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DiSsection: Fiction - The Big Other album track-by-track
This week, London based quintet Fiction release their debut album The Big Other, produced by Ash Workman and James Ford. We got the band to talk us through the ten tracks of 80s inflected, spidery guitar lines and poly-rhythm madness...»
This Week's Singles 5.03.13: Tame Impala, Cloud Boat, Sticky, Riva Starr
Single of the Week! Sticky feat. Lamahra Starr - ‘Cutting Shapes’ (Big Dada) People say to me*: 'How do you decide which single is empirically best each week? I mean, they are all so different, it must be so hard.' And I say to you, my intern»
"If a handful of people is a scene then yes I'm part of that" - DiS meets The Sea and Cake
At the tail end of last year The Sea and Cake released their ninth album proper, Runner. Jon Falcone chats to Sam Prekop about four year old drummers, the Chicago scene, and keeping it simple...»
"Real men don’t play the piano!"- DiS meets Alan Sparhawk from Low
Ahead of the release of new album The Invisible Way, Low frontman Alan Sparhawk talks egoless songs, piano hatred and his favourite albums from the band’s 20-year career...»
"If the music wasn't very good people would stop coming": DiS meets Swim Deep
Birmingham quartet Swim Deep have become next band-most-likely to emerge from the country's second largest city and into the mainstream. DiS caught up with them post-soundcheck prior to their recent show at Nottingham's Bodega. Here's what they had to say...»
This Week's Singles 25.02.13: Melt Yourself Down, MØ, WALK, Jagwar Ma
Single of the Week! Melt Yourself Down - ‘Fix My Life’ (The Leaf Label) Jazz kaleidoscopes, man, everybody's gawpin at 'em. And you need to be gawpin at 'em too if you wanna be hip to Melt Yourself Down - who believe that every hook should be»
Festival preview: five reasons to go to Croatia's Garden
If you're still at the planning stages of that special summer trip, consider heading over to fair Croatia's gorgeous Garden Festival this July for a week (or a weekend) of unalloyed house-y joy, nice weather and general awesomeness. And here is a list of reasons to back this up.»
Close Knits: Beyond the noise-pop pale #2
Here's the second installment of a new monthly column celebrating the sunny delights of DIY fuzz-pop, noise-pop, post-punk and straight down the line, knitwear endorsed indie-pop.»
Drowned in Nottingham #13
In the first Nottingham scene round-up of 2013, Drowned In Sound's man in the East Midlands looks at the best new releases and live shows the city has to offer in the coming months and talks to up-and-coming three-piece Kagoule. »
DiS meets Devendra Banhart
Devendra Banhart is an artist that has long been somewhat type-casted. Perpetually the whimsical, hippie folk troubadour singing about psychedelic critters, many fail to notice his new haircut, dress sense, and above all movement away from warbling falsetto and acoustic tomfoolery. Now on his eighth full length, entitled Mala, Banhart continues down a more experimental, mature path- there are darker themes explored, strange manipulated sounds and various other aspects of the macabre. DiS met up with him at the Warner HQ in Kensington and listened to stoned musings on whips, chains, Noel Fielding and ‘the darker things that surround us’.»
"My guitar...It’s a machine to make pop music" - DiS meets Johnny Marr
Johnny Marr is quite clear that what he does is pop music. And pop, emphatically, is no dirty word.»
DiS joins the Music Alliance Pact + May 2013's global MAP compilation
Drowned in Bristol #12
DiS Does Singles 13.05.13: Swim Deep, These New Puritans, The National
Darkstar, Ed Harcourt, Halls, Wall +more for 3 DiS-curated nights at Great Escape 2013
Interview: Frank Turner on The Olympics, The Backlash, Thatcher and Black Flag
Drowned in Nottingham #14
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