In Depth
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DiScover: October All Over
Where October All Over trump so many of this nation’s capital’s most-rocking acts is that they meld their might with killer pop hooks and stirring melodies that bring to mind the Breeders as swiftly as their chopped-up chords conjure thoughts of a dozen or ... »
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DiScover: twentysixfeet
twentysixfeet are a capital city collective with skyscraper-proportioned ambitions – one listen to their widescreen electro-punk-rock is all it takes for the uninitiated to be overcome by cricket-click beats and guitars that go so beyond eleven...»
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DiScover: An Emergency
An Emergency are, perhaps, the best band in Britain that you're yet to hear. Yes, you've no doubt heard or read similar expressions of over-the-top praise dozens of times before, if not more, but stick with us here...
An Emergency play the monthly D... »
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DiScover: Forget Cassettes
Forget Cassettes is, essentially, Beth Cameron; she is the constant that runs the course of the band’s existence to date, the spine from which its myriad limbs have spouted. The band is currently completed by Doni Schroader, also of And You Will Know Us... »
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ReDiScover: Idlewild
Idlewild are one of those bands so far as the core DiS staff goes: we were there, fresh of face and wet behind the ears, when the Scottish then-four-piece rolled and rollicked their way around the nation’s stages, often as a blow-them-away support act. ... »
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DiScover: Mathew Sawyer & The Ghosts
Mathew Sawyer & The Ghosts are to be found in London most of the time. Their name is not a trick and their leader was born in Hammersmith in 1977. Sawyer has just masterminded the first Ghosts studio album, Blue Birds Blood, a collection of songs notabl... »
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Label focus
Label Focus #1: Drowned in Sound Recordings
Possibly, you are aware of Drowned In Sound Recordings; given that it’s the sister operation of this beloved website you read, adore and occasionally spam. Gareth Dobson checks in with founder Sean Adams to begin DiS' regular label features. »
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DiScover: The Ponys
Chicago quartet The Ponys are the purveyors of a brand of rock ‘n’ roll that is both instantly engaging yet difficult to pin down using traditional pigeonhole-centric categorisation... »
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DiScover: Rolo Tomassi
Rolo Tomassi: perhaps you’ve heard of them? After all, they’ve been front-page-featured only this week – click here for said live review
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DiScover: Down I Go
Down I Go are rock to the bone, but not as you or I have known it previously. The London four-piece’s self-coined brand of ‘diastercore’, showcased on last year’s This Is Disastercore long-player, takes the frenetic riffing of the finest punk act... »
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DiScover: Manatees
Carlisle-spawned Manatees are headlining this coming weekend’s DiScover Club at Notting Hill Arts Club, London, a free event booked by this fine website in collaboration with Rough Trade Shops. To say we’re excited to have them would be something of a massi... »
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DiScover: The Secret Show
Funeral For A Friend's Matthew Davies could get a refund on his Sat Nav, because while most musical diversions stay within hailing distance of the mother band, this hardcore frontman's new side project, The Secret Show, has ended up deep in the country... »
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DiScover: Public Relations Exercise
Leicester-based post-hardcore experimentalists Public Relations Exercise are one of those bands whose name has frequently popped up in conversations on the East Midlands underground scene for a while now, yet veterans they most definitely aren't... Playing ... »
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DiScover: Future Of The Left
Music as a Darwinian nightmare, smashing fans over the head and the official retirement of Mclusky. Ahead of the Future Of The Left's first single release we take a look inside the strange constituency that is the mind of Andy Falkous... »
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DiS Radio: DiScover four: our tips and more!
Colin Roberts and Mike Diver play some of the top tips for 2007 as featured on DrownedinSound.com, as well as some of the cream of our forthcoming live acts. Music comes from Los Campesinos!, Sky Larkin, Blood Brothers, Cold War Kids, The Besnard Lakes, Rolo Tomassi,... »
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DiScover: Riddle Of Steel
There’s every chance in the known world that you’re yet to let Riddle Of Steel’s invention-strewn post-hardcore wriggle its awkward way into your ears: the St. Louis-based trio don’t have the most enormous of profiles, and they’re unlikely to be heralded as le... »
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DiScover: Collapse
Regulars at DiS’s DiScover Clubs should know all about Collapse: we put the punk-rocking trio on at Notting Hill Arts Club back in June with Meet Me In St Louis, Applicants and The Boss. If our misted-over memory serves us right, it was good. They might’ve scr... »
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DiScover: Censored
Whisper it quietly, but local trio Censored are on the way to becoming the biggest band in the East Midlands thanks to a combination of infectious tunes, classic songwriting and sheer hard graft... »
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DiScover: House Of Brothers
House Of Brothers is the I-play-guitar-and-sing alter-ego of Andrew Jackson, one-time member of both The Murder Of Rosa Luxemburg
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DiScover: Oppenheimer
An Album Leaf concert, quite a lot of alcohol and a penchant for creating swirly electro-pop formed the catalyst for the formation of Belfast-based duo Oppenheimer... »
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The Christmas DiScussion: who are you tipping for 2007?
Hey, you! Chew that turkey properly and then give us a hand. We want to know about your tips for 2007... »
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DiS's interviews of 2006: DiScoveries, heavy-hitters and silly Some Questions
2006: twelve whole months of DiS running about the country, up stairs and down basements, into hotel rooms and outside into pub gardens, chasing bands. It's what we do, so that you don't have to. »
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ReDiScover: Third Eye Foundation
At the end of the ‘90s, Matt Elliott sailed wave after wave of critical acclaim under the guise of Third Eye Foundation. The Bristol-based musician successfully fused dark drum and bass with eerie guitar atmospherics and rumbling shoegaze on his self-re... »
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DiScover: Monade
Laetitia Sadier is responsible for more than you might think. As a core member of Stereolab, she helped shape the underground climate as we know it today with a spirit of independence that few other bands have mustered. But now Sadier has a new band, Monade... »