In Depth
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Interview
Those Sacred Days: DiS meets The Kinks' Dave Davies
In celebration of the deluxe re-release of these first three Kinks' albums, DiS was fortunate enough to have the opportunity to speak to Dave Davies: the band’s legendary lead guitarist, vocalist and occasional songwriter to discuss his memories of r... »
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In Depth
Spotifriday #84 - This week on DiS as a playlist ft. Eels, Friendly Fires, FaltyDL
This week on DiS as a playlist. »
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First Listen
First Listen: Friendly Fires Pala
Earlier this week, DiS founder Sean Adams, got a sneaky first listen of Pala, the forthcoming album from Friendly Fires.. »
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Artist-generated
List: Jim Sclavunos of Grinderman's 10 Favourite Record Shops
Just look at the acts tagged above, there are few truly great bands that Jim Sclavunos hasn't been a member of. With an ability to cherry-pick like that, you sure as hell can bet he knows the best stores to crate-dig around. With »
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Column
armchair dancefloor 029: Burial, FaltyDL, Addison Groove, Ellen Allien, Ekoplekz, Pearson Sound...
The year’s release schedule is warming up nicely. Without further ado, here are the records that have been constantly soundtracking recent weeks. There are quite a few of them, it’s been a good few weeks. »
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Interview
Once more out of the darkness and into the light: DiS meets Dylan Carlson from Earth
Dylan Carlson, as the lynchpin behind Earth, is without a doubt one of the most important independently minded, experimental musicians of the last two decades. »
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In Depth
This Week's Singles: 28/03/11
This week there are not one but TWO singles of the week - I have been sitting on Danielson and Taylor Kirk for heaps and ages waiting to write about them, it can't have been comfortable. In fact, if I am honest, there are THREE singles nestled under my patootie, beca... »
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DiSection
King Creosote & Jon Hopkins Diamond Mine track by track
King Creosote & Jon Hopkins talk us through their album, Diamond Mine. Described by King Creosote as a "soundtrack to a romanticised version of a life lived in a Scottish coastal village", the record weaves in slices of Fife life - bike wheels, spring ti... »
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Column
Drowned in Scotland - March 2011
This month's Scottish dispatch centres on the forthcoming festival season, Withered Hand's SXSW stooshy and Jonnie Common's new deskjob... »
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Festival Review
BLOC Weekend: The DiS Review
Butlins Minehead has a slightly jarring atmosphere in the middle of the night. Sprawling chalet lots and the cocked arms of fairground apparatus have an unnerving tendency to suddenly loom from the darkness without warning. While ATP’s beardy warmth adds a softer edg... »
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Column
Drowned In Chicago #2
The second installment in our regular local scene reports from Chicago... »
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In Depth
This Week's Singles: 21/03/11
Because it is finally SPRING, this week I have reinstated the Bike Riding System of Single Appreciation. And despite spending all weekend wanting to listen to this bit of magnificent on repeat, I still found ti... »
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Staff-generated
Spotifriday #82: Raekwon, Bjork, Bieber, FlyLo, The Smiths
Aaah, the morning after the Guinness the night before. Don't know about you but I'm in the mood for some nice ambient 'jams'. It's the end of the week, it's the playlist (here) of... »
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Interview
Interview: Raekwon on Kanye, Justin Bieber and Shaolin vs. Wu Tang
DiS sat down with him (ermm, on the phone) to discuss the release of Raekwon's new album, Shaolin vs. Wu Tang and to determine how exactly he continues to bring it. Coming across like a gentleman and a true family man, and nowhere near the incarcerated scar... »
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Festival Preview
Read and Shout Festival : a DiS Preview
Read and Shout 2011 is a festival thought up as a way of protesting against the vicious public sector cuts that threaten our libraries. On Saturday 19th March, Hefner’s Darren Hayman and Jens Lekman will converge on Nettlefold Hall with a clutch of other acts to exp... »
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Interview
"We don't want people at our shows who are more interested in checking each other's shoes out": DiS
Flats have been making an incendiary racket across London for the past eighteen months with their back-to-basics approach to punk rock. »
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Interview
DiS meets Yuck
If there's one band that's managed to divide both the DiS community and its writers straight down the middle it's London four(occasionally five)piece Yuck. »
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In Depth
This Week's Singles: 14/03/11
This week's column includes some TOP LEVEL ADVICE for dealing with yoots on buses. Warning: may not hactually work outside of Norfolk. »
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Interview
One night in Paris with The Airborne Toxic Event
It isn't every day DiS finds itself jettisoned to one of the most romantic cities in the world purely in the call of duty. Nevertheless, this evening we find ourselves in the delectable surroundings of Paris. »
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Column
Articulate Silences, Ambient Sounds #7
It seems fitting that the first edition proper of 2011 should open with an interview with Rachel Evans, whose wonderful Motion Sickness Of Time Travel project has provided the soundtrack to countless January commutes. »
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In Depth
Spotifriday #81 - This Week on DiS as a playlist
This week's Spotifriday playlist. »
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Column
My Name is Emo / This is Hardcore #5
Welcome to another edition of Drowned In Sound’s infrequent forays into the murky world of punk rock, hardcore and its many bastard sons. »
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Column
Drowned in Sheffield #2
Although it's probably (read: definitely) not the most reliable barometer as to the health of a city's music scene, it's worth stating nonetheless that not a single Sheffield act is playing this year's industry hypefest SXSW. Zero. »
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Interview
DiS meets Dog Is Dead
Nottingham five-piece Dog Is Dead may have barely left adolescence, yet they've already amassed a steady flow of critical acclaim courtesy of a relentless live schedule that's taken them up and down the country on an increasingly regular basis. »