Indie
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This week’s best band were forced to get date-specific in their name, but it just adds a nostalgic glaze to masterful Scandinavian indie songcraft
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What you should hear this week Why Company by the Drink is the one album you should hear this week – video
Alexis Petridis recommends the Drink's debut album, Company, which gathers together the London trio's first three EPs
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Passionate endings, fond farewells, sad separations or stimulating solitude, name songs that capture or reflect on a moment when two or more people are parted, says Peter Kimpton
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When you’ve had to listen to Let It Go in 41 different languages, Return to Hot Chicken will return you to sanity
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Christmas has come early for Manic fans – lifted from their Holy Bible reissue, here’s a previously unreleased version of their second single from the record
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As charity Attitude Is Everything signs up its 100th accessible venue to its charter, Mystery Jets frontman Blaine Harrison on breaking down barriers for deaf and disabled fans
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Megan Washington teams up with the Australian Ballet, Sage Francis loves his cat, and Little Coyote champions weird and wonderful
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Post your questions for Bombay Bicycle Club, and we’ll ask a selection in their tour bus on Wednesday 10 December
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Recessionary Britain, indie-pop rap, Christmas cheers, music made from randomness and Ground Force on LSD. What’s not to love about indie this week?
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The latest single from Carry on the Grudge tells the tumbling tale of a lost existence, and comes backed with a brand new video directed by photographer Roger Sargent
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The future stars of music have been predicted. Find out what they sound like with our highly speculative go-to guide
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The Manics frontman tells Phil Mongredien about the power of music writing, the depth of Badfinger’s back catalogue – and how Guns N’ Roses shaped his first experience of London
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With an engaging live set, Sharon Van Etten marks herself out as a survivor rather than a victim, writes Jenny Stevens
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Review King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard: I’m in Your Mind Fuzz review – enthusiastic take on psych-rock
3 / 5 starsThe young Australians are at their best when they’re raucous, writes Phil Mongredien
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Religion. Gender. Desire. Trombones – this Leeds quartet revel in exploring difficult themes and unusual musical techniques
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A four-day showcase of up and coming local indie-rock, electro, hip-hop and jazz acts proved that the city’s music scene is in rude health, writes Luke Holland
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Review Slim Twig: A Hound at the Hem review – high drama and eerie tension amid the sonic chaos
3 / 5 starsPart psych-pop, part ELO, part 80s indie, Slim Twig’s latest exists at the centre of a storm of chaos and disorientation, writes Jon Dennis -
Hands, feet, directions or political leanings, name your songs that dextrously play with either or both words in their lyrics, says Peter Kimpton
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Alexis Petridis: Outsiders even within the weird world of 1980s US experimental rock, the Pixies made an improbable lunge for mainstream acceptance with Doolittle, and it actually kind of worked
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In the latest in our Music That Changed My Life series, the story of how Live Forever defined the transition from boy to man
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The cavernous venue militates against the National’s subtlety and character: a rousing finale can’t hide the underwhelm, writes Mark Beaumont
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In an exclusive live session for the Guardian, south London indie outfit Childhood perform their song Blue Velvet at Brixton's Windmill
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Slinky neo-soul from Hiatus Kaiyote, vintage country from the Western Shore and the dark synth-pop of Grace
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India’s most popular indie event – headlined in Pune by the Vaccines – raised a question with this year’s line-up: can Bollywood be indie?
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Led by the track Take My Side and inspired by ‘American music’, the record was recorded in Jimi Hendrix’s old living room
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DMA’s deliver an Aussie take on indie, Luke Saxton gives quality, sophisticated northern melancholia, K Stewart drops weightless R&B, Bearcubs reveals his sensitive cockney side, while We Are Z’s staccato dance-pop keeps things sardonic – it’s this month’s new bands, writes Paul Lester
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The Chills were poised on the brink of fame far beyond their native New Zealand in the late 80s with their unique, otherworldly pop, when lead singer Martin Phillipps succumbed to depression and drugs. Now, at last, they’re back
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Stream new releases from Fryars’ synth-pop to Lost on the River’s folk, and share what you’ll be listening to
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The Jesus and Mary Chain’s debut album still thrills on the first night of its 30th anniversary tour, writes Kitty Empire
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The former Smiths guitarist talks to Kathy Sweeney about modernism and magazines, Paul Klee and art manifestos, Maxine Peake – and his fans’ impeccable taste
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Shoved to the sidelines during Ian Curtis’s time with Joy Division, his widow Deborah casts valuable light on one of modern music’s darkest stories, writes Victoria Segal
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Heard it somewhere before? It’s time to name songs that lift the specific sounds or ideas of others into a new time or context, says Peter Kimpton
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This secretive internet sensation wears the influences of Stephen Malkmus and Elliott Smith lightly, writes Harriet Gibsone
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Benjamin Garrett’s second album has echoes of the Golden State, writes Paul MacInnes
Australian Anthems Greg! The Stop Sign!! by TISM – a metaphor for our collective mortality