In Depth

Ahead of their UK tour we asked Canadian celestial-popsters **The Stills** to tell us five things they love...

This year’s inaugural _Hokaben_ festival brought an impressively diverse range of experimental/noise/rock acts to three rooms of London's _93 ft Ea...

Lo-fi pop duo **Gentle Friendly** overwhelm with dissonance and lushness. DiS likes them, so much so they're playing our Manchester club tomorrow (...

DiS has invited John Brainlove of Brainlove Records and many messageboard posts fame, to contribute an new irregular column about a certain strand...

**Diane Cluck, Lou Barlow, CocoRosie, Casiotone For The Painfully Alone, Marissa Nadler, Times New Viking** and **Jens Lekman** (plus a few hundred...

_The Nightmare Before Christmas countdown..._ **Isis'** guitarist Aaron Turner (who also heads his own _Hydra Head Records_ imprint) picks a bu...