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Reading & Leeds 2008: all of our content compiled
From the archive... We spent the last week or more previewing, digesting and sharing Drowned in Sound's experience of Reading and Leeds Festival 2008. Here's all our content, in case you missed anything... now with added Friendly Fires live clip and a report of Day Three»
T In The Park: The (slightly delayed) DiS review
What with being a bunch of self-absorbed Sassenachs and the press pass being organised a bit last minute, we didn't get around to running Simon Jay Catling's review of T In The Park in any sort of timeframe likely to make anybody involved look professional. Sorry Simon! Sorry Scotland! Please don't hurt us.»
Field Day 2008: DiS's highlights
From the archive... The rain fell all day, but spirits at Field Day 2008, held in London's Victoria Park, couldn't completely be dampened. Here are our highlights»
Label Profile #20: Sub Pop
Our twentieth profile in this series fittingly finds DiS speaking to a label that recently celebrated its 20th anniversary. A record company which has firmly established itself as (debatably) the most esteemed and influential independent label of modern times»
Vote for DiS and for your alternative Mercury prize winner
Here's a double-whammy of democracy for you. This is your last chance to take part in the voting for the Pluto Prize (DiS' alternative to the Mercury music prize) and we're also asking you to vote for us in the BT DMA's»
Reading/Leeds '08: What Our Writers Thought
Another year, another big weekend at Reading and Leeds festival. DiS sent along some of our finest scribes and asked them to scribble about their five favourites of the weekend. Here's what we got back from them»
Reading/Leeds: what the photographers snapped
Camera-phone let you down again? Don't fret, DiS was right down the front, in the pit in front of the pit, snapping these fine photos all weekend.»
In Photos: Foals at Reading Festival
Foals photos from Reading Festival, taken by Holly Erskine.»
Foals: on the past, the present, and the surf-rock future
Foals' 2008 has been a hectic one, and the end isn't quite in sight yet. As they prepare to tour the UK again, DiS catches up with the Oxford outfit»
(Untitled)
The Sunday morning acidic hangover is here and so too is the rain but that's as good an excuse as any to delay braving the outdoors and run-down on day two at Reading. In the past few years Saturday at the Festival has established itself as the "i»
Sub Pop 20: the DiS review
DiS crosses the Atlantic to join the celebrations at Sub Pop's 20th Anniversary, at a country park near (of course) Seattle»
DiS's Pluto Prize: get voting now!
Voting for the first-ever Pluto Prize, celebrating the British acts whose albums missed the Mercury Prize cut, is open now. So get voting»
Hove Festival 2008: DiS's final word(s)
While some did Glasto, a handful of adventurous sorts headed to Norway's Hove Festival. Here: DiS's final thoughts, plus exclusive interviews»
Hove Festival 2008: DiS diary, day three
Day three of DiS's Norwegian fest of choice finds White Denim and Foals getting the party started but Beck failing to finish it with a flourish»
2008 to date: our favourites on their favourites
Six of DiS's featured twelve responsible for our Essential Dozen albums of 2008 to date give us their favourite acts and records of the year so far»
An Essential Dozen: 2008's best albums so far
As the end of June looms, DiS looks back over the past six months, picking out a dozen essential LPs. Here, part one of three picks four frontrunners»
The Weekly DiScussion: 2008's greatest albums, so far
2008 is shaping up to be a great year for album releases, and as we reach halfway DiS is taking a look its shoulder, and asking for your suggestions»
Singles Round-up (09/06/08)
If any proof was needed that Foals have been worth the hype, here it is. 'Red Socks Pugie' - 'Sox' if you must - is our Single of the Week»
Math-Rock Family Tree: exploring the roots of Foals
A couple of months ago one DiS reader asked for proof that math-rock existed. Here, DiS gets itself a headache by diving into the past in order to explain the present, and the all-conquering exploits of Foals»
A Month in Records: March 2008
We’ve enjoyed a veritable banquet of beauties in March - whittling our favourites down to ten was tough work. Expect to see a number of these LPs in December’s end-of-year best-of list, so good is March’s crop»
Singles Round-up (10/03/08)
Proving there’s nothing like firing your dad for raising spirits and getting the creative juices flowing, there’s suddenly a spring in the step of Eel Pie Island's Mystery Jets their contemporaries can’t get near. 'Young Love' is our Single of the Week»
DiS Missive: How to tell the difference between eccentricity and a hair cut
DiS Missive #3 aims its sights at the 'New Eccentrics', comparing Foals and Lightspeed Champion to some true loons, like the bear-riding John Mytton. Also critiqued: all those mean-nothing genres us music writers are so fond of»
The Weekly DiScussion: five new British obsessions?
