DiS' Krystina Nellis got 20 minutes to chat with half of Phoenix, right at the start of the whirlwind of mayhem that is their campaign for Bankrupt!, aka. The Follow-Up To DiS' Album of 2009 Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix. Except it's probably not going to feel anything like that when you hear it - at least, not if the band themselves have anything to do with it. »
This week's Spotifriday playlist, featuring loads of bands, all of whom have appeared on the website in one form or another in the past five or so days.»
With each of The Jesus & Mary Chain's six albums about to be re-issued as comprehensive triple CD & DVD box sets, Jim Reid spoke at length to DiS about a variety of topics ranging from major label interference and their subsequent lack of interest to inter-band relationships, particularly the volatile one between him and his brother that overshadowed the band's existence and the effects of substance abuse, most notably alcohol.»
Andy Oliver is the editor of Psychedelica magazine and has recently formed his own label, The Third Wave Collective. Here he adds a darker perspective to the whole "what is/isn't shoegaze" debate and draws parallels with conflicts in society as landmarks for the ascent of the psychedelia-cum-shoegaze movements past and present.»
DiS has compiled a Spotify playlist of fifty hazy, ethereal, swooping, swirling, static-drenched albums from the pioneers of Shoegaze and the makers of Shoegaze 2.0»
This week, Drowned In Sound celebrates the scene that allegedly "celebrated itself". Shoegaze. We'll be bringing you commentaries and interview pieces with those who played a part in the movement's initial discourse at the turn of the 1990s and those who are taking the genre into further undiscovered territories almost two decades later.»
The reissue of three Swervedriver LPs earlier this month caused Mister Tudor to reassess the whole Shoegaze phenomenon...»
With ATP firmly on DiS's agenda for the next two weekends, we invite some industry types to suggest their favourite acts yet to play the celebrated festival, and you to DiScuss the potentials»
Send one DiS writer to the first-ever Connect festival? We think not. Here, three intrepid festival-goers – Jordan Dowling, Dom Gourlay and Dave Kerr – bring us their experiences of three days that can only be summarised as: a muddy festival in Inveraray, Scotland. With some ace bands, as it happened…»
Four days is a long time in festival terms, and like the sunless days that envelop the north of the country during the winter, it helps if there’s a bottle handy to steel yourself for its lingering embrace.»
Fatigue’s taking its toll, the money’s all but gone – no use denying it, DiS is in dire need of a kick in the pants.»
Deep into the bloated innards of the festival season and DiS is headed in a north easterly direction to Norway – again - this time for the arrestingly-titled Øya Festival in Oslo...»
DiS heads to Barcelona for the second time this year - following Primavera at the end of May - for Summercase. What we find: a drunk Lily Allen, a chilled-out Chemical Brothers, and some dodgy scotch...»
Harnessing the energy of a rare minute in which a disparate range of artists from the past and present can look to the future and plausibly congregate on the same bill, the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival in Indio, California has steadily become world renowned as the proverbial melting pot, tripping over itself with cultural icons both obscure and ubiquitous...»
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