Gut Instinct: DiS Meets Belly
After a twenty-year hiatus, the alternative rock legends from Boston, Massachusetts are back on the road.»
Articles
Teepee_uk has written the following articles:
"I am benevolent to the point of absence" - DiS meets Destroyer
Tom Perry meets Destroyer frontman Dan Bejar...»
I Would Queue 4 U! - A Prince Fan's Patient Wait (In the Not-So Purple Rain)
The handful of touts circulating for extras have already left. As the numbers drop, we move forward, and can now see the Electric Ballroom...»
Mono - For My Parents
Post rock at its best, by bands like Mono, has something about it that can elevate the everyday into the sublime.»
Elizabeth Fraser at Queen Elizabeth Hall, Lambeth, Wed 08 Aug
Let's hope such adulation hurries her return.»
Talk in Colour - Colliderscope
Fifteen years ago, this stuff sold by the truck load. The audiences have moved on, grown up.»
Various - Personal Space: Electronic Soul 1974-84
As an insight to a world within a world of black American music, Personal Space elicits interest. As a compilation, it fails to sustain it very long.»
Memoryhouse - The Slideshow Effect
There isn’t enough of what Memoryhouse are in themselves to really separate them from all the other dream pop bands you’ve never heard.»
The Lemonheads - Hotel Sessions
I've only ever heard one semi-commercially released bootleg that sounded anywhere near this bad, and that was made in Chelmsford Prison in the Seventies.»
"It's strange being compared to something that was a different time" - DiS meets Wild Flag
"Welcome to Premier Inn. How are you today?" The man is wearing a waistcoat and a well practiced smile. He is excellent at his job, and in moments we are seated in comfortable chairs in the downstairs bar. This is the sort of bar where nothing really wild»
Thee Oh Sees - Carrion Crawler/Dream
There is satisfaction to be had here, but more than a notion that there was a better album to be had than the one on offer here.»
Wild Flag - Wild Flag
Whether you come to this album fresh, or as a former fan of some other bands the members used to be in, Wild Flag offers a lot to the listener.»
Drugstore - Anatomy
What it lacks in energy, it makes up for with heart, and genuine emotion.»
Screaming Trees - Last Words: The Final Recordings
Only when the end nears does Last Words remind you why Screaming Trees were special.»
Home of Metal Part Two - DiS meets Tony Iommi: The Hand of Doom
"...and he's such a nice bloke." I'm eavesdropping a conversation in the morning, about how lovely Tony Iommi is. He'll need to be, I think. He's about to get asked when Sabbath are reforming twenty times in a row. Another thing I overhear sticks in my head all day. "When I was shaking his hand, I realised... I'm touching The Hand of Doom!" »
Home of Metal - Part One: The Art of Mark Wilkinson
DiS visits a fascinating Metal exhibition, and is lucky enough to have a chance to sit down Mark Wilkinson. He's an artist who helped to visually define the works of one of the leading lights of British Metal in the 1980's - Judas Priest. »
Suede - Dog Man Star (reissue)
On the whole, the reissue is a historical time capsule, padded with endless ephemera. It doesn't detract too much from the core work , arguably the greatest British album of the Nineties. But a little more quality control would have gone a long way to making this album an essential purchase for people who don't sleep with a Suede poster in their bedroom.»
Ozzy Osbourne - Blizzard of Ozz/Diary of a Madman (reissues)
There's something that underpins all teen rebellion. Whatever you do, it has to be something your parents don't like. Playing loud»
True Widow - As High as the Highest Heavens and From the Center to the Circumference of the Earth
There are a few moments on this album where True Widow get it so right musically, you'll probably find yourself air-punching in simple appreciation.»
Foo Fighters - Wasting Light
Straightforward and template driven.»
Jonny Greenwood - Norwegian Wood OST
A solid addition to Greenwood's burgeoning catalogue, and worthy of a listen in its own right.»
The Get Up Kids - There Are Rules
By breaking the rules of what they were supposed to sound like, The Get Up Kids have given themselves a second bite of the cherry. More power to them.»
Pete Yorn - Pete Yorn
From being touted as the New Springsteen to being next to nowhere in five years flat. That would appear to be the very definition of diminishing returns.»
The Fall - This Nation's Saving Grace (Omnibus Edition)
If you want to look back on a legendary band peaking, or even if you just want a place to start, this is it. Welcome to The Fall.»
DiS meets Spoon
A venue is the sum of its parts. Some are spit and sawdust, while some are beautiful, ornate places. The Shepherds Bush Empire always fell more into the latter category for me, at least if you were facing the stage. The place still has the music hall aura»
Iggy Pop and James Williamson - Kill City (remastered)
The mythos that surrounds the recording of Kill City may give it a little more interest and flavour for fans, but unless you're a die hard, this is one reissue that you can probably afford to miss.»
Giant Sand - Blurry Blue Mountain
The highlights will bolster their setlists, the rest will clog up your hard drive.»
Crystal Fighters - Star of Love
Like many a début, it could have been more, but regardless of this Star of Love is an auspicious start.»
Hungary's Sziget Festival 2010: the DiS review
Wednesday 12th August The plane touches down in Hungary, and the passengers walk onto the airport tarmac. The first thing they notice, once they stop hugging the tarmac and thanking their God that they're alive, is the heat. It's 37 degrees Celsius and t»
Iron Maiden - The Final Frontier
While sometimes The Final Frontier seems to mine the Iron Maiden groove until the canary chirps its last, the better songs are an indication that they aren't yet trading solely on their reputation.»