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by Sean Adams
You may remember that a little while back - before DiS HQ was hijacked by festivals and legal threats from bands whose spamming backfired - we made you a 120-minutes-inspired YouTube playlist to mark the launch of http://youtube.com/drownedinsound. If you missed the first one, it can be found here. You lot seemed to "like" it, at least in a Facebook nod of approval kind of way, so we thought we'd make another one, of oldies and newies that we love.»
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by Sean Adams
July 2012 was wet in London, and then suddenly really hot. Many of our readers and staff decamped to sunnier climes for festivals (although most of us ended up in muddy British fields munching on falafels...). This month's mop-up slash digest of what 'we' - staff and DiS readers - have been listening to, hopefully has a few things you love and some stuff you've missed out on that you fall in love with. »
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by Wendy Roby
This year, DiS was an official media partner at Latitude Festival. What this meant, is that we got a portakabin in back of the Lake Stage, and spent all weekend luring bands to it with the promise of a bacon and cheese toasties, a game of RISK, or an opportunity to learn How To Speak Suffolk Proper. Fun was had. Inappropriate jokes were told by Josh T Pearson. Haribo marriages were proposed to Sharon Van Etten. Here's Part One of our highlights.»
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by Dom Gourlay
Drowned In Sound are media partners at this year's Latitude festival, bringing you interviews, sessions and daily updates from the site. Here, DiS editor Sean Adams and DiS veteran Dom Gourlay relive their highs and lows from Friday's bill. »
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by Dom Gourlay
Drowned In Sound are media partners at this year's Latitude festival, bringing you interviews, sessions and daily updates from the site. Here, DiS editor Sean Adams and DiS veteran Dom Gourlay relive their highs and lows from Friday's bill. »
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by Sean Adams
DiS' countdown to Latitude continues with three of our favourite acts...»
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by Sean Adams
Yesterday, Antlers, put up this cryptic YouTube on their website with something about something called Undersea. It turns out those big teases have a new EP with four songs on it coming out on July 30th via the Transgressive Records label.»
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by Sean Adams
You may remember that a band named The Antlers released an album named Burst Apart in 2011, and that DiS really rather liked it. So much so we named it our album of the year. You may also be aware that they're headlining The Shepherd's Bush Empire in London next week (Thurs 26th). We have a spare pair to give away, so that you and a friend can come see them play. Plus the band have kindly signed a copy of Burst Apart to throw in for extra measure. There is a downside however, and that is that you will have to attend the gig with our editor, and he may try and sneak you into the after-party so you can get a photo taken with the band to post on your Facebook (no promises - especially if you sneak off the loo and never come back). »
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by Sean Adams
Latitude festival reveals the first taste of its 2012 line-up...»
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by Sean Adams
DiS' editor runs through the year's most read, as well as his favourite things published on DiS, and elsewhere, in 2011. Plus a competition to win a subscription to the brilliant Stack magazine club.»
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by Sean Adams
Before we announce our albums of the year, we thought we'd spend twelve days building up to it with lists and giveaways.»
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by Luke Slater
It'll be no great surprise if The Antlers' Burst Apart features quite highly in our end of year list. Although we do like to keep you guessing, so nothing is a dead cert around these parts. Still, it's a great record. And good news follows in the announce»
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by Simon Jay Catling
Day 2 at Leeds saw slightly sunnier climbs - only slightly mind - and, for writers Dom Gourlay and Simon Jay Catling ran rather a long way into day three. You don't want to hear of our whimsical frivolities though; joined by Daniel O'Dell here's what we saw yesterday.»
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by Sean Adams
It should probably go without saying but we're very excited to be returning to Leicester's De Montfort Hall on Sunday, to see the line-up wot we hand-picked. Of course we booked stuff 'we' are worryingly obsessed with love and once again the lovely people behind the festival have selected two mighty fine local acts to open the bill. »
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by Sean Adams
Tomorrow, we'll announce our number 1 (can you guess what it is yet?) but for now, here's a quick Spotify playlist reminder the songs that made us wiggle, yelp and blub....»
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by Sean Adams
With only a few weeks to go, DiS has a pair of tickets for Summe Sundae for you to win.»
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by Sean Adams
11 albums we (DiS writers and regulars) have been liking so far this year. Plus a text file that you can download to your Kindle or Smartphone to easily read the reviews of these records, and a few interviews, on-the-go... »
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by Sean Adams
Drowned in Sound is pleased as punch to announce that those blogosphere ravaging, magazine conquering, DiS community adored ladies of indie-rockness Warpaint, will performing on our stage at Summer Sundae on Sunday 14th August. Their debut album The Fool really put the LA-based quartet on the map and they'll be zooming across the atlantic to play at Leicester's huge De Montfort Hall, joining our previously announced, hand-picked by DiS bill of Blood Red Shoes, The Antlers, Factory Floor, Phantom Band and **Everything Everything»
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by Luke Slater
Leeds's Constellations Festival ran for the first ever time last year and we were delighted to be involved with the festival, and we're equally delighted to see that the festivities will continue into 2011 and hopefully beyond, too, with the announcement »
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by Sean Adams
They join the already announced line-up of Factory Floor, The Antlers and The Phantom Band which is headlined by the return of Blood Red Shoes. We still have more names to reveal for Leicester's De Montfort Hall on Sunday 14th August, so if you haven't done so already, go grab a ticket before they're all gone: summersundae.com/tickets.»
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by Sean Adams
A Spotify playlist for one of our favourite festivals. Taking place beside-the-seaside in Brighton from the 12th of May until the 14th (or the earlier hours of the 15th if you wanna be pernickety about it), The Great Escape hosts bands of all shapes, sizes and synthiness. There are big names (Sufjan Stevens, DJ Shadow, Guillemots, John Cooper Clarke), acts who will dominate 2011 (Friendly Fires, Katy B, Gang Gang Dance, Ghostpoet), P4K-championed DiS transatlantic favourites (Antlers, Twin Shadow), UK acts that we love (Phantom Band, Factory Floor, Actress, Becoming Real, Villagers), new crushes (Braids, Still Corners, EMA, Seekae, Seams, Christian AIDS), incredible instrumentalists (Max Richter, Hauschka, Luke Abbott) and a few hundred others...»
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by Sean Adams
This year is the 11th year of Summer Sundae and the festivities will be taking place on the weekend of August 12th-14th, at Leicester's De Montfort Hall and Gardens. DiS has curated a line-up at the festival for the past four years, putting on our favourites, ranging from Wild Beasts and Futureheads through Frightened Rabbit and Los Campesinos! to Gold Panda and Fuck Buttons. We even had Noah & the Whale come play for us the week they were bothering the upper echelons of the chart. »
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by Luke Slater
Welcome to the 12th edition of our weekly(ish) festival news round-up, featuring the news and updated line-ups from some of the UK and Europe's best festivals, and some which aren't quite as good. Despite last week being Number 10 (twice) this week is definitely 12. I think. Anyway, off we go...»
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by Luke Slater
DJ Produce duo Buffetlibre have announced yet more names for their Amnesty International supported compilation, entitled Peace, which now features over 50 artists from across the world including, of course, the UK.»
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by Luke Slater
Right now the Summer, and with it festival season, may very well seem like they may as well be a two hundred years as well as two hundred days away, but End Of The Road festival in Dorset have just announced the first batch of bands and artists to play their lovely little event in 2010. A double dozen of them, in fact.»
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