In Depth
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Favourite 50: Arab Strap Monday At the Hug and Pint (chosen by Neil Ashman)
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 Neil Ashman shares his choice... at_theHug&Pint-ArabStrap480.jpg" wid »
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Interview
DiS meets Perfume Genius
Shortly before Perfume Genius, aka Mike Hadreas, played his debut British show at London’s Hoxton Hall DiS caught up with the singer to discuss his brittle yet beautiful debut album ‘Learning’ as well as his damaged past and nerves about performing live. »
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Favourite 50: Ghostface Killah Supreme Clientele (chosen by Nick Neyland)
As part of our 10-week "DiS is 10!" celebration, we have asked 50 of our favourite people to tell us about one of their favourite albums of the past 10 years. In our fourth "favourite 50" installment, DiS contributor Nick Neyland, shares his choice... »
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Favourite 50: Arthur Russell Love is Overtaking Me (chosen by Emily Moore)
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 Emily Moore shares her choice... »
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Festival Review
Scott Hutchison from Frightened Rabbit: A Postcard from V Festival
Scott Hutchison from Frightened Rabbit sent us a postcard from his celebrity packed adventures at V Festival last weekend... As we roll up behind the main stage in our blue-and-mud coloured van, Pixie Lott is doing karaoke to thousands of happy young r »
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Interview
DiS meets Pulled Apart By Horses
It’s not been long since Pulled Apart By Horses released their eponymous debut album to, it would seem, unanimous praise – including a snazzy eight points from DiS. Never complacent though, the band have spent that time touring the length and breadth of B »
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In Depth
Øya - The DiS review, Part II
We return to the Medieval Park in Oslo for the final two days of the festival. »
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Festival Preview
10 Acts to Catch at Reading Festival 2010 + Roadtrip mixtape
In anticipation of that glorious stench-cloud of burning paper cups, teenage tent sweat, burger belch and beer froth, DiS has compiled a little list of 10 acts you really, truly, should try to catch this weekend at Reading (or Leeds) Festival... »
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Favourite 50: The Hold Steady Boys And Girls In America (chosen by David Pott-Negrine)
As part of our 10-week "DiS is 10!" celebration, we have asked 50 of our favourite people to tell us about one of their favourite albums of the past 10 years. In our second "favourite 50" installment, DiS contributor and 'My Name Is Emo' columnist David Pott-Negr... »
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Interview
DiS meets Klaxons
Very few bands have caught the attention of the music world in recent years quite like Klaxons. Emerging from East London amidst a blaze of hype and neon shades they went on to win the Mercury Music Prize in 2007, collaborate with Rihanna at the BRIT Awar »
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In Depth
This Week's Singles: 23/08/10
This week’s singles is testament to what I suspect is the number one Editor’s Adage. Which is to say, you should NEVER say to writers ‘Do what you like!’. Much less say in an email (I have it framed) that it is alright to be ‘As mental as you wanna be!’ I mean Lord o... »
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Festival Review
Summer Sundae Festival, Leicester, 13-15 August - The DiS Review
DiS went to Summer Sundae last weekend. We had a stage and everything. Here, three DiS scribes share their highlights from the weekend that was... »
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Favourite 50: My Vitriol Finelines (chosen by Paul Brown)
As part of our 10-week "DiS is 10!" celebration, we have asked 50 of our favourite people to tell us about one of their favourite albums of the past 10 years. Here, DiS contributor and messageboard regular Paul Brown, shares his choice... --- I’m pr »
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Column
My Name is Emo #3
As regular readers (that’s all two of you) of this column will know, the last edition featured only American bands, something that I promised to make up for. With this column, it’s my intention to highlight some of the best, or at least most promising DIY »
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10 years of.. Dubstep by Subliminal Transmissions (Digest)
This week, for the first of 10 weeks celebrating Drowned In Sound’s tenth birthday, we put together a week of features about the explosion of sounds currently emerging from the scene surrounding dubstep. This list gathers together all of the articles for easy brows... »
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In Depth
What U Call It?: Future moves & further reading
So, at the end of DiS’ Subliminal Transmissions week, which has largely been focusing on the development of sounds up to this point, it seems appropriate to open the floor a little and look forwards at what the future holds. The last eighteen months or so »
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Subliminal Transmissions: Ones to watch
At the moment it genuinely feels as though you can’t take more than a step or two without bumping into another promising musician working within the convoluted spheres of dubstep/post-dubstep/’whatever-the-hell-you-wanna-call-it-anyway’... »
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Grime, 2010
It’s unquestionable that at present UK bass music is in rude health. The mass evacuation following dubstep's wobble-a-thon implosion led to a deliciously anarachic flux: without an established status quo for dancefloor bound bass, producers found themselves with a bl... »
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In Depth
Scott Pilgrim Vs DiS: A chat with Edgar Wright & Michael Cera
DiS caught up with director Edgar Wright and lead Michael Cera to talk about the music in Scott Pilgrim Vs The World. »
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In Depth
Øya - The DiS review, Part I
DiS packed its bags and headed North, to Oslo's Øya festival, a festival with a line-up so rammed to the rafters with pure high-quality that we thought we might have trouble containing ourselves. We just about did... »
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Column
Drowned In Bristol Bass #3
As the author of DiS’ regular (though admittedly lacking in recent update) Drowned In Bristol column and a rabid enthusiast of our city’s thriving underground music scene, the Subliminal Transmissions week seemed an ideal opportunity to put together a spi »
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Festival Preview
V Festival 2010 - 10 Not To Miss Sets: The DiS preview
The much maligned corporately sponsored V Festival opens its doors tomorrow (Friday 20th) at its twin venues of Hylands Park, Chelmsford and Weston Park, Stafford for an event that had long completely sold out well before the majority of its artists were even announced. »
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Interview
DiS meets James Lavelle of UNKLE
As a founder member of the eclectic beat-orientated combo that is UNKLE, James Lavelle requires little by way of introduction. »
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In Depth
Highpoint Lowlife: Thorsten Sideboard mixes for DiS
Out of everything featured this week, Thorsten Sideboard’s Highpoint Lowlife label stands out as an anomaly, not least because it has existed in some form since before what became known as dubstep had even begun to escape from its South London crucible. A »