In Depth
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Festival Review
Bestival 2013: the DiS review
When Bestival 2013 eventually did come to a close and Monday cracked us on the head: it was the dreams of what's to come next year that carried us back across the Solent. »
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Column
In defence of... the melancholy Manic Street Preachers
'Ready For Drowning' and 'If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next' are both powerful and astonishingly bleak- that the latter became their first number one remains one of the more glorious corners of pop history- a little victory for melancholy art. »
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Column
Paul Draper on The Prisoner, Portmeirion and Mansun's Six
Another Failed Musician Abusing The Art School System": Paul Draper from Mansun on The Prisoner, Portmeirion and No.6 »
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Label focus
Label Focus: Recordiau Lliwgar
Russell Warfield meets the founder and some of the artists from Welsh-language label Recordiau Lliwgar. »
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Interview
"There's every chance our next record could be out next year": DiS meets Girls Names
Belfast quartet Girls Names have recorded one of 2013's finest albums in the shape of The New Life. DiS caught up with the four-piece prior to their mid-afternoon slot at Green Man Festival two weeks ago. »
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Festival Review
Burning Man 2013: The DiS review
Burning Man is one hell of an ordeal. There were certainly lows, but there was also countless highs. Its beauty, its weirdness, its vibrancy, and its constant, unfaltering welcome. It's truly a unique way to spend a week. Name me a better festival. »
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Interview
"Bigger questions are definitely circling" - DiS Meets Laura Veirs
Laura Veirs has had a crazy few years. After releasing Tumble Bee - an album of children's song covers - and Hello I Must Be Going - a delightfully instrumental movie soundtrack, her latest release sees her back to her roots. »
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Column
DiS Does Singles 9.09.13: Sky Larkin, Summer Camp, Sleigh Bells
Hello and welcome to another marvellous edition of DiS Does Singles. After last week's Los Campesinos!-related hijinks we're back to business as usual with seven great songs and one stinker for your approval. FIDLAR, Sleigh Bells and The Naked And Famous »
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Artist-generated
Planet Gear: Thomas Dybdahl on the making of What's Left Is Forever
Norway’s Thomas Dybdahl talks us through the making of his forthcoming album, 'What's Left Is Forever', a collaboration with legendary Grammy Award winning producer and musician Larry Klein (Joni Mitchell). »
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Festival Preview
Festival No.6: MBV! TNP! Manics! Blake! Kimbie! Daughter! Hookworms! - DiS' 1week 'til Portmeirion P
MBV! Manics! James Blake! Hookworms! Here's a Festival Number 6 playlist that we've cooked up featuring almost everything on the line-up: »
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Staff-generated
An absolutely staggering show of transcendental music: Bjork's Biophilia
With Björk in the centre of the hall, surrounded 360° by the audience, Alexandra Palace has never sounded so good. »
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Column
Articulate Silences, Ambient Sounds #16
It’s time to zone out in the ether once again, and gracefully gliding us into the realm of textural sound... »
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Festival Review
Isolation in Lynchville: Emerging Music Festival 2013 Reviewed
Held in Rouyn-Noranda, QC, four-day festival FME is a new music event of massive scope. »
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Interview
"I'm always searching for something which sounds like blurred vision": DiS meets Josh Hayward of The
Since the release of second album Primary Colours in 2009, The Horrors have established themselves as one of the UK's most adventurous bands. DiS caught up with guitarist Josh Hayward prior to their set at Green Man Festival last weekend. »
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Discography Reassessed
NINtrospective Part 2: Nine Inch Nails' Death Disco
"Synths? Synths are rubbish. All the good NIN songs have guitars in them". Just how wrong could Kevin Eddy be? »
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Column
Attribution: How content creators get screwed and why it needs fixing
Drowned In Sound famously saw most of their interview with Paul McCartney reprinted by the Daily Mail with no credit given. Buzzfeed routinely run stories driven from Reddit - as do so many other websites that it would be entirely fair to describe Reddit as the primo... »
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Festival Review
An alternative music festival or a clap-a-long-athon? - Reading 2013 Reviewed
After a week of deciphering his scribbled notes, digesting what he saw, and sweating out the booze, DiS’ editor ponders why this year’s Reading Festival felt a little different. Plus he shares his personal highlights and two favourite discoveries.. »
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Column
Los Campesinos! Do Singles: 'What Death Leaves Behind' takeover
This week's DiS Does Singles is a Los Campesinos! special featuring a chat through their best singles, B-sides and rarities with Gareth Campesinos »
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Interview
"Hookworms is a hobby and it will always stay a hobby": DiS meets Hookworms
DiS caught up with frontman, synth wizard and producer extraordinaire MJ prior to Hookworms show at last month's Beacons Festival. »
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Mixtape
NINtrospective Part 1: Nine Inch Nails' Sex & Violence
He's Mr Self Destruct with a head like a hole - yes, Trent Reznor knows how to hate with a guitar in his hand. Kev Eddy tours the industrial side of Nine Inch Nails' discography in the first part of this series. »
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Interview
DiS meets The Ballet
New York trio The Ballet aren't exactly new in the most pedantic sense of the word. Having formed in 2005, they released first album Mattachine! some twelve months later. However, it was 2009's follow-up Bear Life! that brought them to ... »
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In Depth
The Replacements @ Riot Fest, Toronto, 25 August 2013
We went to watch The Replacements' first live show in 22 years, here's what happened... »
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Interview
"It's probably a mild form of mental illness" - DiS meets The Wedding Present
As one of the most longstanding UK indie bands, The Wedding Present’s impact on independent music is infinitely present. »
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Festival Review
Beacons Festival 2013: the DiS review
It’s certainly difficult to quantify the common threads that run through this year’s Beacons Festival headliners. What unites Bonobo, Local Natives and Django Django other than the fact that they’re celebrated without being celebrities? »