In Depth
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Artist-generated
Alessi's Ark picks her favourite Mike Mogis albums
DiS asked Alessi Laurent-Marke aka Alessi's Ark to pick some of her favourite records from the bulging back-catalogue of prolific producer Mike Mogis. Why Mr Mogis? Because he's the Omaha-based fella who produced her debut album Notes from the Tr... »
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In Depth
This Week's Singles: 11/05/2009
Wendy Roby ploughs her way through the stack of singles that are out this week, including Sky Larkin, Mike Bones, Magic Arm and Datarock. »
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In Depth
DiS meets Marble Valley
Although best known for being one of the drummers in seminal lo-fi outfit Pavement, Steve West has never been one to rest on his laurels as far as veering off and doing other things are concerned. His "other project", Marble Valley, ... »
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In Depth
The Golden Hour Tour Diary, Part One
A total of sixteen performers have set out to Amsterdam, Berlin, Paris, London and Cambridge to bring these cities something that’s not just a gig, not just a reading, not just a dramatic performance. It’s the Golden Hour, and it’s what it needs to be – often encompa... »
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Mixtape
ATP May '09: a DiS double mixtape preview
DiS has compiled a couple of Spotify mixtapes by way of preview/giving you a taste of some bands you may not have heard of/confirming the prejudices of people not going. »
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In Depth
Fade to black: DiS meets The Horrors
With our journalistic curiosity piqued, DiS recently picked up a phone and rang The Horrors' Tom Cowan (aka: Tomethy Furse) in order to shed some light onto what lies behind those dark exteriors. »
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In Depth
A Month in Records: April 2009
Here's what the musical gods offered us in April 2009... »
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In Depth
"The best thing we did for our career was splitting up." DiS meets The Vaselines
Possibly...in fact actually best known for Nirvana covers of three of their songs, Scottish indie-poppers The Vaselines are just one of those cult bands. Theirs was a candle which was barely alight before being blown. DiS caught up ... »
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In Depth
This Week's Singles: 04/05/09
Though the ‘Silly Season’ is a term traditionally applied to news stories of the summer months in the proper presses, this week the seven inch single appears to be having one all of its own. For at least three of this week’s releases are seriously, worryingly foolish... »
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In Depth
Metric week: Emily's guide to Buenos Aires
Metric have lived and spent a lot of time in some of the hippest cities in the world, in fact, they're one of the most city-shifting, transient bands we've ever met. Each day this week they're going to share their favourite things about each city they've lived in or ... »
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In Depth
Adventures at the edge of the world: DiS goes to Aldrei Fór Ég Suður
For the last five Mugison’s been running the free Aldrei Fór Ég Suður festival (literally ‘I never went south’) with help from various locals, most notably his father, Papa Muggi, harbour master to Ísafjörður and also, oddly, a professional karaoke s... »
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Interview
"I love to put layers on layers." DiS meets The Field
DiS talk to Swedend's The Field ahead of the release of Yesterday and Today, his highly anticipated follow-up to 2007's From Here We Go Sublime. »
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In Depth
Morrissey: Southpaw Grammar and Maladjusted (Expanded Editions)
Southpaw Grammar, from 1995, and 1997’s Maladjusted are back from the bargain bins and available to 'sound and look the way Morrissey wanted'. Rapture. »
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In Depth
Metric week: Jimmy's guide to Toronto
Metric have lived and spent a lot of time in some of the hippest cities in the world, in fact, they're one of the most city-shifting, transient bands we've ever met. Each day this week they're going to share their favourite things about each city the... »
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Artist-generated
Video: Pulled Apart By Horses tour diary #1
DiS brings you the first in a series of exclusive video blogs from the Northern Alliance Tour featuring Rolo Tomassi, Grammatics and Pulled Apart By Horses. »
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Column
armchair dancefloor 004
From an 11-year-old tech-house classic to mutoid electro, E-generation dad dancing and keep-fit for disco-loving smackheads, help yourelf to a large go on April's best electronic gear. »
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DiSection
DiSsection: Metric Fantasies track-by-track
To kick off our special Metric takeover week, Emily Haines, songwriter, singer, renown synth-basher and superhero, walks and talks us through their forthcoming album Fantasies. »
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In Depth
Shoegaze Week: Swervedriver's Adam Franklin dissects the notion of "Shoegaze"...
As the founder member and main songwriter behind one of Creation Records finest discoveries, Swervedriver, Adam Franklin has a long and distinguished career both as a live performer and recording artist. Spurred on by a lukewarm review of his own ban... »
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Mixtape
Shoegaze Week: Mixtape #36 - The Ultimate Shoegaze Mixtape...?
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. »
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In Depth
Shoegaze Week: The Third Wave Collective's Andy Oliver reassesses the Shoegaze phenomenon
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... »
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DiScussion
Shoegaze Week: Drowned in Shoegaze - 50 Essential Albums
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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Label focus
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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In Depth
Shoegaze Week: DiS talks to Simon Scott about his time in Slowdive
Simon Scott has spent over twenty years making music with numerous outfits. It would be fair to say, however, that he is perhaps best known for being one-fifth of iconic shoegaze outfit Slowdive... »
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Label focus
Shoegaze Week: Label Focus # 26: AC30
Robin Allport and Duncan Jones are the guys behind Club AC30, yet another successful club night that morphed into one of the most vital, and groundbreaking independent record labels of the past decade. »