"The marauder mentality, it extends far beyond me": DiS Meets Interpol
The band's forthcoming album takes a deep dive into their dazzling darker side»
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“Music is more than therapy for us”: DiS Meets Preoccupations
The four-piece tell us about their desire to do something different and good music coming from a darker place»
Visions Festival 2017: The DiS Review
Now in its fifth year, the expectations for the Hackney all-dayer are headily high»
Visions Festival 2017 - The DiS Preview
Visions Festival is back with an amazing array of genre hopping live music, DJs, street food, and more»
"Forget all those demon voices": DiS Meets Gothic Tropic
Cecilia Della Peruti talks animatedly about her debut album being a coming of age record»
“We’ve lost our spiritual way”: DiS Meets Depeche Mode
For their latest album, Spirit, the band have driven headfirst into socio-political terrain»
“This is for the love of the art”: DiS Meets Lift To Experience
We spoke to a talkative and playful Josh T Pearson about the re-issue of his band's seminal album»
"I have no opinion on what other people think about me": DiS Meets Anton Newcombe
We speak to Anton Newcombe from his Berlin home about the Brian Jonestown Massacre’s latest album, Third World Pyramid»
"I’m not necessarily a dark person": DiS Meets Preoccupations
We speak to frontman Matt Flegel down the line from a tour pit-stop about the gamble of changing the band’s name & how the record came together»
By The Sea 2016 Preview
DiS's quick round up of what to catch at By The Sea festival in Margate.»
DiS Does Visions 2016
Now in its fourth year, Visions still delivers on offering up resplendent new bands you haven’t heard of.»
“I wrote these songs and I want to do them justice”: DiS Meets Mitski
In a packed dimly lit basement in Dalston only the scant shuffle of feet can be heard as Mitski, just visible through the throng of heads fixed attentively in her direction, preps for the next song. It’s something that’s become an increasingly familiar and yet still arresting reaction to Mistki Miyawaki.»
DiS meets Kim Gordon: "You have to take risks"
Gordon talks about her autobiography, whether it’s easier to be a woman in the music industry today, and how she will never write a book about Sonic Youth.»
Fat White Family: "If you’re going to vote for anyone it should be Labour".
Fat Whites on whether artists should talk about politics, how to fight the class war and why they think we should vote Labour in the election.»
DiS meets Sleater Kinney: "We felt like it wasn’t necessarily the end of the story"
Carrie Brownstein on the hiatus, No Cities To Love, 20 years of Riot Grrrl and why we should never, ever trust a lyric website….ever.»
“We were all going through this weird period of really unsettled thinking” DiS meets Ought
Marie Wood talks to Tim Keen to find out what it’s like to play in a truly democratic band, and why Ought are no Modern Lovers...»
Conor Oberst: "I've learned to stop putting too much stock in what people say"
Conor talks about why he identifies with Neil Young and how it feels to live in the shadow of his earlier career...»
Live Report: Barclaycard Mercury Sessions – Metronomy, Chvrches Angel Haze
After the Brits, this was a welcome reminder that we’re not a tone deaf nation.»
"I’m a satisfied man, I can’t really complain too much" - DiS meets White Denim
"Every record I hope for the same thing - to keep moving forward"»
"We’re a wolf pack. No one can fuck with us" – DiS meets Haim
Marie Wood snatched a quick 20 minutes with Este when the band were on tour in Europe supporting Phoenix.»
“I need to strip everything down, because it’s a challenge” – DiS meets Zola Jesus
Four years on and the harsh metallic coating of Nika Danilova’s debut has become a remote aftertaste...»
"'Reign' is a very dark, dense, gloomy record… I needed to get past it" - DiS meets Sleigh Bells
Over the course of a highly-charged 20 minute transatlantic call, Derek from Sleigh Bells talks about how working on Bitter Rivals is his most 50/50 split yet with Alexis, and how taking-up boxing can make you feel exactly like Rocky Balboa...»
"You can be as critical as you want, but I don’t really care" - DiS meets Peace
“I’m going to do that …maybe not,” Peace’s singer Harrison says unamused as we try to lighten the interview by persuading him to do a Robert Plant from his favourite band Led Zeppelin and swap his skinny jeans for a blood-stopping-crotch-savaging tight pair of flares and bare his pigeon chest. Although, this wouldn’t be the weirdest thing to happen to the midlands born singer; in the space of a less than a year his band has been nominated for the BBC Sound Of 2013, played the NME Awards Tour and released a critically acclaimed debut, In Love. A little bit of nudity would be a minor footnote in their nose-bleedingly quick rise to success. As Harrison slightly arrogantly confirms, “ It’s all one constant highlight, y’know?”»
