In Depth
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Festival Review
Reading/Leeds '08: What Our Writers Thought
Another year, another big weekend at Reading and Leeds festival. DiS sent along some of our finest scribes and asked them to scribble about their five favourites of the weekend. Here's what we got back from them »
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DiScover
DiScover: Bowerbirds
On paper, Bowerbirds may be one of the most perfect twee-as-folk bands around. But beneath the surface of their new album are visions of darkness »
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Interview
Rolo Tomassi: hysterical youths, bloodthirsty babes
As their debut LP nears release, DiS finds out what's gone into Sheffield prog-core teens Rolo Tomassi's melting pot for the much-anticipated Hysterics »
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DiScover
DiScover: David Karsten Daniels
After releasing one of 2008’s most overlooked albums, Fear Of Flying, many-placed musician David Karsten Daniels has been getting about a bit »
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DiScover
DiScover: Secondsmile
Playing our free-entry DiScover Club on August 30 in London, Dorset's Secondsmile are rapidly making their name as a must-see live act »
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DiScover
DiScover Monthly: August 2008
A five-pack of recent DiScoveries for you, readers, to let sink into your ear holes. Featured: Calories, Narrows, Brontide, more »
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DiScover
DiScover: The Cave Singers
DiS catches up with The Cave Singers' Derek Fudesco to see how the Seattle-based folk three-piece have stirred his creative juices »
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Label focus
Label Focus #19: Invada Records
Invada's co-founder Geoff Barrow is best known for his day job, Portishead, but he's wildly enthusiastic about his label, as DiS finds out »
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DiScover
DiScover: The War On Drugs
Wondered what Springsteen would sound like fronting Animal Collective? Maybe The War On Drugs, as their Wagonwheel Blues marries both brilliantly »
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DiScover
DiScover: Maps & Atlases
In anticipation of Maps & Atlases' autumn venture across the pond, DiS caught up with Erin Elders to DiScover if the math-rockers' numbers add up »
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DiScussion
The Weekly DiScussion: the best festivals EVER
2008 might not have produced too many truly classic festival moments but there's lots to come. Excited, DiS here looks over seven of the best festivals ever »
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Artist 'n' Artist
In conversation: Liars and Deerhunter
Strap yourself in for an epic: DiS sits Deerhunter's Bradford Cox down with Liars and lets the tape roll. The temperature soon rises »
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DiScover
In photos: Smokers Die Younger get DiScovered in Sheffield
A selection of lovely pictures from July's DiScover Sheffield showcase featuring Smokers Die Younger, The Bon Bon Club, Navvy and Standard Fare »
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DiScover
DiScover: Ladyhawke
As her recent single 'Paris Is Burning' continues to attract fans, DiS speaks to New Zealander Pip Brown, aka Ladyhawke, about her career to date »
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DiSection
Track-by-Track: XX Teens welcome all to Goon Island
Those tight to the art-school underground will know XX Teens’ debut, Welcome To Goon Island, is out now. Here: makers explain content »
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DiScover
DiScover: Noah And The Whale
In a revealing interview, Noah And The Whale's Charlie Fink says how the band's sound was shaped, and the confusion commercial success brings »
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DiScussion
The Weekly DiScussion: just what are we celebrating here?
After the Nationwide Mercury Prize announcement, DiS sizes up the chosen 12 and asks: just what is the award's point? Get DiScussing »
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DiScussion
The Weekly DiScussion: who should make the Mercury shortlist?
The shortlist for 2008's Mercury Prize is announced next week. DiS asks: just who does deserve to win this year's award after Klaxons' success in 2007 »
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DiScover
DiScover: Jay Reatard
From the poodle hair to the Flying V guitar and the hurtling, glam-punk crunch of their sound, everything about Jay Reatard screams ‘punk as f**k’ »
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DiScussion
The Weekly DiScussion: your festival travel nightmares
At the middle of the festival season, DiS asks readers for their travel nightmares. Stuck in the mud? Engine over-heated? Spill the beans »
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DiScover
DiScover: The Cool Kids
Hip-hop's hottest property The Cool Kids - "bringing '88 back" with a smile - talk to DiS about hype and how to survive it as they get their hair clipped »
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Mixtape
Mixtape #12: Late Of The Pier
Fresh-faced synth-pop four-piece Late Of The Pier have finished their Fantasy Black Channel debut. Celebrate! With a mixtape »
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DiScussion
The Weekly DiScussion: the best of 2008's forthcoming albums
We've presented our faves to date, now we're getting you excited about what 2008 is yet to reveal in full: our pick of albums coming your way »
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Mixtape
Mixtape #11: Gabriella Cilmi
Aussie teenager Gabriella Cilmi, fresh from playing Glastonbury, takes DiS through ten of her favourite songs, including the likes of Muse and MGMT »