2010 Preview: a video from Liars
Kicking off our 2010 preview week, we are beyond thrilled to offer you this video postcard from the mighty Liars, who've been holed up for 2009 penning fourth album Sisterworld»
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Them Crooked Vultures - Them Crooked Vultures
So a de facto QOTSA album with Grohl and Jones as players and collaborators: good, right? Um, occasionally. »
Espresso yourself: getting wired with Akron/Family
DiS's occasional series of food and drink guides from popular musicians gambols on apace, as Miles Seaton - co-songwriter/bassist/vocalist with ecstatic post everything joy-bringers Akron/Family - serves up his guide to his favourite espressos IN THE WORL»
Nirvana - Live at Reading
It’s three great musicians playing some wonderful songs, as yet untouched by the shadow of death. »
Cold Cave - Love Comes Close
Love Comes Close is good, fitfully very good, and when considered alongside Cremations, this two year old band have build up an undeniably impressive body of work. »
Win! Tickets to see Daniel Johnston in London
LITERALLY EVERYBODY wants to run a fairly last-minute competition via DiS at the moment (obviously not literally everybody, that would be daft). Fragile-voiced, beautiful-melodied, shadowy-of-past cult songwriter legend Daniel Johnston is no exception. H»
Tegan and Sara - Sainthood
In their own way Tegan and Sara are mavericks; perhaps that’s what will save them in the end.»
Win a pair of tickets to see HEALTH in London on Monday
Hello capital-dwellers So it's been at least a week, possibly two since fluoro-loving disco noiseniks HEALTH last skidaddled into The Big Smoke. You'd perhaps given them up for dead and thus stopped checking to see if they were playing gigs, but don't wo»
Fluorescent yay!: DiS's exclusive Kranky cloudcast
We genuinely can't recommend this enough for those who like their music Lynchian and lovely.»
Atlas Sound - Logos
Logos is a gorgeous, hallucinatory and somewhat sickly outing. »
The Flaming Lips - Embryonic
It may yet prove that Embryonic’s biggest achievement is restoring the Flaming Lips’ unpredictability. The entertainer’s masks have fallen away – underneath there are madmen grinning.»
F*ck Buttons - Tarot Sport
Tarot Sport doesn’t pause to bang or whimper. Tarot Sport accelerates.»
Various - Warp20 (Recreated)
If Warp artists are the only people crazy enough to cover Warp artists, they’re also the only ones who could do so even half this convincingly.»
Soap&Skin&pig blood: DiS goes to the Incubate festival
It’s not so much Fun Zone as Twilight Zone, and there’s a lot to be said for that.»
Twinkle, twinkle: listen to DiS's exclusive Constellation Records podcast
Remember, you won't find a note of this music on Spotify et al, so enjoy this half hour of wide-ranging delight, genre-bending delight, hosted for us by our chums at Soundcloud.»
Karen O and the Kids - Where the Wild Things Are Motion Picture Soundtrack
Perhaps the best you can say of it is that the most anticipated film of the year now has a LOT to live up to. »
Invada Invasion of DiS: the return of F^ck Buttons
We round off the Invada Invasion of DiS with a chat with Andy Hung, one half of the mighty Fuck Buttons (Benjamin John Power having swanned off on holiday). As Geoff Barrow discussed on Monday, the erstwhile Bristolians are signatories to ATP rather than Invada, but they’re taking pride of place at tomorrow’s Invada Invasion gig, topping off the second stage bill as they break out the divine accelerations of new record Tarot Sport (out Oct 5).»
Invada Invasion of DiS: a mixtape from Malakai
You know the score by now. Um, probably. On Monday we talked to Geoff Barrow, on Tuesday Thought Forms gave us their guide to Bristol, yesterday Crippled Black Phoenix hit us up with a beef and cheese based Christmas recipe... Saturday is the Invada Invasion itself, and perhaps tomorrow those nice Fuck Buttons boys might be dropping in for a chat. For today, though, feast yer senses on this here mixtape, brought to you by Invada-signed beat-dealers Malakai.»
