"All songs are about The Sex" - DiS waves farewell to Singles columnist Wendy Roby
Wendy Roby is departing from the Drowned in Sound singles column. We asked her to answer a few questions after four years in charge.»
In Depth
This Week's Singles 18.02.13: Sweet Baboo, Fat White Family, Pick A Piper, Nick Cave
Of this week's single of the week, Wendy says: ".. this appears to be a song about how utterly boring life can be when you throw your lot in with someone else and discard all the spontaneity of early romance; it has lines about how Sweet Baboo is pleased that you categorise his life into 'little tiny piles', even though he still wants you to go and do something crazy - even though that's not How You Live. It also has a pleasingly original and internet-now video, that marries campy memes and real feelings even though you really shouldn't be able to do this. Basically, I put it on and then just grinned at it for the whole of its nearly-five-minutes."»
Push Every Other Band Away: Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Live Report
He moves like Jagger... scrap that, he moves more like Jagger’s shadow. Lithe, crooked, a controlled chaos, with these jutting motions that punctuate the syllable before the plosive sound. Threats, rather than eruptions, from a man who clearly has earthquakes juddering way down inside, alongside that hole where his soul used to be, and it’s from here that he warns you, seconds before the almost inevitable noise explodes»
The importance of sometimes being earnest – DiS meets Warren Ellis
Chris Hitchens, I gather, spoke in perfect sentences. Well then, Warren Ellis (of Nick Cave & the Badseeds and Dirty Three) talks in paragraphs. With three-second indents.»
Spotifriday #92: Nick Cave, Death Cab, Suede, Tom Vek, The Rapture
It's f-f-f-f-f-f-f-f-f-f-fuh-Friday! Here's our Spotify playlist running down the week that was, well, it was somewhat won by re-issues and threads about pop-punk. Who says we need to be cutting edge all-day everyday? Not Napster co-founder Sean Parker, that's for sure. In fact, I'm a bit a neophobe, and sick of the constant churnover of new bands. But if you want to hear me bang on like the boringest guy in the pub, just follow me on twitter @seaninsound. »
List: Jim Sclavunos of Grinderman's 10 Favourite Record Shops
Just look at the acts tagged above, there are few truly great bands that Jim Sclavunos hasn't been a member of. With an ability to cherry-pick like that, you sure as hell can bet he knows the best stores to crate-dig around. With Record Store Day coming up on the 16th of April, we had a theory that he's a well-travelled man who knows all the very best record emporiums, and asked Jim what his 10 favourite stores are, and why... »
DiS meets Grinderman: "We're just perverse old guys really..."
As those that are familiar with Nick Cave slash Bad Seeds slash Nick‘n’Blixa slash Nick‘n’Warren slash Grinderman interviews will surely attest, the man likes to dominate. I’d like to say this is why I chose to talk to Jim Sclavunos, Warren Elli»
Favourite 50: Nick Cave - Abattoir Blues/The Lyre of Orpheus (chosen by Kevin E.G. Perry)
I was just a boy, 19 years old and living in a rented room off Bondi Beach when I first heard Abbatoir Blues and The Lyre of Orpheus. I’d just spent several months in India, and, with apologies to Bollywood, I missed music. The first thing I’d bough»
Spotifriday #11 - This Week on DiS as a Playlist + Mercury albums
DiS likes to end the week with Spotifriday. It's a weekly Spotify playlist which linkedly runs down the best bits from this week on DiS. This is the 11th time we've done it and you simply download the free Spotify software and then click here to listen whilst reading the below stuff or doing whatever you please. »
Latitude 2009: The DiS Review
To paraphrase Billy Piper, Latitude is pretty much honey to the b for the middle class legions of the DiS writing team, and thus it was in considerable numbers that we fell upon this year's edition of the idyllic Suffolk festival. Here are our reviewers' highlights.»
Time to get sheepish: a Latitude preview
There’s little point in pretending that we don’t want to have The Latitude festival’s children, so here’s a rundown of why it’s so awesome and what we're looking forward to the most, in no particular order. Apart from the bit about the sheep.»
Yeah! Yeah! Yeah! Glastonbury Diary 2009, Sunday
The concluding part of DiS' Andrzej Lukowki's adventures at Glastonbury 2009.»
Glastonbury In Photos: Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
Before Blur rolled onto the main stage of Glastonbury, Nick Cave & Co. got their filthy blues out. DiS managed to capture some of the energy and darkness-in-the-daylight that unfolded. Click here for more Glastonbury coverage and Photos.»
