Some Velvet Mixtape: 2013 in Drones, Reverb and Feedback - Part One
With Spring fast approaching, here's the first Some Velvet Mixtape of 2013 featuring thirty-eight of the finest tracks to grace our stereos this year.»
In Depth
Gourlay Files: Clash of the Titans - Sigur Ros vs My Bloody Valentine
Two of the most eagerly anticipated tours in the early part of 2013 undoubtedly center around the return to UK stages of Sigur Ros and My Bloody Valentine. In the second of Dom Gourlay's regular series of Gourlay Files reports from the UK's best gigs, and some of the world's finest festivals, DiS handed Dom the unenviable task of comparing the two in a head-for-head battle before deciding which one came out on top. Let the Clash of the Titans commence... »
Drowned in Sound's Favourite Albums of 2012: 100-51
DiS' albums of the year countdown begins...»
Half-Year: DiS' Most Read Articles, Reviews and Threads of 2012 (so far!)
DiS' most read features, reviews and messageboard threads of the first half of 2012... »
"It actually feels like coming home again" - DiS meets Jonsi from Sigur Ros
When Sigur Ros announced they had a brand new album recorded and ready to go last month the collective sigh of relief could be traced all the way from the United Kingdom to the United States and back again. »
Reykjavík 101 + Five hot bands from the land of ice
With the 2011 edition of Iceland Airwaves fast approaching (it kicks off next Wednesday, October 12 in the country's capital!) we thought "what better time to have a look at what is being produced and made over there than now?". So John Rogers takes a look at what's going down in the local environs and picks a few bands he reckons you should hear, 'cos, well, they're worth it. Read on...»
10 Years Of Nordic...A Digest
As with our other themed and celebratory weeks having digests of their content, we thought it'd be best to do the same thing for our 10 Years of Nordic Series. There was a large chunk of content, so here's a run-down of what happened in News, Features and whatever else we through up. Thanks for reading. Also, while you're here...the list page will not just be home to the crop of stuff that was posted during those two weeks but also to any other relevant Nordic content over time. »
A Reykjavík Retrospective 2000-2005
As may have briefly been pointed out in other articles we thought - what with Iceland Airwaves being this week and all - that our Nordic Series would be best kicked off with a focus on that very country. It makes perfect sense. So we have tried to do that.»
10 Years of Nordic: An Introduction
So, why run a week of Nordic music to look back over the past ten years? Well, aside from being a Nordic fetishist, this series gives us a chance to look at the diversity within a geographical area and in particular one which has been such a deep well of significant quality over the past decade – and one which is surely only going to get richer. This is worth celebrating.»
101 Nordic: A Northern Lights-lit Playlist
Breezy strings, doom-drenched death-metal, synth-pop, submerged harmonies, summery ukeleles and icy xylophones are - as this playlist attests - just some of the sounds of the Nordic region, compiled as part of Nordic Day to celebrate DiS curating a Nordic night tonight in London info.»
Year 2000 - A Playlist of Songs Wot Soundtracked the Launch of DiS
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...»
The Icelandic music scene after the economic collapse
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.»
Spotifriday #5 - This Week on DiS as a Playlist
Here's the highlights of this week on DiS as a Spotify playlist, with commentary from DiS' Editor...»
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...»
DiS is 8! A stumble down memory lane...
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»
Latitude 2008: DiS's festival picks
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»
Benicassim 2008: the DiS review
DiS is in Spain, again, to catch My Bloody Valentine, The Raconteurs, Justice and more at the annual Benicassim festival»
Icelandic Gloat: competition winner's photos
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»
A Month In Records: June 2008
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»
In Photos: Björk plays to 10% of Icelandic population at Náttúra
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»
The Weekly DiScussion: the greatest bands to have never played at ATP
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»
The Weekly DiScussion: when did post-rock jump the shark?
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»
Label Focus #14: FatCat
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»
Our 66: 20 that missed the cut
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...»
Sean's Top Records of The First 5 Years of DiS
DiS celebrated 5 years in October 2005. Here's DiS founder Sean's list of favourite records.»
DiS meets Sigur Rós
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...»
Fat Cat: Label Profile
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 »
Glasto WaterAid
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) »
Favourite 50 - Sigur Rós - ( ) chosen by Alexander Tudor
As part of our continuing Favourite 50 records and our Nordic Series, Alexander Tudor looks at the landmark album by Sigur Rós, known as ( ). »
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