Good news all, the lineup for the already star-studded Summer Sundae Weekender - the best Leicstival by far - has grown once again. Among the acts added to the bill are Eel Pie islanders the Mystery Jets and New York based, iPod ad soundtrackers, Chairlift.»
This Saturday sees the second international Record Store Day, with all sorts of delights on offer around this isle to celebrate independent music and all it does. Here's a few of the best bits...»
DiS has added a new board for musicians to discuss and share their music, so you can now JAG away to your heart's content...»
A short while ago the annual Mercury Music Prize wheeled out its somewhat predictable list of names. DiS took exception to the several notable omissions. There are releases which have enriched our worlds and could have done with the leg-up that the Mercury was established to provide. Rather than mope around and moan on messageboards we decided to set-up our own award.»
To ensure the band are finely honed for this weekends festivities in fields, Eel Pie Island's finest will play the Barfly, in Camden, London, on Thursday, August 21st. Procure tickets here. »
Eel Pie oddities Mystery Jets are back with another lump of Twenty One for you»
The Falls Music and Arts Festival takes place across two sites on December 29-January 1, in Lorne (Victoria) and Marion Bay (Tasmania), and has lined up a DiS-decent bill so far»
Mystery Jets pull out of this weekend's two Victoria Park events, Field Day and Underage, and their Sunday performance at Summer Sundae»
Mystery Jets have announced that they will not be playing at a number of festivals over the coming weeks, due to illness»
After their many festival dates at home and abroad, playful British pop sorts Mystery Jets will release a new single»
Eel Pie Island's most-famous sons Mystery Jets are to take the sounds of their second LP Twenty One on the road in October»
DiS's friends at the annual Dour Festival, Belgium - celebrating its 20th anniversary - have given us a number of tickets to give away to the four-day festival, held July 17-20»
Bravo, Coldplay: the bed-wetters, so we’re led to believe, have triumphed on two fronts, topping the albums and singles charts this week»
The top ten’s duller than a dead man’s cock this week»
The final line-up has been announced for this year’s Field Day»
Mystery Jets ride on into October»
The charts look like a lunatic's i-Pod set to shuffle this week, read more here»
Hooray! Pure Groove are opening their new shop on the 2nd of June. They will then proceed to spend the rest of the month celebrating that fact. Again, hooray»
Get gear, gear up - festival season's upon us, DrownedinSound flags fluttering against the sunset. We'll sponsor the sky soon, I swear it to you»
The bill for this year’s Summer Sundae festival in Leicester has swollen once again with Macy Gray, Mystery Jets, Efterklang and Lykke Li among those added to the line-up»
Vanloads of new acts have been shipped in to play Reading and Leeds this year»
What happened where this week»
In 'Two Doors Down' west London's Mystery Jets have one of the songs of the summer, doubtless»
If paying inordinate amounts of money to thieving ticket vendors has lost what early charm it had, a brief respite comes with the news that from next week Field Day tickets will be available in the flesh, at face value from a number of outlets across London»
Maximo Park have put together a decent-looking bill for a fundraising show to take place next month»
Smirnoff’s Electric Cabaret returns to Glasgow later this month, hauling a fine evening’s entertainment along with it»
The wheat from our chaff»
The first line-up details have been announced for this year’s Field Day event in east London»
As returns from the wilderness go it’s up there with Jesus and Noel Edmonds – yep, it’s The Futureheads’ back-to-basics anthem-in-waiting 'The Beginning Of The Twist' an exocet up the arse of the charts at 30.»
A new gaggle of acts have been added to the bill for this year’s Dot to Dot Festival»
Returning west Londoners The Mystery Jets are making up for lost time in joyous splurges of activity»
Members of Arctic Monkeys, Mystery Jets, Supergrass and Reverend and the Makers have tethered together to form an ‘indie supergroup’.»
Drowned in Sound was recently in receipt of a communication from popular whimsy-folk artist Jeremy Warmsley.»
West London's Mystery Jets have posted a video sampler of their new record online.»
West London’s Mystery Jets will buckle up, whack on the heater and defecate at familiar motorway service stations next month; as they return to the nation’s touring circuit.»
Having kicked off celebrations in suitably overzealous fashion with Comanechi in Brighton last Friday, tomorrow (August 7) night sees White Heat mark its fourth birthday with a few of its finest affiliates - The Low Miffs, One More Grain and Eel Pie’s absurdist-collective Mystery Jets...»
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You might not know this, what with all our adventures at festivals in foreign lands, but DiS is actually a sponsor at this summer's first-ever Field Day event, a one-day festival held at London's Victoria Park, Hackney. And now you do know, how's about a little treat to celebrate...»
Yeah, yeah - there will be some music. But, more excitingly, bands will battle each other at Tug of War at this August's Field Day festival, held on August 11 at London's Victoria Park...»
Proggy-popping dudes and their dad Mystery Jets have been added to the bill of the rather smashing Field Day festival, held in London on August 11...»
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...»
This Saturday, Chalk - the new DiS-associated superclub launches at Scala, King's Cross, London.»
Brought to you by Stylish Riots, Young Turks and Drowned in Sound, alongside ActionAid's Bollocks to Poverty campaign, Chalk will be hosting three rooms of DJs and bands, spanned across a range of genres and styles, every Saturday night.»
West London's Mystery Jets are asking YOU, the fan, to direct a new video for them.»
Ooooh, tickets to give away for show! Wowsers...»
Hey! The annual Levi's Ones to Watch tour is just around the corner and we're giving you a rather swell opportunity to win a pair of tickets for each of the dates. Tickets that will enable you to access the gig that you win for, by nature of the entry information being printed on some form of paper-based fun...»
Mystery Jets are to play a fourteen-date acoustic tour later this year, and will release an acoustic EP around the same time...»
If so, it's totally apt considering Beyoncé's position on this week's album chart. But we'll get to that in a second...»
Got a single on the way? Know those things called shops? Wicked...»
By way of celebrating our new /Festivals mini-site, DiS has procured two VIP passes to the upcoming Electric Gardens festival to give away...»
The first-ever Let's Rock! Edinburgh one-day gig is to be held this year, on September 30...»
This Sunday (May 28th) sees Nottingham's second Dot To Dot Festival take place at venues across the city, and it's even bigger and better than last year. Over 60 bands and DJs will be spread across four venues - Rock City, Stealth, the Social and the Rescue Rooms...»
The annual lager-fest known as 'The C**ling Weekend: Reading/Leeds' has been bolstered and (somewhat) improved with the announcemnt of a few spades worth of artists... »
West London indie oddballs Mystery Jets are to re-release their darn decent single of last year, 'You Can't Fool Me Dennis', on May 15...»
Bloc Party are to headline an indie-rockin' bill next month in support of the Teenage Cancer Trust...»
One day it's some Busted muppet versus Harry Potter, then Wayne Coyne has a dig at pop puppets, and Pink mickey-takes everyone in a single video blow; now, Mystery Jets have chirped up about their dislike of fellow London indie types Hard-Fi...»
Mystery Jets are to take their jaunty pop choons inside from the cold next month, as they play a series of in-store shows at HMV outlets across this merry land...»
West London's unpredictably joyous Mystery Jets have released details of their debut album and next single.»
Several bands from the UK have been confirmed to play the brilliantly named, annual international music industry showcase that is the Noorderslag Weekend»
Simple, really: Mystery Jets tour from the end of August and into September. They're not bad, y'know...»
Mad crazy brilliant band The Mystery Jets release their second single ‘On My Feet’ through Good & Evil on 6th June.»
There's this thing on Friday we'd like to tell you about...»
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