Frightened Rabbit's Scott Hutchinson files his concluding entry for the bands US tour, with talk of some of their biggest shows they've ever played, meeting Twin Peaks' Laura Dern and there are a few mentions of drinking life on the road is really like...»
Merry bastah Scott Hutchison of Frightened Rabbit files more updates from the road, as they snake their way across America...»
Earlier this year, DiS' favourite anthemic Scottish indie-rock band Frightened Rabbit released their fourth album Pedestrian Verse. Rather than sending the band some inane questions, we thought it would be far more interesting to ask that rather eloquent so-and-so Scott Hutchison to keep a diary for us, documenting their adventures in the US of A. We also borrowed some of their Instagrammed shots from the road... »
DiS chats to Frightened Rabbit and premieres a mini-documentary about the making of the new album, featuring brand new unheard material.»
There’s a Finnish focus to this years Eurosonic Noorderslag event, which kicks off today in a far flung corner of the Netherlands. The festival, which is a bit like SXSW if you substitute the Texas sunshine for Holland in January, acts as a superb annual showcase and cross pollination of some of Europes best and most hyped new acts, attracting industry bods from across the continent. John Peel was a regular attendee, and that’s as glowing an endorsement for a focus on new music as you could find.»
DiS has spent some time exploring Instagram in search of musicians to follow (you can follow me as @seaninsound here and @DrownedinPhotos if you so wish. We also just signed up as @DrownedinSound, we'll use it a bit, but it's mostly so no-one pretends to be us), and seeing as last week Instagram launched web profiles, here are a 10 accounts we recommend and 40 more musicians/bands we think you may want to follow:»
A successful, if unspectacular weekend, then, but the potential to build for next year is present in abundance. »
That Truck’s been 'resurrected', then, is good news all round. It returns for its fifteenth edition under the fresh stewardship of Ralph Broadbent, he of Y Not Festival, who has replaced founders and long-term custodians Joe and Robin Bennett. »
In this year of people visiting the UK for various sporting reasons, DiS-favourites Frightened Rabbit share their tourist tips for things to do in the highlands via the medium of diary recounting the best places they discovered on their recent tour... »
It's f-f-f-f-f-f-f-f-f-f-fuh-Friday! Here's our Spotify playlist running down the week that was, well, it was somewhat won by re-issues and threads about pop-punk. Who says we need to be cutting edge all-day everyday? Not Napster co-founder Sean Parker, that's for sure. In fact, I'm a bit a neophobe, and sick of the constant churnover of new bands. But if you want to hear me bang on like the boringest guy in the pub, just follow me on twitter @seaninsound. »
Tonight, in Edinburgh, DiS-favourites Frightened Rabbit are playing a special show, as their original 3 piece line up, playing their debut album Sing The Greys. The album was originally released as a limited edition run of 1000 copies, on this day back in May 2006 (yes, that is five years ago) before getting revamped, re-mixed, re-mastered and re-released on Fat Cat. Seeing as it's fresh in his mind ahead of tonight's show, we asked singer and writer of the songs, Scott Hutchison to walk and talk us through the album, track-by-track... »
DiS did Live at Leeds»
This month's Scottish dispatch centres on the forthcoming festival season, Withered Hand's SXSW stooshy and Jonnie Common's new deskjob...»
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... »
For me, 2010 has been one of the most exciting years in music since the turn of the century. As well as being memorable for literally dozens of amazing records being released this year, there have also been just as many, if not more, unforgettable live performances to revel in... »
DiS usually does a top 50 albums of the year. However, 2010 has seen the release of rather a lot of much-loved records that we have been forced to do a roll-over, in order to highlight a few more must own/investigate records.»
Our local scribe talks us through the rise and rise of Frightened Rabbit, venue closures, Christmas party gigs and much more...»
This week's content mashed into the form of a Spotify playlist, featuring the likes of Orange Juice, Ghostface Killah, Mogwai, El Guincho, Arab Strap, Flying Lotus and Klaxons.»
Scott Hutchison from Frightened Rabbit sent us a postcard from his celebrity packed adventures at V Festival last weekend... As we roll up behind the main stage in our blue-and-mud coloured van, Pixie Lott is doing karaoke to thousands of happy young r»
The much maligned corporately sponsored V Festival opens its doors tomorrow (Friday 20th) at its twin venues of Hylands Park, Chelmsford and Weston Park, Stafford for an event that had long completely sold out well before the majority of its artists were even announced.»
Single Of The Week! Everything Everything - ‘Schoolin’ (Geffen) One of the things I like most about The Shins, is their knack in pitching lyrics on the right side of impenetrability. For it seems to me the best lyrics – the ones that compel»
‘Tis the first of March, and what a bumper first of March it is, albums-wise. SO ON WITH THE SHOW.»
This week: a cheap joke at the expense of The Courteeners, some MZN Dram Rock from Muse (or, as my Mum says, 'Moo') and heaps of wondair plastic loveliness from Tunng, The Witch & The Robot and Yeti Lane.»
It's Friday and on DiS throughout 2009 that meant we did a Spotify playlist to compliment our editorial (archived here). Yeah, it is not unlike a covermount cassette wot you used to get on Melody Maker (RIP). Simply CLICK THIS LINK and you'll be whisked to the founder and current editor of this websites top 40 songs of the year playlist. They're not in any particular order per se, more-so organised into a listenable flow - yeah, not unlike a proper mixtape, just without all that pause button bashing ballache. »
We've picked covers by some of our favourites like Sufjan Stevens, The Polyphonic Spree and Katy Perry, plucked a few festive originals by Frightened Rabbit, The Raveonettes and Emmy the Great, plus a few classics, lots of novelties and plenty of Snoop Dogg. »
More Spotify based fun, featuring Panda Bear, Frightened Rabbit, Liars, Hot Chip, Field Music, LCD Soundsystem, Hefner and a bag more.»
