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The Weekly DiScussion: The Valentine's Day Mixtape Massacre

Love is, apparently, in the air. To mark Valentine’s Day, we asked a number of artists for their favourite songs of either love or hate. Contributors: The Futureheads, British Sea Power, The Bronx, Jeffrey Lewis, Adam Green and more»

Underage Festival: wait a minute, these people are all children!

In Depth by Jack Shankly

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...»

The Camden Crawl: Our Myriad Highs

In Depth by A bunch of drunk DiS writers

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...»

DiS at The Great Escape 2006

In Depth by Raziq Rauf

Who would have thought that DiS would descend upon Brighton's music industry showcase extravaganza in such fashion. Without a soul in sight waiting to 'network' with a single one of our merry shambles of a crew, we set to work on actually seeing bands. Despite the cruel, bitter wind that insisted on hurtling toward us with near-freezing drizzle as its freight, we actually saw some bands. My word, we saw some rather spectacular bands at that...»

LDN mayor feature

In Depth by Kev Kharas

Kid Harpoon If elected, what would be your first act in power? I'd sleep with my secretary. What else would you change? I'd have all council workers in fancy dress and I'd insert a weekly carnival day. Why should Londoners elect you? They shouldn'»