Introducing... ExLovers
Ahead of the free Rough Trade East instore this evening, Emmy The Great interviewed her support act ExLovers (also on the bill is DiS fave Eugene McGuinness)»
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Emmy the Great and Lightspeed Champion discuss the work of comedian Steve Martin
Emmy wanted to end end her week with something which wasn't music. So she caught up with Lightspeed Champion (aka Dev Hynes) to discuss comedian Steve Martin, enjoy... »
Emmy meets Mica Levi of Micachu & the Shapes
It's last day of Emmy the Great week but it's not over yet. Here Emmy swaps emails with Micachu from the road as Micachu and the Shapes are currently touring with Late of the Pier. »
Emmy meets Aidan Moffat (Arab Strap)
Ahead of the Valentine's Day release of his deluxe new album, How to Get to Heaven from Scotland, Emmy the Great caught up with a very busy Aidan Moffat to compute about romance, sex, Batman, monogamy. You know, all the major life questions.»
Emmy meets Darren Hayman (Hefner)
"Idealism is sad," says Darren Hayman (formerly of Hefner) in this interview with Emmy the Great, and she says, it's perhaps when he's finding the little details in life that are the most banal and yet the most sad, that he hits you the hardest.»
Store Profile: Spillers Records
Emmy interviews the folks from the oldest record shop in the world and best record shop in the UK, which she describes as "a shining bastion of independence". »
Label Profile: The Caspian
Emmy profiles the The Caspian label, who've released the likes of Sleeping States, Mike Wrexler and have a single out on Monday from The Soft Pack. »
Emmy meets Sleeping States
Emmy the Great took a break from listening to Old vs New to email some questions to Markland Starkie, who is working on a new Sleeping States album in Bristol. He explained how the process is changing with the input of his drummer, Rose, how the Bristol DIY scene compares to London, and how Life Without Buildings was one of the best bands of the last decade.»
Emmy meets Beach House
As part of Emmy the Great week she's taken the opportunity to talk to some of her heroes. Here, she speaks to Victoria Legrand from Beach House via email.»
Emmy The Great introduces Shilpa Ray and her Happy Hookers
Spin calls it the equivalent of your first punch in the face. Time Out New York calls her the 'Best Lead Singer who Doubles as an Air Raid Siren'. She only saw her for ten minutes, four years ago, but Emmy hasn't forgotten a second. Maybe that's the best indictment she can give of her talent. »
Emmy introduces Younghusband
Younghusband are what happens when one man’s obsession with music becomes too much to keep to himself. As part of our Emmy The Great Week, Emmy chats classic US indie-rock, bedroom producing and origins in Watford with the young trio. »
Emmy introduces Three Trapped Tigers
Our guest-editor Emmy The Great introduces Three Trapped Tigers, whom, she says, sound "like nothing else out there."»
DiSection: Emmy The Great First Love track-by-track
Emmy the Great Week starts here!
The idea of a DiSection is simple: We ask an artist/band we like to walk us through their album, track-by-track, not unlike those director's commentaries you get on the bonus bit of a DVD. Here, Emmy The Great talks us through her debut album First Love, which is released today.»
DiScover: The Wave Pictures
Ahead of their four-week residency in London's The George, DiS gets up close and personal with The Wave Pictures, who have our writer feeling like "an idiot girl in a poodle skirt"»
DiScover: Simon Joyner
Name-dropped by everyone from Beck to Connor Oberst, and heralded by many as the first to achieve that hissing ‘Omaha sound’, lo-fi pioneer Simon Joyner is finally returning to the UK for a handful of shows»
The Mules - Save Your Face
If post-punk is the bandwagon, then The Mules are the guys behind the cactus waiting to strip it of valuables and spit-roast the driver. While some people hide their suburban AOR-dressed-as-Arcadia behind a life of debauchery, this Oxford-born quintet are happy to live as mother would have hoped, while producing some of the most frenzied, unclassifiable party music that you will ever hear...»
The Bright Space, Tilly and the Wall at London Camden Dublin Castle, Tue 21 Feb
What is so vital about five haphazard, slightly shambolic indie kids from wintry Omaha? What’s so special about five cheeky smiles and a couple of outbursts of “thank y’alls for coming"?»
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