A Week in Drowned in Sound: 15/06/08

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WIN! Tickets to see Bjork and Sigur Ros in Iceland!

News
We got to be the first to hear and write about the new Beck album 'Modern Guilt', My Bloody Valentine brought their return forward to this weekend and two (relatively) tiny shows at London's ICA, four festivals fell in a week, we contested Gigwise readers' line-up for the 'ultimate rock band', Radiohead debuted a new song and a Portishead cover in Ireland, DiS got given competition prizes for you and a friend to go see Bjork and Sigur Ros in Iceland, HEALTH prepared to blow the roof off of the Old Blue Last…
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Fleet Foxes @ DiS gig at ULU

A Week in Features
* Making their own luck: Mudhoney, 20 not out
* Father's Day buyers guide: five records for the (old) man in your life
* Johnny Foreigner's 2008 diary: May

Chatter and Opinion
* The Weekly DiScussion: Is stadium rock back?
* My Bloody Valentine: peer pressure from five potential successors

New Sound
* DiScover: Jacob Golden
* DiScover: Fleet Foxes
* DiScover: My Brightest Diamond

Subways @ Download
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Single of the Week
* Foals – ‘Red Socks Pugie’ (Transgressive) 09/06/08
Click here for our Singles Round-up (09/06/2008)

A Week in Review
* Primavera Sound 2008: DiS's festival highlights
* Dot To Dot 2008: the DiS review
* Flying Lotus: Los Angeles
* 2562: Aerial
* The War on Drugs: Wagonwheel Blues
* Alphabeat: This is Alphabeat
* Coldplay: Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends
* Feeder: Silent Cry
* Cazals: What of Our Future
* Ladytron: Velocifero

HEALTH

Message Board ‘Highlights’
* Bands that aren't popular on this forum which you DO like?
...'outing' fans of The Feeling, Coldplay, The Fratellis, Dog Fashion Disco
* A challenge to Fihiki (Freestyle rap battle centric)
..."BOOM"
* Songs which sound exactly the same as other songs
...ownage
* Mildly cunty things you enjoy doing
...Dismantling things and putting them back together, but missing a vital component.
* Chav vs Fence
..."aaaahahrrgh... help me... someone help me"

BYE,
All at Drowned in Sound