In Depth
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Column
Articulate Silences, Ambient Sounds #6
Welcome to to the sixth installment from Joe Marshall, focusing on the very best of ambient, drone and other assorted outsider transmissions. »
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Interview
The Geography of Wire
Wire talk about growing up in Watford and Hornsey, touring with Roxy Music, being written off, and the University of Strategic Optimism »
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In Depth
This Week's Singles: 10/01/11
In my first column of the year I intend to cheat, gleefully ignoring release dates partly because it is so quiet out and partly because The Shops have been sitting on extra copies of things with their doughy Christmas arses; oh there they are. My thing, my RULES, MAN... »
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Column
Drowned In Manchester #5
To describe Manchester at the end of 2010 is to describe a very different place to the city I pitched up in back in 2006. Upon my giddy undergraduate arrival I found a music community not exactly dormant, but certainly feeling the pinch placed on it by th »
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Column
My Name is Emo #4
David Pott-Negrine talks us through the best hardcore records from 2010... »
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Interview
DiS meets Engineers
Atmospheric guitar band Engineers might not win many awards for being prolific, but as far as quality control goes, they've unquenchably high standards to maintain. »
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In Depth
Singles of the Year 2010: Part the Second, A TOP 50!
And so it ends, off pootles 2010 with all its talk of shackles, wor and love lost. Here, the continuation of this year's Top 100 Singles, with some special mentions for my absolute favourite and best sounds near the bottom. I may actually have chosen 101. Do forgive. »
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In Depth
Singles of the Year 2010: Part the First!
Singles of the Year 2010: Part the 1st This year I have written approximately 117,600 words about my favourite format, this being at the low end of an estimate that I find frankly terrifying. I have listened to singles on my bike, I have listened to the »
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In Depth
2010 In The Mix by Rory Gibb
So to close off 2010 it feels appropriate to take a scan backward through some of the year’s most exciting developments. We’ve recorded a mix that gathers together some of our favourite tracks from this year, from the blissful sensory overload of Oneohtrix Po... »
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In Depth
Trans Musicales Day 3: The DiS Review
The last day of Les Trans will be a day of meetings and re-meetings. But by day three I know how to play this thing. Judiciously timed disco naps, galettes saucisses, coffee and lady smuggling will be key today, all of which will largely explain how I do »
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In Depth
Trans Musicales Day 2: The DiS Review
Day 2 of DiS French adventures at Les Trans. »
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In Depth
Trans Musicales Day 1: The DiS Review
The DiS take on Trans Musicales Day 1. »
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Interview
DiS meets Black Rebel Motorcycle Club
Currently back in the UK for the second time this year, DiS managed to track down a tired and weary Robert Levon Been prior to Black Rebel Motorcycle Club's sold-out show at Nottingham's Rock City. »
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Interview
DiS meets Polar Bear's Seb Rochford
2010’s been a busy year for Seb Rochford. On top of Polar Bear’s fourth album Peepers gaining attention above and beyond anything he’s yet been involved with, he’s just finished a final tour with thrash jazzers Acoustic Ladyland, remixed
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OMD meet Mirrors: 30 years of electronic music
Having recently completed a European tour together, DiS got OMD and Mirrors to sit down and have a chat bout how electronic music has changed over the last thirty years, filesharing, and the doubters... »
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Interview
DiS meets Mitchell Museum
In October, as part of our Glasgow Takeover, we spoke to quartet Mitchell Museum about what makes the city so special... »
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Column
Drowned in Nottingham #2
Following on from October's first local scene report and gig guide from the city of Nottingham, here's the second instalment from DiS' man in the East Midlands... »
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In Depth
Spotifriday #73 - This Week on DiS as a playlist
Listen to this week's Spotifriday playlist, featuring a whole lot from our end of year content and more, including LCD Soundsystem, Shearwater, Gang Of Four, Deftones, Joy Division, Dirty Projectors and, of course, more. »
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Festival Review
ATP Godspeed You! Black Emperor: the DiS review
This weekend last, Noel Gardner, Rory Gibb and Andrzej Lukowski descended upon Butlins, Minehead, and unanimously failed to see Boban Markovi?'s drooled over set. Ho hum: Emeralds were worth it. Here is what they did instead. »
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Interview
DiS meets 30 Seconds To Mars: Is This The Final Countdown?
Think what you like of 30 Seconds To Mars; they're getting something right. But it's something, DiS learns, they may not be doing for very much longer. »
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Interview
DiS meets Alec Empire
As the founder member and unassuming politically-aware mouthpiece behind groundbreaking electronic noise combo Atari Teenage Riot, Alec Empire can be classed as something of an underground icon. »
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Interview
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 »
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In Depth
This Week's Singles: 06/12/10
Single of the Week! Dirty Projectors - ‘As I Went Out Went Out One Morning’ (Domino) In the very wonderful Election, teenage girl-mistake Tracy Flick is possessed of the sort of terrifying, out-of-my-way ambition I remember almost fondly from »
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Albums of the Year
Drowned in Sound's Albums of the Year 2010: 10-1
DiS' records of the year twenty ten. After a week of teasing, confusing and enraging some of you, our countdown of the albums we have loved the most in 2010 concludes with this top 10. »