Canterbury Fayre Hernhill, Canterbury, Kent 22nd – 24th August 2003 A few miles down the road in Reading, Good Charlotte are getting bottled o ...

Japanese vocal performer Hatis Noit releases her enigmatic EP Illogical Dance via Erased Tapes. The arresting 4-track record creates unique song-worlds with transcendent vocal interpretations that at ...

An Island by Vincent Moon screened before Efterklang at Queens Social Club in Sheffield. Photography by Gary Wolstenholme ...

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This limited edition double album set contains the original LP plus 13 bonus tracks taken from their first four singles. Pressed on Red vinyl. By the time McCarthy appeared on the NME's C86 cassette ...

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Kristin Hersh has been making music for the best part of four decades, having formed her first band Throwing Muses at the age of fourteen. They eventually signed to then-fledgling independent label ...

While the usual suspects bemoan the death of guitar music like the insufferable broken records they’ve become, a scene has been developing at a rate of knots in Western Europe. The Netherlands might ...

You could say that the journey of Wand in the five years since their inception has been one towards genrelessness. A few things happened to Wand between 1000 Days and Plum that inspired this new ...

The tendency for some writers to indicate every time their subject laughs has always felt like a journalistic faux pas of sorts. Early on in my 50-minute phone call with Stephen Malkmus, it’s clear ...

In our semi-regular nose around the equipment that some of our favourite bands use, Planet Gear, Gregg Kowalsky talks us through the sonic arsenal he used for new album L'Orange L'Orange.

In our tenth instalment looking at how to organise a music festival, DiS goes behind the scenes with Download Festival's main booker and promoter Andy Copping.