Last weekend, DiS went along to Leeds Festival en masse, and as well as putting together daily blogs and Gary Wolstenholme's excellent photo galleries, we thought it would be a good idea to compile a diary of the weekend too. »
DiS's Mark Muldoon happened to be in the area whilst the 12th Coachella festival was kicking off. So he swung by. This is what happened to him.»
Because it is finally SPRING, this week I have reinstated the Bike Riding System of Single Appreciation. And despite spending all weekend wanting to listen to this bit of magnificent on repeat, I still found time to extol the joys of Okkervil River, the Phantom Band, Icona Pop, Grinderman and Matt & Kim. It’s all that blood pumping, you see, it makes you think better.»
In part one, reviews editor Andrzej Lukowski highlights the eleven records he's most looking forward to hearing. »
Welcome to DiS is Ten's 'Artwork Day'. How are you? Well, I hope. As the title suggests, there'll be some features on artwork: there'll be a good artwork top 10, and a bad artwork top 10. And then a couple of record label people are having their say, co»
Edition #67 in our weekly round-up of content, morphed into the form of a playlist.»
Amanda Farah shares her past 10 years in New York, as part of DiS' 10th Anniversary look back at 10 years in various cities and genres. This mixtape featuring suggestions from various nYc bands, also kicks off this week's BlackBerry Torch suggested Mixcloud theme of "local" mixes, so take inspiration from it and make a mixcloud mix for New York or your favourite/local town or city of the past 10 years, tagged DiSis10 to enter our mixers competition. Or share the below mix to enter our listeners competition (more info here. »
The first thing that struck me when I moved to Brooklyn in 2002 was how many anglophiles there were everywhere. I’d been to New York a few times prior to actually making the city my home, and on those trips I’d often connected with blowhard music fans»
As Scotland's nicer, prettier outdoor megafest returns for its fifth year, we sent our man Neil Ashman to the shore of Loch Ness to report on the doings a-happening.»
The latest weekly instalment of our Spotify playlists, themed around the content that's been up on the website in the space of a working week. This edition features Uffie, Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti, The Vaselines, Bonobo, The Strokes, Wild Nothing and many, many more.»
'Ding! 'Ding! As part of DiS' Reading Festival preview, we've made a mixtape of the festival's greatest hits but first, a little prologue from DiS' editor.... »
This tribute comes from Mark Bowen, who once was an A&R man for Rough Trade. He now runs his own independent label Wichita Recordings, which is home to the likes of Bloc Party, The Cribs, Los Campesinos! and many more... »
DiS takes a moment to reflect, and to appreciate the bands that made us the site we are today, basically; the Gateway Acts that opened up new doors of exploration. From Band A to Band Z - nothing would've been possible without that kick-starting someone. With our selections 'outed', it's over to you for your own choices»
Do you think of The White Stripes, Battles, Radiohead etc as ‘DiS bands’, or has the site’s highlighting of a select group of smaller acts from time to time made them ‘ours’ in the place of major label alternatives»
...he'd probably write a better tune than most of the rejects and retards who proffer us Christmas singles year upon year...»
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...»
Although by no means a comprehensive list, here are a few of the albums you should consider shelling out for over the next few months. Better start saving now, it's Christmas soon ya know...
BASEMENT JAXX
Title: 'Kish Kash'
Due: October
Basement Jaxx’s long awaited third a»
CARLING WEEKENDER: MAIN STAGE REVIEWS
FRIDAY 23rd AUGUST at THE READING FESTIVAL
SATURDAY 24th AUGUST at THE LEEDS FESTIVAL
THE STROKES:
Where's the chat? Fine. Have it your way: play your songs and go - »
Yeah, yeah yeah, Reading Festival. What’s the big deal, huh? Get filthy. Get tired. Get battered. Sing. Watch some bands. Great. It bloody well is, alright!?! Did you love it? Were you even there? I was.
N.B. To be read aloud in a Geordie accent
‘Thu»
After a full month's worth of voting, here is the final, formal, and 100% accurate list, as compiled by a genuine Politics BSc (dropout). The rundown of the best albums of 2001 is ready. We could have rushed it out before Christmas like so many other, lesser, lists, but no, we respect»
HELP! My desk is full of CD’s and I feel the need to write about all the ones I like. Please forgive me. Please. I’ve tried - I really have - to put them into a vague stylistic order from crazy chilled to funkier to rawk but that’s a damn hard thing to do and all the EPs’n’singles are muddled with the albums/LP’s. Look»
The Reading Report part 2 Friday 24th. Early afternoon. The Comedy Tent. Mobile phone numbers were exchanged, we split up, heading for different tents, an attempt to get around to watching another band without suffering the same fate as the dancing woman. Stilt walkers were again avoided, were they»
Howdy,
My enthusiasm has kinda run out lately which is why I haven’t written anything for ages. Despite getting a million and one great CDs, I just couldn’t be arsed. The pile has got so big that my parents are starting having ago at me at making the dinning room look like a tip. So I thought I’d better do somethi»
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