This year, we've at least matched our previous endeavours, with three nights of music that takes in everything from tearful piano balladry in a church to grunge-guzzling, riotous, rock'n'roll in a tiny bar through to a club-venue with music that's so post-dubstep that it might actually be from the future.»
There's been so much great music already in 2013, and with the help of the DiS hivemind, we've compiled this playlist of our community's favourite tracks of the first three months of the year. »
Ah, so February, you are such a short month, but what you lack in length, you've more than made up for with girth. This month has been bulging with brilliant new records, and tantalising tidbits of details about yet more goodies to come later in the year. Just imagine how hard it's going to be to pick an album of the year, but don't go wishing the year away quite so quickly, especially as this quick glimpse back at what has 'dropped' over the past four weeks will hopefully remind you that there is a lot to love and spend some time listening to before you zoom onto the next best thing... »
Once again, DiS will curate three nights of music, and we can confirm that our first two additions to the festival line-up are two headliners...»
Before we get our teeth stuck in to 2013, we asked some of our favourite artists what some of their favourite albums of 2012 were. In the previous part the likes of Sharon van Etten, Yeasayer and School of Seven Bells shared their picks, and you can find those lists, alongside our albums of year lists and more, here. Here are five more of our favourites, sharing the five albums that touched, shocked and thrilled them in 2012... »
Oh dear it is Friday, and oh woe is me do I need a day off, but before I disappear into a bucket of ale, here is the best of what hit my (the editor of DiS') inbox this week...»
For several years now, Drowned in Sound has 'curated' a bill at Summer Sundae festival in Leicester. We've had everyone from The Antlers, Frightened Rabbit, Futureheads, Blood Red Shoes and Noah & the Whale (the week they first hit the top ten, no less) to Wild Beasts and Warpaint. This year's line-up features the likes of Ed Harcourt, Gold Panda, Japandroids, Twilight Sad, Django Django and more... »
DiS returns to Leicester in a few weeks time for Summer Sundae festival, and we're very pleased to reveal that Ed Harcourt will be our special guest.»
Every Friday + Spotify + a week of hand-picked content on DiS presented as a playlist = SPOTIFRIDAY Another week has flown by. As per every Friday (apart from the ones when we're off at festivals or presume it isn't our 'turn') we've distilled the past 7 days on DiS into a playlist of a mere 18 songs. »
The latest episode in a series filmed on location at Jeremy Warmsley's North London home»
"Unforseen commitments" have forced Ed Harcourt to cancel the opening three dates of his Until Tomorrow Then Tour.»
Nashville-based singer Cortney Tidwell is to support Ed Harcourt on his October UK tour...»
The first-ever End Of The Road Festival is all but upon us, so what better time for a wee update on the line-up and stuff...»
The first-ever Let's Rock! Edinburgh one-day gig is to be held this year, on September 30...»
Boozy troubadour Ed Harcourt returns to record store shelves this coming May with a new single, Visit From The Dead Dog', lifted from his forthcoming long-player, The Beautiful Lie...»
After John Kerry twatted Dubya in the first US Presidential debate last night (thank God!), tonight's Time For Change concert at the new Marquee Club on Leicester Square has got a free guestlist, if you get in quick enough...»
DiS-approved boozy singer type Ed Harcourt is to release 'Born In The 70s' as a single on November 1st.»
Brighton troubadour, Ed Harcourt, has announced an autumnal return with a new single and album.»
Woo yeah! More bands have been added to the already-bulging-list-of-bands that are playing T in the Park - the UK's nicest music festival (apart from those "Flower of Scotland"-chanting nationalists who attend). Joining Coldplay, REM, Hell Is For Heroes, Biffy Clyro and co., are the following:»
Don't you love it when the nights draw in and the swoonworthy solo artistes return? Well, this time its former Snug-guitarist Ed Harcourt, with a new single, lots of touring and the second proper albums in the pipeline... For those who didnt know, Snug sounded like Weezer doing Beach Boys but»
The shortlist for this year's Technics Mercury Music Prize has just been announced in London. The £20,000 prize was won last year by Badly Drawn Boy's 'The Hour Of Bewilderbeast'. The full shortlist is as follows:
Basement Jaxx - 'Rooty'
Ed Harcourt - 'Here Be Monsters»
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