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So here we are again. This time last year, DiS hit Incubate, the Netherlands' best left-leaning festival – with, err, the aid of a good few beers in between bands – to bring you this review. Feel free to bone up a little on why we already love Incubate so»
Once upon a time, in days when 'Americana' was still bandied around as if it wasn't a slightly cumbersome genre catch-all, the bittersweet beardy stylings of Grandaddy slayed many a delicate indie-rock heart. Their leader, Jason Lytle, is about to return to the UK for a brace of live solo shows in support of his second album, Dept Of Disappearance. DiS bent his ear and found out there might be some good news for fans of his most celebrated musical vehicle...»
Incubate in a nutshell: with so much to discover, spending time watching bands you've seen several times before or know what to expect from seems at best lazy and at worst gross negligence.»
Much like current media darling Dizzee Rascal’s recent stratospheric rise to A-list fame from the grime ghetto, fellow London rapper Tinchy Stryder has lit up the charts this year with two number one singles. We chat to the man himself.»
Arriving on the UK hip-hop scene with a disarmingly youthful voice and intimate vocal style that’s had hacks spouting the word ‘confessional’ like they’ve just invented a new adjective, 26-year-old South Londoner Speech Debelle is way more than a simple rapper.»
Finding any venue befitting otherworldly Icelandic troupe múm is a tricky task, a trade off that this evening leaves onlookers san»
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...»
Prior to talking to them about the album and a good deal more, DiS sat down with an EMI iPod to give Hot Sauce Committee Part 1 an aural going over and made some notes to give you an idea what to expect.»
Rarely knowingly 100 per cent serious for long enough to prise a straight answer from them, New York City’s finest rap crazies the Beastie Boys are back in the house imminently with latest studio album Hot Sauce Committee Pt. 1.»
It’s probably safe to say we can give up now. If it were going to happen, Eminem’s long-awaited but as-yet-unrealised career-defin»
Those waiting for that cast iron classic dubstep artist album – and we’re talking club-destroying megaton blasts, not Burial palat»
Pop-rock doesn’t come much more perfect than from the strings, sticks and throats of Portland, Oregon trio The Thermals. And that formula is further streamlined on latest LP Now We Can See (DiS review), released last month. It’s their debut for new label »
When Depeche Mode christened their comeback opus, Sounds Of The Universe, we’re going to stick our necks out and suggest they weren’t referring to the noise emanating from two underground bars in the far-flung former USSR.»
When Polly Jean Harvey opens her mouth for the first time tonight it renders everything else in the venue – from chattering spectators to her own band-mates – non-existent. It's a voice that cuts straight through the Anson Rooms’ leisure centre acoustics as if all the sonic gremlins in the world couldn’t stop her.»
Fortifying his enviable reputation with latest album Just A Souvenir, Squarepusher, aka Chelmsford producer/bass guitar abuser Tom Jenkinson, has cemented his status as one of the finest, most intriguing electronic musicians operating today.»
Question: if it weren’t for imminent economic catastrophe, would the world be sat on its collective hands right now with a sense of emptiness bouncing off the walls? What else would the fractured masses have to galvanise them? In a musical context, The Thermals find themselves in a similar situation...»
Ever the innovators, whenever Super Furry Animals push their personal envelope, two things are guaranteed: refreshing explorative insight and a loveably bumbling outcome. And it’s all here as the increasingly hairy Welsh fivesome gently poke downloading wisdom with their live day-of-release webcast show playing ninth album Dark Days/Light Years in its entirety.»
Finally liberated from major label shackles, DiS speaks to ...And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead's Jason Reece about new album The Century Of Self, humorous Internet rumours, and playing poker with Steve Albini...»
With his latter day vehicle Black Box Recorder making a rare – and sold-out – comeback appearance at The Luminaire in London this Wednesday (February 18), DiS spoke to Luke Haines about the reunion, his place in music today and recent book, Bad Vibes: Britpop And My Part In Its Downfall...»
As a pivotal transitional time, there was only one point the Beastie Boys could have produced Paul’s Boutique. And although that time has long since passed, it won’t harm anybody to be reminded how groundbreaking Messers D, Rock and MCA once sounded.»
Whoever selected the underground zeitgeist-capturing extravaganza that is Rough Trade Shops Counter Culture 08, there is no argument this is something of a demonstration exactly how the rocky road of compilations should be navigated.»
Irreverent, in your face, but still relevant, in an age of cripplingly dull comebacks and reunions, it’s going to be a welcome day when The Jesus Lizard return to spit in the face of convention once more. Adam Anonymous reminds us why your spine should be tingling with excitement for next year's ATP... »
Adam Anonymous guides us through his favourite hip-hop cuts of 2008»
Longing for The Blood Brothers is as futile as rating a girlfriend against an ex - all that matters is the here and now, and Jaguar Love are today»
From adversity often springs great art. And that’s sure the case come second album proper for Kevin ‘The Bug’ Martin, noisemaker extraordinaire»
With single ‘Look For The Woman’ as inspiration, DiS insert tongues firmly in cheeks and hears Dan Le Sac vs. Scroobius Pip’s (in)complete guide to love»
Imagine, for a minute, all those US bands that have earned half-assed Neil Young comparisons over the past few years. Ladyhawk, nondescript of name and unshaven of complexion, have an antidote»
Crackling between globules of jazzy haemoglobin coursing through the veins of late Boston improvising indie-rockers Karate was a softer heart. It follows that frontman Geoff Farina’s latest project, Glorytellers, are the logical evolutionary conclusion»
Bauhaus won’t be remembered for the tone or content of this parting shot but as the band who brought a blackness to guitar music. Their metaphorical funeral, meanwhile, is more bookend than headstone»
You need to be pretty shit-hot to entitle an album Temple Of Transparent Balls and avoid reviews of childish/open goal scale. Fortunately IDM forefathers The Black Dog, in context of this timely re-issue, were»
