Grandeur suits Biffy Clyro, and their overblown songs manage to tug effectively on heartstrings despite their foibles. »
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) when this very website was in its embryonic stages. First, a bit of prologue...»
I wanted to be a music critic. I became a games one. There had to be a reason for that. I have to believe there’s a reason for that...»
You've probably heard of Nigel Godrich. He's been recording bands in studios for a number of years (his C.V., of course, includes Radiohead, Air, Beck, Paul McCartney, Pavement and R.E.M.), but you might not be so familiar with his "hobby", From The Basement, where he takes bands and records their performances for broadcast. We spoke to him about this, and other stuff...»
In the final part of our epic interview with the Manic Street Preacher's Nicky Wire he talks technology, the press and The Horrors...»
Future Of The Left's Andy Falkous is a man with a lot to say. We've often wondered what makes him tick, and recently we got the chance to find out.»
It may not seem like the most sensible way to play to 200 people, but Friendly Fires are performing a show on Monday in complete darkness. Too many questions arise from this. Is there a risk of a guitar being accidentally shoved into unwanted places, for example? Bum notes indeed. We spoke to the Friendly Fires' Jack Savidge about the logistics of it all, their preparation for Pitch Black and a second album.»
Happy Birthday Napster! It's hard to believe but a decade has passed since the birth of a piece of technology which changed both music and the internet. 10 years ago, file-sharing service Napster was born in Shawn Fanning's Northeastern University bedroom. »
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 this is a pretty good place to start. »
With our journalistic curiosity piqued, DiS recently picked up a phone and rang The Horrors' Tom Cowan (aka: Tomethy Furse) in order to shed some light onto what lies behind those dark exteriors.»
Radiohead are among the biggest bands in the world, period. Ahead of dates home and abroad, drummer Phil Selway talks about In Rainbows' industry impact and why the band always need a new learning curve»
DiS's Sean Adams tells his own tale of Glastonbury 2007 - from the backstage to the moshpit and right up to the stars - in three parts. Here, he finds Björk magical, the Monkeys rather muted, and Martha on song...»
From the archive... The poetic street-stalker cum musician Adam Gnade got drunk 'n' sweaty and watched bands so you didn't have to. This is his story... »
Back in September 2003 DiS interviewed Factory Records boss Anthony H Wilson. Here's the article, previewing In the City, featuring a conversation between Tony and former DiS contributor Adie Nunn. »
With easily one of the albums of 2008, antipodeans Cut Copy managed to repeatedly make any time - early morning, noon or night - feel like a party. Whilst some might say this was little more than a modern flip of the New Order indie-dance blueprint, the savvy among us were too busy pulling shapes to care. Here, Cutter Dan Whitford walks us through the record... »
We decree that 2008 belonged to the lone, computer-toting musician and a few good (guitar-wielding) people. Herein lie the records which we, the writers and regular readers, have spent the past twelve months lost in. These are the albums we found ourselves coming back to again and again... These are Drowned in Sound's 50 albums of 2008.»
She stormed the charts this year with her love it/hate it single 'I Kissed A Girl'. Now bi-curious pop princess Katy Perry talks DiS through her ten favourite tracks.»
Idlewild are one of those bands that many of us grew up with, and as 2008 draws to a close the Scottish rockers are giving fans a chance to relive their youth by perfoming all the albums in full. DiS caught up with singer Roddy Woomble for a track-by-track retrospective on their first, 1998's Hope Is Important»
In Part Two of our interview with Will Sheff, we delve further into the Okkervil River frontman's thoughts on the turning tide in the US, what he meant by deciding to become a "professional failure" and whether he considers himself an optimistic lyricist or not.»
Tucked away in Shepherd's Bush Empire's green room, Okkervil River's Will Sheff is ebullient and inviting as we discuss the band's hectic touring schedule, the concept behind the two latest full-lengths, and a certain American President-elect.»
In the run-up to the second series of Orange UnsignedAct, DiS spoke to new judge, Lauren Laverne, and found her delightful as ever. We talked Kenickie, being Punka, the greatness of Mogwai, and what a "baby Aidan Moffat" might be doing on the "X Factor for songwriters"...
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As part of DiS' Oh Obama Week..., Daniel Saunders has shoved some clean socks in a backpack, boarded a plane, some trains and various auto mobiles to document the last lap of the campaign trail. He's been to New York talking to strangers, visited Wallingford to hear McCain and has written the following from Chicago...
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The other night I had the MOST UN-ROCK'N'ROLL EXPERIENCE EVER, getting my camera wiped for taking pictures of a DIY-proselytizing band that shall go unnamed...»
When you’re dealing with a band like New York's creators-of-1000-foot-waterfalls-of-colour Gang Gang Dance, who intuitively blend genres with no regard for boundaries, it almost makes sense to dissolve the interview/gig review/album review format...»
Anthony from M83 compiles his favourite tracks as a little mixtape for DiS readers and makes a few 'hot or not' liner notes...»
No Age give us their mixtape selections ahead of DiS' Shred Yr Face tour featuring them, Los Campesinos! and Times New Viking»
Skeletal Lamping is so psychotically overambitious, so ballsy, bewildering, beautiful, mad, terrifying, romantic, depraved, unwieldy, illogical and just plain wrong that it shames the aspirations of near enough anyone you might call Of Montreal's peers»
August, then: a month of festivals, and all that entails (mud, booze, excess, tiredness, sleep - usually in that order) - but also a pretty good time for album releases based on this little lot»
Dear Ryan Adams... Read your blog today, with the retort to my report.»
Another year, another big weekend at Reading and Leeds festival. DiS sent along some of our finest scribes and asked them to scribble about their five favourites of the weekend. Here's what we got back from them»
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In Photos: White Lies @ Brixton Academy, London
In Photos: Monotonix @ Hector's House, Brighton
In Photos: The Specials @ Hammersmith Apollo, London
In Photos: Camden Crawl Launch Event @ The Blues Kitchen, London
