In Depth
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Spotifriday #5 - This Week on DiS as a Playlist
Here's the highlights of this week on DiS as a Spotify playlist, with commentary from DiS' Editor... »
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Interview
Grandaddy, we love you: the final part of DiS's Jason Lytle interview
For the fourth and final part of our interview with Jason Lytle, DiS gets all Smash Hits on his ass and probes him about what his favourite things might be. AND WHY NOT? »
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Takeover
Grizzly Mum: Wendy Rossen's Indie Corner
As you may have noticed, it's Grizzly Bear Week on DiS, and we've got tonnes of exclusive content from the awesome foursome. This feature is arguably one of the best things we've ever run. Guitarist Daniel Ros... »
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Top 3 Grizzly Bear Cover Versions
Here are the top three Grizzly Bear covers, as chosen by the members of Grizzly Bear. »
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Mixtape
Grizzly Bear Week: The Ultimate Roadtrip Mix
As part of Grizzly Bear week Chris Bear has crafted this joyous selection for your listening and driving pleasure. It also features 'Wichita Lineman', which is potentially the greatest song of all-time. »
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Grizzly Bear Week: Grizzly Bear Gumbo
To kick off Grizzly Bear Week at DiS we've have some gastronomic delights to bring you, courtesy of drummer Christopher Bear. If you've always wondered what gumbo tastes like but never actually tried it, then ... »
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The return of melancholic pop’s finest: Jason Lytle talks to DiS, Part 1
Almost exactly three years after Grandaddy released their final album, Just Like The Fambly Cat, the frontman of the Modesto, California-based band is making his return to the music scene. Jason Lytle's first album under his... »
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In Depth
This Week's Singles: 25/05/2009
One is under pain of journalistic death to mention how the sun is shining, in order to make an amusing contrast with yesterday's free-swim Bank Holiday, when it did not see fit to make an appearance. Except it was sunny yesterday. Making today even more back... »
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In Depth
Bands on a budget: Offset Festival preview
We all remember last year's festival season as one of the most horrific in living memory. Well, if you went to ZOO8 you probably did. DiS caught up with Offset founder Kieran Delaney to pick his brains... »
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Johnny Foreigner Tour Diary '09 - Part 4
Johnny Foreigner have played something like 892 shows in the last 18 months. They also managed to release a super debut album - that's pretty impressive. Here's the latest instalment of their tour diary where they take in the sights of Leicester, which involves graff... »
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Review: The Great Escape, Brighton (Friday 14th May)
Alex Tudor takes us through his highlights of The Great Escape Festival... »
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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 ... »
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Mixtape
Dot To Dot preview: A DiS mixtape
This weekend sees the Dot To Dot Festival hit Bristol (Saturday 23rd) and Nottingham (Sunday 24th). DiS is rather excited as this year's line-up is arguably the best one yet, so with a little help from MySpace and YouTube, we've compiled a mega mixtape of the best of... »
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Back to The Bachelor - DiS meets Patrick Wolf - Part 3
In this concluding part of our chat with Patrick Wolf, he talks to DiS' editor about being an accidental enigma, his blogs, Derek Jarman, Tyra Banks, Dylan Thomas, Angela Carter, Hans Christian Anderson, The Cure, Paris, Berlin, Seattle, Porn and lot... »
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The Great Escape: Jah Wobble & Jon Savage in conversation
Amidst a dozen seminars about making & promoting music in what may soon be called Web 3.0 (yer Twitters and Spotifys), Jah Wobble of Public Image Limited is in conversation with Jon Savage (author of England’s Dreaming), a... »
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Double Deal-ing: DiS reviews ATP Curated By The Breeders
After a somewhat brutal weekend (musically and physically) at ATP Vs The Fans Part II, it was with some trepidation that DiS loins were re-girded for its sister weekend. But actually we had a quite lovely time; maybe it was the more cohesive line up begat fr... »
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Artist 'n' Artist: Catherine AD meets Tori Amos
To kick this feature off we have one of our tips for 2009 Catherine A.D. speaking to the legendary Tori Amos about her new album Abnormally Addicted to Sin. »
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In Depth
Alec, Kate, Joni and Bjork talk - DiS meets Patrick Wolf - Part 2
In part one (here) Patrick Wolf and DiS Editor Sean Adams began discussing Patrick's forthcoming album The Bachelor. In part two Patrick expands on much of this (especially about the fan-funded Ban... »
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In Depth
Column: Drowned in Scary Monsters - Part Four
This past weekend I attended The Great Escape festival in Brighton. It's my second year there and nice to see the event expanding, rounded off triumphantly with a chaotic Big Scary Monsters showcase at the grotty Hobgob... »
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God Help The Girl - Extended Review & Analysis
“Are you still into the same things you were into ten years ago?” (Stuart Murdoch, 2007)
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armchair dancefloor 005
From the first lady of UK funky to Italian turntablist manoeuvres, Twin Peak-time house, skeletal techno and pirates of the Barbary Coast, number five is well and truly alive. »
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In Depth
This Week's Singles: 18/05/2009
This week sees a veritable Sheffield saviour trounce the competition, a not-new-anymore popstress finally getting her debut out, and a fair amount of lady-based hatred from art-poppers Plugs. Lots to recommend this week, then (as well as it being the third week in a ... »
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In Depth
Biscuits with The Bachelor - DiS meets Patrick Wolf
DiS opens its gob, presses record on the dictaphone and talks to Patrick Wolf about his forthcoming album The Bachelor »
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In Depth
The Drowned-Up: Recent releases that slipped under the radar
DiS gets sent an awful lot of mail and, try as we may, we can't find the words to write at length about everything. So, each week (or thereabouts) from now until someone doesn't deliver their copy on time, we'll attempt to rush you through a heap of things we've been... »