Invada Invasion of DiS: Christmas cookin' with Crippled Black Phoenix
Following on from Monday's chat with Geoff Barrows, musician, record boss, scholar and curator of this weekend's Invada Invasion in Bristol and Though Forms' guide to the capital of the South West, Invada's invasion of DiS gathers pace as Justin from Victoriana-loving post rockers Crippled Black Phoenix divulges his top tips for a Christmas meal with all the trimmings. IT'S ONLY THREE MONTHS AWAY YOU KNOW. »
Invada Invasion of DiS: Thought Forms' guide to Bristol town
Yesterday that nice Mr Geoff Barrow held forth on the manifold delights awaiting lucky punters at this weekend's Invada Invasion concert at Bristol's Colston Hall which - it turns out - is named after a notorious slave trader. "Whoa, hold on!" you say. "Just exactly what sort of crazy town is this 'Bristol'?" Fortunately Invada-signed peddle abusers Thought Forms are on hand to navigate you through the nooks and crannies of the South West's storied capital.»
Invada Invasion of DiS: Geoff Barrow talks Bristol and BEAK>
All this week Invada invades DiS, for a week of content from its artists and acts playing at the concert. Why? Because we love Invada, because the Invada Invasion of Bristol looks amazing, and because for today’s first feature we get to talk to the delightful Mr Barrow himself, who discusses the gig, the label and his new band, BEAK>.»
Pearl Jam - Backspacer
Backspacer is defined by its opening salvo of choons, a joyous fusillade that seems likely to finally put the band's rock dinosaur rep to bed.»
Watch: New video from Chad VanGaalen's Black Mold
Watch the video for Black Mold's 'Metal Spiderweb'.»
HEALTH - Get Color
Get Color is a record with definition and character, a move away from the nerve-frying, oft random lurches of HEALTH's debut. It’s sad and beautiful and evocative, speaking of wrong science fiction and fallen futures. It doesn’t need a t-shirt to prop it up.»
Back on the Maps: James Chapman writes to DiS
There's a new Maps album called Turning the Mind out on September 28, it's a big step up on debut We Can Create, read onwards to find out what Mr Chapman has to say about it._ »
Label Focus #29: Constellation; part three - music
Okay, okay, so we left it to part three to get onto the 'music' section of a record label interview, but Constellation is a pretty special case. Here we bring the final part of the transcript of Andrzej Lukowski's interview with founders Don Wilkie and Ia»
Label Focus #29: Constellation; part two - politics
Welcome to part two of DiS's publication of Plan B's extensive interview transcripts with Don Wilkie and Ian Ilavsky, co-founders of Constellation records. Yesterday they discussed being 'of Montreal'; today the founders of the notoriously leftwing label »
Label Focus #29, part one: Constellation, the Plan B transcripts
In May this year, I conducted a series of email interviews with various key players from Montreal's uber-inspirational, ultra-independent Constellation record label. They were for a piece in the final Plan B magazine, which was a focus on the Constellatio»
Japandroids - Post-Nothing
Ultimately, there is no pretention to Japandoids: maybe they just couldn’t be bothered.»
Poland's OFF Festival: the DiS review
It was with a mixture of near-crippling shame and childish glee that DiS accepted Polish musician and festival organiser Artur Rojek’s invitation to come out to the fourth edition of his OFF Festival, held in the town of Myslowice in Poland’s mining h»
Champion Sound #13: Part 1 – Ten Yeezus Pieces
Parklife Weekender 2013 – The Drowned in Sound Review
Drowned In Sheffield #14
DiS Does Singles 17.06.13: Dornik, Washed Out, AlunaGeorge
All Hail the Culturati... Fighting Over Radiohead's Hail to the Thief
Cutting Through the Noise: What it's really like representing new artists at events like The Great Escape
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