Young Colossus is the new project from Maccabees frontman, Orlando Weeks. It's a concept album made up of six tracks, each one relating to a different section of the accompanying graphic novel, illustrated by artist Rob Hunter.»
Single of the Week! Here We Go Magic - ‘How Do I Know’ (Secretly Canadian) ‘How Do I Know’ is infectiously plotted, it has the sort of urgent tempo, quietly chugging bassline and itchy keyboard lines that put you in mind of blinking strob»
Listen to a stream of the reissue of Paul & Linda McCartney's 1971 album, RAM.»
Here's our first YouTube playlist of songs and videos we've been loving recently, plus a few things that would feature on a DiS Greatest Hits playlist...»
I'll Be Your Mirror acts as a sister event to the ATP Festivals and is named after the b-side to The Velvet Underground's original All Tomorrow's Parties 7" single. We asked some of the artists performing to tell us their favourite b-sides and 7" singles.»
Halls has been a name whispered on a need-to-know-basis over on the DiS boards since the release of his Fragile EP (which you'll find streaming in full at the end of this piece). He is a South London based producer name Sam Howard, but that doesn't even begin to describe the way he elegantly conjoins the sparseness of electronica/post-dubstep with the soaring heart-ache of the saddest of troubadours. If you can imagine Burial remixing Shearwater or James Blake producing the next Martin Grech/Thom Yorke record, then throw a hint of Nils Frahm's haunting pianos into the mix, you might find yourself in a place not too far from the grandeur of this young talent»
Two years ago, Claudia Deheza (vocalist/keyboardist) abruptly left SVIIB in the middle of a US tour due to 'personal reasons' leaving her sister Alejandra Deheza along with Benjamin Curtis to continue alone. This could and should have broken most bands, but it proved to strengthened Alejandra and Ben bond and galvanise their ambition. A profound sense of release coupled with the band for the first time being in the same head-space, School Of Seven Bells embarked on unified goal of making the record they'd always wanted to make: Ghostory. »
You know what's happening right? At 7pm in each country around the world you'll be able to hear the new Sigur Ros album Valtari for one-hour-only. DiS is one of the official UK partners, so bookmark this page or leave it open in a tab, and some back and listen to the record later (or now, if it is 7pm UK Time when you load up this page).»
In this review of the festival, we've not tried to cover everything (there were well over 300 acts, after all). Instead, what you'll find below is DiS' editor's picks of the weekend (that's me writing this intro, hello!), but first, DiS' David Edwards who trekked down from Manchester shares his picks of the weekend...»
An introduction to the key works by one of the greatest composers who ever lived, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky.»
The concluding half of our in depth interview with The Hives sees us cover frontman Howlin' Pelle Almqvist's hospitalisation from concussion last year, bad Hives songs and Barely Legal.»
Ahead of his headline performance at London’s Barbican Hall on Friday (18 May), DiS caught up with the German prepared piano experimentalist to discover his new collaboration with a choir of 70-year-old African women and delve into his long-haired, baggy-jeaned rap-rock past.»
The Hives are a rock and roll band. This much the Swedish five piece were very clear about when they sat down with DiS a fortnight ago in an opulent London hotel. What follows is both a revealing and hilarious insight into one of the few remaining loud and proud guitar bands.»
Eschewing Germanic fairgrounds, North American swimming pools, and the grip of Warner Bros Records, Ryan Jarman from The Cribs explains how he and his brothers found themselves reconnected… In The Belly Of The Brazen Bull [cue 20th Century Fox title sequence. “Dlllllllllllaaaa-duh-dah. Dun-dun…”]»
Welcome to another edition of armchair dancefloor. Below you'll find 'The Playlist' for a selection of new and forthcoming releases that have caught our eye this month, but first, we speak to one of our favourite, young UK record labels...»
The ninth installment of our local scene report from Brighton...»
As part of their week-long takeover of the site, The Cribs talk us through their six favourite albums produced by Steve Albini.»
Eight And a Half are three Canadian gents making sumptuous synth rock. Notably their line-up is two parts ex-Stills and one ex-Broken Social Scene. They're heading to the UK next week to play some shows, including the DiS stage at the Great Escape (Thursday at the Komedia), so we thought we'd find out a little more about what they've been using to make their gorgeous music... »
As part of their week-long takeover of the site to celebrate the release of new album In the Belly of the Brazen Bull, The Cribs have compiled us a little list of seven bands you need to hear now.»
Single of the Week! The Magnetic Fields - ‘Quick’ (Domino) No one captures the ecstasy of romantic torment quite like The Magnetic Fields. And though there is no better song to sing after a right royal dumping than ‘I Don’t Want To Get Ov»
Ahead of her performance headlining the DiS stage at Camden Crawl, we finally caught up with FOE to have a chat about Radiohead, Reuben, sordid sex in suburbia, making a video for twenty pounds, being a new artist on a major label in 2012 and what happens when your label suddenly no longer exists just as your debut album comes out....»
First up, a couple of truly stunning transmissions from Evan Caminiti. Slated for release later this month on the impeccable Immune Recordings, Night Dust represents the undoubted high-point of his solo output thus far. Recorded purely to four-track, and »
The tenth installment in our local scene report from our scribe in Leeds...»
When Sigur Ros announced they had a brand new album recorded and ready to go last month the collective sigh of relief could be traced all the way from the United Kingdom to the United States and back again. »
Shut Up and Play The Hits is Will Lovelace and Dylan Southern's attempt to chronicle the melange of mayhem that was the last 48 hours of LCD Soundsystem. Maybe not that big a band, maybe not that big a gig, just another night in New York. And yet, somehow, Madison Square Garden on April 2nd 2011, dominated by our generation's answer to David Byrne, became a strange musical Mecca for the web 2.0 generation.»
After a short break, some tunes and news from bonnie Scotland.»
Single of the Week! Patrick Watson - ‘Into Giants’ (Domino) On ‘Into Giants’ Patrick Watson is not messing about, not one toy is getting left in the cupboard. And it is all quite overwhelming, there being so many things here worthy of not»
There’s a reason this column has become more sporadic in 2012, and it’s not due to a lack of things going on in Manchester. Far from it. In fact it feels like the rush of the musical tide flowing through this city is such that I’m sitting meekly at »
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The Cribs - In the Belly of the Brazen Bull
My Bloody Valentine - Loveless (remastered)
My Bloody Valentine - Isn't Anything (remastered)
Actress - R.I.P.
Chromatics - Kill for Love
Death Grips - The Money Store
In Photos: Guns 'n' Roses @ Liverpool Echo Arena
In Photos: Cloud Nothings @ Cargo, London
In Photos: Live At Leeds Festival 2012
In Photos: Camden Crawl 2012 , London