In Depth
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Takeover
Múm week: DiScover three young Reykjavik bands
To kick off a special week of content from the skittering electronic Icelandic folks Múm, Örvar Þóreyjarson Smárason suggests three new acts from their home town that you should check out. »
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First Listen
First listen: Dizzee Rascal's Tongue N Cheek
DiS headed south of the river to Dizzee Rascal’s London studio complex to grab a thumping first listen to his new record, pausing from furious in-track scribbling only to say a brief hello to the man himself. Here’s what we made of it... »
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Festival Review
Sonisphere 2009 - The DiS Review
Or Sonisphere in Five Minutes »
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Festival Preview
Gett OFF to Poland: a festival preview
While there are those who’ll merrily hold court for hours over how much the British festival scene has changed over the last 20 years or so, the erection of a fence near Pilton has got nothing on Poland, which has gone from Eastern Bloc austerity to gener »
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Festival Review
Field Day 2009: the DiS review
Spurred on by the repeat mantra ‘there’s no way things can go wrong a THIRD year in a row', DiS’s Charles Ubaghs and Andrzej Lukowski headed down Victoria Park way last Saturday to sample the delights of this year’s capital-based Field Day festival. And barring some ... »
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Label focus
Label Focus #28: Post Present Medium
In part 28 of our infinite (hopefully) set of label profiles, the subject is Post Present Medium. »
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Column
Drowned in Scary Monsters #4
I'm not sure if it makes me a smalltown boy, but gigs of more than 300 people have a habit of striking fear into my quickly beating heart... »
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Month In Records
A Month In Records: July 2009
Now, July may not have been the greatest month of the year as far as big-name bands releasing big-name chart crushing records - this is normally always the case, mind - but there has been a steady flow of excellent little records from equally excellent little bands. »
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In Depth
This Week's Singles: 03/08/2009
I love it when this happens. For this week is a genuinely mixed-up, schizophrenic bag of sevens that has something to recommend almost every genre you can think of. In the end I am plumping for the ambition and modernity of the caffeinated, fuck-up funk of Debruit, b... »
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Interview
"We're trying to re-imagine pop music...without the money" : DiS meets Wild Beasts
With their second album hitting shelves today, DiS thought it about time we caught up with Wild Beasts. »
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Interview
Mastodon answer your questions + Win a pair of their Vans
DiS met Mastodon, asked them questions and captured it on video. »
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Staff-generated
Spotifriday - Listen to the 12 Neptune Music Prize Nominees
The (nominees were announced on DiS yesterday](http://drownedinsound.com/news/4137495-dis-alternative-music-prize--the-neptune-nominees-announced) but before you rate the albums, we thought you might like to listen to all of them. You've got until 8th of September to... »
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Column
Armchair Dancefloor 009
Chris Power's fortnightly harvest of the best of the electronic music crop. This time around there's batty-winding pressure from Hyperdub, undersea unease from On, Technicolor dubstep from Hyetal, trippy longfrom techno from Rome's
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Mixtape
Slow Club's Top 10 Angsty Anthems
We all love a bit of angst now and then. Some more than others. Sheffield two-piece pop-folkers certainly do and to celebrate (or commiserate...) this fact, they compiled their Top 10 anthems of angst, or Top 10 Angsty Anthems as we are calling this feature... »
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Festival Review
T In The Park: The (slightly delayed) DiS review
What with being a bunch of self-absorbed Sassenachs and the press pass being organised a bit last minute, we didn't get around to running Simon Jay Catling's review of T In The Park in any sort of timeframe likely to make anybody involved look professional. Sorry Sim... »
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Festival Review
Supersonic 2009: The DiS Review
Capsule's best festival to date? We think it might be - certainly the Saturday of this year's Supersonic was as fine a run of music on a solitary day as we can remember in a jolly long while. Which means there is no room here to wax lyrical about awesome »
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Festival Review
Close to P4K-tion: DiS does the Pitchfork Music Festival
While it'll probably be nigh on time for the Apocalypse before consensus has finally been reached on whether Pitchfork represents the apotheosis of music journalism or everything wrong with everything, there's no denying that Ryan Schreiber and cohorts st »
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In Depth
This Week's Singles: 27/07/2009
This week is a proper mixed bag, though I am afraid to say there shall be no upset apple carts as far as Speech Debelle is concerned. So if anyone wants to start a backlash, please do so as far away from me as you possibly can. »
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Interview
"If this is the world we helped create, then I apologise." The Get Up Kids, Get Back
"All good things have endings," sang The Get Up Kids, many moons ago. And so it came to pass: in 2004 the band made the decision to call it a day. Their story isn't quite finished yet, however. We caught up with founding 'Kid Jim Suptic for ... »
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In Depth
Jiggery Pokery: DiS meets The Duckworth Lewis Method
The idea of Neil Hannon of The Divine Comedy and Thomas Walsh of Pugwash writing a concept album about cricket is a little surreal. Nevertheless they have done so, and they speak to DiS about how they met, Mike Gatting and their hopes and predictions for the upcoming... »
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Staff-generated
Spotifriday #11 - This Week on DiS as a Playlist + Mercury albums
DiS likes to end the week with Spotifriday. It's a weekly Spotify playlist which linkedly runs down the best bits from this week on DiS. This is the 11th time we've done it and you simply download the free Spotify softwar... »
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Artist 'n' Artist
Artist’n’Artist: Gary Numan talks to John Foxx
Gary Numan and original Ultravox! frontman John Foxx go Artist’n’Artist »
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DiScover
DiScover: Esben And The Witch
Introducing Esben And The Witch... »
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Interview
Blank stares and black holes: DiS meets St Vincent
DiS caught up with St Vincent in a noisy ICA bar just before she bewitched London town with her rich fairytale spell of Thirties glamour, lustrous woodwind, screeching guitar noise and flowing electronics. »