In Depth by Andrew Wallace Chamings
The New York Times describing it as “...fast, funny, catchy and high-powered.” BBC Radio One listeners voted it “The Greatest Punk Song of All Time” in 2006. Missing from any appraisal of Green Day's 'Basket Case' was mention of the chord progression, which closely mirrored a piece of chamber music written in the seventeenth century by Johann Pachelbel, Canon in D. »
In Depth by Cate Blanche
Butch Vig, best known as the drummer of Garbage and producer of albums such as Nirvana’s Nevermind, has a new project – The Emperor’s of Wyoming. Here, Vig talks us through The Emperor's recording gear....»
In Depth by Andrzej Lukowski
Back in 2004, Green Day rather unexpectedly became the biggest band in the world by writing American Idiot, a rock opera about how their home country was a bit rubbish. Successor 21st Century Breakdown arrives May 15th, but DiS can bring you word from deep inside the recesses of Warner Music as to how the three movement, 17-track, allegedly storylined, soon to be inescapable opus sounds.»