In Depth
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In Depth
This Week's Singles: 21/11/11 The Revival Hour, EMA, Dan Haywood's New Hawks, Breton
This week's Single of the Week is top ten, pointless end-of-year list material. It is AMAZING. »
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In Depth
Spotifriday #117 - This week on DiS as as playlist ft. Kate Bush, Tycho, New Look + more
This week's content-themed Spotify playlist features 11 tracks, including some from Kate Bush, Allo Darlin', Los Campesinos!, Walls, Tycho...and then some! »
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Interview
DiScover: Canadian "future-pop" duo New Look
DiS meets Future Poppers New Look, the Canadian husband and wife duo Adam Pavao and Sarah Ruba.... »
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Column
DiS Does Pop #2 - How Global Radio subverted the UK boy band landscape
Welcome back to another addition of DiS Does Pop, the Top 40 column aimed at music fans with a taste for both Madonna and My Bloody Valentine. After last month’s Sugababes extravag... »
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In Depth
This Week's Singles: 14/11/11 Factory Floor, Summer Camp, Hyde & Beast, Beth Jeans Houghton
Single of the Week! Factory Floor - ‘Two Different Ways’ (DFA) The Machine spat out some interesting words for ‘Two Different Ways’, and for once it was not all overtawk and overpromise; for once I was reading a thing about a song and finding mys »
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In Depth
Spotifriday #116 - This week on DiS as as playlist ft. Slayer, Wilco, David Lynch + more
This week's Spotifriday playlist features the likes of Wilco, Presidents of the United States of America, Johnny Foreigner, Ben Frost, Africa Hitech and then a few more. »
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Takeover
Listen to two exclusive demo tracks from My Brightest Diamond
My Brightest Diamond shares two exclusive demos tracks inspired by her grandparents' love letters... »
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Drowned-Up
Drowned in Brighton #6
The sixth installment of our local scene guide from our scribe in Brighton... »
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Column
The Insider: The Stone Roses & The Resurrection Blues
There is something profoundly depressing about the NME (and others) suggesting that the Roses gigs (previously described as "...like taking notes at a car crash") will be the event of the summer... »
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Discography Reassessed
An Album of the Year 2000 - 11yrson: Six.By Seven The Closer You Get
Eleven years after its initial release, Six.By Seven's The Closer You Get's status as a timeless masterpiece remains intact... »
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Festival Review
Supersonic 2011: the DiS review
There may be other UK music festivals at which you can enjoy the sounds of violins and lutes, browse thoughtfully curated exhibitions and scoff carrot cake whilst keeping a running count of babies in cute neon-coloured ear defenders. But Capsule’s Supersonic festival... »
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DiSection
Johnny Foreigner vs. Everything track-by-track
Johnny Foreigner return with their third album proper, Johnny Foreigner vs. Everything, released through Alcopop! on November 7th. Guitarist and singer Alexei talks DiS through their latest offering... "Some technical stuff cos I know people like that »
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In Depth
This Week's Singles: 7/11/11 First Aid Kit, Africa Hitech, Timber Timbre, Danananayckroyd
Single of the Week! Africa Hitech - 'Do You Really Wanna Fight' (Warp) Africa Hitech are good for many reasons, the primary one being that their entire song is an inducement to stand down, pick up your gauntlet and stop being a fighty div. It has »
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Interview
DiS meets Eagulls
DiS caught up with the Eagulls collective - vocalist George Mitchell, guitarists Mark "Goldy" Goldsworthy and Liam Matthews, bass player Tom Kelly and drummer Henry Ruddell - prior to their recent show at Nottingham's Spanky Van Dykes. No sleep 'til ... »
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In Depth
Spotifriday #115 - This week on DiS as as playlist ft. Field Music, Walls, When Saints Go Machine +
This week's content-themed Spotify playlist, featuring tracks from Field Music, Jens Lekman, Walls, DOOM, Friends and a bunch more. »
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Festival Review
Fourche à Foin: DiS en Pitchfork Music Festival, Paris
Walking into Grande Halle de la Villette - past a gigantic neon Pitchfork Music Festival sign which over-looks a courtyard with a big impressive fountain - first impressions are over-awing. Pitchfork haven’t got some tiny theatre turned into a music venue but a huge ... »
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In Depth
This Week's Singles: 31/10/11 Friends, Mozart Parties, 5kinandbone5, Mazzy Star
It is Halloween: boo, spooky things. But there is only one novelty single: yay, progress. »
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Discography Reassessed
An Album of the Year 2000 - 11yrson: Phoenix United
God bless the year 2000. The internet was still in its infancy, people still bought whole albums, and word spread at a rate that meant trends could catch on but not implode before a band even released its first single. If it weren't for those three particular circum... »
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Label focus
Fifteen years of fun: DiS meets Sean Price, founder of Fortuna Pop! Records
Here, DiS caught up with label founder and general workaholic Sean Price, as well as some of the key artists from the Fortuna Pop! roster pivotal to the label's development over the past fifteen years. »
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Discography Reassessed
An Album of the Year 2000 - 11yrson: At the Drive-In Relationship of Command
11 years on, a parallel presents itself – and Relationship Of Command becomes, instantly, its generation’s own Nevermind. »
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Discography Reassessed
An Album of the Year 2000 - 11yrson: Eels Daisies of the Galaxy
Daisies of the Galaxy wasn’t just a pop album, it had redefined to me just what pop music could be.... »
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Discography Reassessed
An Album of the Year 2000 - 11yrson: Primal Scream - XTRMNTR
In 2011, Primal Scream's XTRMNTR is still still fascinating and futuristic; a dense, impermeable concoction of ear-shaking, amphetamine-shifting, thrill-seeking disco punk that shits all over the overrated wash out of Screamadelica »
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Discography Reassessed
An Album of the Year 2000 - 11yrson: Eminem The Marshall Mathers LP
It’s hard to recall the sweeping tirade of outrage and horror that accompanied the release of Eminem’s second album back in May 2000. The pious wrung their hands in exasperation. The tabloids pleaded the Home Office to ban him from entry. The great and the goo... »
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Discography Reassessed
An Album of the Year 2000 - 11yrson: Deftones White Pony
On White Pony, it wasn’t so much what Deftones were doing, it was how they were doing it. The colossal, stonerized riffs, on first listen, belie the sheer complexity and depth of the music on offer. Finally, the band realised the extreme ge... »