Drowned in Sound

Ironically, this package was always going to be one for the completists, but those who’ll actually get the most from Bleach are still the Nevermind fans left feeling alienated by the gnarled triumph that was In Utero.

Mogwai will release a live album and video, plus more Part Chimp dates for your viewing pleasure.

Watch the video for Oh No Ono's 'Swim'.

It's been about two or three weeks since the last Pavement reformation news hit these pages, so it's high time for another update, you'd think. You'd be right, too. This time it's on the subject of a prospective best-of, a sure fire tool to get those peop

Daniel Dumile, alias DOOM, seems to be a pretty busy man these days. The other week we told you about the new Madvillain album and even let you hear a bit. Before that there was the news of Unexpected Guests, though that was just a compilation of already recorded tracks.

Leeds's Charity Festival Brainwash enters its fourth year in 2009. We sent along William Grant to check out proceedings.

How long can this go on for?!

This week's Spotifriday playlist, featuring Camera Obscura, Daniel Johnston, Four Tet, Liars, Kelpe, These New Puritans and a gaggle more.

A review of a month in records on DiS, featuring Atlas Sound, Lightning Bolt, BEAK>, Russian Circles, Efterklang and more more more!

The Shred Yr Face tour begins its third, folksiest incarnation to date this weekend, with all three participants playing instores at London's Puregroove on Sunday, prior to a medium extensive jaunt around the country. The bands, in case you've missed them, are Espers, The Cave Singers and the lesser known Woods, who DiS's New York man Nick Neyland caught up with recently.

Let It Die appears to be a microcosm of a band struggling to break free from the shackles of convention, passed down to them from their prevailing influences.

Hush Arbors can be applauded for venturing off into unchartered territory, but on Yankee Reality he too often seems to have lost all sense of direction.

Here he goes again!

These so-called spats always seem like much ado about nothing, and they mostly are. Still, let's not turn up the opportunity to have a little laugh about them all, anyway. Here we have The Fiery Furnaces frontman Matthew Friedberger have a bit of a poke and bash at Radiohead because of, what he sees as, the band latching onto anything that's perceived as 'cool'. Really?

Parisian multi-instrumental three-piece Yeti Lane may be the latest signings to acclaimed shoegaze label Sonic Cathedral, but their sound is anything but typical of that or any other genre.

Surprisingly, despite the internal wrangles and dependency issues that later swallowed them whole, the Spacemen 3 delivered a well balanced album that really has managed to endure the test of time.

Perhaps Gliss would benefit from leaning more towards pop/rock elements, adhering to a conventional structure rather than trying to find a place in the world of bedroom music.

High-pitched American electronica quintet Passion Pit have confirmed that they'll be moseying on over this way next year, in March specifically. As last time they came round was pretty much a sell-out, they've upgraded to some fairly large venues and academies this time which, y'know, fair enough...

As leading lights on the ambient electronica circuit for the past seven years, Genoa's Port-Royal should need no introduction to anyone familiar with the genre...

Jack White's Third Man record label are to release a single of Carl Sagan's voice cut up, autotuned, process and whatnot into something resembling a song. Entitled 'A Glorious Dawn', the 7" will be released on November 9.

What a day. Kieran Hebden, the proper name of electronica-type ambient musician fellow Four Tet, is releasing a new album at the beginning of next year. Rejoice lovers of soothing sounds.

The Beatles will release their entire back-catalogue of albums on a USB stick. In the shape of an apple.

You literally can't move for album announcements at this time of year, and 2009 is no exception to this raft of confirmations of new material. Who wants to release a record in December, anyway? Today it's the turn of Lightspeed Champion, a.k.a Dev Hynes, who has revealed details about his second record, the follow up to 2008's Falling Off The Lavender Bridge.

The story of The Feelies reads something like a low-budget soap opera. Despite forming in the late seventies during punk's halcyon days, it took them a further three years to release their first record.