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Do You Like Rock Music?’s heavy hands are a guileful flurry of throws rather than one solid blow, recklessly flitting between the delicate, retiring grace of British Sea Power's Open Season and their rabid 2003 debut»
With the ongoing political turmoil in Kenya, Nairobi-based, Thrill Jockey benga outfit Extra Golden have appealed for help, with members Opiyo Bilongo, Onyango Wuod Omari and Onyango Jagwasi and their families still in the nation's capital, weeks after violent clashes began.»
Propped in the corner, below billowing speakers that spill out dreary lounge music filling out the lapses in lunchtime chatter, sits Stephin Merrit, Magnetic Fields lynchpin, here to talk about his forthcoming album, Distortion»
If ever there were a signpost to the eclectic nonsense going on at U!TR events, as hundreds descended upon Tufnell Park’s echo hall The Dome, it felt like this evening was it»
Deliriously set adrift, ‘Have You Seen In Your Dreams’ digs a watery grave and beds down, soaked in the same disorientated fever as Panda Bear’s Person Pitch, as hooks loop and an empty head spins»
Open the inlay and laundering and laundry seem to merge as one as Ghostface and affiliates wash $100 bills and roll them out in flour. Seems safe to say the Staten Island statesman is not entirely of sound mind at present»
DiS spends some time with James Murphy, the man behind NYC’s LCD Soundsystem, to talk touring, time management, and how he came to create our album of the year, Sound Of Silver»
Ready to deaden eardrums with their euphoric electronic sprawl, Fuck Buttons’s debut record, Street Horrrsing, is due for release on February 11 through ATP Recordings.»
If ever there was one aspect that ever gave the dirty-thumbed Doherty a charm, it was his voice; deliriously withdrawn, laid out on the lawns lost in Rimbaud as melancholic melody rang with numbed illusions of an Albion utopia»
Cowtown are the soundtrack to your downfall, a haunting descent into a psychotic trench with four cretins rubbing salt on your wounds and breaking your already depleted spirits»
Deerhoof's beauty lies in their ability to try something new at every turn, as they tell DiS: People aren’t expecting anything specific from us. We could do absolutely anything»
As samples and tape loops are pieced together, Level Live Wires retains that same eternally unfamiliar tone that, as with Person Pitch, keeps you hooked to these patchwork pieces»
Operator Please, for those fortunate enough not to have been served a limp-limbed ping-pong ball to the rectum previously, are a colour-coordinated quintet from Queensland»
The sort of infectious pop song where choruses and verses confuse into one, ‘Joni’’s retiring pop brilliance is difficult not to appreciate»
Soft-palmed salivating oiks The Teenagers tested the patience with ‘Homecoming’. Here, they rationalise any salty tears spilt and attempt to make out with your sister»
The Pyramids - the first album from Archie Bronson Outfit's Sam and Mark - is a bleak outing, austere in its approach, scything psych passages interspersed with instrumentals»
The jury’s still out on Jay-Z's recent releases, but American Gangster is as consistent an album as the Roc-A-Fella MD has produced since his short-lived retirement»
Describing yourselves as “Upper West Side Soweto” isn’t the best way to amiably introduce yourselves, but, for all their bombardiering flaws, Vampire Weekend’s debut AA release of ‘Cape Cod Kwassa Kwassa’/‘A-Punk’ had a certain charm»
Animal Collective performances have always been frustrating, often beguilingly so, but of late it’s veered towards notoriously awkward»
back in August we asked readers to submit questions to anti-folk icon of some renown Jeffrey Lewis. He was to respond to a selection via the medium of cartoon. Here, we present his chosen answers»
Diseased minds increasingly are drawn to the work of David Shrigley. As more and more people become aware of his art, the time's never been better for an aural tie-in. DiS speaks to Shrigley about that record, Worried Noodles»
After joining forces with Portland balladeer Khaela Maricich for a short spell, I Believe In You. Your Magic Is Real sees the pop minstrel return to his usual solo sugar-coated jarring pop nonsense.»
Every Dirty Projectors track begins with the same mild-mannered introduction as riffs politely find their feet and tread on toes until they all seep into each other to hit a confident stride in their absurd pop posturing»
Private file-sharing network OiNK has been shut down following two years of investigation by the IFPI (International Federation Of The Phonographic Industry) and British and Dutch police.»
Portland noise-folk sensations Jackie-O Motherfucker have disclosed a few details regarding their their first studio release since Flags of the Sacred Heart was released in 2005.»
Paul Raven, bassist of seminal industrial post-punk outfit Killing Joke, has died after suffering from a heart attack at his home in Geneva, Switzerland.»
Well Deep compiles some of the finest moments from Big Dada’s ten-year back catalogue with cLOUDDEAD sat beside Roots Manuva and MF Doom. It only goes to show that the label is as relevant as ever. Samuel Strang questions founder Will Ashon on the label's history to date...»
Where on The Fall’s recent long-player Smith's deranged drawl sounded chafed and aloof amid its hollow production, this collaboration has seen The Fall lynchpin with a newfound bawl, deliriously delivering his nonsensical lines…»
M.I.A. has sorted some new tour dates for December.»
