DiS' founder and current editor Sean Adams compiles a playlist of songs that could be heard in the year 2000 (a rough theme we've set for you to build a Spotifriday playlist around - more details here) when this very website was in its embryonic stages. First, a bit of prologue...»
As part of our Múm curated week, Vasilis Panagiotopoulos travelled to Iceland in order to see how the economic crisis and what followed has affected the music scene.»
Here's the highlights of this week on DiS as a Spotify playlist, with commentary from DiS' Editor...»
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...»
It's October first... Happy Birthday to us! And now for an indulgent dose of nostalgia as DiS' founder looks back at previous incarnations of the site»
The third annual Latitude Festival took place over the weekend in Suffolk. DiS picks its ten highlights, and shows off its flashy photo skills here»
DiS is in Spain, again, to catch My Bloody Valentine, The Raconteurs, Justice and more at the annual Benicassim festival»
Many of you may remember that we ran a competition on DiS a few weeks ago to win a trip to Iceland to see Björk and Sigur Rós. That trip happened this weekend, and we asked our randomly selected competition winner, Adam Brooks, to keep a photo-journal of his trip to Reykjavik»
An impressive crop this month, as Flying Lotus and Wild Beasts tussle for supremacy on the DiS stereo, both just about distracting us from the kicking»
DiS decamped to Reykjavik at the weekend to see Björk and Sigur Rós play a gig in protest against the blighting of the country's beauty»
With ATP firmly on DiS's agenda for the next two weekends, we invite some industry types to suggest their favourite acts yet to play the celebrated festival, and you to DiScuss the potentials»
Post-rock's prefixing with 'much maligned' doesn't necessarily seem unfair in a climate of so many Mogwai rippers, but who is pushing the genre in new directions? And just when did post-rock 'jump the shark'? DiS has answers, and more questions»
Based in Brighton, indie label FatCat Records has grown into one of the most celebrated stables for emerging and established talent in the UK. DiS pokes about its roster with founder Dave Howell, discovering how a record store became one of the best labels out there»
As we so rightly stated here, selecting the albums that make up DrownedinSound.com’s Our 66 was no easy task. A great many long-players were considered for many a day and week, only to be cut from the team at the very final moment. Here, we present to you a selection (in no specific order) of some of the albums that only just fell short of a starting place, that were tripped but a few yards from the finishing line...»
DiS celebrated 5 years in October 2005. Here's DiS founder Sean's list of favourite records.»
DiS climbs a Hammersmith high-rise to find Jónsi Birgisson, singer and guitarist in Icelandic quartet Sigur Rós, ready and waiting on the phone from Canada...»
Brighton-based label Fat Cat are dogged by terms such as "ground breaking", "historically important", amd "soul bending". It must be such a hard life releasing all these amazing electronica-through-artnoize records that the press love, that fill peoples lives with so much pleasure and hope and joy. Records that »
It’s Glastonbury time again, and whilst we all froth at the mouth at the prospect of five days of whacked-out, solstice bliss in the Somerset countryside, we should remember the wider implications of the festival. Throughout the eighties Glasto was known as the CND (Campaign For Nuclear Disarmament) »
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