As an integral part of Broken Social Scene, and now as one of third Eight And A Half - who play their first UK shows this week - Justin Peroff is clearly a man who knows his way around a beat. We asked him to make us a mixtape to get us in the mood for their show on the DiS stage at The Great Escape this week, and this is what came back... »
Rather than DiS' editor doing our usual five-for-friday, we've roped in Liam, the frontman from Hey Sholay! who play the DiS stage at Camden Crawl on Sunday to share five songs he loves, which may or may not get you in the mood for their show... »
Of Montreal's Kevin Barnes shares a mixtape of some of his favourite tunes, ahead of the bands European tour. And if you've not picked up their new album Paralytic Stalks yet you can listen to it in full right here... »
Ahead of the release of their new album Have Some Faith In Magic, Errors compiled a mixtape of their favourite tunes...»
...it's a walk in the bruises, a run in the dust, a monolith for the Blues, a relief in other's emergency.»
First Aid Kit compile a mixtape of their current musical favourites for your listening pleasure...»
Walls have created a concentration-enhancing mixtape for DiS. Plus you'll find a stream of their album and them remixing The Field, and The Field remixing Walls.»
BBC Introducing presenter, blogger, promoter, cassette label boss and probably a heap of other stuffer, Jen Long, gives us her guide to some must-see acts at this year's SWN Festival...»
Drowned In Sound gets about these days, curating at Summer Sundae, The Great Escape, Liverpool Soundcity and, of course, our regular shows in Sheffield. However we’ve not been found loitering around Manchester since last Autumn when Health left our ears»
Kicking off our takeover week of content from Electrelane is this mixtape of songs they're currently loving...»
The Sonics were basically the germ that spawned punk rock. 40 years after they split up, they've reformed to play Ray Davies' Meltdown festival. As a thank you to Ray for picking them at his curated event, Rob Lind and Jerry Roslie from The Sonics have put together a mixtape of their favourite Kinks songs, and we've compiled it as a Spotify playlist... »
With her forthcoming album only a couple of weeks away, DiS asked Emmy The Great what her and her band were listening to and she made us this mixtape, playable on Spotify, as well as via the videos below. »
Or Death Cab for Cutie's Nick Harmer's Top Songs In No Particular Order that inspired him to become a bass player, way back when:»
Last week, to celebrate the DVD release of the fim Blue Valentine, which features a soundtrack by the chaps from DiS-favourites Grizzly Bear, we asked you to share the songs which would soundtrack a film about your life. Here, Grizzly Bear share their favourite soundtracks and Ed has made a playlist for his own biopic... »
"I’ve put together a mix of Bill’s music for you. There are various cuts from the many albums and collaborations he’s been involved in for more than a decade now, plus a couple from a forthcoming album due sometime this year. You may know some of it, you may know none of it – I hope you love all of it." - Aidan Moffat»
In this week's singles column, I suggested the track was perhaps an ode to Donna Summer's 'I Feel Love' and on asking someone close to the band, they could neither confirm nor deny this, so I asked if the band could put together a 10 song mixtape of their favourite non-ballady "love songs". They said yeah, and also offered us copy of 'R E A L L O V E' on lovely 12" vinyl to give away. To enter, simply click the like or tweet button on this article, and tell us what your favourite non-traditional love song is. Winner will be picked at random on Monday 11th April at midday.»
Electro-spaniards Crystal Fighters have made us a mixtape of some of their favourite tracks, ranging from Spanish punk to whirring electronica...»
Kicking off our takeover week from the gentleman from Mogwai is this 10 songs that influenced Mogwai mixtape by Stuart Braithwaite...»
A new irregular feature on DiS where we ask an artist we like to make us a mixtape.»
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 six new tracks per feature, hopefully making it a little bit more digestible and giving you more of a chance to listen to our writers' selections. Good idea? We reckon so.»
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 recipe... Saturday is the Invada Invasion itself, and perhaps tomorrow those nice Fuck Buttons boys might be dropping in for a chat. For today, though, feast yer senses on this here mixtape, brought to you by Invada-signed beat-dealers Malakai.»
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).»
There's a lot of new music out there, that's for sure. So rather than just spew words at you about why you should be listening to band A rather than band B or C, we've decided to give you the choice - them, plus bands D, E, F, etc. - in the form of this handy (and, from now on, regular) DiScover Mixtape.»
It's been a while since we last ran an artist's mix-tape, so here's a pretty neat one to return with. Williamsburg indie-pop femmes Au Revoir Simone have chosen their songs carefully under the theme of 'shout outs to friends'.»
DiS has compiled a couple of Spotify mixtapes by way of preview/giving you a taste of some bands you may not have heard of/confirming the prejudices of people not going.»
Wrapping up our day of Factory Records-related content, here's a mixtape selected by Joy Division/New Order drummer Stephen Morris comprising his favourite tracks from the period.»
New York foursome The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart recently finished their biggest UK tour to date. Before they returned to the States, DiS caught up with them to find out what songs keep them occupied and inspired...»
We asked the three members of White Lies - guitarist/singer Harry McVeigh, bass player Charles Cave and drummer Jack Brown - to come up with a collective mix tape that gets them through the working day of being in a band. Over to them...»
It's Christmas, in case you hadn't noticed, so DiS has enlisted the services of Charles Watson, guitarist and singer in popular Sheffield beat combo Slow Club, to compile a mixtape with a festive theme. At least it's only once every twelve months, hey?»
Christmas songs are all rubbish, right? Wrong. Everett True has managed to find a whopping 30, and presents his findings as a handy double CD sized extravaganza»
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