In Depth
DiS meets Vivian Girls
Brooklyn trio Vivian Girls have released one of the most incisively raw albums we've heard this year. Rough Trade seem to think so too, as they included it in their Top 50 records of 2008...»
Mark Bowen of Wichita's tribute to Rough Trade
This tribute comes from Mark Bowen, who once was an A&R man for Rough Trade. He now runs his own independent label Wichita Recordings, which is home to the likes of Bloc Party, The Cribs, Los Campesinos! and many more... »
Simon Raymonde of Bella Union's tribute to Rough Trade
We asked several of the leading lights of independent music to tell us what Rough Trade means to them. First up we have Simon Raymonde, formerly of the Cocteau Twins who now runs the Bella Union label, home to the likes of Fleet Foxes, Midlake and many more... »
Everett True’s tribute to Rough Trade
We asked Everett True to tell us what Rough Trade Records means to him. However, as a label that has been at the core of his taste and musical understanding since the very beginning, Everett felt he couldn't do the task justice. Instead, he delivered this revealing transcript of his first ever foray into music journalism... »
Everett True’s Rough Trade - a two disc mix(tape)
Rough Trade Records is 30. DiS asked Everett True, who is an authority on all things Rough Trade, to compile a mixtape of his favourites from the label's hugely influential catalogue. »
Guest Columnist: Jeremy Warmsley vs. The Music Critic
In the second installment of his regular monthly column, Jeremy Warmsley tackles the relatonship between the music critic and the musician and asks "Mr. Writer... Why don't you tell it like it is?"»
DiSection: Idlewild Hope Is Important track-by-track
Idlewild are one of those bands that many of us grew up with, and as 2008 draws to a close the Scottish rockers are giving fans a chance to relive their youth by perfoming all the albums in full. DiS caught up with singer Roddy Woomble for a track-by-track retrospective on their first, 1998's Hope Is Important»
Glasvegas loves...
Paul Donoghue from Glasvegas tells us about five things he loves... »
DiS meets Mastodon
As part of our Countdown to ATP's A Nightmare Before Christmas DiS caught up with seminal rock behemoths Mastodon who say they “scream like banshees being stuck in the ass with a knife”, but new album Crack the Skye signals a change of tack... »
Frightened Rabbit tour diary (part 1)
DiS asked one of our new-bands-of-the-year Frightened Rabbit to keep a tour diary whilst on the road with Death Cab for Cutie, here's what came back... »
DiS likes Gentle Friendly, what do you think?
Lo-fi pop duo Gentle Friendly overwhelm with dissonance and lushness. DiS likes them, so much so they're playing our Manchester club tomorrow (Tuesday November 25th). What do you think of them? »
The Stills love...
Ahead of their UK tour we asked Canadian celestial-popsters The Stills to tell us five things they love... »
Hokaben Festival 2008
This year’s inaugural Hokaben festival brought an impressively diverse range of experimental/noise/rock acts to three rooms of London's 93 ft East.»
Something old, something new – fit the fifth: F*ck Buttons
Rough Trade 50 People's Choice nominee F*ck Buttons get the Everett True treatment...»
Of Montreal's Kevin Barnes loves...
Surprisingly, horses and unsavoury sexual accessories are off the menu as (People's Voice Prize nominated) Of Montreal’s pervert-in-chief shares five things he loves with DiS.»
Guest column: Brainlove
DiS has invited John Brainlove of Brainlove Records and many messageboard posts fame, to contribute an new irregular column about a certain strand of mathy, crowded, syncopated, hi-speed avalanche-of-notes cross-genre stuff that's going around at the moment... »
Friday Feeling: Phoning It In
Diane Cluck, Lou Barlow, CocoRosie, Casiotone For The Painfully Alone, Marissa Nadler, Times New Viking and Jens Lekman (plus a few hundred others...) all play a live radio session down the phone. Sounds good? Yeah, it is actually...»
Mixtape #29: Isis
The Nightmare Before Christmas countdown... Isis' guitarist Aaron Turner (who also heads his own Hydra Head Records imprint) picks a bunch of tracks that are currently doing the business for him. As you'd probably expect, there's a bunch of metal but also an eclectic range of other stuff. His band play ATP's Melvins/Mike Patton-curated Nightmare Before Christmas event on December 5/6/7 at Butlin's, Minehead»
Mixtape #28: Soulsavers
The Nightmare Before Christmas countdown... Rich Machin of Soulsavers talks us through his mixtape selections. The band (along with Mark Lanegan, with whom they recorded 2007's It's Not How Far You Fall, It's the Way You Land) play ATP's Melvins/Mike Patton-curated Nightmare Before Christmas event on December 5/6/7 at Butlin's, Minehead.»
DiS meets Okkervil River's Will Sheff (Part Two)
In Part Two of our interview with Will Sheff, we delve further into the Okkervil River frontman's thoughts on the turning tide in the US, what he meant by deciding to become a "professional failure" and whether he considers himself an optimistic lyricist or not.»
