"All songs are about The Sex" - DiS waves farewell to Singles columnist Wendy Roby
Wendy Roby is departing from the Drowned in Sound singles column. We asked her to answer a few questions after four years in charge.»
In Depth
This Week's Singles 05.11.12: Sam Lee, Dirty Projectors, Stay+, Egyptian Hip Hop
Single of the Week! Sam Lee - ‘The Ballad Of George Collins’ (The Nest Collective) Even the most glancing knowledge of murder ballads should leave you in no doubt: if you spot a 'fair maid' with 'red ruby lips' you should immediately scarper;»
This Week's Singles: 02/07/12 Dirty Projectors, TEMPA T, Field Music, Scuba, Rudi Zygadlo
Single of the Week! Dirty Projectors - ‘Gun Has No Trigger’ (Domino) The handsomest band in Christendom have written a song which sounds like a warning, and it is the kind of song men ruined by witchy women sing to other chaps, to put them o»
Drowned in Brighton #7
Record shops It’s January and there is a little gloom on the horizon: Brighton is home to two of the UK's most well known and much loved independent records shops, namely Resident (voted best independent record shop in England 2011) and Rounder Records.»
This Week's Singles: 19/07/10
Do you see how, even when I am bumbling about at Latitude, still I Bring The Singles? SEE HOW DEDICATED I AM! You people are all part-time, or something. Let's have a fight about it. »
In Photos: Dirty Projectors @ The Barbican, London
Photos by Minh Le»
Spotifriday #50 - This Week on DiS as a (collaborative) playlist
Right, so just after a year we've managed to rack up the Big Five-Oh, the 50th edition of Spotifriday - a collection of tracks by people who have been featured on the website in the past week or so. Simple concept. Anyway, as it is a landmark edition we thought we'd do something a little bit different. And possibly problematic. »
Spotifriday #18 - This Week on DiS as a playlist
More content-themed music from the week on DiS featuring Paramore, The Shins, Throbbing Gristle, Stricken City, Will Oldham + more.»
This Week's Singles: 28/09/2009
Everyone – and I mean everyone is releasing a single this week. So many, that I wanted to use a thoroughly unfair culling method that involved a blindfold, a pointy stick and some glue - or worse, inadvertently lose half my pile down the back of the bin (whoopstheregomyfingers, can't listen to them now, ohdear). Luckily, someone appealed to my better instincts and I did what I am paid to do. Which was to listen to the darned things; ALL FORTY THREE OF THEM. »
Bestival 2009: The DiS review
Arriving at the fag-end of a summer teeming with gruelling festival weekends, Bestival has enough gusto and idiosyncrasy to more than stand up for itself.»
To space... and beyond! (well, the Isle of Wight) - a Bestival preview mixtape
September is upon us and that means festival season is as good as over. Thank goodness then, for Rob Da Bank and his space-themed Bestival, a one last hurrah and glorious standout in a dizzying summer calendar. There's even the threat of sun this year. B»
Spotifriday: ID:09 Special - 20 Must-Have Independent Albums of the Year (SO FAR!)
Based on a range of factors, from board discussions, reviews so far this year and utterly subjective personal opinion, DiS' editor has compiled the twenty best independent albums of the first half of 2009 to coincide with Independent's Day.»
SXSW high-fives from Rolo Tomassi, Fear & Records and Holy Roar Records
Rolo Tomassi went to Austin, Texas and absolutely slayed SXSW. They made noise, made people dance and made people cry. We gathered a gang to drive them across the desert and to score them beer and make sure that they ate enough BBQ. In return, they told us all about their five SXSW musical highlights...»
Primavera Sound: DiS' 2008 festival highlights
From the archive... Team DiS picks its highlights of Primavera Sound 2008; invites fellow attendees to give us your top bands of the fest held in Barcelona»
Primavera Sound 2008: DiS diary, day three
It's the third and final day of Primavera Sound, and DiS has reached an unanimous verdict: this year > last year, by some margin»
Feathers Ruffled: Dirty Projectors rule the roost
Fresh from reworking Black Flag’s Damaged as Rise Above's art-pop splendour, DiS gets closer to the exotic bird that is Dirty Projectors»
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