In Depth
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DiScover: Wooden Shjips
San Francisco will probably always struggle to shrug off the 40-year-old 'Summer of Love' weight of history that hangs over one the most beautiful and chilled of US cities. The Haight-Ashbury hippie revolution and the Golden Gate Park 'Be-Ins' of 1967 continue to fas... »
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DiScover: Zettasaur
Zettasaur are four men from Brighton making a mighty punk-rock racket; their listed influences, including 90 Day Men and Part Chimp, might give you some idea of the direction their squall can take. Also, that the foundations for the band were laid following a ... »
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DiScover: Banjo or Freakout
Banjo or Freakout is 28-year-old Alessio Natalizia from Turin. He's been living in London for two of those years, looping sounds that glitter and whisper and crackle and lope and threading them all together with the dab hand of a red-eyed, spinning plate ring ... »
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The Weekly DiScussion: are we one awards ceremony short of three-dozen too many?
As another awards ceremony for musicians - and music websites! - looms on the horizon, DiS wonders: are there too many of these events, filling up our late-night television schedules and covering our already commercially successful LPs with stickers stating "Best ... »
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DiScover: William
Punk-funk. There’s a name we’d pay never to see in print again. But if you take the aforementioned epithet, loosen it at the bolts a little, add a pinch of Clap Your Hands Say Yeah’s quixotic brilliance, and some killer tunes to boot, you get South London trio Wil... »
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DiScover: Seventeen Evergreen
San Francisco-based two-piece Seventeen Evergreen are masters of the sci-fi ethereal, mood-sculpting in a manner most organic. As they arrive in Europe for some rare live appearances, including a date tonight at London’s Luminaire (their only British show ont ... »
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Label focus
Label Focus #10: Wichita Recordings
Rocking up the crest of their seventh birthday, DiS scribbler Gareth Dobson hacks away at the defences of Castle Wichita to reveal a set of rather contented innards, complete with tales of DFA1979 loss, guitar solos that never finished and why no-one got The C... »
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The Weekly DiScussion: the movie soundtracks that matter
Ever since 'Love Is All Around' by Wet Wet Wet topped the charts on the back of its appearance in top British rom-com Four Weddings and a Funeral, DiS has always had a special relationship with films and their incumbent soundtracks. Here, resident hack ... »
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DiScover: Cats And Cats And Cats
Cats And Cats And Cats, from various towns in the south of England, are one of a good few bands that DiS readers of a regular nature will have some knowledge of, but perhaps never actually heard. Ahead of their set at this weekend's DiScover Club, Londo... »
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DiScover: We Are The Physics
Introducing We Are The Physics, Glasgow's ridiculously energetic answer to all things post-punk... »
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DiScover: Let's Wrestle
Who wouldn’t warm to London trio Let’s Wrestle, with their tone-deaf Pavement impersonations and heart-warming tales of quasar, genocide and having massive cocks... »
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The Weekly DiScussion: what are the essential musical page-turners?
As much as writing about music might be like dancing about architecture, there are few feelings in this life greater than unearthing a truly essential book about music from all the myriad dross publishers have seen fit to inflict on the public, from the cash-in bios ... »
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DiScover: HEALTH
As shrieking experimental Los Angeles noiseniks, HEALTH is a somewhat inappropriate moniker. The quartet - John Famiglietta, BJ Miller, Jake Duzsik, Jupiter Keyes (pictured clockwise from left) - provide honed brutality, with their eponymous debut record (rele... »
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Label Focus #9: Holy Roar Records
Holy Roar are one of a few small domestic labels likely to outgrow their roots before long, with an admirably diverse and critically acclaimed back catalogue already theirs to call their own. DiS's Gareth Dobson plays the Q&A game with co-founders Alex ... »
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The Weekly DiScussion: Don't Look Back?
For all the plaudits that Sonic Youth acquired off the back of the performances it calls into question the peculiar appetite with which the Don't Look Back events are lapped up. All things considered, should these records really be victim to such nostalgia-ridden ret... »
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The DiScover Diary - September 3-9
Each week, the DiScover Diary will outline some choice gigs up and down the country, highlighting some excellent up-and-coming acts across the nation’s varied stages. Here we sneak a brief peek at five Sheffield kids who’ve been carving their names into the wa... »
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The Weekly DiScussion: have too many festivals spoilt the summer?
Glastonbury, Reading and Leeds, Download, Latitude, Bestival, Connect, Field Day, Truck, Lodestar... the list goes on. Just which festivals are worth your hard-earned cash, and can newer festivals survive in an over-saturated market? DiS's Ben Yates ask... »
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The Weekly DiScussion: What's pop got to do with it?
A celebration of pop in all its vague and polymorphous glory. »
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DiScover: Ipso Facto
As this is their first press I have no presumptions; as this is their first interview they can have no pretensions. »
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The DiScover Diary - August 20-26
Each week, the DiScover Diary will outline some choice gigs up and down the country, highlighting some excellent up-and-coming acts across the nation’s varied stages, and focus on one act in particular who are both on tour and on the DiS stereo rather a... »
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The Weekly NonDiScussion: why Super Furry Animals are amazing...
Having seen them some 27 times, Gareth Dobson writes the article of a (his!) lifetime: why Super Furry Animals are the most consistently brilliant band of a generation. DiScuss? Hop on the super pop... »
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New feature: weekly DiScover Diary
Each week, the DiScover Diary will outline some choice gigs up and down the country, highlighting some excellent up-and-coming acts across the nation’s varied stages, and focus on one band in particular who are both on tour and on the DiS stereo rather ... »
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DiScover: 4 Or 5 Magicians
4 Or 5 Magicians are a Brighton-based indie-pop outfit mixing sparkling melodies with lyrical wit in a manner not wholly unlike a certain Stephen Malkmus-fronted act of not so long ago. This: a good thing. They’re also set to play at the next DiScover Club gig... »
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The Weekly DiScussion: has the smoking ban affected your gig-going?
It’s one month, pretty much, since a sea change occurred in the way we experience live music in the UK and DiS wants to know what your opinion is on the smoking ban in relation to live music. Are you a smoker whose enjoyment of live music has suffered because of your... »