There is a lot of music in this round-up, partly because I haven't done one for a while, but mostly because there is a lot of great music around at the minute (IMHO, etc). This column is basically a round-up of the best of my inbox and social media feeds... »
Music news these days can be kind of impossible to keep up with. It seems to be this constant scream of information, unintelligible by the sheer speed that it shoots by at, often borderline unintelligible in the first place – “what was that thumping past like an Olympic air defence missile about the one out of The Vaccines' twitpics from his holiday in Marbella again?” - and that being the case, DiS recently took the move to step away from news lest we're all sucked into some gaping cyber abyss of rumours, get-there-first reporting and regurgitated press releases. So instead, we'll be bringing you a digest of the important goings-on each month in neat mixtape form. This month - Frank Ocean issues a statement on his sexuality, Death Cab For Cutie's Ben Gibbard goes it alone, Animal Collective take to the radio, Lykke Li leads a Fleetwood Mac love-in and more...»
DiS' countdown to Latitude concludes, as the event starts tomorrow... DiS will be there all weekend, recording sessions and interviews, keep an hour on our site, Facebook and Twitter for news updates, photos, and possible news of some pop-up shows.»
Today the organizers have announced a new batch of news including: Chilly Gonzales, Van Dyke Parks and Britten Sinfonia, Demdike Stare, Revere, Deap Vally, Splashh, Mick Flannery, The Staves, Twin Shadow, Mark Lamarr’s God’s Jukebox presents – Wanda Jackson, Gizzelle, The Delegators & Big Boss Man and more... they join the likes of Bon Iver, Paul Weller, Elbow, Lana Del Rey, Laura Marling, White Lies, The Antlers, Yeasayer, Explosions in the Sky and Bat For Lashes and a whole host of other acts and performers in a range of weird and wonderful traditions (I mean, they even have MP Tom Watson chatting about Leveson).»
Latitude festival reveals the first taste of its 2012 line-up...»
Given that a lion's share of music news is of the "Hear this new song by..." variety, we thought it best to catch up on the past month or so within the context of the tunes themselves. At best, I hope to serve up a healthy dose of the cream of the crop, while the worst you might endure is a tasty feast for your ears above some recent facts to complete a well-rounded stew of new tune nutrition. So, without further ado, behold! The first-ever music news mixtape.»
BBC 6Music kindly let Drowned in Sound takeover the nations airwaves last night, for a special two hour 6mix(tape) featuring some of DiS founder Sean Adams’ highlights of the past 10 years. »
Lily Allen won a hattrick of Ivor Novello awards for songwriting, at the awards ceremony yesterday in London. Other notable winners included Nathasha Khan a.k.a. Bat For Lashes and Paolo Nutini. »
The first 6Music protest 'event' took place at the end of March in a bid to save the doomed radio station from closure. There were drinks, lots of people and even a few bands, who all gathered outside Broadcast House in London. »
SCREAM for the soundtrack for the new Twilight film (yes, another one, it's a massive franchise, don't you know?) has been announced and, as ever, it features a long list of hip, cool and fashionable stars from around the indie world of music. The new film is Twilight: Eclipse, just in case you were wondering. Tracklisting for the OST is below:»
As you will have noticed, BBC 6Music has been earmarked for closure by that Strategic Review thing that came out a couple of months ago. Well, there has been plenty of campaigning in the mean time, including several gigs in various places and Adam 'Count Buckules' Buxton challenging (jovially) Director General Mark 'Thommo' Thompson to a fistfight. »
Animal Collective, Bat For Lashes, Florence + The Machine, as well as a couple more of 'OUR' acts, have been nominated for a variety of Brit awards, some more surprising than others, in truth.»
Yes! The Mercury Prize judges have come to a final conclusion, after all has been seen, done and heard and the winner is...Speech Debelle»
Will she? Won't she? She is?! Why is she?! Yes, it's that time of year again where everyone gets pent up about the Mercury Prize before claiming that they don't really care much for it anyway. Mostly. And who is the favourite at this stage to claim the coveted prize? It's Florence + The Machine of course, for her/their album Lungs.»
It's that time of year when everyone in the indiesphere leaps onto the high horse of telling everyone else what is wrong with this year's Mercury Prize shortlist, charges round the racetrack of rigorously protesting how uninterested they are by said list, leaps over the fence of stating the obvious about some of the nominees not being that famous, and then probably heads off for a good feed in the stables of pointing out that M People won it once. So let's do that.»
