Transgressive announces 5th birthday bash, featuring Johnny Flynn, Foals + more
Transgressive Records have announced details of their fifth birthday bash, including a whole range of artists from their roster past and present.»
Foals News
Spotifriday: Your NEU! favourite band...
We've a real hum-Dinger of a playlist for all your Krautrock fans today, hopefully a Rother you can't refuse. Ahem. As there's a NEU! compilation of covers coming out on May 18 - entitled Brand Neu! we are celebrating all things Neu! with a playlist of their wares.»
Big names hop on the African Express
It's not actually a train, but it's just as irregular as National Rail's finest: African Express, the collaborative project that sees musicians from Africa and Europe join forces, will put in an appearance at the Beeb's Electric Proms event next week»
Holy Foals! Touring buddies cover each other
If you're planning on attending any of the many dates on Foals' current tour, look out for a special purchase at the merch stand»
WTF: Foals cuss Antidotes
"We don't feel like 'Antidotes' was an insurmountable record by any means. To us it sounds flawed. We just wanna make a different record." - Yannis»
UPDATED: Downloadable Field Day stage times HERE
So, there are just a few days to go until London's own "High Summer Jamboree of sizable proportions" Field Day takes place at Tower Hamlet's Victoria Park»
WIN! Tickets to La Route Du Rock festival in France
DiS has a pair of tickets to give away to the splendid La Route Du Rock festival, held in Saint Malo, France, with Foals and Fuck Buttons»
DiS radio is back! (sort of)
We miss our podcast. You miss our podcast - we know this because we keep getting emails about it, bless you. However, sadly, there are far too many legal barriers to do the show and the royalty payments are astronomically constrictive, to say the least.»
WIN! Tickets to this year's Underage Festival in London
Eighteen years old or under? What are you doing reading this site?! We use naughty words, like bum and poop. Your parents would be _so_ mad if they found out. S'alright though, we won't tell. What's more, how's this... DiS has a pair of tickets to give»
Wild in the Country festival cancelled
First Björk pulled out, then Battles pulled out, and now the whole thing's off: this weekend's Wild in the Country festival has gone the way of Tapestry and been cancelled»
WIN! Tickets for this summer's Field Day festival, London
DiS has a pair of tickets to give away to Field Day - an all-dayer featuring Foals (pictured), Efterklang, The Field, Les Savy Fav, of Montreal, The Mae Shi and many others»
WIN! Tickets to the 20th Dour Festival in Belgium (Mystery Jets, The Fall, Foals, Battles)
DiS's friends at the annual Dour Festival, Belgium - celebrating its 20th anniversary - have given us a number of tickets to give away to the four-day festival, held July 17-20»
A Week in Drowned in Sound: 15/06/08
A run-down of what's been on the site this week... »
Foals’ festival fixtures: stalk the band!
You read DrownedinSound, so the chances are Foals are your favourite band. They’re certainly one of ours – so we’ve painstakingly amassed* this compendium to assist you as you trail the band across land and sea this summer festival season»
Latitude gets better as Crystal Castles, British Sea Power and Foals join the bill
A gleaming set of new acts have been unveiled for this year’s Latitude festival in Henham Park, Suffolk»
Watch: new Foals video
The video for Foals' 'Red Socks Pugie' has appeared online»
Blessed relief: more names added to Radio 1’s Big Weekend
This is more like it – the acts have been announced for the under card at this year’s Big Weekend and Radio 1 have given us some seasoning for our gruel»
Fee fighters: Field Day tickets onsale at face value across London
If paying inordinate amounts of money to thieving ticket vendors has lost what early charm it had, a brief respite comes with the news that from next week Field Day tickets will be available in the flesh, at face value from a number of outlets across London»
Seems British Sea Power are a pretty big deal now
British Sea Power have announced an October tour»
Guardian reveals its top ten music pubs in London
The Guardian has run a list of the top ten music venues in London. What do you think, eh? One omission, glaring: Wembley Stadium. LOL @ NME»
Radiohead, KanYe collaboration on cards as Perry Farrell rages at Lollapalooza line-up leak
A line-up for this year's Lollapalooza leaked last week has been confirmed by organiser Perry Farrell, but he's none too happy with the leaker. He is, however, excited about the prospect of a number of unique onstage collaborations, including the possibility of Radiohead bashing out a tune with one of the other acts on the bill. KanYe West? Foals? Flogging Molly?»
