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Spotifriday #34 - This Week on DiS as a playlist
Welcome to Friday. A marginally more beefy Spotify playlist for you this week, mainly on a whim. Enjoy it while it lasts. Plenty of highlights this week, though, including a lovely piece from the armchair dancefloor column, and a rare chance to hear Roy Harper.»
Drowned In Manchester #1
Our first local scene report and guide from our DiSser in Manchester...»
The Insider: This column is exclusive to Drowned In Sound
Exclusivity in and of itself does, of course, make perfect sense in some situations. A magazine or radio station or tv show is hardly likely to cover an act if their direct competitors are given the same content to run the day prior or the same day. This is a landscape that, to some extent, everyone in the music industry is happy to cope with but the prevalence of extreme exclusivity demands in the past year or so is both mutating that original landscape into parody and harming both the artists and the very media that make such demands.»
OLUGBENGA from Metronomy on World Music
I've had 'world music' on the brain recently. Travelling around playing Metronomy shows in different countries, I've noticed a common phenomenon in pretty much every hotel room I've stayed in - that of a supposedly regional MTV channel playing occasional »
Guest Post: Why there’s no such thing as "the music industry"
'Music industry' veteran Steve Redmond's guest post...»
armchair dancefloor 016 incl Blue Daisy mix
On top of your regular round-up of the electronic releases it's worth directing your purchasing power at, Camden Town's Blue Daisy contributes the next installment in the armchair dancefloor mix series. He produced one of last year's most noteworthy debuts with his Space Ex/The Fall 12 (see ad008), and here he moves between tech house, dubstep, jazz-steeped beats and some extraordinary, exclusive Blue Daisy material. Enjoy it.»
In Photos: DiS presents Esben and The Witch @ The Harley, Sheffield
DiScover live listings Sheffield DiSsers Facebook group | Manchester DiSsers Facebook group | DrownedinSound Events Facebook Page | DrownedinSound Events Twitter February 28 Sheffield The Harley - Errors / Django Django / Forest Creature March 10 S»
This Week's Singles: 15/02/10
This week I was at the seaside, drowning in neon with a headful of wonderfully gaudy tat. And while it was taybly amusing watching hoodied hoodlums trying not to miss any notes of Bloc Party's 'Helicopter' on a kicked-in game of Guitar Hero in Caesar's Fun Palace (it is like the one in Vegas, only funner) - mostly, I had Cloud Control and dEbruit for my arcade soundtrack. »
This week’s albums ft Shearwater, Field Music and Xiu Xiu
Grüß Gott! Yes yes, it’s Monday, and yes, yes, here are some We7 players reflective of DiS’s top tip albums of the week. Go forth, and multiply.»
Column: Drowned In Scary Monsters #7
I had hoped to begin this by wishing everyone a happy new year, but unfortunately it's taken me a few too many weeks to make a start and have therefore missed my window and crossed into the "it's February, it's just weird to say happy new year now" territ»
Field Music's track-by-track guide to Field Music (Measure)
So you like Field Music right? As in, you like them to the tune of about 2,000 words, yeah? Well in this case you'll be delighted by this truly epic guide to the band's 20/21-track OPUS Field Music (Measure)... and IN A TWIST the brothers Brewis will be offering their thoughts not on their own songs, but each others'... STRAP YOURSELVES IN, PEOPLE.»
Spotifriday #33 - This Week on DiS as a Playlist
If you don't know the dealio already, these weekly mixtape-like playlists, they're just a collection of songs with links to content. CLICK HERE to fire up the playlist in Spotify (available for free in most countries here) and listen whilst reading all the below if you haven't done so already... »
DiS meets Alan Sparhawk from Retribution Gospel Choir and Low
With the release of the second Retribution Gospel Choir album, Alan Sparhawk’s “side-project” from Low looks set to become an equal partner. As ever, the deceptively simple music manages to be as powerful as Neil Young & Crazy Horse or Iggy & The Stooges without being a re-tread of either. DiS caught up with the man himself...»
In Photos: Passion Pit @ Manchester Academy
In Photos: 30 Seconds To Mars @ MEN Arena, Manchester
In Photos: Hole @ Paradiso, Amsterdam
In Photos: We join The Maccabees on the NME Awards Tour
In Photos: Iglu & Hartley @ Central Station, Wrexham
In Photos: Owl City @ Manchester Academy
Spotifriday #36 - This Week on DiS as a playlist
Spotifriday #35 - This Week on DiS as a Playlist
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