothing more important than the posters that grace the walls of our teenage bedrooms. Either way, below are the choices of bands including Liars, Slow Club, of Montreal and Wild Beasts. Look:»
Anticon, Def Jux, and the Problem of "Underground" HipHop
The question of what's underground in hiphop is a difficult one - ever since hiphop started infiltrating the charts and the major labels, numerous acts have been labelled "hardcore hiphop", "alternative hiphop", and even "avant-hiphop". Two labels can claim to have produced some of the most radical, abrasive, weird, and often politicized hiphop of the past decade... problem is, the artists involved are mostly white»
Favourite 50: WHY? - Alopecia (chosen by James Lawrenson)
Over the past decade, genres have become increasingly divided. Imagine an immense, ever-growing pyramid, where every brick is a genre. Each brick supporting the two genres above it represents a merging of those genres. That pyramid is where the 2000s ha»
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.»
Primavera Sound: DiS' 2008 festival highlights
From the archive... Team DiS picks its highlights of Primavera Sound 2008; invites fellow attendees to give us your top bands of the fest held in Barcelona»
Eight Staff Mixtapes For '08
DiS asked eight contributors to put together a ten track mix of favourite songs from 2008. Being awful nerds, they did so almost immediately... Plus we want to know: What's on your 2008 mixtape? »
An Essential Dozen: 2008's best albums, so far
Part two of three sees the less mainstream artists to have most impressed DiS over the last six months begin to make themselves heard»
The Weekly DiScussion: 2008's greatest albums, so far
2008 is shaping up to be a great year for album releases, and as we reach halfway DiS is taking a look its shoulder, and asking for your suggestions»
Primavera Sound 2008: DiS diary, day two
Day two, and the rain that was forecast for 24 hours earlier arrives... for about five minutes. Sitting outside, beer in hand, DiS barely notices the precipitation»
Primavera Sound 2008: the DiS preview
Seriously, have you seen the bill (click for a handy pdf) for this year’s Primavera Sound? It's ace, and here are just five do-see picks»
A Month in Records: March 2008
We’ve enjoyed a veritable banquet of beauties in March - whittling our favourites down to ten was tough work. Expect to see a number of these LPs in December’s end-of-year best-of list, so good is March’s crop»
Blowing kisses to disinterested bitches: Yoni Wolf considers Why?
With the luscious Alopecia, San Francisco's Why? are about to deliver the silver-tongued LP that seduces the ear of anyone impervious to their advances to date. DiS steps inside Yoni Wolf’s melodic realm of motivated defeatism»
anticon: ten years after it hit the prism
2007 has solidified San Franciscan label anticon's position as a vital independant force. DiS sacks off the conjecture that's all been said already to meet with the chairmen of the board»
ATP Versus The Fans: DiS Versus The Fans!
In keeping with the spirit of the ATP Versus The Fans festival, here we present the experiences of three DiS writers as well as three fans. Here’s hoping they don’t put the ‘professionals’ out of a job...»
Versus The Fans, the preview: The Fan's Perspective
There’s a clue in the festival’s name, you know; just the slightest suggestion that this ATP, more so than ever before, is about the fans, the men and women that make the festival ‘happen’, three times a year. Here, DiS gets the opinions of one fan on the upcoming weekend...»
DiS is 6! Our 66, part 1
Let the DiScussing begin! We’ve been racking brains – prior to pulverising each other’s – at the DiSopolis these past few weeks to come up with our top 66 albums of the past six years; the very best records to see the light of day during DiS’s lifetime (yes, six years). Arguments have been won and lost, a handful of frankly incredible artists have improbably missed the cut through forgetfulness and space constraints, and we’ve all got quite, quite drunk along the way...»
DiS 'meets' WHY?
Yoni Wolf's WHY? are pretty much very well loved around these parts, and with a record like 2008's Alopecia, bursting from start to finish with exquisite lyrics, production and all-round quality, it's unsurprising, and deserved. Things took a turn for t»
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