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So a de facto QOTSA album with Grohl and Jones as players and collaborators: good, right? Um, occasionally. »
DiS's occasional series of food and drink guides from popular musicians gambols on apace, as Miles Seaton - co-songwriter/bassist/vocalist with ecstatic post everything joy-bringers Akron/Family - serves up his guide to his favourite espressos IN THE WORL»
It’s three great musicians playing some wonderful songs, as yet untouched by the shadow of death. »
Love Comes Close is good, fitfully very good, and when considered alongside Cremations, this two year old band have build up an undeniably impressive body of work. »
LITERALLY EVERYBODY wants to run a fairly last-minute competition via DiS at the moment (obviously not literally everybody, that would be daft). Fragile-voiced, beautiful-melodied, shadowy-of-past cult songwriter legend Daniel Johnston is no exception. H»
In their own way Tegan and Sara are mavericks; perhaps that’s what will save them in the end.»
Hello capital-dwellers So it's been at least a week, possibly two since fluoro-loving disco noiseniks HEALTH last skidaddled into The Big Smoke. You'd perhaps given them up for dead and thus stopped checking to see if they were playing gigs, but don't wo»
We genuinely can't recommend this enough for those who like their music Lynchian and lovely.»
Logos is a gorgeous, hallucinatory and somewhat sickly outing. »
It may yet prove that Embryonic’s biggest achievement is restoring the Flaming Lips’ unpredictability. The entertainer’s masks have fallen away – underneath there are madmen grinning.»
Tarot Sport doesn’t pause to bang or whimper. Tarot Sport accelerates.»
If Warp artists are the only people crazy enough to cover Warp artists, they’re also the only ones who could do so even half this convincingly.»
It’s not so much Fun Zone as Twilight Zone, and there’s a lot to be said for that.»
Remember, you won't find a note of this music on Spotify et al, so enjoy this half hour of wide-ranging delight, genre-bending delight, hosted for us by our chums at Soundcloud.»
Perhaps the best you can say of it is that the most anticipated film of the year now has a LOT to live up to. »
We round off the Invada Invasion of DiS with a chat with Andy Hung, one half of the mighty Fuck Buttons (Benjamin John Power having swanned off on holiday). As Geoff Barrow discussed on Monday, the erstwhile Bristolians are signatories to ATP rather than Invada, but they’re taking pride of place at tomorrow’s Invada Invasion gig, topping off the second stage bill as they break out the divine accelerations of new record Tarot Sport (out Oct 5).»
You know the score by now. Um, probably. On Monday we talked to Geoff Barrow, on Tuesday Thought Forms gave us their guide to Bristol, yesterday Crippled Black Phoenix hit us up with a beef and cheese based Christmas recipe... Saturday is the Invada Invasion itself, and perhaps tomorrow those nice Fuck Buttons boys might be dropping in for a chat. For today, though, feast yer senses on this here mixtape, brought to you by Invada-signed beat-dealers Malakai.»
Following on from Monday's chat with Geoff Barrows, musician, record boss, scholar and curator of this weekend's Invada Invasion in Bristol and Though Forms' guide to the capital of the South West, Invada's invasion of DiS gathers pace as Justin from Victoriana-loving post rockers Crippled Black Phoenix divulges his top tips for a Christmas meal with all the trimmings. IT'S ONLY THREE MONTHS AWAY YOU KNOW. »
Yesterday that nice Mr Geoff Barrow held forth on the manifold delights awaiting lucky punters at this weekend's Invada Invasion concert at Bristol's Colston Hall which - it turns out - is named after a notorious slave trader. "Whoa, hold on!" you say. "Just exactly what sort of crazy town is this 'Bristol'?" Fortunately Invada-signed peddle abusers Thought Forms are on hand to navigate you through the nooks and crannies of the South West's storied capital.»
All this week Invada invades DiS, for a week of content from its artists and acts playing at the concert. Why? Because we love Invada, because the Invada Invasion of Bristol looks amazing, and because for today’s first feature we get to talk to the delightful Mr Barrow himself, who discusses the gig, the label and his new band, BEAK>.»
Backspacer is defined by its opening salvo of choons, a joyous fusillade that seems likely to finally put the band's rock dinosaur rep to bed.»
Watch the video for Black Mold's 'Metal Spiderweb'.»
Get Color is a record with definition and character, a move away from the nerve-frying, oft random lurches of HEALTH's debut. It’s sad and beautiful and evocative, speaking of wrong science fiction and fallen futures. It doesn’t need a t-shirt to prop it up.»
There's a new Maps album called Turning the Mind out on September 28, it's a big step up on debut We Can Create, read onwards to find out what Mr Chapman has to say about it._ »
Okay, okay, so we left it to part three to get onto the 'music' section of a record label interview, but Constellation is a pretty special case. Here we bring the final part of the transcript of Andrzej Lukowski's interview with founders Don Wilkie and Ia»
Welcome to part two of DiS's publication of Plan B's extensive interview transcripts with Don Wilkie and Ian Ilavsky, co-founders of Constellation records. Yesterday they discussed being 'of Montreal'; today the founders of the notoriously leftwing label »
In May this year, I conducted a series of email interviews with various key players from Montreal's uber-inspirational, ultra-independent Constellation record label. They were for a piece in the final Plan B magazine, which was a focus on the Constellatio»
Ultimately, there is no pretention to Japandoids: maybe they just couldn’t be bothered.»
It was with a mixture of near-crippling shame and childish glee that DiS accepted Polish musician and festival organiser Artur Rojek’s invitation to come out to the fourth edition of his OFF Festival, held in the town of Myslowice in Poland’s mining heart»
The abrupt uncommercial curveball record from a big-selling, once zeitgeist-imbued artist is a bitch to review upon release, because it comes weighed down with such distracting baggage. »
