Garbage, Spiritualized, Mercury Rev, Queens of the Stone Age, Lost Prophets, Idlewild, The Cooper Temple Clause, Ed Harcourt, Vex Red, Dropkick Murphys ...

Sklav is a family man. He likes nothing better than a spot of DiY on the weekend. He likes to drive his Capri and during the week he tries not to crash. His retro mindset keeps him in sideboards and ...

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 ...

"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 ...

Urban Hymns, The Verve's legendary breakthrough album, turns 20 next month. Released on 29 September 1997, Urban Hymns was the band's third long player, and was recorded amidst band tensions between ...

Forty years ago this week, Neil Young entered a makeshift studio on Santa Monica Boulevard in a state of deep depression and alcoholism and, in that single session, recorded the majority of the ...

The countdown of DiS' albums of the year reaches a climax but before we reveal our five favourite albums of the year, here are some words from the site's founder and current editor... At school, my ...

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 ...

Like so many aspects of popular culture, radio has been labelled as ‘dead’ by many commentators, usually old hacks struggling with the changing dynamics between audience and media, trying to denounce ...

The Great Escape 2012 held in Brighton. Photography by Gary Wolstenholme Avalanche City perform at The Great Escape 2012 in Brighton. Photography by Gary Wolstenholme Alabama Shakes perform at The ...

The Twilight Sad's James Graham give us an exclusive photographic tour of where the band grew up... I'm going to start this photo feature by saying I love where I grew up. It might not be California ...

After a week of deciphering his scribbled notes, digesting what he saw, and sweating out the booze, DiS’ editor ponders why this year’s Reading Festival felt a little different. Plus he shares his ...