In Depth
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The Weekly DiScussion: the movie soundtracks that matter
Ever since 'Love Is All Around' by Wet Wet Wet topped the charts on the back of its appearance in top British rom-com Four Weddings and a Funeral, DiS has always had a special relationship with films and their incumbent soundtracks. Here, resident hack ... »
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DiScover: Cats And Cats And Cats
Cats And Cats And Cats, from various towns in the south of England, are one of a good few bands that DiS readers of a regular nature will have some knowledge of, but perhaps never actually heard. Ahead of their set at this weekend's DiScover Club, Londo... »
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DiScover: We Are The Physics
Introducing We Are The Physics, Glasgow's ridiculously energetic answer to all things post-punk... »
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DiScover: Let's Wrestle
Who wouldn’t warm to London trio Let’s Wrestle, with their tone-deaf Pavement impersonations and heart-warming tales of quasar, genocide and having massive cocks... »
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The Weekly DiScussion: what are the essential musical page-turners?
As much as writing about music might be like dancing about architecture, there are few feelings in this life greater than unearthing a truly essential book about music from all the myriad dross publishers have seen fit to inflict on the public, from the cash-in bios ... »
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DiScover: HEALTH
As shrieking experimental Los Angeles noiseniks, HEALTH is a somewhat inappropriate moniker. The quartet - John Famiglietta, BJ Miller, Jake Duzsik, Jupiter Keyes (pictured clockwise from left) - provide honed brutality, with their eponymous debut record (rele... »
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Label Focus #9: Holy Roar Records
Holy Roar are one of a few small domestic labels likely to outgrow their roots before long, with an admirably diverse and critically acclaimed back catalogue already theirs to call their own. DiS's Gareth Dobson plays the Q&A game with co-founders Alex ... »
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The Weekly DiScussion: Don't Look Back?
For all the plaudits that Sonic Youth acquired off the back of the performances it calls into question the peculiar appetite with which the Don't Look Back events are lapped up. All things considered, should these records really be victim to such nostalgia-ridden ret... »
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The DiScover Diary - September 3-9
Each week, the DiScover Diary will outline some choice gigs up and down the country, highlighting some excellent up-and-coming acts across the nation’s varied stages. Here we sneak a brief peek at five Sheffield kids who’ve been carving their names into the wa... »
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The Weekly DiScussion: have too many festivals spoilt the summer?
Glastonbury, Reading and Leeds, Download, Latitude, Bestival, Connect, Field Day, Truck, Lodestar... the list goes on. Just which festivals are worth your hard-earned cash, and can newer festivals survive in an over-saturated market? DiS's Ben Yates ask... »
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The Weekly DiScussion: What's pop got to do with it?
A celebration of pop in all its vague and polymorphous glory. »
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DiScover: Ipso Facto
As this is their first press I have no presumptions; as this is their first interview they can have no pretensions. »
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The DiScover Diary - August 20-26
Each week, the DiScover Diary will outline some choice gigs up and down the country, highlighting some excellent up-and-coming acts across the nation’s varied stages, and focus on one act in particular who are both on tour and on the DiS stereo rather a... »
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The Weekly NonDiScussion: why Super Furry Animals are amazing...
Having seen them some 27 times, Gareth Dobson writes the article of a (his!) lifetime: why Super Furry Animals are the most consistently brilliant band of a generation. DiScuss? Hop on the super pop... »
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New feature: weekly DiScover Diary
Each week, the DiScover Diary will outline some choice gigs up and down the country, highlighting some excellent up-and-coming acts across the nation’s varied stages, and focus on one band in particular who are both on tour and on the DiS stereo rather ... »
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DiScover: 4 Or 5 Magicians
4 Or 5 Magicians are a Brighton-based indie-pop outfit mixing sparkling melodies with lyrical wit in a manner not wholly unlike a certain Stephen Malkmus-fronted act of not so long ago. This: a good thing. They’re also set to play at the next DiScover Club gig... »
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The Weekly DiScussion: has the smoking ban affected your gig-going?
It’s one month, pretty much, since a sea change occurred in the way we experience live music in the UK and DiS wants to know what your opinion is on the smoking ban in relation to live music. Are you a smoker whose enjoyment of live music has suffered because of your... »
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Milk tooth tales: Liars discover their inner-child
Liars have a new record. In something of a departure from an act that brought you such classics as 'The Frozen Glacier of Mastadon Blood' and 'Tumbling Walls Buried Me In The Debris With ESG', it’s simply titled: Liars. DiS's Samuel Str... »
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DiScover: Johnny Flynn And The Sussex Wit
Singer-songwriter, actor, poet - Johnny Flynn’s been earning himself a reputation as a bit of a renaissance man round these parts. But you can banish any thoughts of thesp-ish melodrama right away: Flynn and his band The Sussex Wit impress with their unflashy,... »
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Simian Mobile DiScussion: 3,000 spoons and some vintage synths
James Ellis Ford and James ‘Jas’ Anthony Shaw, better known to clubbers and indie kids alike as Simian Mobile Disco, are beating DiS and their PR at two-on-two pool in the back of an east London boozer. “Is this going to be one of those games ... »
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Label Focus #8: Big Scary Monsters
Oxford-based Big Scary Monsters is one of those fine things: a proper independent label that has spent the past six years releasing many a varied record sure to delight most listeners. Gareth Dobson puts the tough questions to BSM founder Kevin Douch... »
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DiScover: Vessels
Leeds-based four-piece Vessels are a tough outfit to accurately categorise using conventional and accepted critical pigeonholes. Post-rock might stick, given enough glue, but there's more to this band than most slow-core acts can offer. DiS catches up w... »
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DiScover: Herra Hidro
Herra Hidro are a Leicester-based trio mixing the tuneful indie-pop melodies of current chart-botherers like The Cribs and The Maccabees with angular post-punk akin to the steely assault of Shellac. Ahead of their set at this month's July DiScover Club, DiS ca... »
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The Weekly DiScussion: What the hell happened to Tom Vek? (And others artists we're missing...)
It’s always strange, and rather unsettling, when an artist turns up in a blaze of glory, garners a degree of popular and / or critical success and then disappears back into the ether. Gareth Dobson wonders where all our favourite missing bands are, and what th... »