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At times it's difficult to keep focused on where some of the songs are heading next, which I guess is all part of the fun, but also slightly disorientating too...»
Ten years, six albums and countless accolades down the line, The White Stripes are still going strong...»
Singer songwriters are ten a penny these days, and while Catherine Feeny has chosen to go down the more traditional route mapped out by the likes of Joni Mitchell, a route since followed by a host of others ranging from Martha Wainwright to Dido, nothing about 'Mr Blue' stands out...»
Quite simply, AWWBLOT make me want to dance, scream, shout and sing manically...»
Not only are DiS putting on the best end of summer line-up anywhere in the UK this weekend (details here), we're also showcasing some of the country's best new talent at our monthly Nottingham residency at Junktion 7...»
Anyone with a spare copy of Young Team or Agaetis Byrjun and a satchel full of effects pedals can set about forming their own post-rock band. Well it's easy, innit...»
Hot on the heels of the announcements that Agent Blue and yourcodenameis:milo have both decided to call it a day comes the news that two more DiS favourites of recent times have also sadly ceased to exist...»
German electronica guru Ulrich Schnauss is perhaps best known for his work remixing and producing other people's material...»
From this moment onwards, let's have no more mentions of what or why Paul Smith chooses to wear on his head, alright?»
There seems to be something of a renaissance going on north of the border at the moment as far as astoundingly good new music is concerned.»
Not quite genius, but at last finally measuring up to all the hype...»
Not going to V this weekend? Then why not head to the usually sleepy confines of Grantham instead...»
The Victorian English Gentlemen's Club are fast becoming the Marmite of the underground music scene...»
For long-standing fans of The New Pornographers, Challengers will almost certainly be greeted with the fervour and enthusiasm of a toddler taking its first steps across the living room carpet...»
Long forgotten by some and accused of being way past their sell-by date by others, may I be the first person here to say that I'm actually looking forward to a new album by The Coral.»
There's something about Sevenoaks quartet GoodBooks that, frankly, doesn't quite manage to send the pulse racing...»
On August Bank Holiday Sunday (that's the 26th), the beer garden of the Crib will play host to an all day event...»
The full line-up for this year's Summer Sundae Weekender Festival has now been confirmed, with The Pigeon Detectives being the final name added to the bill...»
Being pissed off with your lot is as relevant today as it ever was, and Violet Violet sure have a helluva lot of anger to release...»
Three albums and eight years old they may be, but it's fair to say that the vast majority of minions inhabiting Planet Pop had never heard of The Gossip until last year, at the earliest. Dom Gourlay chats to the trio about their sudden rise...»
French techno rock outfit Black Strobe probably invented new rave before the term had even been inappropriately conceived.»
Having spent the best part of the decade drowning in a sea of Rice and Blunt, the pendulum of saturation for the genre of singer/songwriters has swung towards the cliched London street cred wannabes. Caroline's not the victim, we are...»
Imagine if KT Tunstall and Cat Stevens were to have had a sordid affair and spawned some kind of gravelly-voiced yet radio-friendly offspring...»
With hair straight from The Horrors' barber shop and riffs courtesy of King Adora's second hand Manics chord school, you just know that it's all going to end in tears for Hertfordshire quintet My Passion...»
'I'll Always Be Within You When There's No One Left Inside' is without doubt one of the standouts from their recent The Sound Of Young America opus...»
Comprising 11 songs in total, Revenge Songs draws comparisons to Oberst's Bright Eyes phenomenon via several aspects...»
Probably best known for his work in the Soup Dragons and BMX Bandits but more recently for his contribution to Isobel Campbell and Mark Lanegan's The Ballad Of The Broken Seas...»
When Daydream Nation first appeared at the tail end of 1988, it was greeted with equal amounts of surprise and elation...»
Summertime and novelty records unfortunately go hand in hand like strawberries and cream, and this year silly season appears to be no different.»
The only downside here is that The Shadow Project may find themselves dismissed as being just another post-rock act...»
