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Your mailout this week is mostly still dreaming about the events of last weekend at Camber Sands. Pitchfork vs. ATP threw up legion highlights - great sets from the likes of Deerhunter and Times New Viking adding to a general sense of raucous goodwill that's unsurpassed in this writer's festival experience and has already taken on that nostalgic glow usually reserved for memories buried deep in the addled mind. Our coverage of the weekend is up on the site now, we hope you enjoy it as much as we enjoyed the event itself.

Getting our heads back into gear, this weekend sees us off to Brighton for the Great Escape. Our stage is awesome, if we don't say so ourselves. See for yourselves below:

Thursday May 15
The Futureheads @ 9.45
Fanfarlo @ 8.45
Broken Records @ 7.45
Eugene McGuinness @ 6.45

Friday May 16
Crystal Castles @ 9.45
Cadence Weapon @ 8.45
George Pringle @ 7.45
Lovvers @ 6.45

Saturday May 17
These New Puritans @ 9.45
Santogold @ 8.45
Times New Viking @ 7.45
Telepathe @ 6.45

Other highlights look set to include Uncut's first night with No Age and Wild Beasts, London busybodies No Pain in Pop are putting on AIDS Wolf, Telepathe, Gentle Friendly and Rolo Tomassi, while Stolen Recordings take Mathew Sawyer and Let's Wrestle down to the end of the pier. Our full guide is here.

Further ahead, we're excited to present a fine selection of bands to you at this year's Summer Sundae - F*ck Buttons, Howling Bells, Noah and the Whale, Youthmovies and The Mae-Shi doing us the honour.

Prizes? Go see the aforementioned Telepathe this Saturday at Push, perhaps for free, definitely cheap at least. Do that here and be in with the chance of winning a year's free entry to Push, if that's the kind of den you're happy to frequent.

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El Guincho will be putting in a surprise slot at Wireless Festival this year

News
Charlottefield split, Radiohead were hacked off at EMI for releasing their 'Greatest Hits', Agyness Deyn and Pete Doherty infused their new material with Animal Collective and African tribal rhythm respectively (if not respectfully), George Lamb was crowned Prince of British radio, Arcade Fire are soundtracking Donnie Darko director Richard Kelly's new film...

Festivals
Siren Music Festival - Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks, Annuals
Big Chill - Beth Orton
Splendour - Kate Nash, Rufus Wainwright, The Charlatans
Indietracks - Los Campesinos!
Somerset House - Adele, Duffy, Justice, Lupe Fiasco, The Fratellis
Wireless - el Guincho, Emmy the Great, Eugene McGuinness, David Thomas Broughton
Latitude - Beth Orton, Black Kids, dEUS, Guillemots
Tapestry Goes West - John Power, Jeffrey Lewis and the Jitters, Clientele
Wilsonic - Skream, Apparat Band, Fennesz, Flying Lotus
Hove - M.I.A., Raconteurs, Beck, Goldfrapp
Click here for a week in news…

We talked to Jemaine and Bret off the telly

A Week in Features
* DiS Festival Diary: My first-ever ATP
* The Great Escape 2008: the DiS preview
* Feathers Ruffled: Dirty Projectors rule the roost
* Mission Of Burma: respecting a returning riot act
* Crawling, talking: The Wave Pictures in conversation
* Flight Of The Conchords: comedy Kiwis on their musical dabblings

Chatter and Opinion
* Explosions In The Sky's guide to ATP
* Track-by-Track: Johnny Foreigner's Waited Up 'Til It Was Light

Cadence Weapon won nothing but the warm joy of our approval in this week's singles round-up

Single of the Week
* Cadence Weapon – ‘House Music’ (Big Dada)
Click here for our Singles Round-up (12/05/2008)

A Week in Review
* Subtle: ExitingARM
* The Ting Tings: We Started Nothing
* El Perro del Mar: From The Valley To The Stars
* Bon Iver: For Emma, Forever Ago
* Santogold: Santogold
* O Fracas: Fits & Starts
* Pendulum: In Silico
* The Wave Pictures: Instant Coffee Baby

Message board ‘highlights’
* ATP!!!
...awesomeness from Camber recollected
* pinballfortress (Scott) RIP
...The only way this DiS user can ever return is if he really is dead
* Is there a band that is regarded good by EVERYONE?
...No is the short answer, but like collecting football stickers it's fun getting there
* The VikramMirri Story
...DramaHammer rewrites DiS history
* Sum up the last year on DiS
...Catch-up thread

Puff of f*cking smoke,
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