Bestival 2009: The DiS review
Arriving at the fag-end of a summer teeming with gruelling festival weekends, Bestival has enough gusto and idiosyncrasy to more than stand up for itself.»
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“It’s Boss time” – Glastonbury Diary 2009, Saturday
DiS's epic rundown of Glastonbury 2009 rolls on to the Saturday - go here to read about Friday, and here for plucky little cousin Thursday. --- It would be both difficult and tedious to communicate how monumentally awful DiS feels when a blithely vengef»
In Photos: Glastonbury 2009 - Day 3
Glastonbury Photos from Saturday 26th June 2009. For all of our Glastonbury content visit http://drownedinsound.com/lists/glastonbury»
The Weekly DiScussion: who should make the Mercury shortlist?
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»
The Weekly DiScussion: bad cover versions
Klaxons' appearance with Rihanna at this year's BRIT Awards could have gone either way, so in the spirit of things DiS gives the not-rave trio advice on how to negotiate the pop covers minefield. Cough The Manics cough»
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»
The Weekly DiScussion: Brits at the bookies, and our favourites
A week, just over, on and we’ve had time enough to let those Brit Award nominations sink in. Now we're wondering: who's actually going to win, and do we want them to? Here, the DiS office picks its ideal winners, and compares them to the favourites at the bookies. Snap? Rarely»
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»
Prince and Britney, blood and breasts: A Year in News
Here are the most read news stories published every month this year on DiS. Among the stories featured: Arcade Fire vs ambition, Lily vs America, The Horrors vs Elvis, Everyone vs Bring Me The Horizon, and more»
The votes are in: DiS readers' top 25 of 2007
Cast your minds back, readership: at the start of November we invited you to vote for your favourite albums of 2007 from a shortlist of 50, selected by the DiS editorial team. Now we’re pleased to present the result of the thousands of votes received: the DiS readers’ top 25 albums of 2007»
DiS's albums of 2007: 20-16
Will the year's Mercury winners rank higher than the year's best album by The Shins? Will people continue to bemoan the lack of Biffy in the list? Will anyone buy the Mathew Sawyer album? Time, it'll tell»
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: are we one awards ceremony short of three-dozen too many?
As another awards ceremony for musicians - and music websites! - looms on the horizon, DiS wonders: are there too many of these events, filling up our late-night television schedules and covering our already commercially successful LPs with stickers stating "Best This That Or Other, 2007 Awards For Music That Isn't On EMI"? Best live male: Mika? Have you been to one gig all year? Oh, you have... »
Mercury Music Prize, worldwide: DiS assesses the awards...
As the Nationwide Mercury Music Prize looms, DiS wondered what other countries do to recognise their best new artists. We also wondered how the British talent would match up to their international equivalents...»
Reading & Leeds '07: DiS down the front
It's been pretty miserable at times - heavy, pluvial skies pathetic fallacy for debut all-dayers and long weekenders that have sometimes spluttered rather than flown out of the traps. The weather and the times - to an extent at least - brightened last weekend, with the traditional sign off from music in the sun that is Reading and Leeds. And that, I suppose, is reason enough to break from cynicism just this once. It was a bind, but there were finer times. Time to gather thoughts and lighten brows...»
Glastonbury: Sean's Blog - Day 2
DiS's Sean Adams tells his own tale of Glastonbury 2007 - from the backstage to the moshpit and right up to the stars - in three parts. Here, Switches are threatened, boots are stepped on, and a stage invasion is missed... d'oh...»
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.»
DiS @ Coachella: RATM, Arcade Fire, Björk and... Crowded House?!
Harnessing the energy of a rare minute in which a disparate range of artists from the past and present can look to the future and plausibly congregate on the same bill, the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival in Indio, California has steadily become world renowned as the proverbial melting pot, tripping over itself with cultural icons both obscure and ubiquitous...»
Shitdisco on playing Thailand: "They asked us how long we wanted to go for... two months!"
Been asked to play to ten thousand people at Thailand’s biggest rock festival? Broken your wrist touring with Klaxons? Disaster awaits, surely? Not if you’re in Shitdisco and you've managed to cleverly program some drum beats. Gareth Dobson speaks to the Scottish dancemeisters about the joys of spreading their musical word to the East...»
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...»
Klaxons interview podcast & competition
In October, DiS writers Colin Roberts and Raziq Rauf ventured to Reykjavik for the annual Iceland Airwaves festival. Whilst there, as well as scaling churches, dipping in lagoons and drinking bad alcohol, we caught up with Klaxons - mere days after finishing their debut LP Myths Of The Near Future, which has seen the light of day this week...»
DiS's Tips for 2007, Part Two
As promised, here’s part two of DiS’s Tips for 2007. Each and every one of the acts mentioned below have been getting the powers that be at the DiSopolis particularly excited of late, and we’re predicting bigger and better things for them over the next twelve months. Might they touch you? They just might…»
Release Lightning! DiS's guide to 2007's early releases...
It does precisely what it says in the title: this is the DiS guide to some of the finest records coming your way in the first quarter of 2007. January, February and March: each will bear witness to some ace-o-rama releases, and here are just some of them...»
Colin Roberts: My musical moments of 2006
2006 has - every now and then - leaped up and bit me in the ear. Of course, I mean this in the most pleasurable way possible. Like the first time 'Bohemian Rhapsody' went into the rock-out (actually, every time that song metamorphoses is just gets me going) or how 'Idioteque' becomes an all-consuming powerhouse of glory and you can listen to it more than 600 times a day and it still blows your head off...»
Iceland Airwaves 2006: Bands
DiS has been to Iceland! Actually, we've been to Iceland for the past three Airwaves Festivals, but this year one was really different. For a start it was the second excursion of 2006 after April's debaucherous trip for the Rite of Spring Festival, and also because we had a whole night of DiS-sponsored fun. Also, we did a blog and generally pissed around...»
Iceland Airwaves 2006: The DiS preview
This week, DiS is going to Iceland! No! Not to the frozen food haven for some over-sized breasts a la Kerry Katona (formerly of hit UK girl group Atomic Kitten), but to the frozen LAND haven quite a lot further north than Scotland for the quite fantastic Iceland Airwaves Festival that runs in Reykjavik from Wednesday to Sunday. See? We do leave the M25! We’re going on a plane so that things like grass and trees do not confuse us.»
Memories of a Lost Festival: Reading 2006
Already two weeks past, DiS is still trying to get its head round what happened to it in a Berkshire field last month...»
Carling Weekend 2006 - Sunday
Drowned in Sound's coverage of The Carling Weekend 2006 has come to you courtesy of Sean Adams, Sam Corbett, Jordan Dowling, Chris Harris, Ben Jones, Kev Kharas, Christopher Knight, Ben Marwood, Raziq Rauf, Rob Webb and Gary Wolstenholme.»
Carling Weekend 2006 - Sunday
Drowned in Sound's coverage of The Carling Weekend 2006 has come to you courtesy of Sean Adams, Sam Corbett, Jordan Dowling, Chris Harris, Ben Jones, Kev Kharas, Christopher Knight, Ben Marwood, Raziq Rauf, Rob Webb and Gary Wolstenholme.»
DiS at The Great Escape 2006
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...»
It's Not Over Yet
Gravity's Rainbow
Myths of the Near Future
Golden Skans
Magick
Xan Valleys
Atlantis to Interzone
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