A Week in Drowned in Sound: 04/04/08
Fighting fit, with the rep to back it up»
Youthmovies: Tired Irie replaced by House of Brothers for tomorrow's London show
Casting minds back through the mists of time, you may recall that we ran a news story about Youthmovies, Tired Irie and Lovvers playing a show at the ICA in London this month»
Grinderman eye-up Santogold as Summercase hots up
More names have been added to the bill for this year's Summercase»
No alarms, no surprises, no Radiohead: Reading / Leeds line-up announced
The Killers, Rage Against The Machine and Metallica are to headline this year’s Reading / Leeds shindig.»
Chart round-up: long and sticky
Deep breath required for the charts this week; frankly they’ve seen more action than Prince’s bedroom ceiling mirror and we’re going to give you the long and sticky of it.»
Seems Foals are a pretty big deal now
Foals have announced a September tour.»
Gallows, Foals and The Horrors to play this year's Underage Festival
Gallows have been chosen to headline this year’s Underage Festival»
Field Day 2008: Foals, Mystery Jets and Simian Mobile Disco among first acts announced
The first line-up details have been announced for this year’s Field Day event in east London»
Reconstitued horse: remix Foals if you want to appear on their future single
Take a shot at reworking 'Electric Bloom' if you'd like to appear on a Foals single in the future»
Chart round-up: bite-size Bank Holiday edition
You stop work, but the charts keep rolling. Yesterday's movers, shakers, fakers and crap, here»
Poisoned horse: Foals reschedule tonight's Norwich show to next week
Foals have been forced to cancel their show in Norwich tonight as drummer Jack Bevan has contracted food poisoning»
Hove Festival confirms Jay-Z as headliner; DiS to sponsor Norway five-dayer
Jay-Z has been confirmed to headline this year’s Hove festival, held on the idyllic island of Tromøya, near Arendal, in Norway. As last summer, this year’s event will be supported by DiS – expect daily updates from the festival throughout its duration, June 23-27»
Chart round-up: once more, with The Feeling
Even on a good day Timbaland’s unfeasibly smug just lately, and ‘Scream’ definitely represents a good day, up eight places to 20 this week. It’s a song about fucking, whichever way you slice it»
My Bloody Valentine headline Bestival 2008 bill
My Bloody Valentine are the first headline act to be announced for this year’s Bestival.»
Watch: new Foals video
It's all been a bit quiet on the Foals front recently - so we thought we'd bring you this of a Thursday afternoon, the new video for standout album track and new single 'Cassius'»
Foals, snowboarders and Suggs? Snowbombing 2008 launches
If a week of snowsports and indie rock sounds like your idea of a good time, you’ll be pleased to learn that the line-up for Snowbombing 2008 has been confirmed.»
Foals back Barack, canvass for own votes
A turning of the tide overnight as Barack Obama clinched the Virginia, Maryland and the District of Columbia primaries. Idle chatter will no doubt point fingers at policies, but far more likely is Foals’ wading in on the current political fisticuffs»
'Class swots' class war? NME writer hits out at OMM's 'fear and disgust of the working classes'
NME’s features editor James McMahon has hit out at the Observer Music Monthly, bemoaning an article published yesterday that he saw as promoting an “inherent fear and disgust of the working classes”.»
Exclusive: Foals clear up Sitek 'beef'
Foals frontman Yannis Philippakis has denied claims that recording the band's debut with producer Dave Sitek was a negative experience.»
Chart round-up: outlook 'bleak' for obese livestock
Christmas is coming, the goose is getting so fat both its ankles have broken and all the other fowl have begun to peck at its flesh. This goose is miserable, and it’s got a date with your dinner table.»
A week in DiS: 14th December
DiS gets its shit together and rounds-up the week that just was»
Foals reveal album title, tracklisting
Foals have released more details of their forthcoming debut album in a MySpace bulletin sent out today.»
Foals in Carlisle: not live, tonight, but cancelled
Bad news, northern Foals fans: tonight's show in Carlisle is cancelled»
Foals: Sub Pop load up on horse
Foals have signed to Sub Pop Records in the United States.»
