Reading and Leeds to be headlined by Americans
The first clues have emerged as to who'll be headlining this year’s Reading and Leeds festivals.»
Miss Black America News
Miss Black America take time off, side-projects are go!
British rock outfit Miss Black America have decided to go on hiatus»
DiS @ Essex Uni: R.I.P. It Up!
DiS's second night out at Essex Univeristy is set to be a blinder...»
Great! Ormond Street benefit with Redjetson and more
A host of London talent heads up a benefit gig for Great Ormond Street Hospital, this Sunday (September 25th) at the Hoxton Bar & Kitchen...»
This April: Things to do in Cambridge When You're Dead (Bored)
April Fools Day safely over and the risk of being caught out by fake listings thus somewhat diminished, the time seemed right to put together a few selected(and subjective) Cambridge highlights for the month...»
Miss Black America - new single, new album, same punishing touring schedule...
Bury St Edmunds' punk rockers Miss Black America are touring to support their second album, 'Terminal'.»
Escaping the festive season in Cambridge...
Where can you go to escape the horrors of the festive season? If you live in Cambridge, here are a few ideas...»
Panic! over for MBA
Miss Black America's Panic! residency begins next Tuesday.»
Listen Out For A 'Signal To Noise'
Transmission Records are bringing out a compilation cd in support of the Handicapped Children's Pilgrimage Trust.»
Miss Black America Tour #5873
Miss Black America are back on the road tomorrow...»
Fear of a Black... Kennet?
Upcoming Love Music, Hate Racism compilation upcomes.»
New Website From Ex-MBA Guitar Man
Ex-Miss Black America guitar legend, Gish, launches new music website.»
LMHR Tour Cancellations
The Love Music, Hate Racism tour has been hit by a succession of setbacks... Following last-minute cancellations in Stoke-on-Trent and Blackburn, the bands' travel plans for Newcastle and Dudley have been decimated and they've been forced to cancel the dates in those locations. This from the news release: »
Solo Gish (Ex-MBA) MP3s
As promised, a website has been created to host Gish's solo tracks. Since being announced on DiS a few days ago, the sheer volume of requests for copies of the EP have meant that sending out CDs to everyone who was interested was simply impossible. As a result, the tracks have been MP3'd to download »
Free Ex-MBA Solo EP: Updated!
Ex-Miss Black America member gives away solo EP for FREEEE... and promptly gets mailbox flooded with too many requests to humanly cope with. Yes that's right, the leg-end that is Gish-on-guitar, made famous around these parts for his two year tenure as guitarist for Miss Black America, has as»
MBA/Antihero/Cultural Ice Age get ready to Rock Against Racism
MBA hit the road again with Antihero and Cultural Ice Age in support of the Anti Nazi League DiS-faves Miss Black America plus Antihero and new-punks on the scene Cultural Ice Age are touring in support of Love Music, Hate Racism. Th»
Love Music, Hate Racism: April Carnival
Death to the BNP! A date for your diary! The second, Love Music, Hate Racism Carnival, takes place in Burnley on Sunday April 27th which is just four days before May's local elections when two of the Nazi BNP's Burnley councillors are up for re-election. The line-up announced so far includes »
Goodnight Jim Bob... on the road
Jim Bob, aka James Robert Morrison, formerly of Carter USM, blah blah blah, is going out on tour. Great. The reasoning behind this madness is the success of ‘Goodnight Jim Bob’, which was a regular clubnite packing out the Hope & Anchor in north London last year (which I never got to go to cos they always bloody cla»
Miss Black America: The New Line-Up (no, they ain't split up anymore!)
Miss Black America, well, Seymour at least, are back and coming atcha soon.. Love 'em, hate 'em, over the course of 2002 you couldn't ignore them, their ranting and the media on the whole, raving about 'em. Amid, the news of their split, and then the news of them reforming, we can now reveal what the hell »
Peel: Festive 50 2002
On Boxing Day the Annual John Peel listener voted chart of 2002 was aired and without further ado, just look at this lil lot...
