In Depth
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In Depth
Spotifriday #55 This Week on DiS as a playlist
Another edition in our weekly round-up of things what appeared on the website in the form of a Spotify playlist »
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Festival Preview
Field Day 2010: the monster fun preview
It's Field Day; it's 2010; it's FIELD DAY 2010! »
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Festival Review
Melt 2010: the DiS review
The sweltering heat combined with the surging pre-festival buzz turns every hour into cold-one o’ clock, so a few friends and I hit the beer tent. Here, a friendly German guy turns round and exclaims in mild disbelief, ‘You’re English and you came all the way out her... »
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In Depth
This Week's Singles: 26/07/10
I may have gone a bit Not Right this week. Sorry, everyone. »
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Interview
DiS meets Dum Dum Girls
California's Dum Dum Girls may have been floating around the LA underground scene for a couple of years now, but it's only recently that they've come to the attention of a wider audience both Stateside and here in the UK. »
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In Depth
Spotifriday #54 - This Week On DiS as a playlist
The 54th edition of This Week On DiS as a playlist, featuring Animal Collective, John Cooper Clarke, The White Stripes, These New Puritans, Yeasayer, Boredoms, Deerhunter and a few more for good measure! »
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Festivals
Latitude (Sunday): The DiS Review
The final day of Wendy Roby and Andrzej Lukowski's astounding exploits at Latitude. »
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Festivals
Latitude (Saturday): The DiS Review
Latitude Day Two, with Wendy Roby and Andrzej Lukowski »
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Festivals
Latitude (Friday): The DiS Review
DiS's Wendy Roby and Andrzej Lukowski went to Latitude this year. AND HERE IS WHAT HAPPENED TO THEM. »
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Column
armchair dancefloor 021 incl Solomun mix
armchair dancefloor is a monthly look at the best electronic releases. This month: praise for the witchy doings of Demdike Stare, Macc & dgoHn's whipsmart drum & bass assault, Max Richter, Peverelist<... »
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In Depth
This Week's Singles: 19/07/10
Do you see how, even when I am bumbling about at Latitude, still I Bring The Singles? SEE HOW DEDICATED I AM! You people are all part-time, or something. Let's have a fight about it. »
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Festival Preview
Truck's American Dream
It's nearly 3 months since we returned from New York and already the month we spent there hustling up our festival seems like a dreamtime. America has a way of doing that to you. »
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In Depth
Spotifriday #53 - This Week on DiS as a playlist
The latest instalment in our weekly Spotifriday playlists. This one features none other than Standard Fare, Tom Jones, Women, R.E.M., HEALTH, The Wave Pictures, Broken Social Scene and more. Click »
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In Depth
Truck Week: DiS meets Mew
We caught up with Mew ahead of their appearance at Truck Festival 2010. »
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In Depth
Demo sifting to pick-up bands: who new to see at Truck 13
As part of our Truck preview week Chris Bennett takes us through the enjoyable and LONG process of going through a pile of demos to choose which of the lucky people will be playing the actual festival. Some fantastic choices, really. Take it away, Chris. »
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Column
Drowned in Leeds #3
The third installment in our ongoing series of local scene reports from our local scribe in Leeds... The arrival of summer in Leeds signals the mass departure of the countless students relied upon by the promoters. Combined with the fact that for these »
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Festival Preview
Melt 2010 preview
This year the organisers of the 13th annual Melt festival have demonstrated some typical German efficiency in making a handy iPhone app that details all the travel information you could possibly need for a confusion-free journey. It’s a good job, as for »
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In Depth
This Week's Singles: 12/07/10
Single of the Week! Standard Fare – ‘Philadelphia’ (Melodic / Thee SPC) I am a little bit in love with Standard Fare’s Emma Kupa, and not just because her surname has something of the exotic fish/undersea creature about it. She has the best kind of »
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Interview
DiS meets The Wave Pictures
The core elements are there to situate The Wave Pictures in the Stones’ alternate universe, but we’ve been happy (myself included) to have kept them in the box labelled indie-pop »
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In Depth
Spotifriday #52 - This Week on DiS as a playlist
This week's Spotifriday playlist - one created with a mixture of bands and artists featured on our website this week. As is always the case. This week features the sensational Janelle Monae, Abe Vigoda, Grinderman, Pagan Wanderer Lu, Deer Tick, Barn Owl and much, muc... »
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Festivals
Les Eurockéennes (Sunday): The DiS Review
Les Eurockeennes: A Diary - Day ‘Trois’ On the last day of a festival, especially one in a foreign land, it is customary to feel a little low, a little humdrum. And I am no exception, for I wake on Sunday a little sadface that it will soon be over, and »
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Festivals
Les Eurockéennes (Saturday): The DiS Review
Les Eurockeennes: A Diary - Day ‘Deux’ On Saturday it is still bloody boiling, and I know I shall have to pace myself if I am to last till Vitalic at 2am*. This is why it is not until late in the afternoon - the heat mostly broken - that I amble down to »
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Column
Articulate Silences, Ambient Sounds #5
Welcome to to the fifth regular installment from Joe Marshall, focusing on the very best of ambient, drone and other assorted outsider transmissions. »
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Festival Preview
Latitude 2010: all you need to know, definitely, definitely
Ahoy! In a week and a bit, DiS will be heading for the babbling brooks and fantastical coloured sheep things of this year’s Latitude festival. Here are some considered thoughts on what to see, tempered only slightly by the fact that we don’t know what days a lot of s... »