Here then, with the second quarter of 2012 already underway, we bring you Some Velvet Mixtape, 35 of the finest artists and songs drenched in all things loud, heavy, dreamy and fuelled by reverb, distortion and feedback that have been keeping us awake at night (and day) these past few months. »
Single of the Week! Trembling Bells & Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy - ‘I’ll Be Looking Out For Me’ from ‘Duchess’ EP (Honest Jons, snippet at around 1:03 below) ‘I’ll Be Looking Out For Me’ is a he-said, she-said. And like the bes»
Sam Hill, curator of the BBC's Music Video Festival, returns with his video picks of the finest music vids of the first quarter of the year featuring the likes of David Lynch, Grimes, Chairlift, Spiritualized, Factory Floor and many more...»
Over the coming days, as we head into the long Easter Weekend (otherwise known as hot cross bun-mas, or tea-cake-mas if you're a truly dedicate atheist), DiS' editor is going to try to reduce down the best of the year so far. Tomorrow we'll share our most read editorial, as well as our album picks, and on Friday we'll share the videos of the year so far, but before any of that, how about a quick 'humble-brag' with our year-to-date stats (saves us replying to people asking for them) and a Spotify playlist? And yes, you can have a hot cross bun with that! »
Ahead of the release of their new album, Crown & Treaty, Tim from Sweet Billy Pilgrim reveals the secrets of his recording process, including recording the door of a dishwasher...»
Hello and welcome to a brand new spin-off from the commercially ignored and critically underrated DiS Does Pop. In the innovatively-titled DiS Does International Pop column we’ll be turning our ear for a Top 40 smash abroad and shining a light on the biggest hits from foreign lands.»
Kenney Jones is a name that shouldn't need any introductions. As a founder member of The Small Faces back in 1965, he helped pioneer the soul-infused sound that spawned the Mod movement and a host of groundbreaking records to boot...»
Single of the Week! Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs - ‘Tapes & Money’ (Polydor Records) Orlando Higginbottom continues to make droopy disco that reminds me I should not be reviewing music sitting down. And though I am told ‘Tapes &»
Chris Hitchens, I gather, spoke in perfect sentences. Well then, Warren Ellis (of Nick Cave & the Badseeds and Dirty Three) talks in paragraphs. With three-second indents.»
15 classic albums from the year of our Lord, 1997 - yeah, it was a good one. Included: Missy Elliott, Elliott Smith, Spiritualized, Wu-Tang Clan, Mansun, The Chemical Brothers, Portishead, Company Flow and some band called Radiohead.»
This month's pop column is a Madge-tacular affair which investigates whether the Material Girl is still top dog of the Top 40 brigade. There's also a Spotify playlist of her best bits plus our usual Top 40 Watch and Made For TV features. What are you waiting for? Go on and dig in.»
Single of the Week! Veronica Falls - ‘Come On Over’ (Bella Union) For the first 45 seconds ‘Come On Over’ is ‘Everybody Hurts’. After that it has some coffee, but at all times I love it, Veronica Falls just seem more accomplished at j»
Two weeks ago Jeff Mangum's rescheduled ATP finally took place. And we had reviewers there and everything - but in tribute to the three month delay of the festival, we had a slight delay on the write up, which is here with you now, at last, sorry. »
"It’s funny because ‘Simple Song’ is a very almost jubilant song, it’s very happy and I’m being very positive about some things in my life. And then there’s some real dark songs, like ‘Port of Morrow’, that song is just dark, it’s about how strange it is to be a human being and see human beings dying and human beings killing – that’s heavy dark stuff. There’s songs about love, there’s songs about death, there’s songs about…" - James Mercer»
When James Mercer wrote and recorded the new Shins record Port of Morrow (which is streaming in full, here), he put together a new band to head out on the road with him but who are these strangers lurking in the stage lights? We sent them each a questionnaire to find out a little more about them... »
Last week, Suze Olbrich ventured to Austin Texas for SXSW. Here is her report.... »
This month's Savage Pixels, with an in-depth review of Mass Effect 3, contributions from Sky Larkin and Teeth of the Sea, coverage of Street Fighter x Tekken and Asura's Wrath, plus previews of Sleeping Dogs and Borderlands 2. »
On Monday, DiS' favourite guitar-thrashing, drum-thrashing, stage-thrashing, crowd-thrashing, duo Blood Red Shoes follow-up the Radio1-bothering Fire Like This with the release of their eagerly anticipated third album. Here, Steven Ansell walks us through the new album In Time To Voices... »
One could be forgiven for thinking they'd inadvertently stumbled into an East Midlands Oasis fan convention rather than a Spiritualized concert... »
The stratospheric rise of Trevor Powers, aka Youth Lagoon, is nothing short of incredible. His debut album, Year of Hibernation, was rightly lauded as one of the breakthrough releases of last year. With its concise length and overawing sense of heartfelt emotion coursing through its whole, Powers has managed to amass an adoring fanbase whilst cutting through any potential jibes of faddiness, welding a unique sound that demands longevity that even the so-called seasoned pros may have lusted after given his tender age of just 22. Adored by online music communities worldwide, Youth Lagoon has struck a hopeful chord for those demanding a sense of realism out of the hype machine. »
This week: Kindness, T, Williams, Summer Camp, Breton, Montage Populaire and some people who call themselves I.R.O.K. »
Record shops The end of the indie-vinyl-collectors-heaven-in-a-loft-space-shop Edge World is now official and in its place a new disc servery has sprung. Endless Records boasts racks of underground dance and guitar music sorted by the experienced, knowled»
For a lad who got kicked out of school with no qualifications, Aidan Moffat has an impressive CV. He started out shaping the future of Scottish indie with Arab Strap, and last year he and Bill Wells released the remarkable album Everything’s Getting Older, to what seemed like unanimous acclaim.»
Drowned In Sound's electronic music column returns under new management...»
The Shins are back with the new album Port of Morrow. It's out next week in the UK but you can hear it in full before it's out all week on DiS!»
Single of the Week! Sharon Van Etten - ‘Leonard’ (JagJagJaguwar) Presented with a lyrics sheet for Sharon Van Etten’s ‘Leonard’, the words look prosaic. Shaker-simple, their plainness nearly verges on boring – especially when you cons»
"I've been to a couple of playbacks," comments one journalist after hearing Madonna's MDNA in full for the first time. "The louder they play the album, the more worried the record label tend to be about it." 'How loud was this particular listening session in the bowels of Abbey Road?', you ask. In a word, earsplitting.»
Mirrorring is Liz Harris and Jesy Fortino, better known as Grouper and Tiny Vipers respectively. That there might be an overlapping space between their projects is unsurprising to anyone familiar with their work, each creating solo music imbued with an ambient, meditative quality, both beautiful fragile and darkly unsettling.»
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