DiS Does V Festival (and has an existential crisis)
It's Lord of the Flies with NOS canisters and Native American headdresses because the memo about cultural appropriation has not yet reached Essex»
Articles
KateSolomon has written the following articles:
Primavera Sound 2016: The DiS Review
The roads leading up to the Parc El Forum in Barcelona are lined with men dangling cans from six-pack rings…»
Zayn - Mind of Mine
There still doesn’t seem to be any joy in it»
Star Wars or Stormzy for Christmas No.1...?
DiS Christmas Singles: Who will 'sleigh' Beiber this year? Kate Solomon investigates.»
Sometimes It’s Hard To Be A Woman
Thanks for Bechdel testing our real lives, Jimmy Iovine!»
One Direction - Made in the A.M.
The problem with One Direction is that they never really figured out who they are as a band»
Engineering the unexpected: LOW
Alan Sparhawk on Ones and Sixes, religion, Yeezus and Beyoncé.»
Live review: One Direction and Little Mix, Apple Music Festival, 22/09/15
'Hipster approval at last!'»
The ineffable joy of pop: DiS meets Carly Rae Jepsen
CRJ on collaborating with Rostram from Vampire Weekend, Sia, Dev Hynes and guilty pleasures ("if I take pleasure from it I feel zero guilt.")»
On the right track: DiS meets TRAAMS
“I'm sat in, like, a stockroom,” Stu Hopkins says. A thriller-style zoom-out reveals that this interview is happening in a shoe shop.»
Visions 2015: The DiS Review
Everyone attending Visions looks exactly the same as everyone else attending Visions...»
The Singles: From Drake to Drape via Girl Band, Hailee Steinfeld, Low and more.
Oya festival pick, True Grit, Drake vs Meek Mill, Autre Ne Vuet, Erza Furman, Icarus Line, Traams and "C Beebies gone bad."»
The Magic, the Mundane and The Maccabees
Kate Solomon finds out about the "magic moments and crushing mundanity" of making an album...»
Summer Camp - Bad Love
An 11-song essay about the hopeless side of love»
Brandon Flowers - The Desired Effect
Brandon Flowers just really loves pop music»
American Wrestlers - American Wrestlers
None of the songs on the album are super complicated and that gives it an air of ease.»
Speedy Ortiz - Foil Deer
Foil Deer is a stronger, more assertive record with more to say for itself»
DiS meets Death Cab's Ben Gibbard: "You can never go back to what you were"
Seth Cohen’s Death Cab is Ben Gibbard singing your life with his words. But Seth Cohen’s Death Cab is gone.»
You ain’t got no alibi: DiS meets Daphne and Celeste
Ooh, stick you! After 15 years away from the spotlight, they’re back. With Max Tundra?!»
Guyliners: Why Do UK Festivals Have So Few Female Headliners?
Only a third of acts playing major UK festivals this year have a female musician involved - and all-female bands come in at 3.5% of artists.»
From Gin-sippin' to Guitar-totin' - How a Female-filled Festival Changed My Life
Warpaint had us brainstorming band names, Courtney Barnett made us think we could write songs and St Vincent just made us feel we could do anything. There wasn’t a single male act that recreated that energy and musical excitement in us.»