Foals announce first live shows of 2008
After appearing on Later… with Jools Holland and shooting a bewildering new video for ‘Balloons’, Foals look to keep up the momentum by announcing their first live shows of 2008.»
Watch: new Foals video
Foals will release next single ‘Balloons’ on the 10th of December, as the race for Christmas number one heats up.»
Ida Maria tour next month
If you live in mainland Britain, chances are Ida Maria will be appearing on a stage near you soon.»
Foals cancel Glasgow show, rejig tour dates
Foals have been forced to cancel tomorrow night's show in Glasgow and it's all the American embassy's fault.»
Mostly Foals: riding out through the winter
Foals will be touring all through the winter, as they build-up to the release of next single 'Balloons' and their as-yet-untitled debut longplayer.»
Fuel your engines: Truck is back
Sadly postponed in June due to flooding, Truck returns over the weekend of September 22 and 23.»
Exclusive: Field Day organiser answers festival criticism
Following up board posts you can find here and here, DiS went to Field Day organiser Tom Baker with your grievances...»
WIN! Tickets to this weekend's first-ever Underage Festival
DiS - hello, that's us! - has a couple of pairs of tickets to give away for this Friday's Underage Festival in London, held at the city's Victoria Park, E9...»
Lodestar Festival: Cancelled *updated*
Lodestar, the Cambridgeshire festival that was set to take place from 31st August to 2nd September, appears to have been cancelled.»
WIN! Great gig tickets: Foals, of Montreal, Architecture In Helsinki...
It's Friday! Hurray! And what better way is there to celebrate the start of the weekend than giving away some Really Good Actually gig tickets? There isn't one. Except drinking, lots, obviously...»
WIN: Tickets to Vice's 24 hour Jackalope party!
Gee whiz! Vice's 'Tales of the Jackalope' all-dayer sure does look neat. DiS has tickets to give away...»
Loop: bill expanded, tickets available
The first-ever Loop festival, held in Brighton's Victoria Park on August 18, has seen its line-up swell these past few weeks...»
UPDATE: Foals: live(stock)
Foals are to return to live stages across the kingdom in September.»
WIN! Tickets to Field Day
You might not know this, what with all our adventures at festivals in foreign lands, but DiS is actually a sponsor at this summer's first-ever Field Day event, a one-day festival held at London's Victoria Park, Hackney. And now you do know, how's about a little treat to celebrate...»
Old-school sports at Field Day: Battles vs Foals... at tug of war!
Yeah, yeah - there will be some music. But, more excitingly, bands will battle each other at Tug of War at this August's Field Day festival, held on August 11 at London's Victoria Park...»
Foals team up with Bloc Party, Kieran Hebden
Looks like those Foals boys have been busy building a crew.»
Lodestar festival announces line-up
Just when you thought there wasn’t a patch of grass left to pitch a tent on, the BBC 6 Music-approved LodeStar festival arrives as an interesting new presence on the full-to-bursting festy circuit.
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Field Day for the Saturday: festival line-up update
Following the announcement HERE earlier today regarding their new LP, Liars appear to have casually joined the Field Day Festival line-up...»
WIN! Tickets to Bristol's first-ever Dot To Dot Festival
Courtesy of the lovely people behind the fortunes of the equally lovely Annuals - that's one of them, pictured - DiS has a lovely pair of tickets to give away to tomorrow's first-ever Bristol leg of the annual Dot To Dot Festival. Lovely...»
Foals: working with TV On The Radio's Dave Andrew Sitek
Oxford-based stops-and-starts-and-stops band of the moment Foals are to record their debut album with TV On The Radio's Dave Andrew Sitek...»
New Brighton all-dayer: Loop
Brighton will play host to a new all-dayer event this summer, Loop...»
DiS @ Camden Crawl, NW1
Camden overflowethed with the great, the good and the downright rubbish of the music 'biz' last night, and DiS was on hand to witness the lot of 'em. The horror, the horror, etc...»
Transgressive: signings traverse UK for roadshow
A rather fine-sounding convoy of bands will be trekking across the UK next month, as London's Transgressive record label tours its bands around the regions.»
Crawl around Camden: any day you like, with this much booze...
YOU can win tickets - two of them - to this year's Camden Crawl and a crate of scrummy Red Stripe booze. Providing you're over 18, of course. Red Stripe are the official beer sponsors of this year's two-day Crawl, and have very kindly made it possible for DiS to give away this swag...»
