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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

For years I wanted the complete Pere Ubu back catalogue. I’d tease myself as a teenager walking into record shops and pick up one of the million albums that made up their back catalogue, or so it ...

Here is the full list of 100 Albums released this year that our team loved. 1) Father John Misty - I Love You, Honeybear 2) Kendrick Lamar - To Pimp A Butterfly 3) Bjork - Vulnicura 4) Wolf Alice - My ...

This year, to save you from an overwhelming wall of names, we’ve refined our list. With just 16 albums this year, we hope you will find at least one album to fall in love with that you missed, plus a ...

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 ...

The following year, 1989, as the genre began in earnest, an underground Shibuya-kei arms race began. Starting with the release of Pizzicato’s best album to date, On Her Majesty’s Request, which melded ...

Clare Wadd & Matt Haynes. DiS: How did the idea of the documentary come about, and who was the driving force behind it? Clare Wadd: The documentary was entirely Lucy Dawkins' idea – she approached us ...

Rock musicians talk about second albums being like painful births, but rarely is it said of album number six. If you’ve survived that long, you’ve hit your stride: you know precisely how many slices ...

I'm drawn to musicians that defy quick description. So naturally I've listened like a student to every record Sparklehorse has made. Along with everyone who knew him, I'm mourning the loss of Mark ...