CaviarAndCigarets

Any artist for me that can make more than one great album in two different genres is pretty good in my opinion.

So far it's alright, but I just feel that songs like Do You Dig U? are a bit aimless and meandering. Those double-time hi-hats are pretty prominent on Heels...

It's The Twang, they hardly interest the readers of this website anyway. If Natalie's not bothered and no one else is, why not review someone else who are a bit more interesting and who have got an album out?

Verbose and pretentious doesn't always equal good, as punk dinosaur Morley himself should know.

And listening to about 30 new bands I've never heard of and uncovering some gems.

I've already got my ticket ensconsed safely in my bedroom cupboard drawer.

Ultimately, another DiS article bigging up an over-rated aspect of Web 2.0, rather than insightful music journalism. I still love this site, yet articles like this make me ponder why hundreds of intelligent, articulate contributors work isn't being harnessed to create a more focused site.

(PS Sean, that's not a personal attack, I just think some articles should take slightly different approaches).

Dubstep is a far more definable genre, and has more name recognition that fidget house (sorry what the fuck is that?) and kuduro (again, who cares?).

Baile, what you mean Bonde De Role?

I quite like Fleet Foxes but having downloaded For Emma, Forever Ago I'm not really getting into it, I like the guy's voice but there's little that grabs me.

"Sonic trickery abounds on the pushing-it-at-eight-minutes ‘Castle Of Heroes’, which sounds a little like what Kieran Hebden might come up with were he armed with a sledgehammer as opposed to a laptop",

I actually wish Hebden would take a more Route One approach sometimes and unleash the noise. I really couldn't get into Tongues when I bought it recently, it seemed to meander a bit as a whole.

This sounds a bit different, might have to acquire this.

I quite liked Sam's Town. And there's a lot to be said for "breezy synth pop".

Looks like some seaside craziness then.

I went there on shrooms, it was jokes.

But I need to get my dissertation done by the 14th, and I'm going Great Escape starting the day after, so that takes out both, again. Fucksticks.

The first two albums are marvellous, and the third is pretty good. Having downloaded this one though, I can only really give it a 5 or a 6. I hope he does something pretty experimental with the last album, which is what he has threatened.

Don't know if he was just about to breeze out or was just visiting.

Which is great. I might pick up this as well.

Nah, they're a fairly big indie band, put the news out, go for it.

WOOP WOOP!

Surely not a phrase synonymous with a 8/10 review.

Not too bad. They stock Tuborg at the Barfly.

It's Calvin Harris, you knew the lyrics were going to be afterjizz. But the beat lacks the instant hook of "Acceptable..." and it never really gets going for me. Hardly a duet either. 2/5.

I'm heading down for this maybe.

But that remix is shocking. The drums sound all plodding and the bass is horrible.

"On June 25 2008, a brand new Weezer track was released onto YouTube, with the title "Turnin' Turnin'". NME.com, the website for the UK alternative music magazine, reported on 25 June 2008 about the story, but were unsure of the origin of the leak.

"Weezer's spokesperson confirmed that the song was genuine, although the origin of the leak is unclear. The backdrop for the YouTube video shows the cover of the band's recent self-titled album, known as 'The Red Album', suggesting that the new song may be recent."[35]

"Turnin' Turnin'" was soon uncovered by THRASH HITS as the song Weezer have been writing with their fans as part of the YouTube “Write a song with Rivers” blogs."

Next time look at your sister site first?

And I don't think he has the presence to be headlining Glasto.

But... I think he's on the right track with some of his criticism. Glasto is a pop festival and should get the cream of the crop from all popular music genres to play there.

2nd album was like a hyperspeed F.F.

To wipe out my overdraft, and then some.

But it was a little too pricey, a bit out of the back of the middle of nowhere (it's not even Redhill it's like 5 miles outside of it), and I'm doing drugs trials anyway that weekend.

But Uffie is total wastegash.

Gig at the Barfly is a night before one of my exams, so might see him in Guildford instead.

And a fun gig at Great Escape on the Friday night at Digital (heard they were gash on Saturday) but gotta have a limited shelf life.

Knew nothing of the backstory behind that. Not going to stop wearing the t-shirt but it does seem CC have been dicks about it.

I can understand why people might be more prone to reacting angrily when hip hop is playing rather than say, classical music, but the study that Glasgow Uni did needs to be more scientific than that. What pubs were they and what's their usual clientele? Did the testers decide the music or did the pubs in question maintain control over the music? What time was it in each pub?

I've only been to America once and I don't know what bars are like over there in the Bronx, but I wonder how their drinking culture compares to ours in big cities. Do they have our binge drinking culture, and to what extent?

The one part I really disagree with Tricky is where he seems to blame hip hop music for facilitating increased flows of firearms and ammunition into the UK. Surely this is due to changing factors in gang composition and organised crime activity and easier routes of access to the UK for arms traffickers than hip-hop music?

I don't really see the point of this interview. Features like this seem merely to be conducted in the hope of those at DiS Towers getting kicks out of the DiS readership having an aneurysm and getting apoplectic at interviewing bands like this on a site like DiS.

Symptomatic of a decline in DiS article quality recently, presumably linked to the new, redundant, patronising side projects.

£32 a day to see bands of that calibre in a 5,000 capacity event? Sounds great.

I'm not sure it appeals to anyone though.

Looks way better than Guilfest though.

Kev is a pretty shocking journalist.

I know it's helped me as a punter before to get to gigs when I couldn't get a ticket the first time around. If I want to go to Reading this year I'm grateful for the existence of a secondary market because I didn't have the cash at the time to buy a ticket.

I don't think either Glasto's ticket registration scheme or Reading's free-for-all is perfect though.

I've mostly noticed verbal abuse directed at them more than anything. When I hung out with them we tended to just generally be in a group and not get any stick, or just be able to ignore it.

Luckily I've never once been abused for what I wear, probably because I'm a bit of a square and tend to wear High Street clothes.