Foals on the road
Oxford house party organisers and general conveyors of good-time post-punk, dancey-artrock Foals go out on a long, long tour this month...»
Further festival fun: Dot To Dot is lookin' fine
Nottingham's Dot To Dot festival is taking place on May 27, and is this year preceded by a sister event in Bristol. ..»
Escape to the sea: Great Escape tickets going fast...
Tickets to this year's three-day jolly by the Brighton seafront, The Great Escape, are going fast. Consider this your warning: if you're not ATPing on the weekend of May 18-20, get some of this...»
DiS in Digest: our pick of the week's news
DiS in Digest has been away. We were physically away. Now we are not. Hello...»
DiS exclusive: Free Foals download!
You like Foals. We like Foals. We are agreed. Then let's all download this exclusive live track and dance together in a giant limb-waving orgy...»
SXSW Field Report - Day 2
Austin was full of get-up-and-go today (yesterday). Having broken the back of Dos Equis and Lone Star drinking, there was a brimful of bonhomie and a slew of day parties to attend.»
The Noisettes and GoodBooks for Vice tour
The Noisettes and GoodBooks are to hit the road for the Vice tour next month - and all shows are free-entry for students...»
Camden Crawl: initial line-up confirmed
The first batch of artists playing this year's two-day Camden Crawl has been officially announced...»
Chalk - February update & win tickets
Well, we're three nights into the DrownedinSound.com affiliated superclub that's causing a stir in many circles, so we thought it time to issue an update.»
Great Escape '07: first details announced
This year sees the return of The Great Escape Festival in Brighton, which will run from the 17th - 19th May...»
240 bands set compasses to SXSW
Rounding up confirmations that have come spewing from various media orifices, local website Austinist has collected 240 names that are planning to play at this year's South by South West industry showcase.»
DiS Scotland: Kick off 2007 with I Fly Spitfires
Getting back into the swing of things in 2007 is already proving difficult for some. Me? Well, I've spent the last 12 hours being ill and generally feeling sorry for myself. Not to worry though, as great gigs are around the corner!»
Chalk - a new weekly club in association with Drowned in Sound
Brought to you by Stylish Riots, Young Turks and Drowned in Sound, alongside ActionAid's Bollocks to Poverty campaign, Chalk will be hosting three rooms of DJs and bands, spanned across a range of genres and styles, every Saturday night.»
Foals announce new tour dates
Foals, everyone's favourite math-disco five-piece, have just announced a truckload of dates commencing at the end of January...»
Foals sign to Transgressive Records
The rhymthically-led five-piece effortlessly mix Don Caballero guitar meddling and Kompakt Records-esque intricate drum styles, making them as listenable as they are danceable...»
WIN! Tickets to the Transgressive Roadshow!
Ooooh, tickets to give away for show! Wowsers...»
Oxjam gets Brainwashed in Leeds
The nationwide Oxjam Appeal in aid of Oxfam is to gain a boost from the Brainwash Festival in Leeds next month...»
DiS Barfly July: Two of the Best from Truck
Having ploughed our way through six stages over two days, DiS has returned. We'll be throwing extensive coverage your way this week, but why not relive two of the best from the fest by popping to this month's Barfly shindig for drinks and fun?»
Econoline finally release album number two
London-based indie-rockers Econoline have finally made their long-delayed second album available to the public. This Band Isn't Funny Any More will be available through Stupid Cat Records, and is the follow up to their acclaimed debut Music Is Stupid...»
(Untitled)
Battles. Archie Bronson Outfit. Liars. Electrelane. Four Tet. Bat For Lashes. Foals. Justice. Vetiver. Glastonbury line-up has apparently leaked but this opening line of acts somewhat trumps that Sunday Pyramid stage at Pilton. We’d rather update you»
Leeds Roundup: Part 1
There are some definite organisational 'issues' at this weekend's Leeds Festival. Primarily, and grumbled about right, left and centre over the course of the weekend, are the attempts to cram an unfeasibly large number of bands into an improbably short space of time on each stage's bill.»
Antidotes
Cassius
Balloons
Mathletics
Kitsune Maison 4
Hummer / Astronauts And All
Try This On Your Piano / Look At My Furrows Of Worry
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