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Who is this ‘Jay Reatard’? And what exactly is it that he wants? Okay, there are some literal answers to those questions available»
Sometime around Friday lunchtime, nerdologists the web over had finally come to the definite, definite conclusion that there was definitely, definitely a Radiohead EP entitled Wall Of Ice due out today. We can't really be bothered to repeat exactly how th»
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»
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 rain, things didn’t go wrong: bar queues? Nuh-uh. Lines for the toilet? Seemed pretty non-existent (or at least from a gruff, manly perspective). There were a few other issues, mentioned below, but here be our highlights.»
In some musty, R.E.M.-geek clagged corner of the internet, I once came across a particularly moving musing on ‘Harborcoat’, the as»
Want to see the cover art for Pearl Jam's new album? Want to get a free download of a new song? Well you are just going to have to work for it, so you are.»
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 »
Any plans this weekend? No? Hmm. What's that? You'd rather hack your own face off than go to DiS's amazing Field Day after party at The Old Blue Last in London town on Saturday? Oh. Ohhhhhhh. That makes us sad. Oh what's that? You like the rock? And you »
Gary Numan and original Ultravox! frontman John Foxx go Artist’n’Artist»
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.»
It’s that time of year again when a couple of thousand sturdy souls overcome their groundless prejudices about the Midlands and head up to Britain’s second city for Capsule’s mighty Supersonic Festival»
To paraphrase Billy Piper, Latitude is pretty much honey to the b for the middle class legions of the DiS writing team, and thus it was in considerable numbers that we fell upon this year's edition of the idyllic Suffolk festival. Here are our reviewers' highlights.»
The biennial Manchester International Festival is one of the sceptered isle's more outstanding cultural happenings, and like the team of non-parochial cultural types we are, DiS has spent the last few weeks infiltrating the cream of the festival's musical»
It's that time of year when everyone in the indiesphere leaps onto the high horse of telling everyone else what is wrong with this year's Mercury Prize shortlist, charges round the racetrack of rigorously protesting how uninterested they are by said list, leaps over the fence of stating the obvious about some of the nominees not being that famous, and then probably heads off for a good feed in the stables of pointing out that M People won it once. So let's do that.»
DiS' albums ed offers his tuppence on this week's debate... »
DiS arrives at Les Eurockéennes , a long-running French festival that takes place in a stunning location on the peninsula of Malsaucy near Belfort, just a hop over the Swiss border. It is very nice here: located on a strip of land between two massive lakes, it sort of has a Latitude-ish size and prettiness. One of the stages is called La Plage and is, if anything, more delightful than that sounds. There are also bands.»
I’ve never seen an episode of The Wire, the general logic being that I’d either hate it and feel like I’ve somehow failed as a hum»
From peers like Michael Stipe, Dinosaur Jr and Frank Black to musicians of the next generation - notably Thom Yorke and The National - this collection of new covers, due Sep 14, is basically an indie nerd's dream.»
There’s little point in pretending that we don’t want to have The Latitude festival’s children, so here’s a rundown of why it’s so awesome and what we're looking forward to the most, in no particular order. Apart from the bit about the sheep.»
Nature may abhor a vacuum, but she tends to take an equally dim view of 14-eyed, buck-toothed hell-beasts. Thusly she rather wisel»
The story so far: Last year the man, the legend, Bradford Cox took it upon himself to have a massive freakout when the second album from his Atlas Sound semi-ambient solo project got leaked across the internet after an, er, 'enterprising' Radiohead nerd »
About a month ago the indieverse heaved a collective "oh yeah, I remember them, they're good, they are" as critically acclaimed noveau-shoegazers Engineers announced their second album Three Fact Fader, the belated follow-up to 2005's self-titled debut. Singer, guitarist and bassist Mark Peters talks DiS through its Kraut-tastic sequel; stay tuned for Dom Gourlay's review next week.»
The concluding part of DiS' Andrzej Lukowki's adventures at Glastonbury 2009.»
DiS's epic rundown of Glastonbury 2009 rolls on to the Saturday - go here to read about Friday, and here for plucky little cousin Thursday. --- It would be both difficult and tedious to communicate how monumentally awful DiS feels when a blithely vengef»
Part two of DiS's monolithic attempt to process the UK's biggest fest. Part one can be found here --- Wake up at the blessedly late hour of 11am to the steady clip clop of a mild downpour, which gives up the ghost around noon. Though there were some oth»
A Supersonic festival without Stephen O'Malley is a bit like Christmas without Santa. Except with drones that'll make you lose control of all bodily and emotional functions subbed in for presents. Depending on what it is you ask for at Christmas, I suppos»
The morning commences with a light spot of rain, a mild grumble that the Guardian’s Guide includes no details of today’s bill (we’re continually a bit vague on what the exact legal status of this is – info about Thursday is remarkably hard to come by, to the extent we wonder if there’s something weird with the license), and a last connection to the internet on phone before monstrous veil of static descends (conspiracy theory #1 – festival sponsors Orange were SABOTAGING O2), which reveals the horrible news that Steven Wells has died. The first of several weird shocks this weekend, though sadly one of the more overlooked ones.»
A round-up of Glastonbury related news... »
Using a combination of lies, subterfuge, occasional guestlist and frequently our own money, DiS has spent the last week fluttering about London excitedly soaking up the once in a lifetime thrills of Ornette Coleman's Meltdown festival at the Southbank Centre. We still don't really know what harmolodics are, but we do know what our highlights were - they're the things we've written about down there.»
There’s more than a soupcon of irony to the fact that prior to the release of Music For Men, The Gossip were signatories to the DIY powerhouse that is Kill Rock Stars. Because let’s be honest here: Beth Ditto and co didn’t exactly stumble into the limelight by accident.»
