In order to contravene the hipster image of the festival (as always, every band mentioned in a web comic purporting to mock the P4K intelligentsia is playing this year) I’ll be referring to a colour-coded spreadsheet to bring you this preview. »
Two of the most eagerly anticipated tours in the early part of 2013 undoubtedly center around the return to UK stages of Sigur Ros and My Bloody Valentine. In the second of Dom Gourlay's regular series of Gourlay Files reports from the UK's best gigs, and some of the world's finest festivals, DiS handed Dom the unenviable task of comparing the two in a head-for-head battle before deciding which one came out on top. Let the Clash of the Titans commence... »
It's finally here! MBV (that's My Bloody Valentine to you and me) have gone and released their first album in 22 years also called mbv. Having spent twenty-four hours encompassing a total of eleven listens (one has to eat, drink and sleep too you know) in its company, here's DiS' first impressions of possibly the most eagerly anticipated album in history.»
It's fair to say that no other record has influenced music in the same way as Loveless since landing at the tail end of 1991...»
Earlier this year, DiS caught up with My Bloody Valentine bass player Debbie Googe. Here, she discusses the future plans for My Bloody Valentine, what it's like to have been part of arguably the most influential guitar band on the planet for over a quarter of a century, and how she came to be involved with Primal Scream throughout the summer.»
DiS' most read features, reviews and messageboard threads of the first half of 2012... »
Kicking off our takeover week from the gentleman from Mogwai is this 10 songs that influenced Mogwai mixtape by Stuart Braithwaite...»
With all this talk of the UK music industry said to be in decline, one wonders what opportunities are available for bands and labels to break through in the foreseeable future. However, one independent label that has continued to thrive against such adversity is London-based imprint Rocket Girl. »
Whilst XL, Domino, 4AD, Wichita and others put new acts on the map and control the direction and priorities of the new alternative scene, the major labels look distracted and erratic in their signing policy and approach to new acts. Many of the staff realise the game has changed but no one across the big three is really looking as though they know the rules by which to play. For now, to allow the scenes to flourish and to protect itself from further unwise and costly bad investments the sensible major label should focus on catalogue and known artists. It isn’t a panacea but its a way forward for a group of companies that look to be in serious need of new strategies. »
Girding their loins with steely determination, Andrzej Lukowski and Dom Gourlay set their sites on this year's third UK ATP of four. Not a classic edition, it must be said, but a solid - and very noisy - entertainment nonetheless. Here are terrible things that our reviewers saw.»
Girding their loins with steely determination, Andrzej Lukowski and Dom Gourlay set their sites on this year's third UK ATP of four. Not a classic edition, it must be said, but a solid - and very noisy - entertainment nonetheless. Here are terrible things that our reviewers saw.»
Girding their loins with steely determination, Andrzej Lukowski and Dom Gourlay set their sites on this year's third UK ATP of four. Not a classic edition, it must be said, but a solid - and very noisy - entertainment nonetheless. Here are terrible things that our reviewers saw.»
Pictures from the first day of Pukkelpop Festival in Belgium - including Deftones, Faith No More, My Bloody Valentine, and more.»
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.»
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.»
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»
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...»
This is it. The moment everyone’s been waiting for. The first official reunion performance by My Bloody Valentine in sixteen years»
This is it. The moment everyone’s been waiting for. The first official reunion performance by My Bloody Valentine in sixteen years»
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... »
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.»
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.»
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»
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...»
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»
Rough Trade 50 People's Choice nominee F*ck Buttons get the Everett True treatment...»
DiS is in Spain, again, to catch My Bloody Valentine, The Raconteurs, Justice and more at the annual Benicassim festival»
My Bloody Valentine's influence has never sounded louder, and as the pioneers return live DiS looks at five potential successors to their shoegaze crown»
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