Dinosaur Jr. offer DiS readers a sneaky first listen to 'I Want You To Know'
DiS has a track for you to hear from the forthcoming Dinosaur Jr. album....»
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Morrissey: Southpaw Grammar and Maladjusted (Expanded Editions)
Southpaw Grammar, from 1995, and 1997’s Maladjusted are back from the bargain bins and available to 'sound and look the way Morrissey wanted'. Rapture.»
Arcade Fire - Miroir Noir
It feels problematic to recommend Miroir Noir when it’s hard to know what exactly you’re recommending it as.»
"Tumultuous times": Rob Da Bank talks to DiS about the future of festivals
In a time where some summer events are crashing and burning, Camp Bestival and the Association of Independent Festivals Rob Da Bank talks to DiS.»
Depeche Mode - Sounds Of The Universe
To some degree Depeche Mode have been on a mission to curtail their more ridiculous tendencies for years now, 2005’s Playing The Angel seeing them shelve the clean hugeness of digital and allow themselves a slurp of warm analogue. Sounds Of The Universe sees them continue that tendency, only, y’know... more good.»
First listen: Green Day's 21st Century Breakdown
Back in 2004, Green Day rather unexpectedly became the biggest band in the world by writing American Idiot, a rock opera about how their home country was a bit rubbish. Successor 21st Century Breakdown arrives May 15th, but DiS can bring you word from deep inside the recesses of Warner Music as to how the three movement, 17-track, allegedly storylined, soon to be inescapable opus sounds.»
The Science Of Fun: DiS meets the Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Ahead of their show this Friday at Camden Crawl (which is sure to cause some brutal queues...) DiS caught up with the Yeah Yeah Yeahs and talked broken eggs and going electronic...»
Shoegaze Week: thoughts on My Bloody Valentine's Holocaust
So I mostly went along to see one of MBV's reunion dates at The Roundhouse last year because it seemed like the type of thing I ought to do... as much as I'm a fan of Loveless and quite fond of Isn't Anything, I figured it'd ultimately be kind of lovely in a boring way.In fact what happened was the precise opposite... »
First listen: Florence & The Machine's Lungs
DiS attended an advance listen to forthcoming album Lungs, checking out what precisely Florence Welch and her Machine have been cookin’ up with producer James Ford. It’s fair to say we were a little surprised.»
Sonic Youth Scala gig NEXT MONDAY! First taste of The Eternal available to download NOW!
Got any plans next Monday? Yeah, DiS had some too. We were going to get married and then cure cancer. Maybe save some orphans. Screw THAT - instead we'll be loitering outside London's Scala frantically haranguing all and sundry for tickets for the short n»
David Byrne at Royal Festival Hall, Lambeth, Mon 13 Apr
David Byrne pulls off something devilishly sly tonight with his David Byrne Presents The Songs of David Byrne and Brian Eno concert.»
Karate Kid crushes, Scott Walker and H&M: DiS steps into the world of Bat For Lashes
_Though she doubtless pines nightly for the days when Bat For Lashes was signed to Drowned In Sound records, it has to be said that Natasha Khan has done alright for herself since BFL's debut single 'The Wizard' emerged three years ago. »
Crystal Antlers - Tentacles
13 entertaining jolts of acid-washed garage rock; for sure it’s fun, but where the heavier, weirder EP spoke of ruptured adrenaline glands, weeks without sleep, and more cracked ambition than a Clinton family get-together, Tentacles is content to infer Crystal Antlers are well-acquainted with Lenny Kaye’s Nuggets compilation and kind of leave it at that.»
50 Foot Wave - Power+Light
A single 25 minute, 48 second track released as a free download via cashmusic.org at the end of last year, it now reaches us in physical vinyl form. Though divided into seven movements (and arguably two nameless songs, given the need to flip the LP), it feels neither self-indulgent – it’s bruisingly visceral throughout, no ambling build – nor does it come across like a bunch of small tracks cobbled together.»
Drowned Up: Jeniferever, Twilight Sad, NiN, your Qs for Yeah Yeah Yeahs
DiS trawls through all the recent music news so you don't have to.»