Glastonbury In Photos: Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
Before Blur rolled onto the main stage of Glastonbury, Nick Cave & Co. got their filthy blues out. DiS managed to capture some of the energy and darkness-in-the-daylight that unfolded. Click here for more Glastonbury coverage and Photos.»
Alt. Country Week: An Introduction
It's been a dramatic year for the Artists Problematically Known as Alt Country - Bonnie Billy's self-proclaimed "big" record, new albums from Wilco, Bill (Smog) Callahan, Magnolia Electric Co, Handsome Family, and even a follow-up to Nick Cave's classic novel "And the Ass Saw the Angel". Following on from our reappraisals of Shoegaze and Slowcore, DiS takes a look at Alt Country. »
In Photos: Glastonbury 2009 - Day 4
Glastonbury Sunday In Photos takes in everything from Blur to Yeah Yeah Yeahs via Emmy the Great, Nick Cave, a man dressed as a smurf and lots more. Click here for all of our Glastonbury coverage.»
DiSmissive: In defence of Twitter
Over the past few months you may have heard of something called Twitter. DiS has spent some time exploring it and stalking musicians in order to bring you "A guide for music-y things on Twitter" »
Snowed in? DiS presents its playlist for a day of the white stuff
FROM THE ARCHIVE: Originally posted Feb 9th 2007... So there’s me, in bed, still in that delightful state of being neither fully awake nor out cold, and the girlfriend’s leaping about and the curtains are open and it’s all “snow snow snow” and the radio newsreader’s telling me not to travel unless I really have to and I’m desperate to drift off again but before I know it the duvet’s off and I’m marched to the kitchen window to gaze at a garden smothered with six inches of the stuff...»
ATP Australia: the DiS review
"It’s very serious here. Everyone is concentrating. Everyone feels privileged." Rebecca Pellman takes a trip Down Under for ATP Australia in Brisbane.»
Favourite Five: 5 Acts' favourite 5 Albums of 2008 (Part 2)
As part of our year-end round-up we've asked some musicians to tell us what their favourite five albums of 2008 are. Not just any ol' music makers, mind. We've spoken to the creators of some of our albums of this year, as well as some fresh-faced folks with records ready in the wings for 2009 plaudits. In part two Ólafur Arnalds, Shearwater, Vetiver, We Have Band and a Bad Seed tell us which five records they loved in 2008.»
Drowned in Sound's 50 albums of 2008
We decree that 2008 belonged to the lone, computer-toting musician and a few good (guitar-wielding) people. Herein lie the records which we, the writers and regular readers, have spent the past twelve months lost in. These are the albums we found ourselves coming back to again and again... These are Drowned in Sound's 50 albums of 2008.»
In Photos: Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds
Last night, DiS' sensational snapper Gary Wolstenholme popped along to capture Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds at The Carling Academy in Sheffield...»
Singles Round-up (04/08/08)
Ingredients: Sparks, synths, glitter, neon. Actions: stir, roast, cool. Result: Late Of The Pier's 'Heartbeat' is our Single of the Week»
2008 to date: DiS's tracks of the year so far
Three of DiS’s core operators list ten of their tracks of the year so far - a simple premise, and a simple article for you to have fun listening along to»
Mixtape #8: Barry Adamson
Barry Adamson is a British legend. High praise, backed up by experience: the Manchester-born musician has been a member of both Magazine and Nick Cave’s Bad Seeds. And now he's making us a mixtape»
A Month in Records: March 2008
We’ve enjoyed a veritable banquet of beauties in March - whittling our favourites down to ten was tough work. Expect to see a number of these LPs in December’s end-of-year best-of list, so good is March’s crop»
Carnivals of the Grotesque: Nick Cave on Dig, Lazarus Dig!!!
DiS talks to Bad Seeds members Nick Cave and Jim Sclavunos about clogged arteries, ashen plains of negativity and why you should never let Thom Yorke take your inside leg measurements. And the new album, of course»
Dig!!!ing through the catalogue: five of the best from Nick Cave
There’s no two ways about it: Nick Cave is so hot right now. Ahead of DiS's interview with the man next week, and the release of new Bad Seeds LP Dig!!! Lazarus Dig!!!, here we pick five of his best albums to date. And yes, we're still loving the ‘tache»
It's great in 2008, yeah: DiS's anticipated albums
There was us thinking that 2007 was a pretty splendid year for albums, and then we get a look at this little lot. Ahead of feature pieces outlining our acts of the year (to be), here DiS scans a number of upcoming releases»
The Weekly DiScussion: cold comfort songs
This week's DiScussion – if the title isn't too much of a giveaway – focuses on songs to while away off-sick-with-a-cold time. After all, something has to fill the space ‘tween Neighbours and Neighbours»
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