The first time DiS saw Frightened Rabbit play in this venue two years ago, then as a three-piece, you could count the number of punters on the fingers of both hands...»
Our selection of snaps from Day Two of In The City.»
This week's content in the form of a Spotify playlist, featuring Q-Tip, Maps, Ramona Falls, Nosaj Thing and Pavement.»
September is upon us and that means festival season is as good as over. Thank goodness then, for Rob Da Bank and his space-themed Bestival, a one last hurrah and glorious standout in a dizzying summer calendar. There's even the threat of sun this year. B»
Sunday has various songs written about it and dedicated to it but almost all of them are downbeat dreamy affairs. Strangely Sunday has nowhere near as many songs written about it as Saturday but maybe that's because those who've already written songs about Sunday have pretty much nailed it? Most of this playlist touches on things you might do on a Sunday but it's mostly songs that give me the Sunday feeling. »
While it'll probably be nigh on time for the Apocalypse before consensus has finally been reached on whether Pitchfork represents the apotheosis of music journalism or everything wrong with everything, there's no denying that Ryan Schreiber and cohorts st»
I've been hearing people talking up Rockness as better than T In The Park. One cursory look at the line-ups for both festivals will tell you this isn't true, at least in the quantity and sheer size of artists playing, but what Rockness can boast is an atmosphere to match TITP in scaled down format, with a greater emphasis on DJs and dance acts. The organiser's boast that it is 'the most beautiful festival in the world' is entirely vindicated by the picture postcard view of Loch Ness and the lush glen spreading out behind the main stage, with the weather mostly brilliant sunshine.»
Ok, so what with this being Shoegaze Week here on DiS, we thought what better way than to round the whole thing off than by compiling the ultimate Mixtape for the genre.»
As part of our vague 2009 preview week this week, we thought it might be nice to catch up with some of our acts of last year and new acts we're excited about and ask them what they're looking forward to in 2009. This is what they said:»
DiS asked some of the makers of some of our albums of the year, as well as some of our tips for next year, what they want for Christmas. As we expected time off seems to be top of a lot of non-stop touring bands lists...»
DiS asked eight contributors to put together a ten track mix of favourite songs from 2008. Being awful nerds, they did so almost immediately... Plus we want to know: What's on your 2008 mixtape? »
Frightened Rabbit have had one hell of year, from touring with the likes of Death Cab for Cutie and Biffy Clyro, to their life-affirming album The Midnight Organ Fight finding itself at number 2 in our end of year list. DiS caught up with the notoriously timid guys to find out how 2008 was for them... »
We decree that 2008 belonged to the lone, computer-toting musician and a few good (guitar-wielding) people. Herein lie the records which we, the writers and regular readers, have spent the past twelve months lost in. These are the albums we found ourselves coming back to again and again... These are Drowned in Sound's 50 albums of 2008.»
Christmas is a-coming so we've taken a look at a selection of seasonal offerings from the likes of Glasvegas, The Raveonettes and lots lots more...sleigh bells at the ready.»
DiS asked one of our new-bands-of-the-year Frightened Rabbit to keep a tour diary whilst on the road with Death Cab for Cutie, here's what came back... »
The first Concrete and Glass festival kicked off last Thursday with a slew of great performances spread around the various East London venues.Here's some snaps of the action»
Excited about the inaugural Concrete and Glass festival? Yes? Good, us too. It's happening in East London tomorrow, so DiS thought the time was well and truly right to give you our picks and recommendations for the two-day event»
A couple of special birthday party-slash-showcases at Concrete & Glass and In The City»
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»
Tarnished by a brutal campsite attack, the final day of T In The Park has the potential to go belly up. Thankfully, a stellar line-up makes for a fitting curtain closer to a triumphant weekend of music»
The shortlist for 2008's Mercury Prize is announced next week. DiS asks: just who does deserve to win this year's award after Klaxons' success in 2007»
Our latest MySpace Trail - DiScovering new bands blindly, with only Top 8s for guidance - begins with Frightened Rabbit and ends with... who? Find out»
Dampened though DiS’s shoes and socks most certainly are, we’re refreshed by the breezy brilliance of so many of April’s new releases, among them: Portishead, dEUS, Crystal Castles and The Fall»
Based in Brighton, indie label FatCat Records has grown into one of the most celebrated stables for emerging and established talent in the UK. DiS pokes about its roster with founder Dave Howell, discovering how a record store became one of the best labels out there»
It's that time of year. DiS plunges its fearless critical balls into the icy waters of the festive singles glut, and emerges full of the joys of the season. Ish. Honestly, what would the baby Jesus think of some of this crap? Shaun The Sheep? Eeek»
The makers of our current Single of the Week, Frightened Rabbit, have heard awful things about Nottingham's knife crime. DiS calms them down to talk about their breakthrough debut album, Sing The Greys, and its follow-up, expected in March 2008»
Send one DiS writer to the first-ever Connect festival? We think not. Here, three intrepid festival-goers – Jordan Dowling, Dom Gourlay and Dave Kerr – bring us their experiences of three days that can only be summarised as: a muddy festival in Inveraray, Scotland. With some ace bands, as it happened…»
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