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After years of rag-tag imitators, two bands are proving that home-brewed British pop is firmly back. In part one of this bands-eye-view of their debut albums we heard from Late of the Pier. For part two, we hand you over to Friendly Fires whose self-titled debut is already a contender for album of the year»
Home-brewed British pop is great again! (Part One)
DiS caught up with the art-pop kids with lazers, Late of the Pier, to garner some insight into their debut album Fantasy Black Channel»
Elbow have won the 2008 Mercury Music Prize..»
A short while ago the annual Mercury Music Prize wheeled out its somewhat predictable list of names. DiS took exception to the several notable omissions. There are releases which have enriched our worlds and could have done with the leg-up that the Mercury was established to provide. Rather than mope around and moan on messageboards we decided to set-up our own award.»
Albums you can nom-nom-nom... The web is full of weird and wonderful things and this morning Boing Boing, have brought to our attention a fascinating/stalkerishly scary blog of record covers made out of seaweed, sour plum, cabbage, ham, fish cakes, papri»
Here's a double-whammy of democracy for you. This is your last chance to take part in the voting for the Pluto Prize (DiS' alternative to the Mercury music prize) and we're also asking you to vote for us in the BT DMA's»
Which tracks have made this summer special for you? DiS' returning Editor kicks off with a mixtape for you to continue»
Reformed nineties epic-rockers Smashing Pumpkins will debut their new single via a popular computer game»
The people behind influential club The End, have announced that they'll be closing their doors on January 24th but that they plan to go out with a month long party.»
Morrissey has parted ways with his management, but never fear Holy Moly have a rather good suggestion for Mozza»
The finest Belgian band of all time, and arguably one of the greatest odd-indie-pop bands ever, dEUS, have confirmed three new UK dates»
Death Cab for Cutie's Chris Walla has written a political blog for RollingStone.com.»
Dear Ryan Adams... Read your blog today, with the retort to my report.»
Another year, another big weekend at Reading and Leeds festival. DiS sent along some of our finest scribes and asked them to scribble about their five favourites of the weekend. Here's what we got back from them»
Camera-phone let you down again? Don't fret, DiS was right down the front, in the pit in front of the pit, snapping these fine photos all weekend.»
Foals photos from Reading Festival, taken by Holly Erskine.»
Rock stars grill, fry and feed the late night munchies at Denny's stores across America.»
DiS was surprised to DiScover this morning, upon dipping into our RSS reader, that Ryan Adams has posted a blog about his first book.»
A little bit of house keeping.»
Antipodean blog-favourites Cut Copy have announced their first UK headline show in eons. »
Scottish, Johnny-Cash-clad, Dr.Marten-gazers Glasvegas, whom you may know because of Alan McGee, BBC Culture Show or from their faces featuring upon the cover of a certain music weekly, have a new single out this week and we have a live video of it.»
To whet your appetite of our Reading/Leeds coverage, here are some shots of one of the acts of the weekend, the highly photogenic Crystal Castles. This is what was going on that you could only catch glimpses of through the billowing smoke and the sea of arms'n'bodies in their crammed late afternoon sets in the Dance Tents at each site. »
The Sunday morning acidic hangover is here and so too is the rain but that's as good an excuse as any to delay braving the outdoors and run-down on day two at Reading. In the past few years Saturday at the Festival has established itself as the "i»
For those of you who love shoe'-punks No Age but don't follow their blog, they just posted the following:»
This year's Reading and Leeds Festival has just entered its second day. Here's what happened on day one at Reading, and we also bring you some pictures from Leeds.»
Acclaimed Scot-rockers Frightened Rabbit begin a tour next month»
Will they rock Reading & Leeds as much as they did years ago? Contrast and compare; plus a bit of rubbing it in for those who're not there»
The countdown is over. Are you ready to see this year's buzziest bands and most monolithic of rockers in a field? What must you see? Here's what DiS suggests»
In what is slowly but surely becoming the sensible way for bands to release albums the boys from the Bloc and the folks at Wichita have teamed up with Sandbag, better known as a band merch company, to release their third album. »
In news posted over at the Youth Turks blog there's evidence that Faris Badwan (aka Rotter), is currently sixth out of 1,274,118 teams! If you spot Sour Face FC in the papers then yes, that's him.»