As well as Pixies having decided shuffle around (mostly Northern) Europe, the fairytale spinning Natasha Khan - aka Bat For Lashes - is going to traipse up and down this island playing the finest Bars and Music Halls. Or mid to large sized venues...»
Your June instalment of the seemingly now monthly Video Drowned-Up brings you all sorts of wonderful artistic pieces. Think of the ones that didn't make it in!* »
A selection of video tasties from the last few days and weeks for you. Thankfully none of them involve F.C. Barcelona or North Korean rockets, though the Pendulum one may have you yearning for destruction on an unprecedented scale.»
It's that time of year again where the myriad of festivals across the country start regularly adding bands, artists and the odd comedian to their bills. This is exactly what Latitude have done.»
Summer is on its way, honest, and - as much in celebration as in hope - Somerset House have announced their Summer Series line-up for 2009 with The Mars Volta, Super Furry Animals, Bat For Lashes all finding their way onto the bill.»
DiS trawls through all the recent music news so you don't have to.»
DiS trawls through all the recent music news so you don't have to.»
Bat for Lashes writes a letter to explain what she's been upto...»
Bat For Lashes has announced a pair of live shows for June»
The line-up for the Radiohead-curated Daydream Festival in Barcelona has been announced today»
Anyone crossing fingers for Liars may as well give-up and get the colour back in their digits: as it’s Natasha Khan and Bat for Lashes who've been confirmed as tour support to Radiohead on their forthcoming tours of Europe and the UK»
Happy Birthday to DiS, Happy Birthday to DiS... »
Hello! Here’s some news about the latest chart-botherers for you, the chart-bothered.»
Klaxons have scooped this year’s Nationwide Mercury Music Prize...»
Time to put our pretend money where our ever-so-real mouths are: DiS is picking our individual favourites for tonight's Mercury Prize, and leaving them here so we can see who's right. And, more importantly, who is wrong and has to buy the biscuits tomorrow...»
Arctic Monkeys have slipped from joint-first in the betting on this year's Mercury Music Prize...»
The nominations for the Mercury Music Prize are hot off the press, folks, and it’s a rum old mix as ever. They are as follows»
Off to Latitude this weekend? DiS is. Hope you've got your tickets, too, because the three-dayer's sold out as of now...»
You might not know this, what with all our adventures at festivals in foreign lands, but DiS is actually a sponsor at this summer's first-ever Field Day event, a one-day festival held at London's Victoria Park, Hackney. And now you do know, how's about a little treat to celebrate...»
Got an unseemly gap in your social calendar this coming weekend? DiS has got two pairs of tickets for each day of this year's Homefires festival to give away.»
Following the announcement HERE earlier today regarding their new LP, Liars appear to have casually joined the Field Day Festival line-up...»
A number of new bands have been confirmed for July's Latitude Festival, held in Southwold in Suffolk...»
A new one-day festival, to be held in London's Victoria Park, has been announced...»
Dave Martin and Simon Fogal from Leeds' favourite purveyors of historical post-rock iLiKETRAiNS will be the guest DJs at this Saturday's (that's the 10th March) Drowned In Sound show at Nottingham's Junktion 7...»
That Bat For Lashes girl and her girls, on The Culture Show t'other night they were. And Klaxons were on something, too, all chatty about stuff, stuff like touring and the like. The Like! When are they gonna get the break that never came their way last year? When they get good? Wut...»
Natasha Khan is taking her Bat For Lashes project on the road in February...»
Good day to you, dearest of dear readers, and welcome to what we’re calling an ‘interactive activity’. Because we’re busy – bloody busy – at the DiSopolis, we’re asking you to decide our album/s of the year...»
Bat For Lashes - or Natasha Khan to her friends - has announced a handful of headline dates in anticipation of her debut long-player, Fur And Gold...»
We've palled up with ace promoters Pineapple Folk to bring you a delightful evening of dual-staged folk, psych-folk and americana-tinged acoustica. Check out those ridiculous genre terms I just used. IT'S JUST GOOD MUSIC, YO.»
Battles. Archie Bronson Outfit. Liars. Electrelane. Four Tet. Bat For Lashes. Foals. Justice. Vetiver. Glastonbury line-up has apparently leaked but this opening line of acts somewhat trumps that Sunday Pyramid stage at Pilton. We’d rather update you»
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