In Depth
Drowned in Thursday: Child? Forever? Eno?
DiS likes to think of Thursday as the day before festivals start or the night most of the best gigs take place in London. Thursday of course has a popular emo band named after it and is yet another day that Bowie has put in a song title. Of course, 'Thursday Afternoon' is one of those wondrous must-listen pieces of magic which Mr Eno put together. Is it better than Music for Airports? We can't decide but it's certainly as lush and lovely to drift off to, especially after the odd adventure that is 'My Sister = My Clock'. »
Gett OFF to Poland: a festival preview
While there are those who’ll merrily hold court for hours over how much the British festival scene has changed over the last 20 years or so, the erection of a fence near Pilton has got nothing on Poland, which has gone from Eastern Bloc austerity to gen»
Close to P4K-tion: DiS does the Pitchfork Music Festival
While it'll probably be nigh on time for the Apocalypse before consensus has finally been reached on whether Pitchfork represents the apotheosis of music journalism or everything wrong with everything, there's no denying that Ryan Schreiber and cohorts st»
Coachella: DiS' 2008 Review
From the archive... Powering through the desert at as close to 666mph as laws allow, DiS wonders exactly how this Coachella will surpass the mania of last year»
Photo Diary: The National's Green Man snaps
A captioned selection of The National's drummer Bryan Devendorff's Green Man festival snaps»
Green Man 2008: DiS's festival highs (and lows)
A couple of weekends ago, DiS ventured to Wales to brave the incessant downpour for the sixth annual Green Man Festival. Here's some of what we saw»
Johnny Foreigner's 2008 diary: July
More words from the road… the roads of nations far away. Live and direct from Japan: the latest diary from Johnny Foreigner»
The National: preferred festivals and political favourites
For The National, this is the year of the festival. On the eve of their appearance at Green Man, Scott Devendorf talks about the great outdoors»
Green Man 2008: DiS's five festival picks
DiS is getting more and more excited about the sixth annual Green Man Festival - here, we pick five must-see acts playing over the weekend»
Green Man 2008: Q&A with festival founder
Held on August 15-17, the Green Man Festival features one of the best bills of any of the summertime weekenders. Founder Jo Bartlett speaks to DiS»
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»
T In The Park Diary Part 2: Sunday 13 July
Tarnished by a brutal campsite attack, the final day of T In The Park has the potential to go belly up. Thankfully, a stellar line-up makes for a fitting curtain closer to a triumphant weekend of music»
Explosions' ATP: the DiS review
DiS does ATP for a second weekend, this time boarding the Minehead train for Explosions In The Sky's little lot, including De La Soul, Battles and Mono»
Explosions In The Sky's guide to ATP
This weekend, May 16-18, Explosions In The Sky curate the second ATP of the year. The band tell DiS about the background to their festival stewardship»
Artist Mixtape #3: The Maccabees
Continuing with this, the third episode in our Artist Mixtape series, it's the turn of The Maccabees' Felix White to bare all in audio form, the likes of the National, Richard Hawley and the Rumble Strips making the cut»
The votes are in: DiS readers' top 25 of 2007
Cast your minds back, readership: at the start of November we invited you to vote for your favourite albums of 2007 from a shortlist of 50, selected by the DiS editorial team. Now we’re pleased to present the result of the thousands of votes received: the DiS readers’ top 25 albums of 2007»
DiS's features of 2007
We’ve had our albums of the year and our tracks of the year, and here DiS bids you adieu for 2007 with our favourite features of the past twelve months, for your instant-click consumption and eye-aching reading pleasure. Starring Animal Collective (pictured), LCD Soundsystem, Battles, Panda Bear, M.I.A., Gallows, Beirut, Björk and more»
The National: "We nearly lost our minds making Boxer"
On their recent trip to the UK, Aaron Dessner of New York (via Cincinnati) indie quintet The National sits down with DiS in a London boozer to provide a behind the scenes glimpse into the making of one of the year's finest albums, Boxer»
DiS's albums of 2007: 15-11
Here we are: halfway through our top 25 of 2007 – we’ll be running through the full 50 come Friday, but breaking our very favourites into fives makes for a neatly week-shaped series of articles, don’t it?»
DiS's albums of 2007: reader voting is now open!
With Christmas now peeking over the horizon, DiS invites its readers to vote for your top ten of 2007, from our editorially selected shortlist of 50. Choose five of your favourites here. Voting, it will close this Friday, December 7, with the results running December 14»
Dour Festival 2007: the DiS review
Remembered through a haze, of dust, drink and sunshine, this was never going to be the most factual account. But it’s probably the most accurate version of events at the 19th Dour Festival, courtesy of Tom King and Adam Anonymous…»
A Month In Records: May 2007
With Paris Hilton languishing in a prison cell somewhere in California, what better time to reflect on a month in wonderful albums? Like, whateverrrr…
Coming out fighting: The National talk to DiS about their new Boxer LP
In an anonymous-looking London hotel, blearily contemplating another long day of interviews over his first coffee of the day, The National's Matt Berninger knows a thing or two about dulling routine...»
First ever Drowned in Sound download compilation
Tracklisting is as follows:
1. SPOON I Turn My Camera On
2. ELECTRELANE Bells
3. DUSTIN'S BAR MITZVAH Lucy
4. BATTLE Isabelle
5. THE NATIONAL Abel»
A Skin, A Night (DVD & EP)
Apartment Story
Boxer
Abel
Sad Songs For Dirty Lovers
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