Drowned in Scotland: October 2012
News from north of the border, with a look at Oxjam, new releases from the likes of Randolph's Leap, and introducing We Came From Wolves. »
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Green Man 2012: The DiS Review
“[Festivals are] snapshots of an imagined ghost of festivals past, with added corporate sponsorship. And oddly, while the corporate stages and tents get imaginative with their neediness, the thing that's really left wanting is the sense of communit»
Green Man Festival Preview – Part Two: What To See
It would appear that this coming weekend in the UK is a bit of a Mad One for festivals. Whilst most of the good ship DiS are drinking to their survival of the great Gateway wars of last week across at Leicester’s Summer Sundae – with yet more up north at Beacons Festival in Skipton – I’m taking another trip down to the Welsh hills to indulge in the delights of Green Man Festival.»
This Week's Singles 28/05/12: Luke Abbott, Jherek Bischoff, The Shins, Euros Childs, Poppy & The Jezebels
Single of the Week! Luke Abbott - ‘Modern Driveway’ (NoTown) Luke Abbott’s bleary-eyed efforts are that special thing; slow-builders that earn the right to their ambling pace. It seems to me his work is an exercise in patience rather than s»
Drowned in Brighton #9
The ninth installment of our local scene report from Brighton...»
Drowned in Scotland: May 2012
After a short break, some tunes and news from bonnie Scotland.»
Drowned In Manchester #10 – Festival Preview Spotify Special
There’s a reason this column has become more sporadic in 2012, and it’s not due to a lack of things going on in Manchester. Far from it. In fact it feels like the rush of the musical tide flowing through this city is such that I’m sitting meekly at »
The DiS Digest: January 2012's Must Hears
DiS' editor reflects on the month that was and introduces a new monthly feature which includes our album of the month, streams of the month and a Spotify playlist....»
Drowned in Scotland: February
It's a new dawn, it's a new year, it's a new bunch of music from Scotland.»
Mixtape Monday: Errors ft Jean Michel Jarre, Sun Araw + more
Ahead of the release of their new album Have Some Faith In Magic, Errors compiled a mixtape of their favourite tunes...»
Spotifriday #85 - This week on DiS as a playlist ft. Emeralds, Factory Floor, Destroyer + more
This week's content-themed Spotify playlist, featuring tracks from Owen Pallett, Factory Floor, Emeralds, Beat Connection, Destroyer and a handful more wonderful, wonderful artists. »
This Week's Singles 4/4/11: FOE, Justice, Factory Floor, Errors, Cut Copy, Katy Perry...
Wendy's away writing a book, so here’s DiS founder, Sean Adams' round-up of the week’s releases, vaguely filed in order of preference. You can just bash the play buttons if you don’t want to read his wafflings... »
Errors: A SXSW Photo Diary
"On our first night in Austin we went out to a late night diner. After a 20 hour journey with 3 different flights, a triple decker club sandwich really hit the spot. Usually I am not able to finish such large quantities of food but I allowed myself »
Drowned in Scotland - January 2011
Our tartan-tinged hack looks forward to a new year on the Scottish music scene, including the resurrection of rock, the dawning of new local heroes and Stuart Murdoch's first novel... »
Spotifriday #70 - This Week on DiS as a playlist
This week's Spotifriday playlist featuring some supreme cuts from the likes of Napoleon IIIrd, Errors, British Sea Power, James Blake, Twin Shadow and much, much more. Well, a little bit more anyway. »
Spotifriday #66 - This Week on DiS ft. Elliott Smith, Darkstar, Trent Reznor, James Blake...
Where did this week go? And how on earth have we managed to get to number 66 in our Spotify series of weekly playlists wot act like a hyperlink-laden cover mount of what we've covered on the site this week? Time, it really doth fly. Anyway, Luke has taken this whole Nordic week thing a bit far and disappeared to Finland, so you're left with me making a playlist, insert your hatred in the comments section below or yuhknow, maybe just say something nice about something you think should have been on this playlist.»
Drunk and dirty: What makes Glasgow the country’s most exciting music scene?
On the face of it, Glasgow isn’t a natural cultural epicentre. Renowned for its hard drinking locals, the city’s roots are entrenched in the staunch Labour supporting shipyards of the Clyde and the part-football, part-religious tensions of the Old Fi»
Spotifriday #64 - This Week on DiS as a playlist
This week's Spotifriday playlist featuring hand-picked tracks from British Sea Power, No Age, Uffie, Peter Broderick, Small Black, Errors and some more. »
Summer Sundae Festival, Leicester, 13-15 August - The DiS Review
DiS went to Summer Sundae last weekend. We had a stage and everything. Here, three DiS scribes share their highlights from the weekend that was...»
