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Brainwash: The DiS review

In Depth by William Grant

Leeds's Charity Festival Brainwash enters its fourth year in 2009. We sent along William Grant to check out proceedings.»

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Spotifriday #23 - This Week on DiS as a playlist

In Depth by Luke Slater

This week's Spotifriday playlist, featuring Camera Obscura, Daniel Johnston, Four Tet, Liars, Kelpe, These New Puritans and a gaggle more.»

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A Month In Records: October 2009

In Depth by Luke Slater

A review of a month in records on DiS, featuring Atlas Sound, Lightning Bolt, BEAK>, Russian Circles, Efterklang and more more more!»

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Broken Family (dis)Band: their farewell interview

In Depth by Jessica Holland

Fake encores, aging fans and spats with lo-fi indie royalty: as caustic country-rockers the Broken Family Band geared up for their last few dates ever, singer Steve Adams told Jess Holland why they decided to call it a day. »

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Weezer - Raditude

Review by Robert Cooke

Raditude is in no way unique in Weezer’s recent career. When it’s good, it’s a surprise; when it’s bad, it’s incomprehensibly atrocious. But for the most part, it is dull, empty and devoid of sentiment, and that is its greatest crime. »

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Kelpe - Cambio Wechsel

Review by Daniel B. Yates

[The following is a IMAGINING of the process that may have occurred at an IMAGINARY ad agency that led to Kelpe's 'Quick Broken Harp' to appear on a recent mobile phone advert. So nobody sue, yeah?]»

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This Week's Singles: 2/11/09

In Depth by Wendy Roby

This week there is more on the thorny issue of bribery, more food-based analogising, a self-re-assessment after falling foul of some marketing gimmickry AND the mesmerically wondrous music (and face) of Annie Clark. »

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Swn 2009: The DiS Review

In Depth by Kev Eddy

I lived in Cardiff for five years and I love the place. Swn, to me, encapsulates the best of what it has to offer: an independent spirit, a sense of immense self-belief, and a determination to get things done.»

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DiS meets Gary Numan

In Depth by John Doran

Synth-pop’s man in black talks to us about the NIN collaboration, music so frightening it can give you a heart attack and why The Pleasure Principle is like Wall-E . . .»

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Guy Garvey's track-by-track guide to Asleep in the Back (Deluxe Edition)

In Depth by Simon Jay Catling

“We’re still incredibly proud of this record” says Elbow frontman Guy Garvey, having dissected the reissue of Asleep In The Back for Drowned In Sound. It’s easy to see why. Whilst 2008’s Mercury-bagging The Seldom Seen Kid may have sent the group truly stratospheric, it was merely a furthering of their wonderful ability to convey poise and grandiosity amidst the humdrum backdrop of a Northern town. The group’s 2001 debut album, in many ways, remains a template for the much loved five-piece. Re-released this week with added bells and whistles in the shape of 1998 EP Noisebox, some live recordings and Lamacq sessions, the band's avuncular leader here offers a track-by-track reminiscence on where it all began.»

Iceland Airwaves 2009

Iceland Airwaves: The DiS review

In Depth by Vasilis Panagiotopoulos

Madness. This is what you’re in for here at Iceland Airwaves, which has become a yearly pilgrimage for many music enthusiasts, press and industry. Once you’ve been, the chances are that sooner or later you’ll be coming back. Late-night mash-ups, hip crowd, a cryptic language and most importantly an overdose of pretty damn good local and international bands. My recollections are scarce and a crushing hangover is imminent… »

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Fluorescent yay!: DiS's exclusive Kranky cloudcast

In Depth by Andrzej Lukowski

We genuinely can't recommend this enough for those who like their music Lynchian and lovely.»

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Talkin' 'bout Revolutions- DiS meets Biffy Clyro

In Depth by Neil Ashman

A couple of weeks ago, DiS's Brad Barrett added to the anticipation/trepidation ahead of Biffy Clyro's impending fifth album Only Revolutions with a first listen piece in which he kind of sort of came to the conclusion that the once barking Scots trio had more or less gone proper mainstream, like. With just three weeks to go until the record's release, Neil Ashman caught up with bassist James Johnston (one of the blurry figures in the background of the pic - sorry, his parents) to get the inside take on what looks to be their moment of crossover glory.»

