From the archive... We spent the last week or more previewing, digesting and sharing Drowned in Sound's experience of Reading and Leeds Festival 2008. Here's all our content, in case you missed anything... now with added Friendly Fires live clip and a report of Day Three»
Music and politics aren't always easy bedfellows, but they are common ones. We're just going to have to put up with the pomposity and wait to see if anyone still remembers the words to 'I Don't Like Mondays' in 2025, then»
Another year, another big weekend at Reading and Leeds festival. DiS sent along some of our finest scribes and asked them to scribble about their five favourites of the weekend. Here's what we got back from them»
This year's Reading and Leeds Festival has just entered its second day. Here's what happened on day one at Reading, and we also bring you some pictures from Leeds.»
Will they rock Reading & Leeds as much as they did years ago? Contrast and compare; plus a bit of rubbing it in for those who're not there»
Feeling decidedly less sturdy of liver than it did this time last week, DiS brings you the first installment of its two-day jaunt round a bladder-battered T In The Park»
DiS went to South By Southwest 2008 and all we got were these photographs... and these words... and no sun burn this time... mercifully»
That’s them, lurking, cluttering the horizon line, destroying your credit limit: festivals, assembling line-ups to die for, and just as many to run a mile from. This summer’s one weekend of sunshine will have a pre-determined soundtrack, folks. DiScuss it here»
With news of The Verve’s reformation still ringing in DiS’s collective ears, this week’s DiScussion is a simple one: who’s worthy of another shot at everything rocking, and who should just stay silent...»
Harnessing the energy of a rare minute in which a disparate range of artists from the past and present can look to the future and plausibly congregate on the same bill, the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival in Indio, California has steadily become world renowned as the proverbial melting pot, tripping over itself with cultural icons both obscure and ubiquitous...»
I keep telling people it’s time for change, that we can’t keep standing still on a backward escalator like this. Records keep the hope and magic of a revolution alive. Seeing the (International) Noise Conspiracy has renewed a lot of my hope, so has the new iDLEWiLD album (great ain’t it?) but I just think»
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