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In Photos: Pukkelpop 2009 - Day One

Pictures from the first day of Pukkelpop Festival in Belgium - including Deftones, Faith No More, My Bloody Valentine, and more.»

Primavera 2009: DiS's highlights

In Depth by John Roberts

Primavera Sound 2009 had one of the best bills we've ever seen, with an eye-boggling array of talent on offer. Here's what our intrepid writing team came back babbling excitedly about.»

Shoegaze Week: Mixtape #36 - The Ultimate Shoegaze Mixtape...?

In Depth by Dom Gourlay

Ok, so what with this being Shoegaze Week here on DiS, we thought what better way than to round the whole thing off than by compiling the ultimate Mixtape for the genre.»

Shoegaze Week: The Third Wave Collective's Andy Oliver reassesses the Shoegaze phenomenon

In Depth by Andy Oliver

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.»

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Shoegaze Week: Drowned in Shoegaze - 50 Essential Albums

In Depth by Sean Adams

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»

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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...»

Shoegaze Week: My Bloody Valentine @ Roundhouse, London 20/06/08 (from the archive)

In Depth by Charles Ubaghs

This is it. The moment everyone’s been waiting for. The first official reunion performance by My Bloody Valentine in sixteen years»

Shoegaze Week: My Bloody Valentine @ Roundhouse, London 20/06/08 (from the archive)

In Depth by Charles Ubaghs

This is it. The moment everyone’s been waiting for. The first official reunion performance by My Bloody Valentine in sixteen years»

Shoegaze Week: thoughts on My Bloody Valentine's Holocaust

In Depth by Andrzej Lukowski

So I mostly went along to see one of MBV's reunion dates at The Roundhouse last year because it seemed like the type of thing I ought to do... as much as I'm a fan of Loveless and quite fond of Isn't Anything, I figured it'd ultimately be kind of lovely in a boring way.In fact what happened was the precise opposite... »

Shoegaze Week: "There’s no such thing as Nu-Gaze" by Sonic Cathedral

In Depth by Nathaniel Cramp

Nathaniel Cramp has been running the increasingly successful Sonic Cathedral club night since 2004, before launching the record label two years later. Here, he discusses the merits of so-called "nu-gaze", and what the whole shoegaze revival means to him.»

Shoegaze Week: An introduction....

In Depth by Dom Gourlay

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.»

Bestival 2008: The DiS Review

In Depth by Andrzej Lukowski

From the archive... A lot muddy and a little the worse for wear, DiS' team of intrepid reviewers braved the weather at this year's Bestival on the Isle of Wight to bring you their highlights of the weekend, including My Bloody Valentine, CSS, The Specials, Aphex Twin, Neon Neon, Thomas Tantrum and much, much more»

Snowed in? DiS presents its playlist for a day of the white stuff

In Depth by Mike Diver

FROM THE ARCHIVE: Originally posted Feb 9th 2007... So there’s me, in bed, still in that delightful state of being neither fully awake nor out cold, and the girlfriend’s leaping about and the curtains are open and it’s all “snow snow snow” and the radio newsreader’s telling me not to travel unless I really have to and I’m desperate to drift off again but before I know it the duvet’s off and I’m marched to the kitchen window to gaze at a garden smothered with six inches of the stuff...»

Guest Column: Dom Gourlay's Some Velvet Mourning

In Depth by Dom Gourlay

Once upon a time, "shoegaze" was a dirty word; a derogatory term invented by journos of the day to describe a cluster of bands with one common aim that transcended the normal verse-chorus-verse ethic courtesy of vocals so low in the mix they were barely audible»