In Depth
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Interview
"Wrong Visions of the Future..." - DiS meets Air
Back in 1902, cinema was still a relatively new concept. It was, after all, only seven years since Auguste and Louis Lumière had pioneered motion pictures with L'arrivée d'un train en gare de La Ciotat: the moving image of a train pulling into a station »
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Artist-generated
Hard Times for Guitar Music? by Steven from Blood Red Shoes
With a new album filled with life-disrupting guitars waiting in the wings, who better to ponder the apparent 'problems' with 'rock music' than Steven Ansell, one half of DiS-favourites Blood Red Shoes... HARD TIMES FOR GUITAR MUSIC? There's been a bi »
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Interview
"I kind of knew that we weren’t about to f*ck up" - DiS meets Metronomy
Fresh from Metronomy taking the number 10 spot in the DiS Albums Of The Year, we called-up a buoyant Joseph to break the big news to him and to unearth more about one of the most celebrated albums of last year... »
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In Depth
This Week's Singles: 23/01/12 Charlotte Gainsbourg, Bon Iver, Errors, Graphics
Single of the Week! Charlotte Gainsbourg - ‘Anna’ (Because Music) This week is a compound week in which at least three of my musical prejudices have been tickled out of their hidey-hole. Charlotte is the one with the longest arms, however, her spi »
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Mixtape
Mixtape Monday: Errors ft Jean Michel Jarre, Sun Araw + more
Ahead of the release of their new album Have Some Faith In Magic, Errors compiled a mixtape of their favourite tunes... »
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Interview
"Success will buy us creative freedom" - DiS meets The Maccabees
"I hadn't really noticed that times were so hard for guitar bands. I guess we are a guitar band, but I would never think of us in that way; a guitar band is much more straight forward. I don't think this sounds like a guitar record. Maybe it's just because I don't pl... »
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Interview
"If you talk about books you come across as a w***er" - DiS meets The Horrors
Lots of things slip you mind: your keys, a friend’s birthday and on certain less than decadent nights, your own name. For me, last year I forgot that I’d interviewed The Horrors’ Faris Badwan. I know, it’s not something that’s easily forgotten especially »
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Drowned-Up
Drowned in Brighton #7
Record shops It’s January and there is a little gloom on the horizon: Brighton is home to two of the UK's most well known and much loved independent records shops, namely Resident (voted best independent record shop in England 2011) and Rounder Records. A »
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Column
DiS Does Pop #4: How not to be a popstar in 2012
With the hype maelstrom surrounding Lana, Emeli and the other ones now entering forgettable levels, we thought it would be a good idea to discover the worst possible way to launch a new artist. That’s right, we analysed the ‘next big flops’ of recent memory and most ... »
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In Depth
This Week's Singles: 16/01/12 Pushy Parents, Standard Fare, Pampidou, Pulled Apart By Horses
Single of the Week! Pushy Parents - ‘Secret Secret’ (Elefant) Pushy Parents are dirty cheats and magpies - in actual life they are a) dead old and b) Swedish musicians Amanda Aldervall, Roger Gunnarson, Daniel Jansson and Johann Emmoth. But for th »
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In Depth
This Week's Singles: 09/1/12 Darkside, SBTRKT, Django Django, Diagrams
Single of the Week! Darkside - ‘A1’ from ‘Darkside’ EP (Clown & Sunset) The strange thing about music criticism is its insistence on keeping guitar clichés well out of any discourse that concerns originality. So stand back, because here we »
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Interview
"Without meaning to sound arrogant, I think we've written a great record": DiS meets The Big Pink
Having spent the past twelve months taking stock, writing, and finally piecing together the follow-up to 2009's A Brief History Of Love entitled Future This, 2012 is shaping up to be something of a make or break year for The Big Pink. »
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Interview
"After ten minutes I need to snap out of it or it gets a little dangerous..." - DiS meets Josh T. Pe
Even to those who maybe haven’t lost their hearts to his remarkable solo record, it’s unquestionably warming to see the growing adulation that Josh T. Pearson has received this year from all corners of the music scene; both those aware of his work with Lift to Experi... »
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Drowned-Up
Moving Pictures - Videos of the Year: 4th Quarter 2011
This is the last roundup of 2011. There may or may not be a “best of” type arrangement and I’m open to which ones people may have enjoyed the most either included or not included in this roundup. I’ll start a “Best Music Video of the Year” forum thingy and anyone c... »
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Artist-generated
Planet Gear: Gotye on the Lowrey Cotillion organ and Making Mirrors
Gotye talks us through some of the equipment and instruments he used to record the album Making Mirrors.... »
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Column
Drowned In Manchester #9
As it comes to the end of a year and, by the time this is published, the beginning of a new one, I find myself looking at Manchester and observing a music scene of complete fragmentation. »
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Artist-generated
Stack chats with Bonafide magazine about Hip-hop, DIY publishing, Gil-Scott Heron
Ah, that weird week between Christmas and New Year's Eve. It's a week when DiS likes to kick back and read, and we thought it'd be a good chance for you (and us too) to catch up on some of the best bits of writing from this year. But it's the holidays, and we're feel... »
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Column
Drowned Down Under #3: Sydney in summertime
January in Britain. Short days, no money, cold nights, and it's inevitably when the hyper-advanced combination boiler packs in, leaving you with no heating for a week while the engineer waits for an unspecified 'part'. January sucks. Not in Australia, »
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In Depth
Stack chats with Loud and Quiet about being a free music magazine
Ah, that weird week between Christmas and New Year's Eve. It's a week when DiS likes to kick back and read, and we thought it'd be a good chance for you (and us too) to catch up on some of the best bits of writing from this year. But it's the holidays, and we're feel... »
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In Depth
Savage Pixels: The Top 10 Multi-Format Video Games of 2011
The top multi-platform games of 2011, featuring Batman: Arkham City, Crysis 2, Skyrim and Portal 2. »
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Festival Review
ATP Nightmare Before Christmas: the DiS Review
A weekend spent at Butlins, in Minehead in early December certainly sounds like the stuff that nightmares are made of but fortunately in the hands of the boys and girls of All Tomorrow’s Parties, the Nightmare Before Christmas was anything but. No, that title goes ex... »
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Staff-generated
Artist Lists: Antlers, Cut Copy, Destroyer, Aidan Moffat + more share their Five Favourite LPs of '1
We've shown you our albums/singles/etc of the year, so we thought it only fair to share the favourite five albums of some of our favourite musicians of 2011... we've also embedded a few tracks so you can get a taste ... »
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Column
DiS Does Pop: The Xmas Bumper Edition
Welcome to the final DiS Does Pop of 2011 and in Smash Hits style we’ve made this one a bumper edition. Should you cast your eyes below, you’ll find the DiS Does Pop Awards, our Christmas Gift Guide, a preview of the festive Number 1 contenders, a playlist of our fav... »
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In Depth
Singles of the Year 2011!
Singles for wallowing, singles for solace, divvy singles - just for larks - and singles that have the frisk quite bad. It's Drowned in Sound's Top Singles of 2011! »