Metric, Malajube, F'd Up or Chad VanGaalen FTW! Polaris Prize nominees announced
Canada's Mercury Music Prize announces 2009 nominees. »
Metric News
Spotifriday: Drowned in... The Great Escape 55 Track Playlist
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. »
Web exclusive: Rawside of Metric documentary
DrownedinSound is excited to première online this fascinating behind-the-scenes peak into the world of Metric.»
Spotifriday #1 - This Week on DiS as a Playlist
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.»
Drowned-Up: Bat For Lashes, Maccabees, Stone Roses and more
DiS trawls through all the recent music news so you don't have to.»
Metric streaming Fantasies across the UK
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. »
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DiS trawls through all the recent music news so you don't have to.»
Can it, Canning: Broken Social Scenester announces new album
The second release in the Broken Social Scene Presents… series will arrive next month, courtesy of Brendan Canning»
A week in Drownload: SMD, Holy Fuck, Celebration
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?»
DiS is seven! Happy Birthday to us!
Happy Birthday to DiS, Happy Birthday to DiS... »
Emily Haines (Metric / BSS) free download
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: UK tour and debut album release
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...»
Competition: Win a pair of VIP passes for DiS at Chalk this Saturday!
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...»
Metric and Kasabian team up for Playboy = Flaming Lips?
Bands design t-shirts for Playboy. Mick Rock shoots results for Playboy. Playboy sells t-shirts for Playboy (and AIDs charity)...»
DiS.com nominated for Shockwaves NME Award
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...»
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.»
Metric add extra London show due to demand
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'...»
Metric announce extra headline dates
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...»
Bloc Party supports announced + new Metric single news
DrownedinSound Recordings' Canadian rockers Metric are to release a new single on February 5th...»
DiS nominated for a PLUG Award
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...»
DiS gig double-header: tonight and tomorrow! Emmy The Great and Metric, plus more...
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...»
Upcoming brilliant tours: The Gossip and Metric
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...»
Rob Da Bank launches new Rob Da Bank Show with DiS faves
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"»
DiS is Six: Gigs is here
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'.»
His wildest dream comes true, if not his Final Fantasy: Owen Pallett scoops Polaris Prize...
Owen Pallett, aka Final Fantasy, has won the first-ever Polaris Prize in Canada...»
Free Metric download
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.»
DiS delves into the charts; finds little but C to the A to the C to the K...
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...»
Metric, BSS, The Dears and more to Set Themselves On Fire: Stars remix record coming
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 to play Reading & Leeds + UK live dates
Metric join the Reading/Leeds bill and play some UK shows to concide...»
Bumbershoot Music & Arts Festival: full line-up announced
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...»
Iceland Airwaves Festival takes shape... with DiS stage
The line-up for this October's Iceland Airwaves Festival, held in Reykjavík from the 18th to the 20th, is shaping up quite wonderfully...»
Polaris nominees announced: Metric, BSS, Wolf Parade and more...
The nominees have been announced for the Polaris Music Prize, the new Canadian music award we previously reported on here...»
Metric get Wireless
Hyde Park are you ready?»
Emily Metric to release solo album
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...»
DiS Stage at Brighton's Great Escape Festival Announcement
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 DiS. Tour UK in May.
Metric sign to the DiS label and tour UK in May.»
Drowned in Sound Radio No. 3
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.»
Death From Above in a Venue Near You
Canadian duo Death From Above are touring the UK this May.»
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