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Evening. A dazzling array of features, a slim trickle of albums (blame December) and an interstellar single of the week. Hot! New! Yes! **Banjo or Freakout in our Drownloads ‘blog. Celebrity tittle tattle on the boards, features with two of the acts playing our DiScover Christmas party tomorrow afternoon (that’d be Errors, Rolo Tomassi and Saturday 15th December, click for each) and all the rest makes for a brilliantly weighty mailout.

If you’re London come and see us in Notting Hill tomorrow. Enjoy the weekend very, very much.

News
Bonde do Role lost a vocalist, Uffie (above) lost her clothes for Zoo magazine, White Stripes lost the will to tour, Ike Turner lost his life, Tori Amos lost her mind, a Sheffield venue lost its roof in a fight with John Maus...

Click here for a week in news…

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A Week in Features

• The votes are in: DiS readers' top 25 of 2007

• The National: "We nearly lost our minds making Boxer"

• Dear hearts, precious time: Maccabees awkward in an ironic present

• Artist Mixtape #2: Foals (above)

• Malcolm Middleton: a Scotsman came travelling (up the charts)

• DiScover: Friendly Fires

• The Weekly DiScussion: readership tipsters, get tipping for 2008

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Single of the Week
* Friendly Fires : _‘Paris’_ A Week in Albums * Michael Dracula : _In The Red_ * Gowns : _Red State_ * The British Expeditionary Force : _Chapter One: A Long Way Home_

Drownloads Round-up

• Errors – ‘Hans Herman’

• Banjo or Freakout – ‘Mr. No’ (above)

• DiScover Christmas party special: Errors, Rolo Tomassi, Tired Irie

• Efterklang – _‘Him Poe Poe’/‘Cutting Ice To Snow’ (Hulk remix)

Top Five Voted Board Threads

• "Rolled on the thighs of a virgin!"

…in which boarders archived their favourite Alan Partridge quotes

• gig of the year?

…Daft Punk at Wireless? Or HEALTH and Dan Deacon at Bardens Boudoir?

• what does everyone do

…apparently someone gave these schmos jobs

• MS Paint album cover game

_…our favourite is here

• Sexual experiances with Celebs!

…“A few months ago i was lucky enough to have a one night stand with a lass from eastenders.”

Rejecting the slut aesthetic

all at Drowned in Sound