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Drowned in the North East #3
Part three of our local scene guide to the North East...»
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»
This Week's Singles: 20/02/12 Field Music, Beth Jeans Houghton, Gemma Ray, New Look
It seems to me that late February is when singles start to get really interesting. And all those smart (or fortunate) enough to have avoided the inanity of new year tip lists pop up their heads, sleepy eyes washed of their clag. Hooray for nearly-Spring, if it results in a week as choice as this one.»
"We do struggle with the idea of 'is what we do worthwhile?'” -DiS meets Field Music
Can being a musician, writing pop songs and gigging around the country, ever be considered a ‘proper job’? Most musicians might not delve too deeply into the true dynamics of what they do to make a living, but it’s definitely something that occupies»
Memphis Industries Takeover: Field Music: All Downhill From Here
As part of the Memphis Industries takeover, Field Music discuss the trials and tribulations of building a long term "career" in the music industry...»
Memphis Industries 'Hidden Gems' Spotify playlist
As part of their week long takeover of the site, Memphis Industries label owners, Matt and Ollie Jacob, take us on a musical tour of some hidden gems in the MI back catalogue....»
Spotifriday #115 - This week on DiS as as playlist ft. Field Music, Walls, When Saints Go Machine + more
This week's content-themed Spotify playlist, featuring tracks from Field Music, Jens Lekman, Walls, DOOM, Friends and a bunch more.»
Glastonbury (Saturday): The DiS Review
Glastonbury Part 3: Saturday Much like Gorillaz', my Friday night was a bit of a squib, passed out as I was by 2am, feet poking out my tent. The weather’s playing hardball today and some acts are preferred by dint of them playing in the shade - look re»
This Week's Singles - 7/6/2010: Uffie, Here We Go Magic, Elbow
Not so rad news everyone: Wendy Roby is away. This leaves me, the site's founder, the unenviable task of filling our most popular columnist's Reebok hi-tops and writing about new releases by the likes of Uffie & Pharell Williams, Here We Go Magic, Elbow, Ash and more... »
Evolution Weekender, 30th and 31st May 2010
So, the pubeless posse had a riot at this year's Evolution Weekender. And who can blame them? With a line-up that featured Paolo Nutini, Ellie Goulding and Example it's no surprise that every underage hipster from Berwick to Bradford descended on the Newc»
Spotifriday #34 - This Week on DiS as a playlist
Welcome to Friday. A marginally more beefy Spotify playlist for you this week, mainly on a whim. Enjoy it while it lasts. Plenty of highlights this week, though, including a lovely piece from the armchair dancefloor column, and a rare chance to hear Roy Harper.»
This week’s albums ft Shearwater, Field Music and Xiu Xiu
Grüß Gott! Yes yes, it’s Monday, and yes, yes, here are some We7 players reflective of DiS’s top tip albums of the week. Go forth, and multiply.»
Field Music's track-by-track guide to Field Music (Measure)
So you like Field Music right? As in, you like them to the tune of about 2,000 words, yeah? Well in this case you'll be delighted by this truly epic guide to the band's 20/21-track OPUS Field Music (Measure)... and IN A TWIST the brothers Brewis will be offering their thoughts not on their own songs, but each others'... STRAP YOURSELVES IN, PEOPLE.»
Spotifriday #33 - This Week on DiS as a Playlist
If you don't know the dealio already, these weekly mixtape-like playlists, they're just a collection of songs with links to content. CLICK HERE to fire up the playlist in Spotify (available for free in most countries here) and listen whilst reading all the below if you haven't done so already... »
This Week's Singles: 08/02/10
This week's selection leaves me feeling utterly spoilt, such is the munificence of the delights therein. It is all a bit PRAISE BE - but not in a God way, because that would be dread.»
Spotifriday #32 - This Week on DiS as a playlist
Yo. This week's 'content in the form of a playlist' Spotify playlist is here, so I'm gonna cut the crap and just get to it. Go here to get this week's Spotifriday playlist.»
Spotifriday #26 - This Week on DiS as a playlist
More Spotify based fun, featuring Panda Bear, Frightened Rabbit, Liars, Hot Chip, Field Music, LCD Soundsystem, Hefner and a bag more.»
2010 Preview: the return of Field Music
Sunderland's much-loved art poppers Field Music are officially back from their nearly-three-year hiatus. The brothers Brewis are currently appearing in a venue near you and have a new double album - Field Music (Measure) - slated for release early next year on Memphis Industries. We phoned David from the band and he told us why he feels the time is right to come back, why he is sick of being labelled post-punk and why he is prone to ripping off Peter Gabriel. »
The Futureheads on their music cooperative 8 Music
We asked one of our bands of the year, The Futureheads, to tell us about their DIY adventures in 2009 and to go a little deeper into the things they love. First up, a history of their Sunderland-based cooperative practice/recording space...»
DiS's albums of 2007: reader voting is now open!
With Christmas now peeking over the horizon, DiS invites its readers to vote for your top ten of 2007, from our editorially selected shortlist of 50. Choose five of your favourites here. Voting, it will close this Friday, December 7, with the results running December 14»
The Weekly DiScussion: our alternative Mercury list...
So the Mercury nominations for this year aren’t so bad, a couple of proper WTF examples aside (The View? Really? Come on…). However good this year’s nominations generally are, though, we at DiS got the old grey matter burning away to compile an alternative list of twelve that could have made the cut...»
The Weekly DiScussion: our albums of the year, so far
Six months into 2007 (almost...) and there’s already a not-so-proverbial shit-tonne of albums in contention for the coveted Album of the Year ‘gong’ at DiS – again, the winner will be selected by you, the readers, from a shortlist compiled by us. Yup.»
A Month In Records: January 2007
January was cold. But for a few days it wasn’t, and we all feared London would flood when the rising sea level overpowered the wonder of modern technology that is the Thames Barrier. Then it got colder, still, and we remembered that The Netherlands will drown way before us. But all this talk of evolving into a race of webbed-limbed freaks is totally off the subject at hand, which is January’s finest long-play releases...»
A Month in Records: April 2006
Well, that was the month that was. The sun shined, some people smiled and even more people released fantastic records. In fact, overall, it was a genuinely good month for music.»
Drowned in Sound 5th Birthday Party at In the City 2005
DrownedinSound.com presents a day of partying, great music and fun at this year's In the City, to celebrate five years of the most popular independent music site in Europe.
Featuring Komakino, Fear of Music, REDJETSON, Emmy the Great, Field Music, The Whip, The Automatic, Les Incompétents, Nephew, Folded Remediez, Action Plan & The Madelines.»




