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Label Focus #12: One Little Indian
Noted for work with Björk and The Sugarcubes, One Little Indian has a fine history with Rocket From The Crypt and, most recently, Asobi Seksu on its roster. Founder Derek Birkett plays DiS Q&A »
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The Weekly DiScussion: cold comfort songs
This week's DiScussion – if the title isn't too much of a giveaway – focuses on songs to while away off-sick-with-a-cold time. After all, something has to fill the space ‘tween Neighbours and Neighbours »
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DiScover: Black Kids
There will be DiScovers that introduce you to more exotic birds than Florida's Black Kids. Already touted by all the usual peddlers, the band's junkyard blend of post(-party) pop-rock and '80s fervour should have reached your ears by now »
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DiScover: Yeasayer
Chris Keating, Anand Wilder, Ira Wolf Tuton and Luke Fasano are Yeasayer, musicians out of time in a modernity obsessed with the now over the next. From Brooklyn the four-piece come, clutching copies of their debut album All Hour Cymbal... »
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The Weekly DiScussion: Whose side are you on?
Side projects are traditionally a rum old do but this year's changed all that. Here, Alex Denney reasons why having a bit on the side is no longer a guilty pleasure. In his sights: Panda Bear, Grinderman, Von Südenfed, Sunset Rubdown and more »
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DiScover: Laura Marling
Tom King loses his senses over new, and very young, London singer songwriter Laura Marling: These words puke forth. I can’t write like this, it disgusts me. I know all this appears gushingly sentimental, naïve, ridiculously self-centered, and that worried me for a... »
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DiScover: Holy F**k
Toronto-based duo Brian Borcherdt and Graham Walsh have nice names; they’re almost certainly well-mannered people, and together they make excitably itchy dance-rock music – it, too, is very nice indeed. So why do they feel the need to spoil things by calling t... »
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Label Focus #11: Big Dada
Well Deep compiles some of the finest moments from Big Dada’s ten-year back catalogue with cLOUDDEAD sat beside Roots Manuva and MF Doom. It only goes to show that the label is as relevant as ever. Samuel Strang questions founder Will Ashon»
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DiScover: Bobby Cook
London-based Bobby Cook might look your typical commercial-potential singer-songwriter sort on paper – good looking, great blossoming CV, press plaudits racking up – but listen a little deeper and there’s more than initially meets the eye and ears... »
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The Weekly DiScussion: Don't Stand So Close To Me
With rumours of Razorlight's imminent split proving greatly exaggerated, DiS takes a look at what happens when egos go bad, fall off shelves and just generally ruin our favourite bands. In his sights: Pink Floyd, Paul Weller and The Jam, The Clash and, of course, Wel... »
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DiScover: The Courteeners
There's nothing better than a band or artist that can divide opinion straight down the middle. Radiohead, Oasis and Pete Doherty are three that immediately spring to mind, and it won't be long before The Courteeners are added to that list, if they haven’t been... »
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DiScover: Stars of Aviation
Stars of Aviation are a right little gem of an indie-pop band – purveyors of the sweetest lullabies with overtones darker than your average band categorised as ‘twee’. Whatever that means today: it’s not like SoA remind us any of Belle & Sebastian, and aren’t ... »
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DiScover: Grammatics
If, like me, you've been longing for a homegrown act that doesn't make you want to box your own ears until they bleed with their derivative lad-rock (The Twang? The Enemy? Really...), you'll almost certainly welcome Grammatics... »
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DiScover: Her Name Is Calla
Leicester four-piece Her Name Is Calla first came to our attention 18 months ago ago when their 'Hideous Box' demo landed on the doormat. Now, they're working with Gizeh Records and touring with iLiKETRAiNS. Dom Gourlay DiScovers what's in store for the... »
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The Weekly DiScussion: how's that Radiohead album treating you, then?
Here we are now, entertain us. Or don’t: whatever, we’re yours to mould in the palm of your collective hand, Radiohead; so giddy are we after the first time through of In Rainbows that our scrambled senses can only offer fractured initial thoughts. More... »
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DiScover: The Pyramids
Fancy playing away whilst your partner's out of town? Head to the country whilst Archie Bronson isn't looking for a dirty weekend frolicking by the hay bails. Away from prying eyes are The Pyramids - potty-mouthed vocalist Sam 'The Bishop' Windett and stick-sm... »
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DiScover: Wintermute
The north of England has quite the modern post-punk heritage: This Aint Vegas, The Futureheads, ¡Forward, Russia! and Dartz have each made waves of impression, albeit lapping at differing heights, and now Leeds-based Wintermute seem set to follow in said bands... »
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The Weekly DiScussion: Radio 1 at 40
Hopefully it hasn’t escaped your attention that The Nation’s Favourite, Radio 1, has reached something of a milestone. Forty years in the business, the BBC’s premiere pop station is marking its anniversary with a mildly irritating Est 1967 campaign. Wha... »
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DiScover: Wooden Shjips
San Francisco will probably always struggle to shrug off the 40-year-old 'Summer of Love' weight of history that hangs over one the most beautiful and chilled of US cities. The Haight-Ashbury hippie revolution and the Golden Gate Park 'Be-Ins' of 1967 continue to fas... »
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DiScover: Zettasaur
Zettasaur are four men from Brighton making a mighty punk-rock racket; their listed influences, including 90 Day Men and Part Chimp, might give you some idea of the direction their squall can take. Also, that the foundations for the band were laid following a ... »
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DiScover: Banjo or Freakout
Banjo or Freakout is 28-year-old Alessio Natalizia from Turin. He's been living in London for two of those years, looping sounds that glitter and whisper and crackle and lope and threading them all together with the dab hand of a red-eyed, spinning plate ring ... »
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The Weekly DiScussion: are we one awards ceremony short of three-dozen too many?
As another awards ceremony for musicians - and music websites! - looms on the horizon, DiS wonders: are there too many of these events, filling up our late-night television schedules and covering our already commercially successful LPs with stickers stating "Best ... »
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DiScover: William
Punk-funk. There’s a name we’d pay never to see in print again. But if you take the aforementioned epithet, loosen it at the bolts a little, add a pinch of Clap Your Hands Say Yeah’s quixotic brilliance, and some killer tunes to boot, you get South London trio Wil... »
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DiScover: Seventeen Evergreen
San Francisco-based two-piece Seventeen Evergreen are masters of the sci-fi ethereal, mood-sculpting in a manner most organic. As they arrive in Europe for some rare live appearances, including a date tonight at London’s Luminaire (their only British show ont ... »