Primavera Sound 2012: the DiS Review, Friday 1st June
Reviews and photos from the second day of Primavera Sound 2012's main event at the Parc del Fòrum, featuring thoughts on Dirty Three, M83 and AraabMuzik.»
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On The DiS Stereo: June 2012
Some playlists and a selection of hand-picked videos and streams that our editor has been loving this month...»
Drowned in the North East #2
The second installment in our local scene guide from our scribe in the North East....»
This Week's Singles: 11/06/12 Dutch Uncles, Peaking Lights, Mary Epworth, Jonathan Boulet
Single of the Week! Dutch Uncles feat. Jonathan & Jeremy from Everything Everything - ‘Road To Roy’ (Memphis Industries, free here) Only Dutch Uncles and my beloved Everything Everything could fashion a song in which the phrase ‘group s»
"Call the people who can lose you a million pounds, there’s a credibility there" - DiS meets Pete Waterman
Pete Waterman is a lot like John Lydon... to interview at least. Just as with the former Sex Pistol, chatting to the hitmaker-in-chief behind Kylie Minogue, Steps, Bananarama and many, many more is a noticeably combative experience. »
"It just opened up a faucet or something"- DiS meets Lee Ranaldo of Sonic Youth
Lee Ranaldo, legendary axeman and noisemaker for Sonic Youth - among countless other collaborators - dropped a new solo album, Between the Times and the Tides earlier in the year. Starting off as a slightly more straight-forward but no less exciting project from the man; the LP blossomed into a dreamy and melodic collaborative effort, featuring the likes of Nels Cline, Steve Shelley and Alan Licht.»
SAVAGE PIXELS #12: FMV Gaming, Sensi, Lone Wolf, Dirt: Showdown...
Dirt: Showdown reviewed; Night Trap and The 7th Guest remembered; Lone Wolf has Flashback(s) to Jet Set Willy; Sensible World of Soccer is the Best. Game. Ever.; and Dishonored gets a look at because it looks amazing...»
Paul McCartney discusses his inspirations, guitars and RAM with Mansun's Paul Draper (Part 2)
Last week, we published the first part of DiS' exclusive interview with Paul McCartney, conducted by Mansun's Paul Draper. Before we get into the second part of this conversation - which touches on everything from Sir Paul's motivations, meeting John Lennon and playing drums on 'Back in the USSR' - Paul Draper shares a few words about his experience...»
This Week's Singles: 4/06/12 Disclosure, Jessie Ware, Tennis, Hot Chip, Doldrums
Single of the Week! Hot Chip - ‘Night & Day’ (Domino) If Hot Chip are at a stage where they can command Terence Stamp to mouth the words ‘I don't play no gabba' in their video, I am definitely happy; nothing makes me gladder than their »
Tom Barman's track-by-track guide to dEUS' new album Following Sea
dEUS! New album! Released today! Streaming! Here! Now!»
Weekend Listening: M83, POLIÇA, Grimes, Errors vs Maxïmo Park, Music Documentaries + lots more
DiS' editor compiles a selection of music using new-fangled streams and videos including his interview with Metric and an exclusive mixtape by Airbird (aka Joel Ford, one half of Ford & Lopatin) for your long-long weekend... plus a special YouTube playlist of music documentaries! »
SAVAGE PIXELS #11: A Potted History of Max Payne
Savage Pixels gets under the skin of the latest gaming world blockbuster, exploring its DNA via previous titles, interviewing its soundtrackers HEALTH, and basically discovering whether Rockstar's new baby is any good...»
Paul McCartney discusses songwriting and RAM with Mansun's Paul Draper
Sir Paul McCartney sits down with DiS, and musician Paul Draper of DiS heroes Mansun, to discuss songwriting and Sir Paul's album with Linda McCartney RAM (1971). »
This Week's Singles 28/05/12: Luke Abbott, Jherek Bischoff, The Shins, Euros Childs, Poppy & The Jezebels
Single of the Week! Luke Abbott - ‘Modern Driveway’ (NoTown) Luke Abbott’s bleary-eyed efforts are that special thing; slow-builders that earn the right to their ambling pace. It seems to me his work is an exercise in patience rather than s»
Watch: Metric discuss Synthetica, synth symphonies, song-writing, and authenticity with DiS
Metric's Emily Haines and Jimmy Shaw discuss their fifth studio album Synthetica with Drowned in Sound editor Sean Adams. This conversation includes chat about the writing of the album, Jimmy's seven "synth symphonies", a photograph which inspired the album, rock'n'roll's existential crisis, whether 'protest music is dead', but the bulk of the conversation swarms around the idea of authenticity in an age of Instagram and Urban Outfitters. »
"You couldn't really call it a solo album"- Orlando Weeks from The Maccabees on Young Colossus
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.»
This Week's Singles: 21/05/12 Here We Go Magic, Hooded Fang, Dan Sartain, Alt-J
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»
Paul & Linda McCartney - RAM Album Stream
Listen to a stream of the reissue of Paul & Linda McCartney's 1971 album, RAM.»
101 Minutes of Bliss #1: A DiS YouTube Playlist
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 artists pick their favourite B-Sides ft. Warren Ellis, Bill Wells & Aidan Moffat, Yuck
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.»
DiScover: Halls
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»
"We love being in a band" - DiS meets School Of Seven Bells
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. »
Hear Sigur Ros' new album right here at 7pm tonight
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).»
The Great Escape 2012 - DiS' Festival Highlights
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...»
The Classical #4 – This Tcharming Man: An Introduction to Tchaikovsky
An introduction to the key works by one of the greatest composers who ever lived, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky.»
"So I jumped and landed on my head on some concrete" - DiS meets The Hives Pt.II
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.»
"I mean, just who is this Calvin Harris guy?" - DiS meets Hauschka
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.»
"We're punk rock aristocrats" - DiS meets The Hives Pt.I
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.»
"I don’t understand why people would do it any other way" - DiS meets Ryan Jarman from The Cribs
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…”]»
armchair dancefloor 035: Butterz, The Bug, Kuedo, Howse, Fantastic Mr Fox, Shed, Py...
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...»
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