In Depth
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Interview
DiS meets OKGo: “Chasing the thrill of making things”
OK Go parted ways with Capitol in March after ten years; setting up their own label – Paracadute – to better serve their desire to “make stuff” that subverts the major label mould. »
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Festival Preview
Reeperbahn Festival Preview
A three day display of European and continental talent, Reeperbahn Festival's fifth year provides visitors with a hefty bunch of exciting new bands, a few favourites and a snapshot of Hamburg's creativity and culture. »
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In Depth
Spotifriday #61 - This week on DiS as a playlist
It's time for another one! This time featuring the likes of Weezer, Gold Panda, Simon Joyner, Bright Eyes, Swans, Lykke Li AND Owen Pallett. »
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Jandek: Year Zero for Lo-Fi...?
It’s 1978. Tom Waits is still a Nighthawk at the Diner, yet to embark on his game-changing Frank’s Wild Years Trilogy. Bob Dylan and Leonard Cohen are about to trade one-take / lo-fi folk for synth-gospel. Bruce Springsteen dominates the airwaves with The »
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Festival Review
Electric Picnic 2010: the DiS review
For those that only know about Oxegen, Electric Picnic is the other major Irish festival and the country's closest answer to Glastonbury. Sure, it has little of Worthy Farm's tradition (it only began in 2004), but that needn't preclude it from feeling special. It has... »
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Spotify playlist: 10 Years of Solo Artists - Part 2: Beats, Bleeps, Björk & Beyonce
I didn't have the attention span to stick to one genre, so in my headphones and on this playlist, there's some lazer-guided missles of misery and really-silly raps and utterly ridiculous bits of yoddelling (O HAI GWEN STEFANI!). This is my voyage through these dizzy ... »
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Interview
Gold Panda on the beauty of the GameBoy
We've tried to have a conversation with Mr Gold Panda on numerous occasions but he's always had his headphones on, staring at his GameBoy. Little did we know he was composing his next opus whilst waiting for the train. We now know what he was doing, so decided it bes... »
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Spotify playlist: 10 Years of Solo Artists - Part 1: Pianos, Banjos, Drums + dropped Ds
Putting this playlist together I was reminded that the poignancy of many of these songs comes from that single-mindedness that only an individual with something to say or a deep well of emotion to share, is capable of. Love, hate and the precarious life vs. death bat... »
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Interview
DiS meets Edwyn Collins
The remarkable return of Edwyn Collins is marked this month with the release of Losing Sleep, his first album to be written and recorded since returning to health. »
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Interview
DiS meets Luke Abbott
You could hear many things come the end of the year about how 2010 has become a kind of electronic revivalist year. Well, at least more so than many others in the past decade. Some of electronica’s biggest names have emerged this year with seminal works, »
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Festival Review
Offset 2010: the DiS review
Needs Luke to add his bit then GTG »
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Favourite 50: Grammatics (chosen by Paul Stephen Gettings)
As part of our 10-week “DiS is 10!” celebration, we’ve asked 50 of our favourite people to tell us about one of their favourite albums of the past 10 years. Here, DiS contributor Paul Stephen Gettings shares his choice... When I chose Grammatics' sel »
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Interview
Grammatics: A Split Infinitive
In July 2009 Grammatics had just been nominated by the good people of DiS for our very own Mercury Music Prize alternative, the Neptune award. Jump forward little more than a year and this otherworldly Leeds band are slowly getting used to ‘normal’ ... »
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In Depth
This Week's Singles: 13/09/10
This week: singles for Beatniks, packing suitcases and - WHATEVER NEXT - falling in love. I think I may need to get me some cynicism, but sadly the cupboard's bare, like. »
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10 Years in... "Beats" week: Bangers of the Decade - A Spotify Playlist
So Beats week is over, next week we go back to our regularly scheduled program of writing about effete Brits and anonymous Swedish chillwave producers. It's been a wild ride; writing about Dipset, getting »
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Favourite 50: Nick Cave - Abattoir Blues/The Lyre of Orpheus (chosen by Kevin E.G. Perry)
I was just a boy, 19 years old and living in a rented room off Bondi Beach when I first heard Abbatoir Blues and The Lyre of Orpheus. I’d just spent several months in India, and, with apologies to Bollywood, I missed music. The first thing I’d bought wh »
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Column
Drowned in Manchester #4
And so as Manchester lurches into Autumn 2010, all bronzed up (well, those that left the country anyway) and raring to go for one of the busiest gigging season’s yet witnessed in this North West corner of the country, there’s firstly the rather pressing m »
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Interview
Will Sheff (Okkervil River) on Roky Erikson
Whenever I get incredibly discouraged now, or pessimistic about human nature, or fatalistic about difficulties that get thrown in front of people, I think of Roky. Earlier this summer saw the release of True Love Cast Out All Evil, the first in over a de »
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Interview
DiScover: Joe Pug
From the outside, Chicago singer-songwriter Joe Pug looks pretty much like your traditional man-and-a-guitar: beat-up acoustic, check; gruffly vitriolic voice, check; jeans and shirt, check. But having already clocked up shows with Josh Ritter, Steve Earl »
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In Depth
Spotifriday #60 - This Week on DiS as a playlist
This week I've arranged the playlist in alphabetical order. I will argue with those of you who think that The xx shouldn't be filed under "X" but will probably lose because I have not known tiredness like this since about yesterday. As such, the descripti »
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Mix It Up and Start Again - A Decade of Online Mixtapes
Of all the musical game changers of the last decade, the internet has quite clearly been the biggest one. In fact, it might just be the biggest bombshell dropped on the music industry since Elvis started shaking hips and breaking rules. The existence of this very sit... »
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Favourite 50: Bigg Jus Black Mamba Serums (chosen by Robert Ferguson)
As part of our 10-week “DiS is 10!” celebration, we’ve asked 50 of our favourite people to tell us about one of their favourite albums of the past 10 years. This is not a best or "top" list, simply records individuals wished to highlight. Here, as part of »
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In Depth
Muse @ Lancashire Cricket Ground: 05/09/10
We went to see MUSE and it wor AMAZING. »
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Festival Review
ATP New York 2010: the DiS review
The New York incarnation of ATP may only come around once a year, but few folks who have braved the charmingly decrepit surroundings of Kutshers Country Club can resist its lure. Most of the lineup this time around is made up of 40-something musicians who are lifers ... »