In Depth
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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. »
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In Depth
Shoegaze Week: Club AC30's Robin Allport - five albums everyone should own.
Robin Allport is one of the co-founders of Club AC30, the London-based club night and label that has been specialising in all things shoegaze related for five years today as it happens. As well as opening the birthday cards and unwrapping th... »
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In Depth
Shoegaze Week: DiS meets Neil Halstead
Neil Halstead really doesn't need any introduction. As one of the main songwriters in Slowdive he can can already claim credit for fronting one of the most inspirational UK combos of the past twenty years. »
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In Depth
Shoegaze Week: DiS meets Ulrich Schnauss
Ulrich Schnauss is a name that is just as familiar to techno boffins as it would be to those who perhaps favour the more noise-saturated elements of shoegaze-inspired guitars. »
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In Depth
Shoegaze Week: Some Velvet Mourning #3
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... »
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In Depth
This Week's Singles: 20/04/09
I am not quite the excitable teenager of last week, having had to contend with repeated exposure to the bottom of Patrick Wolf and the fact that I am, essentially, well ancient. Still, it’s not all sex, sex, sex. At least until we get to Seba... »
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DiScover
DiScover: Air France, Deradoorian and Telekinesis
DiS brings you our fortnightly new music fix, and three fresh musical DiScoveries. »
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Label focus
Shoegaze Week: Label Focus # 25: Sonic Cathedral
Four-and-a-half years ago, Nathaniel Cramp started a clubnight amidst a London scene still hanging off the remnants of The Libertines grotrock coat tails that was to raise more than a few eyebrows. Sonic Cathedral: The Night That Celebrates Itself wa... »
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In Depth
Shoegaze Week: DiS meets former Ride legend Mark Gardener
Mark Gardener should need no introductions. As a founder member, songwriter and frontman of Oxford four-piece Ride, his band were undoubtedly one of the pioneers of the whole "shoegaze" movement, and for a time, its most commercially successful and w... »
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In Depth
Shoegaze Week: "There’s no such thing as Nu-Gaze" by Sonic Cathedral
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. »
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In Depth
Shoegaze Week: An introduction....
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 thos... »
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Label focus
Label Focus #24: How Does It Feel To Be Loved
DiS speaks to HDIF head honcho about Pat Nevin, piracy and the ethos of a successful club night. »
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In Depth
This Week's Singles: 13/4/09
So, there we were, ready to untangle the heady musical knots of this week’s releases. Except that this week we were beaming loud and not-so clear from a holiday caravan in the Easter wilds. Imagine it from your urban turrets – a place where phone masts and Twitter up... »
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In Depth
BRNLV Column #2: Adventures on Music Island
Here on the island, there's not much to do between shows. We sit by the glittering sea, kick through the singing surf and stare at the horizon. We gather ephemera from the high tide line and save the best things we find. At night, we light a crackling fire, sing harm... »
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DiSection
DiSsection: Maximo Park Quicken The Heart track-by-track
Here's Paul Smith to talk you through Maximo Park's forthcoming album Quicken The Heart. He reveals quite a few clues to what you can expect when its released on May 11th via Warp Records. »
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DiScover
In Photos: Dananananaykroyd @ DiScover Sheffield
Some bands might let epic tour fatigue and a nightmare drive over the Pennines put them off their live game, but not Dananananaykroyd, who headlined DiScover Sheffield last Wednesday. »
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DiScover
DiScover: caUSE co-MOTION!, Joker's Daughter, Miles Benjamin Anthony Robinson
DiS brings you our fortnightly new music fix, and three fresh musical DiScoveries. »
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In Depth
DiS Exclusive: Manic Street Preachers' Journal for Plague Lovers biography by John Niven
Ahead of their ninth studio album Journal for Plague Lovers, DiS has been given an exclusive peak at the Manic St Preachers' new biography by John Niven, author of Kill Your Friends. »
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In Depth
DiS meets Tame Impala
Since their self-titled debut EP on Modular Records dropped late last year, DiS has been keeping an eye on Perth-based (that's the Australian one, not the colder Tayside variant north of the border!) trio Tame Impala's progress, including a ... »