Drowned in 2010: Q1 in a 101 song playlist
The first quarter of 2010 digested into a 101 track playlist, hand-picked by DiS' editor. »
Drowned in March 2010: a Spotify playlist
DiS now does a monthly playlist for the Spotify blog and we thought we'd share this month's playlist right here.»
This Week's Singles: 15/02/10
This week I was at the seaside, drowning in neon with a headful of wonderfully gaudy tat. And while it was taybly amusing watching hoodied hoodlums trying not to miss any notes of Bloc Party's 'Helicopter' on a kicked-in game of Guitar Hero in Caesar's Fun Palace (it is like the one in Vegas, only funner) - mostly, I had Cloud Control and dEbruit for my arcade soundtrack. »
Spotifriday #27 - This Week on DiS as a playlist
This week's content themed Spotify playlist, featuring Yeah Yeah Yeahs, The Veils, of Montreal, Battles, Animal Collective, Errors and about 12 more...»
Green Man 2009 - A Preview & Spotify Playlist
This weekend sees DiS hotfoot it to Wales for 2009's Green Man Festival and boy, we can't wait. Here's a Spotify Playlist celebrating some of the festival's finest, as well as a few words on some acts you might do well to take a punt upon and the festival itself...»
Field Day 2009: the DiS review
Spurred on by the repeat mantra ‘there’s no way things can go wrong a THIRD year in a row', DiS’s Charles Ubaghs and Andrzej Lukowski headed down Victoria Park way last Saturday to sample the delights of this year’s capital-based Field Day festival. And barring some rain, things didn’t go wrong: bar queues? Nuh-uh. Lines for the toilet? Seemed pretty non-existent (or at least from a gruff, manly perspective). There were a few other issues, mentioned below, but here be our highlights.»
ATP Vs The Fans Part II: The DiS Review
DiS's Dom Gourlay and Andrzej Lukowski descended upon the first UK ATP of '09 like two gods of yore. Sleep probably being what the gods of yore would listen to had stoner metal been around in yore. But enough musings on divinity: here's our high and low p»
Eurosonic 2009: the DiS preview
This weekend at Holland's Eurosonic, each national public service broadcaster in Europe will offer up a band that they think will do the business in 2009. There's 250 acts in all and 50,000 Dutch students going nuts in their university town. And DiS will be joining them!»
In Photos Round-Up: ITC, C&G and more
We stumbled across these great pictures floating around the system and thought it'd be a crying shame to waste them»
Summer Sundae Weekender: DiS's highlights
If there’s one thing DiS loves this time of year it’s festivals, and the Summer Sundae Weekender is among our favourites. Highlights, here»
Summer Sundae 2008: the DiS (stage) preview
The annual Summer Sundae weekender takes place at De Montfort Hall and Gardens, Leicester, on August 8-10. Here's the DiS preview»
Supersonic 2008: the DiS review
As summer colours the sky blue, events at the Custard Factory complex paint Birmingham black. Another Supersonic festival lifts the spirits»
Supersonic 2008: the DiS preview
This weekend the Supersonic Festival takes over Birmingham’s Custard Factory for a sixth year. DiS - again a sponsor - previews the festival»
A Month In Records: June 2008
An impressive crop this month, as Flying Lotus and Wild Beasts tussle for supremacy on the DiS stereo, both just about distracting us from the kicking»
It's great in 2008, yeah: DiS's Next-Stepper picks
Yesterday we ran through our picks to break through at a low-ish level in 2008, to tickle the fancy of those with taste. Here, we’re upping the commercial ante: these acts are in with a shout of crossing over – brighter tomorrows, bolder ambitions, bigger budgets. Next-Steppers we are calling them»
Terror Tricksters: Errors call into the DiSopolis
With their last London date at The Roundhouse, Glasgow's Errors are gonna crash back to earth when they play our DiScover Christmas Party at the Notting Hill Arts Club. James and Greg call in for coffee and chin-wagging»
DiS's tale of the Jackalope: Comedowns littered like wheezing black holes
It's like a festival having been circumcised, serving a purpose but lacking in providing anything much in the way of true enjoyment. With reams of tickets going spare in tight pockets, curling like thin-cleaved skin we begin the joyless, 12-hour odyssey home to bed. No sleep on concrete, no sleep on trains, with little to rationalise the ache...»
DiS podcast: SXSW special
Wow, just when we thought we had too much South By Southwest preview stuff up already, we’ve only gone and recorded a brand-new podcast for you. Smells of barbecue sauce, too...»
DiS @ SXSW: Our Picks, part two...
Part two of DiS’s SXSW preview – again focusing on a quartet of acts we reckon are well worth catching at the annual music biz booze-up – shifts its eyes and ears from the US of A to the UK and even further away from the Lone Star State. Well, with the exception of one of four, anyway...»
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