Win: Tickets to Feist documentary screening party
Win tickets to a screening of a new Feist film.»
Win tickets to a screening of a new Feist film.»
On Monday, we ran a special Leeds day, glancing back at 10 years in Leeds. The reason for this, wasn't just that the city has been high on the awesome-o-metre but that this weekend there's a festival going on in Leeds called Constellations.»
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. »
Some time earlier in the year - I forget exactly when - Broken Social Scene released Forgiveness Rock Record. It had an interesting cover. The songs contained within were and still are perhaps even more interesting, especially 'All To All'. That's been re»
It comes to that time of year again. The time where the finest in UK talent gets rewarded with a Mercury Prize nomination. Or so it should be. Of course, we aren't the only country who has a scheme like this - Canada is also in on the act with their Polaris Music Prize, which aims to do something very similar. »
So, we're gradually approaching the half-way point in the year. Only another few weeks to go. eMusic have gotten a bit ahead of themselves in this regard, as they've published a list of their favourite records from the year so far and it makes for an interesting read.»
Welcome to Great Escape week on DiS... with The Great Escape 2010 only a few days away, here's our Spotify playlist to help you pick who to see (or avoid). Oh, and we should point out, there's plenty more Great Escape coverage coming up this week, including Blood Red Shoes and Fat Cat Records' guides to Brighton, our suggested schedule and more... »
Canadian collective Broken Social Scene have announced details of a bonus 'EP', as a reward for those who pre-order their new album, Forgiveness Rock Record, which comes out on May 3 in the UK via City Slang. »
Isn't National Public Radio great?! Sure, it might not be our nation, but at least we have access to it, which isn't always the case the other way around, for Americans and the dreaded UK-only iPlayer. »
More goodies from the Canadian collective. »
It's no secret that DiS absolutely adores Canadian wunderkinds Broken Social Scene, and it's with absolute, unbridled delight that we can announce they're coming to play for us up in Sheffield on Friday July 9th as part of this site's tenth anniversary celebrations. Happy birthday us!»
Broken Social Scene - that awesome threesome you had in college, apparently. They return with a new LP after five long years. Now they've unveiled the album's name, the artwork and even decided to give away a free mp3 from it.»
Though May will be a time when countless numbers of you will be off to one or both ATPs, let's not forget that there are other festivals going on at the time, including the pretty comprehensive Great Escape, which takes place across many, many venues in Brighton every year. This year's festival takes place from May 13-15, and the first wave of bands have just been confirmed. A good bunch they are. Mostly.»
A veritable selection of the world's most fantastic artists from across the whole wide world have been added to the bill for next year's Pavement curated ATP, the event so many of you were getting so damned excited about when it was announced a couple of months ago.»
Watch the final instalment in our series of Road Trippin' With The Ice Cream Man, featuring Broken Social Scene, Delta Spirit, Matt & Kim and more...»
A day which has been already contained good album news now gets even better. Canadian indie-rock collective Broken Social Scene are in the studio recording material for their new album, as announced by Kevin Drew.»
6. Which of these bands has the MOST members:
The Polyphonic Spree
Casiotone for the Painfully Alone
The Dirty Dozen Brass Band
Broken Social Scene»
Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks (pictured) head up a stellar confirmed cast for the eighth annual Siren Music Festival, held on Coney Island, New York»
The second release in the Broken Social Scene Presents… series will arrive next month, courtesy of Brendan Canning»
An award-winning film soundtracked by Broken Social Scene is released in Canadian cinemas this Friday (2 Nov).»
Noah and the Whale have a fair few shows booked; headlining their own tour as autumn slides irretrievably into winter.»
The Universal Music Group, which is the biggest market-share holder in UK music, has announced it has reached an agreement to acquire the V2 Music Group from it’s current owners Morgan Stanley.»
Sort of: the first in a series of Broken Social Scene presents... LPs will be Kevin Drew's Spirit If.... It comes out on September 17 via City Slang...»
To give you a taste of the debut solo album by Emily Haines & the Soft Skeleton, Drowned in Sound Recordings (that's our bit on the side) today release a free download single 'Dr.Blind' from our MySpace. myspace.com/disrecords»
Emily Haines & The Soft Skeleton have announced five shows in May and June, including a performance at the Homefires Festival, at the Conway Hall in Holborn, on Sunday June 3...»
Every week, the kind folk of DrownedinSound.com (hi, that’s us) offer up a comprehensive overview of the latest pop charts. Hopefully you find it useful. Sometimes, though, I detect that, behind the bile, hate, sarcasm and ennui displayed by a certain M Diver, there’s not a lot of love for the top 40. So why are we still obsessed with the charts...»
The results are in, and all arguments in the DiS office have died down – we can’t alter our final top ten albums of 2006, anyway, as they were very kindly voted for by you lot. Reckon you can guess the winner? Is that photograph a clue...»
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...»
Owen Pallett, aka Final Fantasy, has won the first-ever Polaris Prize in Canada...»
Stars' last long-player, the sublime Set Yourself On Fire, is to receive the remix treatment a la the likes of Bloc Party's Silent Alarm and Her Space Holiday's The Young Machines. And, like, A MILLION others...»
Semi-popular Canadian beat combo Broken Social Scene have announced their intention to rest after fulfilling their upcoming tour commitments. Remarkably, they did not use the words 'Indefinite Hiatus'.»
The nominees have been announced for the Polaris Music Prize, the new Canadian music award we previously reported on here...»
The annual lager-fest known as 'The C**ling Weekend: Reading/Leeds' has been bolstered and (somewhat) improved with the announcemnt of a few spades worth of artists... »
Broken Social Scene founder Kevin Drew has told reporters at Canada's Juno Awards that the current crop of television talent-contest wannabe pop stars are "going absolutely nowhere"...»
This year's Lollapalooza line-up has been announced. The festival, which will take place in Chicago's Grant Park on August 4th-6th.»
Metric sign to the DiS label and tour UK in May.»
Epic Canadian indie types Broken Social Scene have been forced (yeah, they were so reluctant) to upgrade the venues at their Belfast and Leeds stopovers on their current UK tour...»
As another quartet of bands are added to the second weekend, it's just getting better and better...»
Sing along at home, kids: Canadian label Paper Bag has announced plans to release a compilation of songs aimed at children, played by some of today's finest indie-rockers...»
Potential band of 2006, announce full UK tour... »
Canada's current crop of insanely wonderful supergroups is keeping many peoples' faith in indie-pop alive. At the top of the batch is Broken Social Scene.»