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Shoegaze Week: Label Focus # 27: Northern Star Records

Completing our trilogy of record labels exclusively operating in the shoegaze field and its many related sub-genres is the excellent Northern Star. »

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Shoegaze Week: Some Velvet Mourning #3

In Depth by Scott Causer

Scott Causer, owner of the shoegaze/psychedelia label Northern Star pens this month's Some Velvet Mourning column and offers DiS readers an exclusive free download in the process. Can't be bad...»

Column: Some Velvet Mourning #2

In Depth by Dom Gourlay

This past week's run of excellent features on slowcore reminded Dom Gourlay of the influence the initial wave of "shoegaze" labelled bands had on many of the artists aligned with that genre. »

DiScover: MySpace Trail #4

In Depth by Dom Gourlay

Welcome our fourth MySpace Trail. This one belongs to April. Hi, April! On the horizon, new sounds for open ears from the likes of Exit Calm, Glissando and Mint Ive. Our starting point: iLiKETRAiNS»

A Month In Records: September 2006

In Depth by Mike Diver

Did you dig September as much as we did? Really, we’ve not known a month like it this year: fantastic releases were flooding through our letterbox near-enough non-stop. From metal to folk, to thunderous post-rock and twisted electronica, many a base was covered and covered brilliantly. So this month’s A Month In Records has been one tough mother to compile...»