The music industry has problems. It isn't digital downloads, it isn't necessarily piracy. It is far more fundamental than that. It has forgotten how to maintain careers. That isn't to say the world has been wiped of 'career artists' but the truth is they are a rapidly diminishing breed.»
Here are the most read news stories published every month this year on DiS. Among the stories featured: Arcade Fire vs ambition, Lily vs America, The Horrors vs Elvis, Everyone vs Bring Me The Horizon, and more»
Sylvia Patterson's amazing weekend with Amy back in January – and the jaw-dropping year that followed»
As another awards ceremony for musicians - and music websites! - looms on the horizon, DiS wonders: are there too many of these events, filling up our late-night television schedules and covering our already commercially successful LPs with stickers stating "Best This That Or Other, 2007 Awards For Music That Isn't On EMI"? Best live male: Mika? Have you been to one gig all year? Oh, you have... »
Dee-ah wun in dah Øya Festival… Oslo seems like a funny place. I was kind of half-expecting a palatial never-never land spirited away amongst the endless pines, but it looks kind of… ordinary. A bit scruffy-looking, with a predilection for buildings daubed in quirky shades of yellow and pink...»
Deep into the bloated innards of the festival season and DiS is headed in a north easterly direction to Norway – again - this time for the arrestingly-titled Øya Festival in Oslo...»
For a whole week, we barely touched a drop: too expensive, too cold, not a thing like what us Brits are used to. A dry county, Hove might as well have been; not a sip, not a tipple. For a week, teetotal. Lies: we just didn’t eat...»
It serves them right to suffer. While some of us sat scratching our arses from the comfort of our living rooms, occasionally pushing the red button to keep Jo Whiley at bay, some idiots actually went to Glastonbury. But we're not bitter. No. It would have been nice to have an invite, but that's all history now. Here, DiS’s Ben Patashnik, Joshua Cole and Georgina Terry attempt to fashion coherent narratives from their weekends of mud-soaked madness…»
At the end of last week, on April 19 and 20, DrownedinSound.com went to Camden. This is nothing particularly unusual – our sorry, drunken bodies can be found slumped over the back of chairs in the north London borough most weekends – but this time we traveled up the Northern Line for a special occasion: The Camden Crawl...»
DiS went to South By Southwest t’other week. Perhaps you saw our amazing preview content? Touch wood. While there we did some stuff – you know, stuff – but between sessions of stuff doing we saw some bands. Some good. Some great. Some neither. Some best left unmentioned. You won’t read about them here...»
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