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It was with a heavy heart that DrownedinSound ordered the taxi that'd speed it away to Barcelona airport on Monday evening, as the Primavera Sound 2008 sortie came to a close for a second, great year. An incredible amount of incredible bands - among them HEALTH, Times New Viking, Public Enemy, Devo, Animal Collective, Atlas Sound, El Guincho, Holy F*ck and so many more - coupled with the Catalan sunshine and the necessary diversions came together to weld the best festival experience this writer has ever had, and we wish to thank the organisers for that. Our comprehensive run-down on the best that Primavera had to offer will be online very soon, but for now get green eyes for daily diaries one, two and three.

We return with live music of our own in the very near future - first with the aforementioned HEALTH next Thursday, the 12th of June - we're putting it on with Vice for FREE at the Old Blue Last, click here for details - and then there's the DiS-sponsored show with Pinback and Matthew Houck's Phosphorescent on the 14th of July, (tickets/details).

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Uffie

News
Some tinker thieved Kurt Cobain's ashes from Courtney Love's mansion, emo tribespeople marched on the Daily Mail because they were very, very angry with some things the hate rag's been chatting, the great Bo Diddley became the late, great Bo Diddley, Radiohead went to geek-war with Prince, Uffie took her clothes off and sat on a motorbike...

Festivals
This Ain't No Picnic - Alan MX, Cats in Paris, Chris T-T, Copy Haho, Future of the Left, Tropics
Latitude - Joanna Newsom, Wild Beasts, The Coral, Clinic, Lykke Li, Slow Club, Johnny Flynn, Animal Kingdom
Hove - Lupe Fiasco, Hercules & Love Affair, Vampire Weekend, Neon Neon, Panic at the Disco, Blood Red Shoes, Ting Tings, Jaguar Love, White Denim, White Rabbits
Loop - Cut Copy
End of the Road - Tindersticks, Let's Wrestle, Pete and the Pirates, Brakes
Click here for a week in news…

Times New Viking

A Week in Features
* Label Focus #17: KOMPAKT
* A Month In Records: May 2008
* Fuzzy Logic: Times New Viking turned up to eleven
* Nirvana's back catalogue Top Ten: editors' choices
* Silver Jews' David Berman in conversation
* Readers' questions: Elbow answer your posers
* Any Question Answered: Kele Bloc Party steps up
* Diaries from the Danube: A Hawk And A Hacksaw talk gypsies on the streets of Europe

HEALTH

Single of the Week
* Mystery Jets - 'Two Doors Down' (Sixsevenine)
Click here for our Singles Round-up (02/06/2008)

A Week in Review
* Weezer: Weezer
* Wild Beasts: Limbo Panto
* Shit and Shine: Küss mich, meine Liebe
* My Morning Jacket: Evil Urges
* Errors: It's Not Something But It Is Like Whatever
* Lykke Li: Youth Novels
* HEALTH: HEALTH//DISCO
* Johnny Foreigner: Waited Up 'Til It Was Light
* Spiritualized: Songs in A&E
* Born Ruffians: Red, Yellow & Blue
* Pluxus: Solid State
* Einsturzende Neubaten @ The Forum, London; 22/05/08

BYE,
All at Drowned in Sound

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