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DiScover: Meet Me In St Louis
Meet Me In St Louis are a band whose name you’re probably aware of – perhaps from these very pages – but whose music you’ve possibly never heard. Yet...
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DiScover Goes East: The Yours, theXgeeks and The Waking Party
In part two of our four-part focus on bands to have crossed our radar from the Far East, DiS bends an ear the way of some frantic hardcore, some refined pop-rock, and some introspective shoegaze-like sound-crafting... »
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DiScover: Chow Chow
Chow Chow play pop. Quite brilliant pop. Pop that makes DiS think back to summers of the late 1990s, when we’d collapse with a can of something cold after a kick around and talk shit about the bands in Melody Maker that week. Glory days...
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DiScover Goes East: The Great Spy Experiment, Lonely China Day, Yellowtail
Every week of the DiS Goes East series, DiS will be focusing its spotlight the way of three bands from t’other side of the world. Here we bring you details of a trio of breaking-through outfits from the Far East who, with a little luck and a following wind, could be ... »
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The Weekly Eastern DiScussion: just what do we know about Eastern music?
While artists from Japan have made inroads into western musical circles for many a year now – one only has to cast their mind back to last year to find Polysics touring with Kaiser Chiefs – few bands from other far eastern countries – China, Korea, Thailand, et ceter... »
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DiScover: Joe Dangerous
Brighton’s own Joe Dangerous makes a buzz without a full-length album, without a label. With modest musical shapes that seep with sore disposition without tailing a lagging distance or uneasy void, J.D. is a most exciting pop prospect... »
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DiScover: Lost Alone
LostAlone have been on and around the UK rock scene for a few years in some shape or form. Building a reputation around their incessant touring and the heady harmonies found in their infectious choruses, the Midlands-based trio have found themselves on the bil... »
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Label Focus #4: Dance To The Radio
One of the most prominent mainstays of Yorkshire music in the past few years has been independent recording label Dance To The Radio. DiS's Gareth Dobson speaks to founder Whiskas - he of ¡Forward, Russia! - about all the badness... »
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DiScover: LoneLady
For many a year now, the streets of Manchester have been littered with the musical equivalent of silver and gold, and with the current crop of DIY artists, labels and clubnights sprouting in and around the city, this present moment in time is no exception... »
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DiScover: No Age
Wives' debut long-player, Erect The Youth Problem, was a tantrum-ridden new-wave punk masterpiece that had a brilliantly self-destructive quality. And so, whilst divorce seemed suitable for those bitter gentlemen, No Age, consisting of former Wives asso... »
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The Weekly DiScussion: indie-rock ethnic cleansing, who's first against the wall?
The recent cancellation of last week’s London Easter treat – The Insomniacs Ball – was for unspecified reasons; an apology was issued (click here), but it wasn’t exactly clear. Many speculated that the... »
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DiScover: Eugene McGuinness
Eugene McGuinness is a young man from Liverpool. Until recently we knew nothing of his work, of his catchy, intelligent songwriting. Then came an alarm, a siren’s call from a close musical friend. “He is right good,” weren’t our man’s exact words, ... »
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Label Focus #3: Bella Union
As they approach their 10th Birthday, DiS speaks to Bella Union founder Simon Raymonde about all things Twickenham, Texan and why the Reel to Reel society's ambitions were slam dunked by Margaret Beckett... »
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DiScover: Prego
Prego call London home, and it’s where they can usually be found – in pubs, on stages, writing songs; exhibiting the standard band eyeing a breakthrough sort of behaviour. The difference here, though, is that the quintet is a genuinely likely-to-make-it pro... »
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DiScover: These New Puritans
Facts: These New Puritans are from Southend. They are aged between 18 and 20 years old. They appeared on the Digital Penetration compilation. They have released one EP, Now Pluvial, on Angular Records. They are currently recording a debut LP and... »
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DiS Radio: DiScover five: tours and shows and stuff!
This instalment of our regular DiScover podcast – let’s call it DiS Radio: DiScover five – finds Sean and Mike playing some top-quality tracks from up-and-coming types alongside a handful of ace songs from bands doing DiS things soon. Like tours. And shows. Ma... »
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DiScover: Love Of Diagrams
Having first got together in 2001, Melbourne trio Love Of Diagrams aren't quite the household names their longevity might paint them to be. Yet... »
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DiScover: Love Ends Disaster!
It's been four years now since Love Ends Disaster! played their first show in front of an assortment of fellow undergraduates and friends, and yet to all intents and purposes they remain a relatively unknown quantity outside the confines of their native East M... »
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DiScover: Love Is All
Whilst not strictly a ‘new’ band - the Gothenburg quintet have been around since 2004 and have half a dozen singles and a critically acclaimed long-player to their name - it does feel as if Love Is All have been overlooked in Britain for whatever reason... »
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The Weekly DiScussion: How green is your festival?
Looking forward to festivals this year? Killers. No, not the ubiquitous straggly quartet from Las Vegas, you. You who, step-by-step, are destroying the environment and our beautiful planet with your discarded beer cups, burning up, well, everything, and probab... »
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My Name Is URL: artists we've DiScovered on MySpace recently
Curse you, Murdoch! Now that the world and his dog (and their dinner) are latching onto this MicePace malarkey, trawling through the wealth of new and unheard artists bagging themselves a Place For Friends page is becoming a more monumental task by the minute. Here, ... »
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DiScover: The Mules
The debut album from London quintet The Mules was reviewed on this site back in September. Its cover star, a forlorn caravan dumped in one of those muddy motorway-flanking pastures, summed it up perfectly - Save Your Face prattles and skunks along like ... »
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DiScover: Wild Beasts
Sick to the back teeth of rock’s eternally recurring leitmotifs? Looking for a way out that doesn’t involve pretending to dig freeform jazz? If your answer to both the above is “yes, but not as bored as I am with your rambling intro”, chances are you’ll need t... »
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DiScover: Murder By Death
Murder By Death aren’t merely the proud owners of probably the best name in rock music, they’re also the makers of some of the hardest to accurately summarize music this side of a subgenre yet to be coined... »