- Features: * Rage Against Reading: relive, contrast and compare previous performances
- Features: * DiScover: David Karsten Daniels
- Features: * DiScover: Secondsmile
- Reviews: * Deerhunter - Microcastle
- Reviews: * Ten Kens - Ten Kens
- Reviews: * Various - Erased Tapes Collection I
- Reviews: * Gramercy Arms - Gramercy Arms
- Reviews: * Brian Eno & David Byrne - Everything That Happens Will Happen Today
- Features: * Preview: Reading & Leeds 2008
- Reviews: * Friendly Fires - Friendly Fires
- Features: * Official statement: BSKYB and DrownedinSound end joint venture partnership.
- Reviews: * Brendan Canning - Something For All Of Us...
- Reviews: * Polar Bear - Polar Bear
- Reviews: * Jaguar Love - Take Me To The Sea
- Features: * Singles Round-up (18/08/08)
- * Angus & Julia Stone @ London Roundhouse, 26/08
- * Bluetip, Hoover @ London Camden Underworld, 27/08
- * DiScover Club @ RoTa @ London Notting Hill Arts Club, 30/08
- * Future Of The Left, Working For A Nuclear Free City, Dinosaur Pile-Up @ Sheffield The Harley, 30/08
- * Santogold @ London Koko, 3/09
- * Hercules & Love Affair @ London Koko, 4/09
- * Bon Iver @ London Shepherds Bush Empire, 11/09
- * Plans and Apologies, Jeffrey Lewis, The Atoms @ Derby The Royal, 12/09
- * Guided Missile @ London Buffalo Bar, 13/09
- * Club AC30 @ London King's Cross Scala, 16/09
- * Adrian Orange, Sparky Deathcap @ London Cafe Otto, 16/09
- * Andrew W.K. @ London Madame Jo Jos, 19/09
- * Rolo Tomassi, DiS DJs, The Ghost Frequency, Mirror Mirror @ London Old Blue Last, 22/09
- * DiScover Sheffield @ Sheffield The Harley, 22/09
- * Club Entropicana presents: Tessellators, Shield Your Eyes and more @ London Kilburn The Good Ship, 23/09
The War On Drugs
Signed to label: Secretly Canadian
The War On Drugs is:
Adam Granduciel: vocals, sparkle vibrato guitar, harmonica, samplers, organs
Kurt Vile: les paul chime generator, rodeo 6 string slinger
Kyle Lloyd: drums, percussion, lifetime member
Charlie Hall: drums, organ
Dave Hartley: electric bass, guitars
Releases
- Wagonwheel Blues - album, out 02/06/2008 on Secretly Canadian. 1 review (read/post)
Past events
- Wed 20 Aug at London Brixton The Windmill. (post review)
- Wed 20 Aug at London Brixton The Windmill. (post review)
- Mon 18 Aug at Bristol Thekla Social. (post review)
- Sun 17 Aug at Dublin Crawdaddy. (post review)
- Sat 16 Aug at Yeovil Orange Box. (post review)
- Tue 12 Aug at London Camden Dublin Castle. (post review)
- Mon 11 Aug at London Old Blue Last. (post review)
News
- 14/08/2008: Watch: new video from Bowerbirds
- 07/08/2008: WIN! Tickets to La Route Du Rock festival in France
- 30/07/2008: WIN! Tickets to the DiS-sponsored Green Man Festival - last day!
- 25/06/2008: Green Man 2008: full line-up and running order here
- 09/06/2008: The War on Drugs to hit UK and Irish gig circuit this summer
- 16/05/2008: New bands announced for Green Man Festival
Features
- 12/08/2008: Green Man 2008: DiS's five festival picks
- 11/08/2008: DiScover: The War On Drugs
- 07/08/2008: Green Man 2008: Q&A with festival founder
- 01/07/2008: A Month In Records: June 2008
User ratings
- sarahrogue:
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Relevant
- News: * Watch: new video from Bowerbirds
- Features: * Green Man 2008: DiS's five festival picks
- Features: * DiScover: The War On Drugs
- News: * WIN! Tickets to La Route Du Rock festival in France
- Features: * Green Man 2008: Q&A with festival founder
- News: * WIN! Tickets to the DiS-sponsored Green Man Festival - last day!
- Features: * A Month In Records: June 2008
- News: * Green Man 2008: full line-up and running order here
- News: * The War on Drugs to hit UK and Irish gig circuit this summer
- Reviews: * The War On Drugs - Wagonwheel Blues
- Board_threads: * When did you first 'discover' music
- Board_threads: * more info on the Magazine live shows
- Board_threads: * Weirdest songs you've heard in a nightclub
- Board_threads: * intimacy is the best thing bloc party have ever done
- Board_threads: * the last new album you listened to that you were completely indifferent to...
- Board_threads: * Wholesaler from China
- Board_threads: * Favourite labels
- Board_threads: * Johnny Flynn
- Board_threads: * Bloc Party
- Board_threads: * BARR
- Board_threads: * primavera club december 2008
- Board_threads: * Do you like any of these bands?
- Board_threads: * if you had to take 1 song off this mix cd...
- Board_threads: * Pivot
- Board_threads: * when people say "one of the best albums of the year"
