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January 15th, 2007 You may have read part one already, but if not heres the skinny. Last year DiS went to a pub. We do that quite a lot, and probably talk about it even more than we do it. This time though we were answering the call of duty, to meet James Mercer from The Shins. DiS founder Sean Adams sat in a pub, in Shepherd’s Bush, with beer circles on some scribbled notes and a shaky Dictaphone in a sweaty palm to meet one of his heroes. Turned out James was one of the loveliest men to ev...

Best Reissues of 2020 By S&C Team | 23 December, 2020 More than any other year, it definitely feels as if there has been a shift in terms of the types of albums being reissued from Latin America. Sure, there are still plenty of tropical Colombian albums and 70s Brazilian gems, but a lot of labels are now going even deeper, unearthing Venezuela’s avant-garde pioneers, Afro-Colombian music that was ignored in its own country for a long time, funky numbers from Guadeloupe, as well as many esoter...

The Quietus , December 14th, 2020 11:58 These are our favourite tracks of the last 12 months as voted for by Jennifer Lucy Allan, Bobby Barry, Aaron Bishop, Patrick Clarke, John Doran, Christian Eede, Noel Gardner, Ella Kemp, Fergal Kinney, Sean Kitching, Anthea Leyland, Peter Margasak, David McKenna, JR Moores, Luke Turner, Kez Whelan and Daryl Worthington. Illustration by Lisa Cradduck Theres not much more I can add to what has already been said about our relationship to music in this pandemi...

Of this years beethoven festival is shiksa destiny. holtzman this. dog is his fault and makes sense because that word has really shaped our understanding of who beethoven was tom. dunbars long and it also makes sense because i always try to look for contrast in different eras. best year i did a very lyrical themes in a distant lover so yes because of this year i felt able to bring something that hits you harder to. another tradition is the afternoon performance hosted by dortch avella the beetho...

weather? if your nation was just a few feet above sea level, you would be really worried. well talk with a former president of just such a nation. and why am i wiggling my finger in a mirror here? to try to understand the wonders of the human brain. come along for an amazing tour. first, heres my take. the attacks and counterattacks in this presidential campaign are, i suppose, inevitable. but lets be honest. theyre largely untrue or irrelevant. whatever the paperwork shows, mitt r...

weather? if your nation was just a few feet above sea level, you would be really worried. well talk with a former president of just such a nation. and why am i wiggling my fingers in a mirror here, to try to understand the wonders of the human brain. come along for an amazing tour. but first, here is my take. the attacks and counterattacks in this presidential campaign are, i suppose, inevitable. but lets be honest. theyre largely untrue or irrelevant. whatever the paperwork shows, mit...

his own white house run, and who now plans to host a republican debate, after christmas. then there is ex-candidate herman cain whose endorsement could go to gingrich eventually. though he now says hes going to take his time. stay with us, well bring you those comments live at 1:45 eastern time. also, president obama, we are told, is going to have some sort of statement or briefing in the briefing room of the white house. the subject is going to be taxes. a lot of talk of that up o...