- Features: * Green Man 2008: Q&A with festival founder
- Reviews: * Ida Maria - Fortress Round My Heart
- Features: * DiScover: Maps & Atlases
- Reviews: * John Baker - The John Baker Tapes Vols 1 & 2
- Reviews: * Canopy - Canopy//Anopy EP
- Reviews: * Pumice - Quo
- Reviews: * Various - FabricLive 41:Simian Mobile Disco
- Features: * The Weekly DiScussion: the best festivals EVER
- Reviews: * Oneida - Preteen Weaponry
- Reviews: * Mudhoney at London Kentish Town Forum, Thu 31 Jul
- Reviews: * The Mae Shi, Dananananaykroyd at London Old Blue Last, Mon 04 Aug
- Features: * Pohoda Festival 2008: the DiS review
- Features: * Slottsfjell 2008: the DiS review
- Features: * Indietracks 2008: the DiS review
- Features: * Sub Pop 20: the DiS review
- * Field Day @ London Victoria Park, 9/08
- * The Icarus Line @ London Monto Water Rats, 9/08
- * No Age, Dan Deacon, HEALTH @ London King's Cross Scala, 11/08
- * Nina Nastasia, O'Death @ London Roundhouse, 13/08
- * Sennen, O'Death, Rod Thomas, The Cave Singers @ London Cargo, 14/08
- * Wildbirds & Peacedrums @ London The Social, 18/08
- * The War On Drugs @ London Brixton The Windmill, 20/08
- * Yeasayer @ London Kings College London (KCLSU), 20/08
- * Tokyo Police Club @ London ULU, 21/08
- * Angus & Julia Stone @ London Roundhouse, 26/08
- * Bluetip, Hoover @ London Camden Underworld, 27/08
- * DiScover Club @ RoTa @ London Notting Hill Arts Club, 30/08
- * 2poor2pitch @ Sheffield The Harley, 30/08
- * Santogold @ London Koko, 3/09
- * Hercules & Love Affair @ London Koko, 4/09
Recommendations
- 08.08.08
2008 might not have produced too many truly classic festival moments - attendees of Primavera Sound may argue otherwise - but there's lots to come. Excited, DiS here looks over seven of the best festivals ever…
In anticipation of Maps & Atlases' autumn venture across the pond, DiS caught up with Erin Elders to DiScover if the math-rockers' numbers add up…
Voting for the first-ever Pluto Prize, celebrating the British acts whose albums missed the Mercury Prize cut, is open now. So get voting…
Held on August 15-17, the Green Man Festival features one of the best bills of any of the summertime weekenders. Founder Jo Bartlett speaks to DiS…
Strap yourself in for an epic: DiS sits Deerhunter's Bradford Cox down with Liars and lets the tape roll. The temperature soon rises…
Preteen Weaponry is a decent - if patience-sucking - return that feels as if it’s pre-empting something rather than standing out as a glorious Oneida spectacle…
While her vocal enthusiasm is commendable, there’s not enough bite to Ida Maria’s zesty pop-rock for it to really impress here…
John Baker composed virtually nothing between 1974 and 1997, but these collections stand as reminders of a visionary composer's talent…
Twenty years - it really is that long. But Mudhoney have aged well, their grunge-sparking punk as passionate today as it was in '88…
Dana' are the best live band in the UK right now. There, said. The Scottish sextet transcend greatness with alarming regularity, as is the case tonight…
- News: * WIN! Tickets to La Route Du Rock festival in France
- News: * Youthmovies confirm November tour dates
- News: * Desert island vids: Portishead pick their YouTube faves
- News: * Ian Brown: Roses will never tour, Sex Pistols the greatest band ever
- News: * Watch: the new video from The Presets
- News: * The Verve's Richard Ashcroft talks up future solo ventures
- News: * Kings Of Leon reveal Only By The Night tracklisting
- News: * Headlocked: Esser out on tour
- News: * Wolfmother split, sort of
- News: * New Max Tundra record on the way
- News: * Biffy Clyro announce December dates
- News: * HEALTH perform for free at Rough Trade East
- News: * Download-centric: Field Day stage times HERE
- News: * Mystery Jets pull further festival appearances
- News: * XL release '90s dance compilation
- Board_threads: * Soundgarden
- Board_threads: * Electro-Shock Blues
- Board_threads: * buy my field day ticket
- Board_threads: * Take the DIS Poll!
- Board_threads: * Are Gogol Bordello for real?
- Board_threads: * rhys chatham london show?
- Board_threads: * Fans of music by Steve Reich and/or John Adams...PLEASE HELP!
- Board_threads: * Liz Green
- Board_threads: * Noah & The Whale feat. Laura Marling?
- Board_threads: * A Northern Soul
- Board_threads: * Wolfmother SPLIT
- Board_threads: * i love this band a little more everyday...
- Board_threads: * Music festivals in Germany (2009)!
- Board_threads: * Recommend me some classic albums please
- Board_threads: * What is the best Brian Jonestown Massacre album?
