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The diskant team report back from their fun day out at the Supersonic festival in Birmingham. Headlined by Sunn 0))), Mogwai, Om and Qui with sunshine, cake and films it really was the perfect festival experience. Read more >>
Simon Minter finds out more about The Walk Off from Oxford and their messier, noisier and more downright bizarre take on New Rave. Read more >>
Some message threads from the Drowned In Sound site.
Bands that seemingly everyone loves and you don’tSeriously, the best electronica album of this milleniumWhat do you value more in songwriting? Intellect, musical complexity or emotion?Artists that changed/developed your music taste?wheres the hip hop thurston?write an essay about why you like a certain bandSongs which start steady […]
SEVEN FUCKING YEARS?
You’re shitting me?
Seven years and a week in fact. That’s how long I have lived in Nottingham. I moved here on Saturday November 19 2000. I know it was this date because I moved all my boxes in, unpacked nothing and then sprinted down to Rock City in town to see Queens Of […]
Those of you with time on your hands (Hi Chris!) might be interested in ZineWiki, which I have just stumbled upon. Yes, a wiki directory of zines. The fact that it doesn’t include Damn You, Ablaze or indeed any other amazing UK zine that I spent my days swapping with back in 1998, means we […]
Celebration: A hell of a band
Practically everyone I know has spent most of this year LOSING THEIR SHIT to this song, and I have been unable come with anything even approaching a valid reason not to do the same. Only saw this video for the first time the other morning after a particularly gruesome night before, and suddenly the song […]
Hell yes. Finally, a reunion worth getting excited about. My Bloody Valentine will play live and will also release new material. I’ve got my tickets (I’m off up to Glasgow). Anyone else coming?
It’s a You Tube feast today. Sorry! I’m incapacitated! This Bo Diddley footage is unreal. Bo used to walk onstage and take a fat roll of bills in a money clip out of his back pocket and put it on his amp like you or I might take our shitty little wallet and keys out […]
Just to re-address the balance this is the MC5 live at Wayne State University doing Looking At You. It’s mind-blowing. Imagine it in colour, real, there, live in front of you. You’d shit yourself. Wayne Kramer and Fred Smith are possibly very high which is why Kramer doesn’t destroy his knees at 3.31. It’s unbelievable.
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