Hello! November has been quite busy hasn't it? Lots of records sneaking out before the year is out... and all the while we've been distracted at DiS HQ trying to work out what our albums of the year will be. Our countdown begins on Monday, but before all that, here's what we/I've been blasting at DiS HQ this month...»
DiS' inbox is being pummelled with videos at the minute, but these at the pick of the bunch that we thought you might wanna fill your eyes and ears with... »
July 2012 was wet in London, and then suddenly really hot. Many of our readers and staff decamped to sunnier climes for festivals (although most of us ended up in muddy British fields munching on falafels...). This month's mop-up slash digest of what 'we' - staff and DiS readers - have been listening to, hopefully has a few things you love and some stuff you've missed out on that you fall in love with. »
Some playlists and a selection of hand-picked videos and streams that our editor has been loving this month...»
Metric's fifth studio album Synthetica has been slipped up online (it is legit, shared by the bands official SoundCloud) for you to stream ahead of its release on June 12th... »
Metric's Emily Haines and Jimmy Shaw discuss their fifth studio album Synthetica with Drowned in Sound editor Sean Adams. This conversation includes chat about the writing of the album, Jimmy's seven "synth symphonies", a photograph which inspired the album, rock'n'roll's existential crisis, whether 'protest music is dead', but the bulk of the conversation swarms around the idea of authenticity in an age of Instagram and Urban Outfitters. »
As we revealed a few weeks ago, everyones favourite electronic-rock-disco-punk Canadians Metric have a new album coming in June (and UK dates too), and now they reveal the first track from it...»
Canadian synth-rock-heroes Metric are coming back to the UK to play some shows to promote their fifth, full-length studio album Synthetica.»
SYNTHETICA is about being able to identify the original in a long line of reproductions. It's about what is real vs what is artificial.»
BBC 6Music kindly let Drowned in Sound takeover the nations airwaves last night, for a special two hour 6mix(tape) featuring some of DiS founder Sean Adams’ highlights of the past 10 years. »
Drowned in Sound + Soundcloud x Tumblr = DrownedinSoundcloud»
Canada's Mercury Music Prize announces 2009 nominees. »
Ahhh The Great Escape, the annual fish 'n' chips 'n' bands funfest beside the seaside. DiS has compiled a fifty-five track companion playlist of acts performing at the event. »
DrownedinSound is excited to première online this fascinating behind-the-scenes peak into the world of Metric.»
Seeing as our previous Spotify playlists have done down so well we thought we'd make this a new weekly feature. Essentially this is a mixtape-like companion, featuring songs from records we've reviewed, bands in the news, people we've spoken to and stuff being talked about on the boards.»
DiS trawls through all the recent music news so you don't have to.»
Metric are back! Their new album Fantasies is now streaming online. Even better news, they're touring the UK and playing the DiS Stage at the Great Escape festival. »
DiS trawls through all the recent music news so you don't have to.»
The second release in the Broken Social Scene Presents… series will arrive next month, courtesy of Brendan Canning»
You may have noticed already, but DiS got its own mp3 ‘blog last week. You’ve probably scanned it once or twice after clicking through the ‘Drownloads’ link at the top of the page and found a green but growing archive of hot sound. Wossat? You ain't?»
Happy Birthday to DiS, Happy Birthday to DiS... »
To give you a taste of the debut solo album by Emily Haines & the Soft Skeleton, Drowned in Sound Recordings (that's our bit on the side) today release a free download single 'Dr.Blind' from our MySpace. myspace.com/disrecords»
Emily Haines & The Soft Skeleton have announced five shows in May and June, including a performance at the Homefires Festival, at the Conway Hall in Holborn, on Sunday June 3...»
This week, DrownedinSound.com is taking over the main room for the first time in our role as media partner. Want to kill time in between caning it on laughing gas and triple-sod at London's acest new club night? Then come with me sonny, I've got a little question for ya. Hur, hur...»
Bands design t-shirts for Playboy. Mick Rock shoots results for Playboy. Playboy sells t-shirts for Playboy (and AIDs charity)...»
DiS.com - hi, you're reading us - is pleased to report that we've been nominated for a Shockwaves NME Award this year, in the category of Best Website. Well d'uh: we were hardly up for shortlisting in the Worst Dressed category...»
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.»
Metric add extra show! The Canadian sensations return to the UK this weekend to begin their tour with Bloc Party in support of their forthcoming single 'Empty'...»
Drowned in Sound Recordings' favourite Canadians, Metric, are back over here to play with Bloc Party but they've added three extra headline dates for folks in London, Brighton and Oxford...»
DrownedinSound Recordings' Canadian rockers Metric are to release a new single on February 5th...»
DrownedinSound.com is pleased as punch to report that we've been nominated at the PLUG Independent Music Awards 2007 in the US, in the category of Music Website Of The Year...»
London, wake up: DiS is putting on a pair of shows for you - yes, you! - over the next two nights. You think we book these things just so we can go out and get drunk? Well stop thinking that - it's only partially true...»
Got something of a penchant for female-fronted rock possessing no little pop? Well, the end of this month and the beginning of next harbour a couple of real treats for you...»
He sent DiS an email which said this: "The new show's called, imaginatively, The Rob Da Bank show! Every Sunday on Radio 1 and covering all bases from the leftfield - techno, indie, reggae, dubstep, breakcore, hip hop etc... A Maida Vale session each week from the likes of Metric, Nina Nastasia, Man Like Me, Kids in Tracksuits or Blood on the Wall"»
So, we're turning six this year; October to be precise. To celebrate, we're promoting, branding and putting our name to a number of events and shows. We'll cut straight to the chase - you should come to as many of these as you humanly can. They're going to be what the French would call 'really good, bruv'.»
Owen Pallett, aka Final Fantasy, has won the first-ever Polaris Prize in Canada...»
Ahead of their performance at Reading/Leeds this weekend we thought some of you might have heard of DrownedinSound Recordings' Metric either because of the buzz on the web, because their part of the Broken Social Scene collective but you might not have heard them.»
Seven days may have passed since last we, DiS, delved into the charts in any detail, but little has changed: Shakira remains top of the singles pile with ‘Hips Don’t Lie’, with Rihanna’s ‘Unfaithful’ at two and Christina Aguilera just below her with ‘Ain’t No Other Man’. We’re still digging that last one; t’other two can naff off...»
Stars' last long-player, the sublime Set Yourself On Fire, is to receive the remix treatment a la the likes of Bloc Party's Silent Alarm and Her Space Holiday's The Young Machines. And, like, A MILLION others...»
Metric join the Reading/Leeds bill and play some UK shows to concide...»
Welcome to Part Something in DiS's series of News About Festivals We Can't Afford To Go To But We Really Want To: Bumbershoot...»
The line-up for this October's Iceland Airwaves Festival, held in Reykjavík from the 18th to the 20th, is shaping up quite wonderfully...»
The nominees have been announced for the Polaris Music Prize, the new Canadian music award we previously reported on here...»
Hyde Park are you ready?»
Emily Haines, front woman of acclaimed Canadian pop-rockers Metric is to follow in the footsteps of Stars' Amy Millan and release a solo album...»
One city, three nights beside the seaside, 14 venues filled with over 100 bands from all over the world and a Drowned in Sound Stage...»
Metric sign to the DiS label and tour UK in May.»
DiS Radio No. 3 brings a 65daysofstatic exclusive, news on DiS Recordings' latest signings, great new music from the States and Britain, as well as a couple of contemporary classics.»
Canadian duo Death From Above are touring the UK this May.»
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