Amazon takes indie myopia to exciting new heights
Much loved scourge of the independent record shop Amazon.com has just named its top 100 indie-rock albums of all time and the results are somewhat, um, interesting. On the one hand - yay! The top three is Guided By Voices' Bee Thousand, Neutral Milk Hotel»
DiS vid exclusive: Brakes go to Button Moon! Sort of!
Kids these days, eh? With their computers and their Pokemon and precocious sense of fashion and their guns. Must be awful. Not like back in the Eighties when we had ZX Spectrums, the Cold War and Button Moon to keep ourselves amused. 'What the hell is a»
DiScussion: which five British records would YOU give to Barack Obama?
Yes yes, many of us may have spent the day kind of sort of protesting against everything Barack Obama stands for, but, -giggle- just writing his name down makes us at DiS Towers blush like schoolchildren. And we’re not the only ones: Radio 4 yesterday ask»
PJ Harvey & John Parish - A Woman A Man Walked By
Okay, it’s a bit unrealistic to expect Polly Jean Harvey (the person) to spend her free time pining at the stars in a Dorset garret, but still, seeing her goof around was... weird. PJ Harvey (the indie star) does not goof around or do fun. PJ Harvey can be exhilarating, thrilling, or offer up a disturbingly hysterical variant on black humour, but she ain't fun.»
Pet Shop Boys - Yes
The overwhelming mass of the tracks on Yes are trite, gooey and laboured, hollow lyrics set to fruity gushes of soft-focus, over embellished synth layers. It may end up being a smash with the How Do You Solve A Problem Like Maria? crowd, but it ain't going to galvanise a new generation.»
"Play 'Creep'!" – in fond remembrance of the Radiohead Guitar Wars
When Radiohead ditched the guitars on Kid A, a lot of people got angry. In hindsight, says Andrzej Lukowski, they were wrong.»
Love Is All - A Hundred Things Keep Me Up At Night
Truthfully A Hundred Things Keeps Me Up At Night falls down a little simply because the energy levels have trailed off just a tad since their debut. It’s not that the record sound tired, just that there’s nothing that quite smacks into you with the ‘what the fuck is wrong with these people?’ force of ‘Talk Talk Talk Talk’ or ‘Ageing Had Never Been His Friend’.»
Pearl Jam - Ten (Legacy Edition)
I’m guessing I wasn’t the only person who felt a slight sinking feeling upon first seeing the full cover art to Pearl Jam’s debut »
Neko Case - Middle Cyclone
Middle Cyclone suffers from a similar malaise to bandmates The New Pornographers’ Challengers, in that it’s a nice, well-constructed record that contains much of what made previous records so stunning, but ends up just a little on the dull side.»
Pete Doherty - Grace/Wastelands
Proceedings commence with the woozy strum of ‘Arcadie’, a song which the ten or so people still in the market for a ragged acoustic meander that kicks off with the couplet “In Arcadie life trips along/ pure and simple as the shepherd’s song” will freak out over. Everyone else will fantasise about beating Doherty unconscious with his methadone-sodden old copy of Boy's Own Annual.»
Bestival 2008: The DiS Review
From the archive... A lot muddy and a little the worse for wear, DiS' team of intrepid reviewers braved the weather at this year's Bestival on the Isle of Wight to bring you their highlights of the weekend, including My Bloody Valentine, CSS, The Specials, Aphex Twin, Neon Neon, Thomas Tantrum and much, much more»
DiS' Class Of 2009 #7: Crystal Antlers
When did 'crystal' supplant 'the' as prefix of choice for the jobbing young band? Was there a meeting or something? Whatever the case, should the dream comedy package tour of Crystal Castles, Crystal Stilts and Crystal Antlers ever come to fruition, the only must-see is the last.»
BLK JKS - Mystery
It's taken BLK JKS the best part of a decade to get to the point of releasing a single EP, but if there's any justice in the world, 2009 should be the year the floodgates burst right open.»
DiS' Class Of 2009 #3: Women
Women sound like no band you've heard and many bands you love, shades of Sonic Youth, Animal Collective and the Velvet Underground battling through their album's strange production and intentional obscurity.»
DiS' Class Of 2009 #1: Salem
Should you ever get the opportunity to make a mixtape for Beelzebub, consider putting a bit of Salem on there, a band whose '09 crossover potential is rather predicated on whether or not the general public has the cojones to embrace their pathologically dark ways»