So, it's that time of year again that the major festival season draws to a close, and while sister site Reading is viewed as the (slightly) more mature of the two, Leeds has often been renowned for bowing out in a blaze of glory...literally.»
So, in no particular order, here are the twenty acts DiS' editor is most looking forward to seeing this weekend. »
DiS is still mulling over the decade that was and pondering who the most important acts were, what the best gig was and which labels/events/moments really truly mattered. To soundtrack my thought process, I've compiled this playlist of my favourite songs of the decade and thought I'd join the opensource revolution and share this playlist with you all.»
A Spotify playlist of 100 of our staff's favourite tracks of the year (SO FAR!!!) from 100 of the year's finest acts, clocking in at 7 hours 40ish minutes . »
The concluding part of DiS' Andrzej Lukowki's adventures at Glastonbury 2009.»
In her test-screen coloured American Indian head dress and Geisha-ish cape, Karen O went beyond any Alien-chic look Bjork or Ms. Moss could ever hope to bring to Glastonbury. Standing before a giant eye ball backdrop, the otherworldly Queen of alt/indie-rock yelped, writhed and curtsied to the crowd's demons. Meanwhile, Nick Zinner expelled melodious walls of technicolor noise and Dave Pajo's key taps zapped a new aesthetic into Brian Chase's utterly under-rated drumming. And the result? Well, yuhknow, it was something like the phenomenon we've come to expect from New York's finest hipster slayers. "A genuine Glastonbury moment" as Jo Whiley would say. Click here for more photos and coverage of Glastobury 2009. »
I have suffered this week at the coast, everyone. Not just the indignity of a wetsuit when I was too lily-livered to venture into the sea unwrapped, but also some of the most brain-meltingly awful lyrics one has ever had the displeasure of wading through. One of the culprits – not one of this week’s picks, they shall remain un-named - actually had the temerity to include the line ‘Burn, burn, burn / Burn baby, burn like a…’. Naturally I were all like ‘Burn like what, hot new musical things? I really must know, I must, I MUST’ – you know, expecting a couplet of such refreshing and original magnificence the clever cells would get knocked clean out of my head. Instead, what I got was ‘Burn, baby, burn like a fire burns’ - at which point threw the CD like a small and graceless Frisbee, into the waves. Very satisfying, I can tell you. »
Glastonbury Sunday In Photos takes in everything from Blur to Yeah Yeah Yeahs via Emmy the Great, Nick Cave, a man dressed as a smurf and lots more. Click here for all of our Glastonbury coverage.»
Ahead of their show this Friday at Camden Crawl (which is sure to cause some brutal queues...) DiS caught up with the Yeah Yeah Yeahs and talked broken eggs and going electronic...»
Best album of the month, you ask? Hard to choose between a stack of 8s, with ambient beauty from Fever Ray and jittery pop from Micachu all making knees tremble. However, sole 9 went to the delectable Marissa Nadler, a score you may dimly recall as being bestowed some two months before its actual release. WE ARE NOTHING IF NOT ENTHUSIASTIC. »
Big names (that's Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Glasvegas, the Noisettes) dominate this week's flavoursome broth of singles/tracks/stuff we found on the internet, but the real winners are smaller, more delicate affairs...»
Rocking up the crest of their seventh birthday, DiS scribbler Gareth Dobson hacks away at the defences of Castle Wichita to reveal a set of rather contented innards, complete with tales of DFA1979 loss, guitar solos that never finished and why no-one got The Cribs for the first four years...»
Last month, DiS asked you to provide us with some questions for art-rocking threesome Yeah Yeah Yeahs ahead of the release of their new EP, Is Is, later this month. Here, we have the answers! Simple. As...»
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...»
It’s that time of year – the sun’s peekin’ its way past the outer fluff of the clouds, and pale-faced indie boys are thinking about takin’ off their tops. They won’t, of course – we’re too shy for that. Festival-wise, there is but one event that truly whets the insatiable appetite of the indie boy: All Tomorrow’s Parties...»
On the eve of the release of his band's second album, Show Your Bones, DiS meets up with Yeah Yeah Yeahs guitarist Nick Zinner in a stupidly extravagant London hotel. We feel out of place, he looks out of place, I really fancy plaice for tea. But first...»
Hello you young go-getters you. Drowned in Sound, in an ever ongoing attempt to push the social envelope, would like to offer you a chance to come down the boozer this Wednesday and frolic and jape till the night turns old and your shoes become weary. AND IT'S ALL FREE, WE TELLS YA!»
D:Frag MCR #9 - Manchester’s DiS guide from =RaZ= Well it’s been my birthday this weekend and as you’ll be expecting I indulged myself to a degree which might be less than pleasing to some areas of my internal organs but fret not for I’m not dead. You see? You care really. Battle wounds aside, there»
Okay, so gig-wise, January was a bit of a slow burner, but now things are beginning to pick up again as our beloved rock stars get over their New Years hangovers and pick up their guitars once more. 2002 was a good'un for us here at DiS (our ove»
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