Despite January's hype, one of DiS's most popular artists of the month was Radiohead. They enjoy not only an incredible influence over many up-and-coming acts, but also retain a formidable fanbase. DiS asks: who could follow in their footsteps from the current clutch of indie-rockers? DiScuss away»
Foaling around: founders' foibles dissected
Last month, Yannis Philippakis was up the road from here, fronting Foals before an Ally Pally crowd anticipating Bloc Party. 'Here', in a north London pub, he's with Youthmovies' Andrew Mears to talk tips, debuts, and odd presents from peers»
It's great in 2008, yeah: DiS's Certifiable Successes picks
Elementary: these acts, says DiS, will be big news in 2008. Some will top charts; others will experience the times of their lives like never before. All will win over new friends ‘til the doubters swarm, rubbing eager palms above poison pens. For now, let’s embrace the new, and wish them well»
Slight return: DiS's tips for 2007 reprised
This time last year DiS was outlining its tips for the following twelve. Next week we’ll be doing similar – bringing to your attention the bands we think will matter in 2008 – but before we get stuck into the future, let’s dwell upon the past a little»
It's great in 2008, yeah: DiS's anticipated albums
There was us thinking that 2007 was a pretty splendid year for albums, and then we get a look at this little lot. Ahead of feature pieces outlining our acts of the year (to be), here DiS scans a number of upcoming releases»
Mixtape #2: Foals
Our second Artist Mixtape is lovingly 'compiled' by on Skins sorts Foals: they're on your telly, in your radio, all up in your grill with some actually excellent selections here. Their craniums: full of gunk»
Truck 2007: the DiS review
It’s the Truck that nearly never was: the tenth in a series, an anniversary to be proud of, but one so nearly ruined irreparably by the summer’s inclement weather (to say the least). Rescheduled, the Oxfordshire two-dayer battled on, staged over September 22-23, and DiS was there to catch the action...»
Foals: "We're going to get weirder and weirder"
Yannis Philippakis doesn’t need too obvious an invitation to spew forth quality copy. The Foals vocalist and guitarist is on the phone to DiS for a full 20 minutes; we reckon we score roughly seven words to his few million over said duration. Good form, sir. Our work is done with minimum input...»
Field Day: the DiS review
DiS sends five of its finest out east for the first-ever Field Day festival. On-the-day gripes aside - beer and toilet queues being the biggest thorn in the debut festival's side - in hindsight the bill was one of the best around this summer. DiS gets stuck into it...»
Underage Festival: wait a minute, these people are all children!
Washing into E3 on the crest of a wave of broadsheet-culture-supplement-saliva, frothing with such terms as “teen explosion!” and “youthquake!”, it was always going to be difficult for Sam Kilcoyne’s Underage Festival to stand up to its own expectations...»
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...»
Dot To Dot: the DiS Reviews
Dot To Dot has happened. Been, gone, ain’t coming back for 12 or so flips of your tits ‘n’ ass Max Power calendar. Missed it? Too bad. We didn’t, and here is what we’re calling Some Words To Prove It. Or: Dot To Dot: the DiS Review...»
DiS @ The Great Escape, part one: Thursday
We left it a week – it needed space to breathe. Even now, every time I read this back I feel like a shoddy, poisoned mess of a human being. It seems like a good time when you’re sober, doesn’t it...»
DiS @ The Great Escape, part two: Friday
As the train flies towards Brighton, the first thing that changes is the sky - what is bold and blue and broken in London is collecting heavy, getting greyer the further we plunge south...»
Dot To Dot Festival: DiS's preview of Nottingham's biggest music marathon of the year
This Sunday, May 27, Nottingham plays host to the biggest Dot To Dot Festival yet - this year it's even got a sister festival, in Bristol. DiS's Dom Gourlay casts a critical ear over the Nottingham bill to pick a few choice acts from the slew of excellent bands performing across a variety of city centre venues... your legs are gonna be wrecked by the end of this Dot To Dot, that we promise...»
DiS podcast: The Great Escape special
DiS's preview of this weekend's The Great Escape is go: here, Sean Adams and Gareth Dobson present ten tracks from artists playing the Brighton-staged, multi-venue event. Neat...»
The Camden Crawl: Our Myriad Highs
At the end of last week, on April 19 and 20, DrownedinSound.com went to Camden. This is nothing particularly unusual – our sorry, drunken bodies can be found slumped over the back of chairs in the north London borough most weekends – but this time we traveled up the Northern Line for a special occasion: The Camden Crawl...»
The Camden Crawl starts here: DiS preview
The Camden Crawl is this week, on Thursday April 19 and Friday April 20 to be exact. Lots of bands, both large of profile and large of hype, will descend upon north London’s dirtiest streets to play rock music for you, the people with tickets. Tickets ripe for exchanging for wristbands. Wristbands you’ll use to get into lots of different clubs and pubs and bars. Clubs and pubs and bars which are playing host to bands. Et cetera...»
DiS @ SXSW: the review
DiS went to South By Southwest t’other week. Perhaps you saw our amazing preview content? Touch wood. While there we did some stuff – you know, stuff – but between sessions of stuff doing we saw some bands. Some good. Some great. Some neither. Some best left unmentioned. You won’t read about them here...»
DiS's Tips for 2007, Part One
Here we are, then: each of us a year older, and each of us a little wiser as to what’s great about music, and what sucks. 2007 holds within its twelve months many a musical treat; here, DiS exposes just a handful of them, with more to follow in Part 2. Foals, Gallows, I Was A Cub Scout and Youthmovies are detailed here, alongside many weird and wonderful more...»
The Christmas DiScussion: who are you tipping for 2007?
Hey, you! Chew that turkey properly and then give us a hand. We want to know about your tips for 2007...»
DiS Radio: DiScover One
DiScover is the Drowned in Sound podcast new music show, featuring tracks from upcoming DiScover bands playing our shows and featuring on the site. This show includes tracks from Youthmovies, Jeremy Warmsley, Foals and new DiS Singles Club signee, Adam Gnade.»
Party for FREE this Friday - Silver Rocket and DiS play pop
DiS has tickets to give away to this Friday's one-off Econoline show in London, featuring stunning support and rubbish DiS DJs...»
Vote for your tip for 2006! Last day of voting!
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