In Depth
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In Depth
This Week's Singles: 05/10/2009
After being unable to pick a favourite last week, this week I have five. Which are variously Yeti Lane, First Aid Kit, Drums of Death, Toro Y Moi and my new favourite favourites, Everything Everything. You will have to excuse the superlatives, but I honestly cannot h... »
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Interview
DiS meets Maps
James Chapman is a man on a mission. Better known by his creative alter ego Maps, he could have chosen the ready made path towards generic predictability after the success of 2007’s debut long player We Can Create, Mercury nomination and all... »
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Festival Review
Soap&Skin&pig blood: DiS goes to the Incubate festival
It’s not so much Fun Zone as Twilight Zone, and there’s a lot to be said for that. »
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DiScover
DiScover Mixtape #3a: Free Energy, Internet Forever, Royal Bangs and more
News: we're sticking with this DiScover Mixtape format (you seem to like it!), but from now on we're going to bring it to you in two installments per month, sorta like Side A and Side B on a 'real' cassette tape. So here's the first, and from now on you'll be seeing ... »
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Festival Review
Invada Invasion: the DiS review
It’s a measure of quite how central to the Bristol scene Geoff Barrow is that wherever he wanders into the shiny new halls and walkways of Colston Hall, he’s greeted with waves, smiles and courteous nods (all returned of course) like an old friend. Maybe »
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Mixtape
Twinkle, twinkle: listen to DiS's exclusive Constellation Records podcast
Remember, you won't find a note of this music on Spotify et al, so enjoy this half hour of wide-ranging delight, genre-bending delight, hosted for us by our chums at Soundcloud. »
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Column
Guest Column: Brainlove's Holiday Reading
John Brainlove selects a few albums new & old to help usher in the Autumn. »
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Interview
Muse discuss U2 US tour, The Resistance + more
A few weeks back, just before Muse played two huge homecoming shows (discussed here) and released their hugely successful new album The Resistance (»
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In Depth
This Week's Singles: 28/09/2009
Everyone – and I mean everyone is releasing a single this week. So many, that I wanted to use a thoroughly unfair culling method that involved a blindfold, a pointy stick and some glue - or worse, inadvertently lose half my pile down the back of the bin (who... »
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In Depth
Bestival 2009: The DiS review
Arriving at the fag-end of a summer teeming with gruelling festival weekends, Bestival has enough gusto and idiosyncrasy to more than stand up for itself. »
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Discography Reassessed
Thomas Dolby: reflections on The Golden Age Of Wireless and The Flat Earth
Following the recent reissues of synthpop pioneer Thomas Dolby's classic debut The Golden Age Of Wireless and its mini album successor The Flat Earth, journalist Joseph Stannard - Wire, Terrorizer, Plan B - spoke to Dolby for DiS, and discusses his ... »
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Staff-generated
Year 2000 - A Playlist of Songs Wot Soundtracked the Launch of DiS
DiS' founder and current editor Sean Adams compiles a playlist of songs that could be heard in the year 2000 (a rough theme we've set for you to build a Spotifriday playlist around - more details here... »
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Interview
Invada Invasion of DiS: the return of F^ck Buttons
We round off the Invada Invasion of DiS with a chat with Andy Hung, one half of the mighty Fuck Buttons (Benjamin John Power having swanned off on holiday). As Geoff Barrow »
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Mixtape
Invada Invasion of DiS: a mixtape from Malakai
You know the score by now. Um, probably. On Monday we talked to Geoff Barrow, on Tuesday Thought Forms gave us their guide to Bristol, yesterday Crippled Black Phoenix hit us up with a beef and cheese based Christmas... »
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Column
armchair dancefloor 012
Chris Power's fortnightly round-up of electronic releases, featuring Mary Anne Hobbs' new Planet Mu compilation, Japanese psychedelia on DFA and one of the biggest tunes of the year from a certain J. Orbison »
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Interview
DiS meets Editors - Part 2
In part one, Tom Smith, front man of Editors discussed the making of their forthcoming album In This Light And On This Evening, in part two he delves deeper in... »
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Interview
DiS meets Editors - Part 1
Editors have come a long way since debut seven-inch ‘Bullets’ first landed on DiS’ doormat at the outset of 2005. Their two albums to date, The Back Room and An End Has A Start both achieved platinum status amidst a wealth of critic... »
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In Depth
This Week's Singles: 21/09/2009
After the rampant filth and manic superlatives of last week’s reviews, this time round there is a fair amount of boot-cooling going on. Good job really, as I am not sure my nerves can stand all the giddy. »
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DiScover
DiScover Mixtape #2: The Drums, Neon Indian, The Specific Heats and more
Another week, another DiScover Mixtape... with all this new music, we are really spoiling you (say in a sleazy European accent, liberally smattering zees and vees all over the place). »
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Interview
"I like talking to people": Brand New's Jesse Lacey chats to DiS.
The hold music playing before the label rep connects us to Brand New front man Jesse Lacey draws a charming parallel to the old hymn that eerily opens their new record, Daisy (out September 21st). »
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Interview
Go go go gadget band: DiS meets Lovvers
For a tiny little fuzz-punk band from the Midlands, Lovvers have come a long way this year. Since releasing their debut EP, Think, on Wichita last Septem... »
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Festival Review
ATP New York 2009: the DiS review
It’s perpetually 1972 at Kutsher’s Country Club, the utterly perfect location for the New York incarnation of ATP. The event may attract several generations of indie rock fan, but for the people who run the resort this is no different to a local wedding o »
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In Depth
This Week's Singles: 14/09/2009
This week, we have another tie, because I have gone equally silly in the head over both Maps and Fuck Buttons. Really – honestly - the rest of this week’s releases can go hang. It is sort of like being at a party with loads of ace faces but the only ones what exist f... »
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Artist-generated
Back on the Maps: James Chapman writes to DiS
There's a new Maps album called Turning the Mind out on September 28, it's a big step up on debut We Can Create, read onwards to find out what Mr Chapman has to say about it._ »