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St. Vincent talks Tom Waits, technology and Strange Mercy
Drowned in Sound's editor talks to one of the artists of 2011 about one of the albums of 2011...»
Treasure Island Music Festival 2011 - The DiS Review
Five Years ago, San Francisco did not have a music festival to call its own. Now it has two. While the larger event, Outside Lands, sells many more tickets every summer to those who wish only to pass out in the psychedelic haze of Golden Gate Park to art»
Moving Pictures - Videos of the Year: 3rd Quarter 2011
Our quarterly video round-up from a chap who watches a lot of music videos... »
Spotifriday #108 - This week on DiS as a playlist ft. St. Vincent, Summer Camp, Kelis
This week's Spotifriday playlist featuring Summer Camp, St. Vincent. Memoryhouse, Big Deal, Jens Lekman...and then some! »
Spotifriday #105 - This week on DiS as a playlist ft. St. Vincent, Beirut, Guided By Voices
This week's content-themed Spotify playlist featuring a variety of music from the likes of Butcher Boy, Summer Camp, Guided By Voices, St. Vincent and a few more other such wonderful acts.»
St Vincent, Seb Rochford, The Tiger Lillies and more on Tom Waits' Rain Dogs Revisited
Rain Dogs, released in 1985, is an object of fascination for many Tom Waits fans. On the 13th July 2011, the Barbican Centre will host a special concert with a host of guest artists reinterpreting tracks from the album. Here, the artists involved talk about their relationship with Rain Dogs and how they first encountered the great Tom Waits...»
Spotifriday #93 - This week on DiS as a playlist ft. Lady Gaga, Suede, Gil Scott-Heron + more
This week's content themed Spotify playlist featuring St. Vincent, Death Cab For Cutie, The Antlers, Lady Gaga, Patrick Wolf and a few more, for good measure. Click here to listen to it, will you! 1. St. Vincent - 'The Party' We nearly had a party our»
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. »
Spotifriday #37 - This Week on DiS as a playlist
As much as we'd have loved to fill every other track on this week's Spotify playlist, we couldn't. It wouldn't be fair on the other artists who have made vital contributions to our content over the past week. Sure, you've got the likes of Liars and St. Vincent up top, but you've also got bands like Chrome Hoof putting in the hard yards in the middle of the park. No, I don't even know what that's supposed to mean.»
Spotifriday: DiS Editor's Top 40 Songs of 2009
It's Friday and on DiS throughout 2009 that meant we did a Spotify playlist to compliment our editorial (archived here). Yeah, it is not unlike a covermount cassette wot you used to get on Melody Maker (RIP). Simply CLICK THIS LINK and you'll be whisked to the founder and current editor of this websites top 40 songs of the year playlist. They're not in any particular order per se, more-so organised into a listenable flow - yeah, not unlike a proper mixtape, just without all that pause button bashing ballache. »
DrownedinSound's Singles of the Year: 2009
I have chosen 100 singles I really do implore you to get your sticky mits on. If I had had to put them in order I would have had a breadvan, so I am sure you will excuse the absence of cheap - and vaguely pointless - countdowning. »
Drowned in Sound's Top 50 Albums of 2009 - 50-1
So, that was 2009? Was it a great year for music? A high watermark? Only time will tell but there have been some triumphant, innovative and bold records released and cherished in 2009 and we hope our list of the top 50 of the year reflects this.»
Spotifriday #23 - This Week on DiS as a playlist
This week's Spotifriday playlist, featuring Camera Obscura, Daniel Johnston, Four Tet, Liars, Kelpe, These New Puritans and a gaggle more.»
This Week's Singles: 2/11/09
This week there is more on the thorny issue of bribery, more food-based analogising, a self-re-assessment after falling foul of some marketing gimmickry AND the mesmerically wondrous music (and face) of Annie Clark. »
Spotifriday #20 Side I: This Week on DiS as a playlist
This week's Spotifriday content-related playlist, featuring Muhdoney, Nirvana, Pixies, Sufjan, St. Vincent, Tom Waits, Weezer, A Place To Bury Strangers, Girls and many more!»
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. »
Blank stares and black holes: DiS meets St Vincent
DiS caught up with St Vincent in a noisy ICA bar just before she bewitched London town with her rich fairytale spell of Thirties glamour, lustrous woodwind, screeching guitar noise and flowing electronics.»
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.»
Spotifriday: ID:09 Special - 20 Must-Have Independent Albums of the Year (SO FAR!)
Based on a range of factors, from board discussions, reviews so far this year and utterly subjective personal opinion, DiS' editor has compiled the twenty best independent albums of the first half of 2009 to coincide with Independent's Day.»
Spotifriday: ID:09 Special - 20 Must-Have Independent Albums of the Year (SO FAR!)
Based on a range of factors, from board discussions, reviews so far this year and utterly subjective personal opinion, DiS' editor has compiled the twenty best independent albums of the first half of 2009 to coincide with Independent's Day.»
A Month in Records: May 2009
We really have been spoilt for choice in May. I know, we (I) may have expressed very similar sentiments back for this same feature in April but that was over-enthusiasm at a decent-ish month for music. This month, however, has genuinely been filled with fantastic records. It's hard to narrow it down too much, but here's a pick of the best.»
Hove Festival 2008: DiS's final word(s)
While some did Glasto, a handful of adventurous sorts headed to Norway's Hove Festival. Here: DiS's final thoughts, plus exclusive interviews»
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