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Drowned in Friday: Party? Drink? I'm in Love? TFI?

In Depth by Sean Adams

Yeah, THANK GOD/DOG/F*CK IT'S FRIDAY! It certainly was the easiest day to pick random tracks for which feature the name of the day in the title. In fact just searching for 'Friday Night' brings up a whole array of interpretations of "party night". Hopefully this playlist goes some way to summing up and soundtracking at least one part of your Friday night frolicking and if not, what says Friday to you? (comment below)»

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Great Escape '09: Freshly Inked: The Temper Trap

In Depth by Sean Adams

In this special edition of Freshly Inked, DiS caught up with Korda Marshall, former Warner Brothers MD and the man who started Infectious Records, whose career has involved everyone from Muse to Sea Sick Steve via Symposium (one of your humble scribe's favourite bands), Ash, Take That, Garbage and The Enemy; to find out about his new signing The Temper Trap and to learn more about his new "music company."»

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Ilosaarirock 2006: DiS does Finland (again)

In Depth by Raziq Rauf

One whole per cent of the Finnish population has arrived in Joensuu this weekend for Ilosaarirock. Fair enough there are only two million people in the country, but that’s still quite a turnout...»

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DiS Staff Top 75 Albums of 2003

In Depth by Sean Adams

Who won? Who lost? What were the best records of the year? Our staff votes have been counted and the top 75 albums of 2003 are...»

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October '03: The Month That Was.

In Depth by Sean Adams

New Column Alert! A brief monthly rundown of the best bits from the month before, curated by the dis editor. Highlights include new bands to check out, demo of the month, October's news headlines, and more...»

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Union Jacked Geetars: Reloaded

In Depth by Sean Adams

Are we experiencing a renaissance? Are british guitar bands finally back on top? Is this the start of a fight back against America? Whatever. Here's 7 british guitar records '03 which you should seek out from Muse, Coopers, Funeral for a Friend, Biffy Clyro, Sikth, Oceansize and the pop band of 2003...»

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BAD MAG NEWS: Issue #2 Delayed!

In Depth by Sean Adams

Drowned in Print? Drowned in Virus' more-like... You never think it will happen to you, that the slack-jawed hackers will kill your fun. You don't expect those kinda things on the news to mess you about, but it has happened to us. Our designer's computer will not compute, our Darkness feature writer»

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The Carling Weekend 2003: REVIEWED

In Depth by Raziq Rauf

So we got the motor/rail equivalent of a slave boat and packed in as many DiS writers as we could [Sean Adams, Ollie Appleby, Gareth Dobson, Ellen Forster, Andy Future, Matt Gregory, Mat Hocking, Sara Lovejoy, James Meehan, Ed Mellett, Kate Price, Raziq Rauf, Ollie Russian, Jo Sutton, George Terry, Peter »

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Carling Weekender 2003: Main Stage Reviews

In Depth by Raziq Rauf

DiS went in 2003. This is what we thought...»

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Falling Single Sales - Do YOU Care?

In Depth by Andrew Farley

Sales of the music single are hitting new lows in the UK. But does it really matter? Of course it does. When I talk to people about the decline of the singles market, I often hear ‘I don’t care’ or ‘I only buy albums anyway’. More commonly I’m hearing, ‘Why pay for one song when you can download i»

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DiS: Summer Guide / Truck Programme

In Depth by Sean Adams

We're putting together a Drowned in Sound "Guide to the Summer" which will double as the Truck Festival Programme. Here's the plan and a bit of a preview and a call for you to get involved by taking out ads, providing photos or stocking the mag (even distributing it if you can!)... We've teamed up with the»

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D:Frag MCR #9 - ROCK n ROLL BABY

In Depth by Raziq Rauf

D:Frag MCR #9 - Manchester’s DiS guide from =RaZ= Well it’s been my birthday this weekend and as you’ll be expecting I indulged myself to a degree which might be less than pleasing to some areas of my internal organs but fret not for I’m not dead. You see? You care really. Battle wounds aside, there»

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D-Frag MCR #6 [RoK like a badger with no feet]

In Depth by Raziq Rauf

De-Frag MCR #6 - Manchester’s DiS guide from =RaZ= Last week was a week in which very little happened but what did happen was of the very highest quality. The 80s Matchbox B-Line Disaster anyone? They’re nuts. He’s nuts. I almost ran away. I had one of those close encounters in the toilets at that »