When in Rome: Cluster, Madlib, No Age for Dissonanze 2008
t is a well known fact that Italians love their avant-garde. So welcome once again Dissonanze Festival»
Articles
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Foot Village - Friendship Nation
The apocalypse shall come, society shall be crippled, and these Foot Village buffoons will be jabbering away as if nothing happened»
The Teenagers - Reality Check
Rather than this being a catastrophic album, it’s more that I can’t imagine anyone buying The Teenagers' Reality Check not being an utter c*»
Ivor Cutler - A Flat Man
Unavailable since 1999, A Flat Man sees Cutler wrapping his tongue round verses in his soft Scottish brogue, where euphemisms confuse the pure and drag the odd down into the dark.»
Fuck Buttons - Street Horrrsing
Both blissful and blistering, F*ck Buttons' Street Horrrsing debut is the sound of an act doom-mongering to their own unique nauseating beat, far removed from all brouhaha and 'ones to watch' chatter»
Solvent abuse: real new Fall LP, autobiography and spring jaunt for MES
After pursuits away with Von Südenfed, welcome back Mark E. Smith and The Fall for record number 27»
Singles Round-up (03/03/2008)
DrownedinSound's first singles round-up finds Anthony Hegarty flailing in Hercules & Love Affair's subdued leftfield house, dancing away his troubles like a bloated Gloria Estafan having forgotten her Fluoxetine. In a good way, though»
Brits Abroad: exclusive British Sea Power diary
Does mainland Europe like rock music? Of course! With this in mind DiS invited British Sea Power to keep a diary of their travels around Germany, Holland and Belgium. Warning: contains sexual frolics, knitting escapades and Auld Kendal snuff»
Jay-Z sued for $5bn for ties to slave trade and apartheid
Roc-A-Fella mogul, New Jersey Nets owner and sometime emcee Jay-Z has had a lawsuit filed against him and affiliates for $5bn following their support of a property development in Brooklyn and its apparent profiteering from the African slave trade and South African apartheid»
The Cribs - I'm A Realist / Bastards Of Young
With bloodied lip and rotting gums, ‘I’m A Realist’ showcases all of The Cribs' intoxicating melancholy, sung like a lout’s inebriated swoon at two in the morning.»
HOT OFF THE PRESS: Watch BRIT Awards Winners
Whilst the DiS brethren were mincing round a dank Dalston for Cadence Weapon, pop’s elite gathered like hens round a cornfeed, pecking viciously for seed at last nights BRIT AWARDS 2008. Who went home with a contented belly»
Out-there brother: Bradford Cox on Atlas Sound's debut album
Deerhunter lynchpin Bradford Cox reveals all to DiS about his debut solo effort as Atlas Sound, Let The Blind Lead Those That Can See But Cannot Feel. He calls it "a young boy’s record", and reveals a fondness for The Bunnymen and Arcade Fire»
Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds - DIG, LAZARUS, DIG!!!
Single of the Week... Having so enjoyed marching round with a proud erection stood between his loins, instead of a sordid one night stand Nick Cave had underlined that his pursuits with Grinderman would inform the next Bad Seeds record.
Read more reviews of this week's singles here»
Wu Tang Clan - 8 Diagrams (UK)
8 Diagrams comes shrouded in the usual nonsense that has made the Wu Tang Clan such a spectacle in the past. It’s an erratic outing, but ultimately any duds can be overlooked»
Four once more: Deerhoof enlist new recruit
Noise-pop bandits Deerhoof have seen their fair share of roster changes in the past - now for another, as the San Franciscan scamps fill the void left by Chris Cohen's departure with former xbxrx and Gorge Trio guitarist Ed Rodriguez.»
Cream discharge: Tussle release new record with Hot Chip hotshot
San Francisco-dwelling Kosmische-aspiring noiseniks Tussle have announced details regarding their forthcoming record. Following Kling-Klang and 2006’s Telescope Mind, the Californian quartet return with Cream Cuts»
Foals back Barack, canvass for own votes
A turning of the tide overnight as Barack Obama clinched the Virginia, Maryland and the District of Columbia primaries. Idle chatter will no doubt point fingers at policies, but far more likely is Foals’ wading in on the current political fisticuffs»
In photos: British Sea Power at Paris La Danse
DiS heads to Paris to check out British Sea Power, among other pursuits; stays long enough to take photographs; published photographs on website for readers to look at; introduction ends»
Autechre whatever: Errors release debut album
Glaswegian electronic darlings Errors have announced details of their debut record on Mogwai imprint Rock Action.»
Kanye West - Homecoming
with ‘Homecoming’, a track feasibly written to get Hilary and Obama throwing fists for it as their canvassing call, ol’ Kanye the chameleon has drafted in Chris Martin on what is one of the rare moments on Graduation that doesn’t thieve its hook from some renowned track from yesteryear»
Carry Om droning: sticksmith Hakius leaves doom outfit
Burly doom-mongering outfit Om have announced that drummer Chris Hakius has disbanded from the former Sleeper noiseniks.»
el Guincho - Alegranza
Amid the sickening carousel chimes, tin-pan Tropicália and corroded dub, Alegranza leaps manically from one beaming influence to another, constantly shifting guises, knitting a comfortable coastal paradise. Reminiscent of Panda Bear’s pursuits on the Portuguese coast with Person Pitch, Pablo Díaz-Reixa’s debut outing was recorded off the lapping shores of Barcelona»
Arthur Russell film to premiere in Berlin next month
After a few doubts over its release, director Matt Wolf’s documentary on the late Arthur Russell will receive its premiere in Berlin early next month.»
Primary 1 - Hold Me Down
Holding hands with all the right boys, rolled out on Erol Alkan’s Phantasy Sound imprint and currently recording presumably more piles of this dancefloor drivel with Paul Epworth, Joe Flory – Primary 1 – knits Calvin Harris-lite in with an anaemic brand of funk schlock»
(Untitled)
Calling yourself Uncle Murda was always going to be a somewhat dubious decision, so no surprises that the Roc-a-Fella darling - known for his frequent references to his ‘victims’ - has been shot in the head in his hometown district of Brooklyn, NYC. Bu»
These New Puritans - Beat Pyramid
Cut adrift with its own bewildering reference points, and peppered with glimpses of cryptic brilliance, These New Puritans' Beat Pyramid is a flawed patchwork masterpiece, an album of impenetrable riddles and future myths made real»
Bauer - Starting Again
Like someone trickling lukewarm piss into your mouth as you lie in a coma, Bauer are snide bastards, sneaking up with a bout of synth-pop so insipid you’d be forgiven for not noticing it were even there»
Yellow Swans - At All Ends
Far from previous guttural ventures from the prolific Portland noise-mongering duo Gabriel Mindel Salomon and Pete Swanson, At All Ends finds Yellow Swans sifting through the bowels with their staple drones clipped, mannered where once they were vulgar bouts of neutered noise»
DiScover: Telepathe
Brooklyn outfit Telepathe come clean to DiS about their 'hooker' hi-jinx and taking boys into the woods for BJs only to, y'know, kill them. Somewhere in the midst of such madness they talk up their Dave Sitek-produced debut album, Dance Mother»
Sebastien Tellier - Sexual Sportswear
Sebastien Tellier has always seemed synonymous with sex and the Parisian perversion of the grand-gnaded grandfather of lechery Serge Gainsbourg, despite previous records being as sedative as they were sexual»