In Depth
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DiScover
DiScover: Frightened Rabbit
The makers of our current Single of the Week, Frightened Rabbit, have heard awful things about Nottingham's knife crime. DiS calms them down to talk about their breakthrough debut album, Sing The Greys, and its follow-up, expected in March 2008 »
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DiScussion
The Weekly DiScussion: readership tipsters, get tipping for 2008
With the regular spew of end-of-year best-albums lists subsiding, attentions across the industry are now turning to who will be hot – and who will be not – in 2008. Tips, the tastemakers call ‘em. Here, we want your suggestions, DiS readers »
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DiScover
DiScover: Friendly Fires
Friendly Fires are Ed Mac, Edd Gibson and Jack Savidge. Their new single, 'Paris', is our current Single of the Week, mixing as it does "danceable elements with this sort of lushness". DiS finds out what's next for the much-tipped St Albans trio »
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Mixtape
Mixtape #2: Foals
Our second Artist Mixtape is lovingly 'compiled' by on Skins sorts Foals: they're on your telly, in your radio, all up in your grill with some actually excellent selections here. Their craniums: full of gunk »
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DiScussion
The Weekly DiScussion: just what is a 'DiS band'?
Do you think of The White Stripes, Battles, Radiohead etc as ‘DiS bands’, or has the site’s highlighting of a select group of smaller acts from time to time made them ‘ours’ in the place of major label alternatives »
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DiScover
DiScover: Tired Irie
Ahead of their set at our DiScover Christmas Party, DiS catches up with Leicester quartet Tired Irie to discuss their progress from GCSE exams to indie club dancefloors, and the reception of their recently released self-titled EP »
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Label focus
Label focus #13: Thee SPC
The Steel City relies largely on the record releasing endeavours of Thee SPC, who've been responsible for giving the likes of The Long Blondes and Monkey Swallows The Universe a leg-up early in their careers. »
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DiScover
DiScover: The Lionheart Brothers
Combining Beach Boys-style harmony with blissed-out, effects-laden guitar, don't be surprised if Norwegian quintet The Lionheart Brothers succeed both critically and commercially in 2008 »
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DiScussion
The Weekly DiScussion: Have we lost our stomach for intelligent debate?
Browsing over breakfast yesterday morning, a nation was stunned to read that Morrissey had said some things that People Might Not Agree With. DiS splutters its rhetoric before other people do... »
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DiScover
DiScover: Abe Vigoda
You're an attractive, masculine guy right? Abe Vigoda would love to meet you. They own an island and they've invented this thing called 'tropical punk'. Busy? Look at their faces. I dare you not to click. »
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DiScover
DiScover: frYars
Ben Garrett is slurping granny's special soup and noodles out of a bowl and the phone is going off every ten seconds and tonight is his first frYars gig AND he's ill. It's tough being this awesome. »
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DiScover
DiScover: Santogold
Wow! Zip! Pop! Smash! Philly born Santogold muses on Brooklyn-beat, dismisses plagiarism slurs, loves Talking Heads, eats strange fruit. And offers the entire DiS team out for a fight »
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DiScussion
The Weekly DiScussion: 'No Music Day exists because music has run its course'
It was No Music Day on Wednesday. Do you care? Bill Drummond does. Here, DiS looks at where not hearing music is a blessing: the all-too-brief respite from idiot radio and the barking speakerphones »
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DiScover
DiScover: The Wave Pictures
Ahead of their four-week residency in London's The George, DiS gets up close and personal with The Wave Pictures, who have our writer feeling like "an idiot girl in a poodle skirt" »
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DiScover
DiScover: Le Loup
Ahead of the domestic release of their acclaimed stateside The Throne of The Third Heaven... debut album, DiS talks touring and torture with Washington DC indie-pop newcomers Le Loup »
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DiScover
DiScover: The Whip
The Whip are from Manchester and they enjoy a good party. With their single 'Sister Siam' out now, DiS catches up with the quartet to talk influences and the break-up of bands and relationships »
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DiScover
DiScover: Simon Joyner
Name-dropped by everyone from Beck to Connor Oberst, and heralded by many as the first to achieve that hissing ‘Omaha sound’, lo-fi pioneer Simon Joyner is finally returning to the UK for a handful of shows »
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DiScussion
The Weekly DiScussion: mp-free for all or right click to save the industry?
Ahead of DiS's new Drownloads feature, we're asking: is mp3 blogging killing the accepted industry framework, or is it simply adding even more choice to a world full of new music looking for direction? DiScuss »
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DiScover
DiScover: Correcto
So, Correcto: Glaswegian? Power-pop? Twee? Not quite, learns DiS, as band leader Danny Saunders and Paul Thomson, also of Franz Ferdinand, talk up their town and some Sound of Young Scotland »
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DiScover
DiScover: HREÐA
Oxford’s latest ‘other / other / other’ outfit, quartet HREÐA, make a name for themselves whilst instilling exciting pastures with prize-winning presentations of cinematic musical gestures »
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DiScover
DiScover: Joe Gideon & The Shark
Playing our DiScover Club this weekend, Joe Gideon & The Shark are sure to appeal to fans of Lift To Experience as their blues-laced alt-country narratives are delivered with engrossing drama »
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DiScover: Beach House
DiS speaks to Baltimore based duo Beach House ahead of their forthcoming UK dates to discuss their debut album, Cocteau Twin comparisons and the hating of 'folktronica' »
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DiScussion
The Weekly DiScussion: a talent contest too far?
As another television talent contest for wanna-be-famous musicians, mobileAct unsigned, nears its conclusion, DiS wonders just what the winners are likely to get out of the deal »
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DiScover
DiScover: Scanners
Our US readers might not think of Scanners as a new name, but the Brits are yet to make an impact in their homeland. DiS meets the four-piece to DiScover how they linked up with the influential Dim Mak label »