1 Saloon Girls are the New Boys
2 Cinerama Quick Before It Melts
3 Miss Black America Talk Hard
4 Nina Nastasia Ugly Face
5 Antihero Rolling Stones T-shirt
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Miss Black America: Reform and Tour
You will have heard Miss Black America split up, well forget all about that.. We don't yet have the official line on what's happening as yet but as far as we know, Seymour has rummaged together a band that will continue under the moniker of Miss Black America and they will play the Drowned in Sound »
Miss Black America: Cancel 2 Shows
Dis faves MISS BLACK AMERICA have been forced to cancel two shows this week due to illness... Seymour is bedridden with flu which has been going around the band, forcing them to cancel several recent rockshows, including tonight and tomorrows. In a statement to the world, he proclaimed: "we've dec»
MBA: Tour Alterations
Miss Black America date and venue ammendments. Miss Black America's current tour has changed shape somewhat, so if you were planning to show your face at Leeds, Chesterfield, Glasgow, Falmouth or Northampton read on... September Monday 30 »
Miss Black America: Debut Album Tour
DiS loves Miss Black America. You either rate or hate Miss Black America. Their albums out on Monday and they start another mammouth tour tomorrow, so do your bit and pop along... This time last year we were gearing up for a Drowned in Sound ROCKtober tour with some punkrag upstarts called Miss Black Am»
MBA: Anti-Everywhere
I don't believe it!! Miss Black America, deemed a dis-pet-band, have confirmed details of their album and are once again, touring for the best part of a month... As previously reported those punkrags Miss Black America»
DiS News: Our New Music Magazine
DROWNEDINSOUND.COM LAUNCH NEW MUSIC MAGAZINE... INTRO: Enough is enough! No-one but market targetting majors are controlling and feeding our nations youth! Fact! Yet the kidz are ramming themselves full of drugs, trash food and babies; rather than their heads full of inspiring records, books and mov»
Liars Tour (With) America
New York 4 piece punk band The Liars are here to storm the UK and have one of the uk's hottest properties in tow. The band are to play just 8 UK dates and have got drownedinsound faves Miss Black America & Sonic Mook Experiment as their support. The dates are as follows :- Aug»
Antihero - single details and more tour dates
Antihero have announced a series of tour dates and the revised details for the release of their new single. The forthcoming single from the band, entitled 'rolling stones t-shirt' has had its release date pushed back from the 10th June to Monday the 24th June. As previously repor»
DiS Gig: Sold out!
As we hope you're aware, on Monday (20th May) drownedinsound has a gig @ the Camden Monarch and we're pleased to say the show has sold out. The response for tickets has been overwhelming and we're not sure why (might have something to do with those Crackout boyo's being all over m2 or it might just »
Miss Black America - live dates for the next few months
After 8 weeks of driving up and down the UK touring, Miss Black America begin to get ready for the next single release and video shoot, but you'll hear about that soon enough... In the meantime, a massive list of tour dates, one off gigs and all dayers, starting with a headline set at the "all-dayer fo»
The Dawn Parade: New live dates from saturday..
Due to various venues closing down, being flooded with sewage and so forth, a few live dates have been changed, so here's the new line up for the next 6 weeks of The Dawn Parade dates... Saturday 19th of January (tomorrow) at The Kentish Town Bull And Gate, London. Support comes from Libri»
Miss Black America over the UK
Current faves of the music press Miss Black America are taking themselves on a long jaunt across the uk, to tour their forthcoming single 'Infinite Chinese Box'
You can catch them at the following venues:
January
Thurs 17 - London Camden Barfly @ Monarch NME night
Antihero to record Peel session
DiS favourites Antihero are to follow in the footsteps of fellow stars of the Drowned in Sound Tour Miss Black America by recording a session for John Peel's programme on Radio One. In the meantime, the band will play their next London date on the 5th of Febuary at the Bull and Gate an»
The 1st Drowned In Sound Tour! WiN ViP TiX!
Dear Reader,
Sean, director of dis here... Just thought I better warn you that we have given up just running this site. We have crazily dog-damn-gone-and-done-it and arranged a tour featuring bands we've been raving about for a while. People have been listening to our passionate ramblings, prooving how righ»
I am ONE!
Yesterday, was the first birthday of this 'ere site, Drownedinsound. It has been an eventful year with comings and goings, developments, attacks and various forms of discovery. I'd like to take this opportunity to thank everyone who has played a part in the past year and congratulate all our staff of volunteers f»
Miss Black America and Antihero team up on split single
Stratford based punk rockers Antihero and Miss Black America have joined forces to release a split 7" single on new label Dental Records. Antihero's contribution, 'Who's looking out for number one?', is a previously unheard song and 'Don't speak my mind' is a stalwart of the Miss »
MBA Hit The Smoke
Some of the hotest properties in British music are all in one place and playing just for you! The line up of Stoned Death Games, Antihero, The Dawn Parade & Miss Black America are all playing at the Bull & Gate on Saturday September 8th and I expect there will be a strong Dis contingent there. »
Miss Black America: Sunday, Sunday...
Titled, "No-One Here Gets Out Alive!" you are right to fear what may be about to happen. This Sunday (July 29th), that-band-we-haven't-shut-up-about-lately Miss Black America, are playing at one of those venues in the back streets of Camden called the Dublin Castle - tho I ensure you there is no cr»
Baby Barbecue 2001 details confirmed
Bury St Edmunds very own music festival, as organised by Miss Black America frontman Seymour Glass, has confirmed its lineup showcasing the best up and coming bands in what Seymour calls "the best music scene in the country" an opinion shared by DJ John Peel who dubbed it 'the new Seattle' and the »
Miss Black America on Radio One
Drowned in Sound favourites Miss Black America will be in session on John Peel's programme on Radio One (UK) on Wednesday 18th July. John Peel's show commences at 10pm.
The tracks to be broadcast are 'Roadkill', 'Personal Politics', 'Talk Hard' and Miss Black America'
This is ye»
Miss Black America and Antihero rock Suffolk
Two of Britain's finest up and coming bands Miss Black America and Antihero come together to form a mouthwatering double bill for Miss Black America's homecoming gig at The Break in Bury St. Edmunds with the line up being completed by Fab Janssen. It's a gig that shouldn't be missed as both bands »
Emotional Junkmail
Beautiful Velocity
Love Music, Hate Racism Split 7"
God Bless Miss Black America
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