In Depth
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Albums of the Year
Lost 11 of 2011 - #8: Sacred Harp Window’s a Fall
Each and every year, there are records which slip through the cracks, that individuals who write for the site absolutely adore, yet few others seem to even be aware of. To help highlight a few lost records, a few years ago we invented the Lost List, and ask ... »
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Blanck Mass' Favourite Soundtracks
The idea of the soundtrack is important to me when working on the music of Blanck Mass. Individual components that collectively amass and the ebb and flow between them is an integral part when constructing the worlds which they inhabit. The relationship b »
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Lost ’11 of 2011 - #9: Death Grips Ex-Military
The first time I listened to Ex-Military, it hit me. No, not some thought-bubble realisation, I mean it physically felt like it hit me. Death Grips are a musical embodiment of the rotten core that more and more seek to ignore in the 21st century. »
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Drowned in Abu Dhabi
I stepped off the plane into the dry heat of the desert morning a little over twelve hours earlier than planned. My trip to Abu Dhabi, at the invitation and expense of the Aloft hotel chain, had been moved forward at the last moment when the Islamic authorities sight... »
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Albums of the Year
Lost ’11 of 2011 - #11: The Wave Pictures Beer In The Breakers
Each year, DiS asks our staff to vote for their albums of the year. We vaguely tot up their 'votes' and then contrast and compare with what's been written about, as well as what has been talked about all year on our boards, and compile some sort of year-end list, tha... »
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Drowned in Newcastle #6
It’s only natural at this time of year for us all to get a bit reflective. So, at a time when the Internet is poised to go crazy with nostalgia for the last eleven and a bit months, it seems fitting to devote this installment of Drowned in Newcastle ... »
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Interview
"As they say on The League Of Gentlemen, it's a shit business": DiS meets The Chapman Family
The backwaters of Stockton-on-Tees and Middlesbrough would be about as unconventional as it gets when discussing prospective musical scenes. Yet, in the case of locally based five-piece The Chapman Family, they've pretty much single handedly ensured ... »
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In Depth
This Week's Singles: 5/12/11 Roots Manuva, Eugene McGuinness, Willy Moon, Fixers
Single of the Week! Roots Manuva feat. Spikey Tee - ‘Here We Go Again’ (Big Dada) Though Rodney’s voice has the confidence of someone who has been around the block enough times to wear grooves in the stones, he never sounds laden. Less weary »
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Drowned in Chicago #5
Word Around Town Icy, sheer 50 MPH winds whipping across Lake Michigan and dampening your mood? All in a day's work for Chicagoland. Don't worry, plenty of action is heating up for winter, including the return of the Tomorrow Never Knows festival this »
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Interview
DiS meets Other Lives
Stillwater, Oklahoma natives Other Lives are all about the slow maturation, the drawn-out gestation period. Having been playing together in one guise or another since 2004, it’s taken until earlier this year to see their first release on our fair sho... »
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Spotifriday #119: Lykke Li, Drake, Factory Floor, Tim Hecker, R.E.M...
A week of DiS, as a playlist...you should probably have the gist of what this weekly digest is by now. A Spotify playlist + amongst the blathering below you'll find links to the best bits of this week... »
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Column
SAVAGE PIXELS #5: Skyrim, Arkham City, Streets of Rage 2, Polinski’s Fantastic Five…
DiS' regular games column is back! And this month, aside from the usual malarky we're opening up to you and your superior games knowledge to help us compile the first ever Savage Pixels Best Games of 2011 poll... »
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In Depth
Trans Musicales 2011: The DiS Preview
So then, later this week, while you’re tucked up in bed, starting threads about seminal powerviolence records or whatever you do at 3am on a Thursday morning, it is worth considering DiS, who will be embarking upon a bleary-eyed pilgrimage to England’s capit... »
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Drowned in Scotland: December
Sleigh bells ring, are you listening? No, I'm listening to Miaoux Miaoux. It's the monthly Scottish music news round-up. »
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Planet Gear: Apparat Organ Quartet's Zildjian 20 inch Oriental Crash of Doom
All week this week Apparat Organ Quartet kick off a new 'Planet Gear' irregular feature for DiS, in which we ask musicians to get a bit geeky and talk us through the equipment that makes the magic happen... »
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Festival Review
Semibreve Festival 2011: The DiS Review
Photo by Adriano Ferreira Borges The small northern Portuguese city of Braga prides itself on having a hundred ways to prepare cod; it also seems to have at least one church for each recipe. Locals are quick to tell you about their football stadium, a th »
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Interview
"We just got in a lucky situation and wrote some songs people liked" - DiS meets Los Campesinos!
Los Campesinos! are just lovely. They're so engaged that I can't tell whether the journo before me who is interviewing them is a mate or not. Eventually, she says thank you and shakes their hands, so I sidle over. But before we get beyond pleasantries, a »
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Planet Gear: Apparat Organ Quartet's Estradin 230
All week this week Apparat Organ Quartet kick off a new 'Planet Gear' irregular feature for DiS, in which we ask musicians to get a bit geeky and talk us through the equipment that makes the magic happen... »
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In Depth
This Week's Singles: 28/11/11 Stephen Malkmus, Fanzine, D/R/U/G/S, King Charles
Single of the week! Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks - ‘Senator’ (Domino) Only someone with a voice as neatly pressed as Stephen Malkmus could get away with a refrain of ‘What the senator wants is a blowjob’, and not have it feel like a child trying »
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Planet Gear: Apparat Organ Quartet's Yamaha YC-20
All week this week on DiS Apparat Organ Quartet kick off a new 'Planet Gear' irregular feature on DiS, in which we ask musicians to get a bit geeky and talk us through the equipment that makes the magic happen... »
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Takeover
Memphis Industries Takeover: Field Music: All Downhill From Here
As part of the Memphis Industries takeover, Field Music discuss the trials and tribulations of building a long term "career" in the music industry... »
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Takeover
Memphis Industries Takeover: Dutch Uncles Tour Diary
As part of the Memphis Industries takeover, Dutch Uncles have compiled a beautiful looking tour diary just for DiS... »
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Planet Gear: Apparat Organ Quartet's Arp Explorer
All week this week Apparat Organ Quartet kick off a new 'Planet Gear' irregular feature for DiS, in which we ask musicians to get a bit geeky and talk us through the equipment that makes the magic happen... »
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Takeover
Memphis Industries Takeover: The Go! Team's Top Ten Girl group songs
As part of the week long Memphis Industries takeover, The Go! Team have compiled their 'Top Ten Girl group songs'. »