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by Sean Adams
BBC 6Music is hosting a series of live shows this week at the BBC's legendary Maida Vale studios.
From midday each day this week Lauren Laverne will live sets from Suede, Foals, Everything Everything and Richard Hawley, and you can tune in via the below video box to watch them at your desk. Plus, this year they have extra sessions later in the afternoon with The Cribs and Palma Violets joining Steve Lamacq. »
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by Kevin EG Perry
The winner of the 2011 Barclaycard Mercury Prize for Album of the Year will be announced tonight, Tuesday 6 September, at an awards show in London.
PJ Harvey is the 6/4 favourite to take home the prize, which would make her the first person to win on t»
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by Sean Adams
It should probably go without saying but we're very excited to be returning to Leicester's De Montfort Hall on Sunday, to see the line-up wot we hand-picked. Of course we booked stuff 'we' are worryingly obsessed with love and once again the lovely people behind the festival have selected two mighty fine local acts to open the bill. »
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by Sean Adams
With only a few weeks to go, DiS has a pair of tickets for Summe Sundae for you to win.»
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by Sean Adams
Drowned in Sound is pleased as punch to announce that those blogosphere ravaging, magazine conquering, DiS community adored ladies of indie-rockness Warpaint, will performing on our stage at Summer Sundae on Sunday 14th August. Their debut album The Fool really put the LA-based quartet on the map and they'll be zooming across the atlantic to play at Leicester's huge De Montfort Hall, joining our previously announced, hand-picked by DiS bill of Blood Red Shoes, The Antlers, Factory Floor, Phantom Band and **Everything Everything»
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by Sean Adams
They join the already announced line-up of Factory Floor, The Antlers and The Phantom Band which is headlined by the return of Blood Red Shoes. We still have more names to reveal for Leicester's De Montfort Hall on Sunday 14th August, so if you haven't done so already, go grab a ticket before they're all gone: summersundae.com/tickets.»
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by Luke Slater
Earlier, quite some time earlier in fact, Everything Everything released a video for 'Photoshop Handsome'. That video has, however, now been re-done, to coincide with the release of the track as a single on January 17. You can watch it here. As ever, we'l»
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by Cate Blanche
Manchester-based (but they're from all over the place, really) trio Everything Everything have been on our very metaphorical office stereo quite a lot over the past few months. I'm certain that most of those plays are from Wendy Roby, but it's not like sh»
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by Luke Slater
Everyone's favourite hi-tempo disco rockers Everything Everything have announced a rather special UK tour for September and October. I say special, but only because they're involved in it. You'll understand how special they are if you see them on this tour. Details of the places they'll be playing are below. Read them. Carefully.»
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by Luke Slater
We love Everything Everything at Drowned in Sound. 97% of that love genuinely comes from the heart of Wendy Roby, but that's OK by me, she makes up for the rest of us quite enough. Anyway, we're delighted to find out - in a manner of speaking - when they'»
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by Sean Adams
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. »
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by Luke Slater
OK, not going to bother arsing about with an introduction this time round. Here's what's happening in the festival world, or rather, what has happened in the last week or so. De-tail.»
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by Luke Slater
You should be well aware by now that every year the BBC polls a pretty huge collection of movers and shakers in the music industry, asking them what their tips are for the coming year, under the name of 'The Sound of [Insert Year Here]'. First comes the longlist, then comes the final five, and with it, naturally, a winner.»