From the DiS archive... republished because Jason Molina sadly died at the weekend... There’s only one mystery when it comes to music that speaks to the depths of your soul. It’s not the way that ...

Whisper it quietly but Andy Bell is fast approaching his twenty-fifth year as a recording artist. Having formed Ride in 1988 with childhood friend from school Mark Gardener, plus Steve Querelt and Loz ...

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As hardcore-fetishism and macho-posturing permeated the mainstream during the infant years of the 1990s, indie-rock loyalists shifted directions. Responding to the shrill noise of populist rock which ...

Let's face it, 2008 hasn't been a great year for popular music. Whilst sales don't equate to great music, compiling this list we found little of merit with a platinum/gold/silver disc to its name.

"The first album I could afford to buy with my own pocket money was a budget priced sampler album released by Island Records called Nice Enough to Eat. At fifteen shillings and six pence it was, I ...

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Today’s the day that Scotland decides whether to become an independent country or stay part of the UK. It’s been a momentous campaign that’s seen impassioned arguments from both the Yes and No ...

So, that was 2009? Possibly the most blink-and-you-missed-it year of the decade. I mean, it literally feels like a few weeks ago that I was sitting here excitedly revealing M83 Saturdays = Youth as ...

The first time I ever heard U2 was when one of their videos came on Top of the Pops and I immediately flicked a rubber band at the television screen. This wasn’t intentional (unless on a subliminal ...

The first thing that struck me when I moved to Brooklyn in 2002 was how many anglophiles there were everywhere. I’d been to New York a few times prior to actually making the city my home, and on those ...

Home counties based quintet Chapterhouse were one of the leading lights of the first wave of shoegaze. Initially formed in Reading back in 1987, they went on to release a clutch of critically ...