"The most important thing is to have freedom" - DiS meets Goldfrapp
Self-admittedly dissatisfied with their last album - the one dimensional neon synth-fest, Head First – Tales Of Us sees Goldfrapp shedding the sequins and glam to once again roam the bare terrain they first scaled on Felt Mountain and Seventh Tree to dramatic effect. Focusing on picked acoustics, bare piano and sweeping strings the record evokes a beguiling and haunted world that is a lifetime away from the technicolour path the band once walked. Speaking to Alison she elaborates on the vital role of storytelling in Tales Of Us, the band’s continued manipulation of visual media and the importance of creative freedom. Just don’t mention the word ‘strategy’. »
“You can give up or you can rise up and tell everyone to eat a dick” - DiS meets Giant Drag
Giant Drag should’ve had a bright future, but as Annie reveals in the enveloping years her life took a helter skelter turn for the worse as she became consumed by drug addiction that resulted in three trips to rehab and packing up and shacking up with a “full psycho” boyfriend. To make matters worse labels came and went promising to put out the band’s next record and then, like a lame date, just not calling back. Getting clean last year and sick and tired of other people being in control of her destiny, Annie finally released the band’s second album, Waking Up Is Hard To Do, on her own label, Full Psycho. Despite the fan and critical swooning that’s since followed she remains firm on her promise that after a few shows this is the end of the band as ‘Giant Drag is a bit cursed’. However, new beginnings are also afoot as she’s busy new bands PnP and Annie And The Psychos as well as a love of crafting because “crafts are pretty killer.” »
Live Report: Depeche Mode, 29 May 2013 @ O2 London
Depeche Mode have garnered some of the critical adulation as the accepted ‘pioneers of electronic music’, topped magazine polls, won an Ivor Novello and reached the dizzying heights of being covered by The Saturdays. But, there’s still something amiss that never equates the 100 million records sold, 13 albums, audiences in excess of 30 million and 33 years in the business and counting with the stature afforded to other bands of similar stats and legacy. Earlier this year the band snubbed a Brit Award after it was made apparent it wouldn’t be televised or given the title ‘Lifetime Achievement’ - as Dave Gahan rightly said, “How many other bands have had as many hits as us worldwide and been around for as long? Fuck them then and bollocks to it”. Tonight the O2 have rightly said ‘bollocks to it’ too as the sanitised upturned moon cup has been turned into an adult Depeche Mode theme park»
“Part fluke, part design” - DiS meets Chvrches
Glasgow trio, Chvrches, summoned a storm of biblical proportions when they posted their debut track ‘Lies’ - a clean squeeze of sweet and sour electro pop - online last year. Critical adulation, a support slot with Passion Pit and a nomination for the BBC’s Sound of 2013 have all since followed with the band now on the cusp of releasing their highly-anticipated debut album this autumn.»
"If we made it big we'd move to LA and buy motorbikes & guns" - DIS meets Wet Nuns
Formed over “a mutual enjoyment of cat videos, Alan Partridge, and drone metal” Wet Nuns, aka Alexis Gotts and guitarist/vocalist Rob Graham, take the blues and administer a lethal shot of raw rock n roll attitude to make The Black Keys look like sissy little choir boys. »
Giant Drag - Waking Up Is Hard to Do
Waking Up Is Hard To Do is a record that’s ultimately come out sunny side up; it takes the familial raucous reverb, bittersweet melodies and sardonic wit of the Giant Drag's debut and imbues it with a new sense of clarity, 60s pop hooks as well as oh some calypso jazz. »
DiS meets Bo Ningen - "We want to break the boundaries"
Last year, the release of their self-produced second album, Line The Wall, finally captured the ferocity of their live show on record. Unlike their debut, from the outset of opener 'Soko' the record is swathed in lustrous layers of reverb, howls and most importantly an unwavering intensity. We caught-up with Bo Ningen singer, Taigen Kawabe, from their recording studio to talk about the importance of pushing the boundaries, the art of collaboration and borrowing your mum's clothes. »