Friday Feeling: The Videos: Pt 2 - Why? mockumentary
Eskimo Snow may have been slightly disappointing (read Luke Slater's review here) but here's something that proves Yoni Wolf ain't out of ideas yet.»
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The Northwestern - Ghostrock EP
When new bands form out of the grey ashes of old bands, it is very difficult to escape comparisons with what came before. New Order just about managed it. Test Icicles are mentioned in every other Lightspeed Champion review.»
David Cronenberg's Wife - Hypnagogues
The difficulty of whittling the 20 or 30 songs you've demoed for your record down to the requisite number (unless you're Devendra Banhart), and then listing them into the perfect flowing order cannot be overstated.»
Windmill - Epcot Starfields
The history of the concept album is one littered with follies and successes. There’s the mundane storytelling of A Grand Don’t Come For Free, and the cryptic lyrics of Sunset Rubdown. Then there’s I am... Sasha Fierce and everything Rick Wakeman’s ever been involved in. »
Cymbals Eat Guitars - Why There Are Mountains
Cymbals Eat Guitars' name comes from a Lou Reed quote. This we shall get out of the way early on. Verbatim, he described the Velvet Underground sound as “cymbals eat out guitars”, an all together less pleasant image.»
The Fiery Furnaces, pete um at Cargo, London, Thu 08 Oct
Oh, Eleanor. The double denim. Beloved of Bewitched and Bon Jovi. Is this a club you wish to be a member of? What does Mr Kapranos»
FrYars - Dark Young Hearts
Synthesisers are ever present in the modern age. You would have though the eighties would have killed them off. Now they dominate, in this pretend wave of female popstars, and in the synthpop indiestars, pretending this didn't get boring twenty years back. frYars, one London man named Ben Garrett plus friends, clearly recognises the mysterious power of the synthesiser.»
Eat Skull - Wild And Inside
The Shitgaze Manifesto- “Musically, ...the Beach Boys... I'm sorry, I don't understand the question. I'm really high right now.»
Johnny Foreigner: Yes! You Tour Too Fast
Brummer ne'er-do-wells, gin lovers, and DiS Pluto Prize winners Johnny Foreigner have already set out on a 16 date jaunt around the country. DiS missed that boat. Poosticks.»
On Kerouac, Koalas & Cervantes: DiS meets Jeffrey Lewis
Jeffrey Lewis has become known as one of the world's foremost exponents of that indefinable genre (as much as any genre is definable. What is pop? Don't even start...) known as antifolk.»
Jeffrey Lewis at King's Cross Scala, Islington, Thu 23 Apr
Jeffrey Lewis might have taken a while to climb the mountain, but he's getting near the peak now. Think of it more as a gentle amble than the hype helicopter giving you a lift to the top. Fans seem to have spread by word of mouth, a growing cult of fey individuals in love with Jeff's deprecating lyrics and antifolk leanings.»
Icy Demons - Miami Ice
This band were not focus grouped. On some levels it might have been a good idea.»
A Month in Records: March 2009
Best album of the month, you ask? Hard to choose between a stack of 8s, with ambient beauty from Fever Ray and jittery pop from Micachu all making knees tremble. However, sole 9 went to the delectable Marissa Nadler, a score you may dimly recall as being bestowed some two months before its actual release. WE ARE NOTHING IF NOT ENTHUSIASTIC. »
Video Drowned-Up: Jeff Lewis, Gorillaz, Tiny Masters
DiS rounds up all the best videos so you don't have to.»
Drowned Up: Arctic Monkeys, PJ Harvey, Grizzly Bear
DiS trawls through all the recent music news so you don't have to.»
Courtney Love vs. Twitter
Rock's most famous widow Courtney Love has got herself in another legal pickle, this time via the medium of Twitter.»
Video Drowned-Up: PJ Harvey, YYYs, P.Wolf, Sigur Ros, Grizzly/Panda Bear...
Here's a selection of videos that have bought light into our dull March days, and hopefully will do the same for you.»
White Denim's SXSW blog
Steve Terebecki, bassist with White Denim has blogged for DiS on his SXSW experiences. »
Dananananaykroyd's SXSW Photo Diary
Dananananaykroyd sent us this photo diary of their time at SXSW.»
New bands for Camden Crawl + Win Tickets!
The Camden Crawl has added another batch of whipper-snappers and elder statesmen to its expansive line-up.»
Los Campesinos!: You! Me! Recording!
The ever prolific Los Campesinos! are stuck in Stamford, Connecticut recording their second album (or third if you want to ignore their protestations about We Are Beautiful, We Are Doomed being just a "record").»
In Photos: Arctic Monkeys @ Wembley Arena, London
In Photos: The Flaming Lips @ The Academy, Manchester
In Photos: Moby @ The Palace Theatre, London
In Photos: Tegan & Sara @ Shepherds Bush Empire, London
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