DiS Does Pop #13: What's the point of the Brit Awards?
In a world where we have the NME Awards, Mobo Awards and Mercury Prize exist, why bother with the Brits. DiS Does Pop investigates...»
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DiS Does Pop: Xmas Bumper Edition 2012
Festive greetings fellow pop-lovers! 'Tis the season to celebrate the end of the X Factor, consume absurd amounts of mulled wine and proudly proclaim that Andrew Ridgley was Wham!'s best member by far. In DiS Does Pop's world, this can only mean one thing: an Xmas Bumper Edition of your favourite Top 40-related column. Go on, fill your boots with Christmas goodness...»
DiS Does Pop #11: How to make the perfect NOW
Hello and welcome to the 11th edition of DiS Does Pop. The pop column for people who stayed up to midnight on Saturday to buy the new Girls Aloud single and may not have been sober at the time. This week sees a potentially historic album released in Now That’s What I Call Music! 83 since it will quite possibly be the last ever edition in this much-loved compilation series.»
DiS Does Pop Interviews: Marina and the Diamonds, Jessie Ware and Ruby Goe
It's DiS Does Pop's very first birthday and we decided to celebrate by interviewing three of our favourite popstars: Marina and the Diamonds, Jessie Ware and Ruby Goe. We chatted about why Fiona Apple can’t cheer up a bit, the perils of living around crack addicts and what makes a good knuckleduster. It’s pop but not as you know it...»
DiS Does Pop #9: The Top 10 girl bands of all-time... ever
This month we’re running through the 10 best girl bands of all-time because someone needed to step up to the plate and decide whether TLC are better than The Shangri-Las. There’s also the usual Baromenter of Pop and Made For TV features for regular readers of this near year-old bastion of Top 40-related nonsense.»
DiS Does Pop #8: Is retromania ruining pop?
Hello, and thanks for tuning into the eighth edition of DiS Does Pop. The pop column which judges Cheryl Cole on a purely musical basis, only to be pissed off with yet another shite solo album. This month we were reading Simon Reynold's Retromania and thought, 'There's far too much here on Throbbing Gristle and far too little on Take That'. So we decided to investigate the wave of pop nostalgia that has arguably reached its peak in 2012.»
"Call the people who can lose you a million pounds, there’s a credibility there" - DiS meets Pete Waterman
Pete Waterman is a lot like John Lydon... to interview at least. Just as with the former Sex Pistol, chatting to the hitmaker-in-chief behind Kylie Minogue, Steps, Bananarama and many, many more is a noticeably combative experience. »
DiS Does Eurovision: A blagger's guide to the 2012 Song Contest
Bonjour. Guten tag. Ante gamisou. Welcome to the second edition of DiS Does International Pop and what a column we have in store for you. With the 56th Eurovision Song Contest about to reach its climax in Baku, Azerbijan this weekend, we’ve pulled out all the stops to honour the symbol of European unity that spawned Lordi, ABBA and a Scooch reunion.»
DiS Does Pop #7: The 10 Commandments of Teen Pop
Hello! Welcome to the seventh edition of DiS Does Pop where the Top 40 is placed under a microscope of revelatory declarations and humorous asides. Like the search for Sean Paul’s dignity, it’s tough going at times but we’ll plough on nonetheless. This month with One Direction having conquered America, Conor Maynard riding high in the UK charts and Justin Bieber still very much in existence, there seemed no better time to write the 10 Commandments of Teen Pop.»
DiS Does International Pop: The 10 biggest singles you’ve never heard
Hello and welcome to a brand new spin-off from the commercially ignored and critically underrated DiS Does Pop. In the innovatively-titled DiS Does International Pop column we’ll be turning our ear for a Top 40 smash abroad and shining a light on the biggest hits from foreign lands.»
DiS Does Pop #6: Is Madonna still the Queen of Pop?
This month's pop column is a Madge-tacular affair which investigates whether the Material Girl is still top dog of the Top 40 brigade. There's also a Spotify playlist of her best bits plus our usual Top 40 Watch and Made For TV features. What are you waiting for? Go on and dig in.»
DiS Does Pop #5: In search of pop's biggest sell out
This month DiS Does Pop is cracking open the old ‘sell out’ chestnut to find, well frankly, a lot of super-rich musicians at its sickly sweet core. Read on to discover how much money there is to be reaped from over-zealous corporate sponsorship deals, who is pop music’s worst offender and whether we should be that bothered about the whole shebang.»
DiS Does Pop #4: How not to be a popstar in 2012
With the hype maelstrom surrounding Lana, Emeli and the other ones now entering forgettable levels, we thought it would be a good idea to discover the worst possible way to launch a new artist. That’s right, we analysed the ‘next big flops’ of recent memory and most noticeable chart trends of last year to deliver our verdict on how not be a popstar in 2012.»
DiS Does Pop: The Xmas Bumper Edition
Welcome to the final DiS Does Pop of 2011 and in Smash Hits style we’ve made this one a bumper edition. Should you cast your eyes below, you’ll find the DiS Does Pop Awards, our Christmas Gift Guide, a preview of the festive Number 1 contenders, a playlist of our favourite tracks from the year gone by and a pleasantly surprising Straight To TV. So go on and gorge yourself on some pop goodness, we won’t tell anyone.»
DiS Does Pop #2 - How Global Radio subverted the UK boy band landscape
Welcome back to another addition of DiS Does Pop, the Top 40 column aimed at music fans with a taste for both Madonna and My Bloody Valentine. After last month’s Sugababes extravaganza we’re going to take a look at Global Radio’s battle against JLS, rate and/or slate this week’s UK Top 40 and salute Westlife's departure from Saturday night TV.»
DiS Does Pop: Sugababes' One Touch
Here's the first edition of a new column from Drowned In Sound which aims to delve into the world of pop music with a steady measure of snark and celebration. We consider it a duty and a privilege to wade through the Top 40, Olly Murs and all, plucking out everything that’s worth pausing your Antlers record for in the process...»
"More bands should split up" - Brett Anderson opens up to DiS about the return of Suede
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DiS joins the Music Alliance Pact + May 2013's global MAP compilation
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