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Atlas Sound - Logos

Review by Andrzej Lukowski

Logos is a gorgeous, hallucinatory and somewhat sickly outing. »

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DiS meets The Big Pink

In Depth by Dom Gourlay

Having been hotly tipped by many critics since the beginning of the year, The Big Pink have enjoyed something of an ostentatious baptism in the music world so far. With a handful of mouth-watering singles to their name already, last month saw the release of their debut long player A Brief History Of Love...»

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Spotifriday #20 Side II: Kraftwerkweek as a playlist

In Depth by Chris Power

To mark the end of Kraftwerkweek we've put together a Spotify playlist of music that owes its existence to Ralf, Florian, Wolfgang and Karl. »

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The Flaming Lips - Embryonic

Review by Andrzej Lukowski

It may yet prove that Embryonic’s biggest achievement is restoring the Flaming Lips’ unpredictability. The entertainer’s masks have fallen away – underneath there are madmen grinning.»

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Kraftwerk - Autobahn: Remastered

Review by Chris Power

Kraftwerkweek on DiS commences with a review of the German legends' fourth album, 1974's Autobahn, which changed the course of popular music. »

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F*ck Buttons - Tarot Sport

Review by Andrzej Lukowski

Tarot Sport doesn’t pause to bang or whimper. Tarot Sport accelerates.»

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"When people say 'lo-fi' they mean you’re not trying" - No Age are back

In Depth by David Renshaw

DiS caught up with No Age guitarist Randy Randall to talk about the band's new material, touring with Deerhunter, Hüsker Dü, Wavves Vs Black Lips, No Age’s favourite British bands and the incident literally nobody is calling ‘Obama t-shirt gate’. »

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Biffy Clyro's Only Revolutions: First Listen

In Depth by Brad Barrett

Fresh from the Warners official watermarked stream comes our first listen to the fifth record from Scot titans Biffy Clyro, due next month. »

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A Month In Records: September 2009

In Depth by Luke Slater

The month that was September 2009 in records. Featuring Part Chimp, Paramore, Vitalic, Antipop Consortium and more.»

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In Photos: DiS presents HEALTH @ The Harley, Sheffield

In Depth by Gary Wolstenholme

DiScover live listings Sheffield DiSsers Facebook group | Manchester DiSsers Facebook group October 12 Sheffield The Harley - Johnny Foreigner / Tellison / Japanese Voyeurs / Mairead 13 Manchester The Deaf Institute - Johnny Foreigner / Tellison / Ja»

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This film is on: inside the ATP movie

In Depth by Nadine McBay

In May 2006 DiS was hanging around the entrance to Pontins, Camber Sands, getting itchy with excitement at the prospect of seeing J Mascis flick his white mane around at the Dinosaur Jr/Sleater-Kinney/The Shins-curated All Tomorrow’s Parties, when we fe»

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DiS meets Maps

In Depth by Dom Gourlay

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. Instead, he’s replaced his entire band, turned his back on the guitar completely and embraced a more synthesised direction with new record Turning The Mind.»

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DiScover Mixtape #3a: Free Energy, Internet Forever, Royal Bangs and more

In Depth by Rob Webb

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.»

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Twinkle, twinkle: listen to DiS's exclusive Constellation Records podcast

In Depth by Andrzej Lukowski

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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Muse discuss U2 US tour, The Resistance + more

In Depth by Sean Adams

A few weeks back, just before Muse played two huge homecoming shows (discussed here) and released their hugely successful new album The Resistance (reviewed here), DiS had a chat with their drummer Dominic Howard. Seeing as you've now had time to get your teeth into the album, here's what he had to say about it... »

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Year 2000 - A Playlist of Songs Wot Soundtracked the Launch of DiS

In Depth by Sean Adams

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...»

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Invada Invasion of DiS: the return of F^ck Buttons

In Depth by Andrzej Lukowski

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 discussed on Monday, the erstwhile Bristolians are signatories to ATP rather than Invada, but they’re taking pride of place at tomorrow’s Invada Invasion gig, topping off the second stage bill as they break out the divine accelerations of new record Tarot Sport (out Oct 5).»