The Great Escape 2011 - Review Part 2: Pav Tav To The Future
Following our local perspective, here's Brad Barrett, one of DiS' regular contributors' dazed and bemused tales from beside the seaside for this year's Great Escape...»
Festivals
The Great Escape 2011 - Review Part 1: The Local Perspective
Attempts to sum up a music festival through anything but an individual and their eyes and decisions are either ambitious or deluded. In part one of our coverage of the recent festival, DiS' Brighton columnist shares his adventures, thoughts and opinions on this year's Great Escape...»
Mixtape: Dot to Dot Festival ft. Trail of Dead, Braids, SBTRKT, Hyetal
To get you in the mood for this weekend's festivities, I've put together this Spotify playlist featuring tracks form acts on the bill... »
Warpaint join the DiS curated bill at Summer Sundae Festival
Drowned in Sound is pleased as punch to announce that those blogosphere ravaging, magazine conquering, DiS community adored ladies of indie-rockness Warpaint, will performing on our stage at Summer Sundae on Sunday 14th August. Their debut album The Fool really put the LA-based quartet on the map and they'll be zooming across the atlantic to play at Leicester's huge De Montfort Hall, joining our previously announced, hand-picked by DiS bill of Blood Red Shoes, The Antlers, Factory Floor, Phantom Band and **Everything Everything»
Mixtape: Liverpool's SoundCity Festival ft Emmy the Great, Kurt Vile, Clinic, Braids
To get myself in the mood, I made this Spotify playlist of songs by folks that are playing SoundCity and I thought I might as well share it with you 'orrible lot to listen to too. »
Future Everything 2011 Preview
A step apart from the rest of the festivals that usually dominate Manchester during the month of May, FutureEverything returns to Manchester this week promising another week of forward thinking debate, discussions and demonstrations into technological innovations in art and music as well as commissioned multimedia projects and artworks.»
DiS meets Stuart Mackay, founder and organiser of Indietracks
With the 2011 festival season fast approaching, we here at DiS thought it an appropriate time to question Indietracks founder Stuart Mackay about its continuous growth, the difficulties and pitfalls in organising such an event, and put forward his all time dream Indietracks line-up. »
It's a (Sheffield) steal: 2011 lineup for the free Tramlines Festival incl. DiS stage
Things that are free = good, right? Good things that are free = great, especially in these wallet-tightening times so we're utterly delighted to announce the DiS Events lineups for 2011's Tramlines Festival, Sheffield's free, ticketless weekend fiesta.»
Festival Review: Live at Leeds 2011
DiS did Live at Leeds»
Ten Years Of Camden Crawl: Then and Now
While probably quicker to list those artists we're not bothered about seeing than the ones we are, DiS would like to take this opportunity to wish the Camden Crawl a happy tenth birthday by taking a look back through the archives at some of those artists who've graced the festival since it first opened its doors back in the spring of 1995.»
Mixtape: Camden Crawl '11 + Win VIP Tickets
A Spotify playlist for this weekend's Camden Crawl plus win VIP tickets courtesy of Levi's® Craft of Music.»
Mixtape: Great Escape 2011 ft Friendly Fires, Antlers, EMA, Braids, Max Richter...
A Spotify playlist for one of our favourite festivals. Taking place beside-the-seaside in Brighton from the 12th of May until the 14th (or the earlier hours of the 15th if you wanna be pernickety about it), The Great Escape hosts bands of all shapes, sizes and synthiness. There are big names (Sufjan Stevens, DJ Shadow, Guillemots, John Cooper Clarke), acts who will dominate 2011 (Friendly Fires, Katy B, Gang Gang Dance, Ghostpoet), P4K-championed DiS transatlantic favourites (Antlers, Twin Shadow), UK acts that we love (Phantom Band, Factory Floor, Actress, Becoming Real, Villagers), new crushes (Braids, Still Corners, EMA, Seekae, Seams, Christian AIDS), incredible instrumentalists (Max Richter, Hauschka, Luke Abbott) and a few hundred others...»
DiS in the Desert: Coachella Festival 2011 Reviewed
DiS's Mark Muldoon happened to be in the area whilst the 12th Coachella festival was kicking off. So he swung by. This is what happened to him.»
Mixtape Monday: Live at Leeds Festival 2011 ft. James Blake, Frightened Rabbit, PABH...
Pretty much every major city in the UK now has its own 'urban festival' and Leeds is no exception. With some of this year's biggest new names (James Blake, Anna Calvi, Trophy Wife), some DiS favourites (Frightened Rabbit, The Twilight Sad, Pulled Apart by Horses, Futureheads) and a shit-tonne of local talent (Bear Mask, Dinosaur Pile-Up, Honour Before Glory), as well as some brand new acts that DiS is nodding knowingly at their inclusion on the line-up (Star Slinger, Let's Buy Happiness, Lanterns on the Lake, Still Corners, Catherine A.D.), this year's Live at Leeds is more than a bit good.»
Tallinn Music Week 2011 - The DiS review
DiS looks back at the thrills and chills of Tallinn Music Week 2011. TO BE SUBBED AND IMAGES CLEARED FOR COPYRIGHT. »
Errors: A SXSW Photo Diary
"On our first night in Austin we went out to a late night diner. After a 20 hour journey with 3 different flights, a triple decker club sandwich really hit the spot. Usually I am not able to finish such large quantities of food but I allowed myself »
BLOC Weekend: The DiS Review
Butlins Minehead has a slightly jarring atmosphere in the middle of the night. Sprawling chalet lots and the cocked arms of fairground apparatus have an unnerving tendency to suddenly loom from the darkness without warning. While ATP’s beardy warmth adds a softer edge to that experience, its intensity is further heightened at BLOC Weekend.»
Read and Shout Festival : a DiS Preview
Read and Shout 2011 is a festival thought up as a way of protesting against the vicious public sector cuts that threaten our libraries. On Saturday 19th March, Hefner’s Darren Hayman and Jens Lekman will converge on Nettlefold Hall with a clutch of other acts to express their opposition to proposed cuts to library services.»
BLOC Weekend 2011: A DiS Preview
It’s fair to say that DiS is no stranger to Butlins, Minehead. Given that we try our hardest to attend as many editions of All Tomorrow’s Parties as possible each year. The faint edge of chaos that still runs through ATP, especially late at night, pales in insignificance compared to BLOC Weekend, which tends to descend upon the place like an ode to hedonistic excess. This year’s edition takes place on the weekend of the 11th to the 13th March, though if you’re learning this for the first time, you’re a little late to the party – it’s entirely sold out.»
Trans Musicales Day 3: The DiS Review
The last day of Les Trans will be a day of meetings and re-meetings. But by day three I know how to play this thing. Judiciously timed disco naps, galettes saucisses, coffee and lady smuggling will be key today, all of which will largely explain how I do »
Festival News Round-Up - 17.12.2010
Er yes. We are aware that it is -6 or something out there at the moment, and temperatures have rarely reached above 4C for about two or three weeks now, but next year's festivals are already rushing in with their announcements, presumably to get you to buy tickets on the cheap before the VAT rise comes into effect in early January. So yes, here's the much-awaited return of Festival News, Series 2.»
ATP Godspeed You! Black Emperor: the DiS review
This weekend last, Noel Gardner, Rory Gibb and Andrzej Lukowski descended upon Butlins, Minehead, and unanimously failed to see Boban Markovi?'s drooled over set. Ho hum: Emeralds were worth it. Here is what they did instead.»
DiS meets John Lydon - Part 1: The Man
DiS Does Singles 20.05.13: Paramore, Laura Marling, The Replacements
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
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