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...»
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DiS Albums of the Year 2011: All Our Staff Number 1s
This week, we'll be counting down DiS' favourite 75 albums of 2011, with our top 5 revealed on Thursday. Before we do so, we thought you might find it interesting to see what each of our staff members named their number one record of the year.»
Spotifriday #114 This week on DiS as a playlist ft. Eels, Deftones, Active Child + more
This week's Spotifriday playlist, featuring lots of stuff from the year 2000, including At The Drive-in, Coldplay, Outkast, Deftones and Eels. »
Spotifriday #98 - This week on DiS as a playlist ft. The Horrors, Destroyer, Low + more
This week's Spotifriday playlist featuring The Horrors, Destroyer, Zomby, Low, The Besnard Lakes and a few more. »
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...»
"The eccentric & grizzled uncle I never had" - Ed Harcourt on Tom Waits
Our series of Tom Waits pieces continues with one of DiS' favourite songwriters on his favourite songwriter, Mr. Tom Waits...»
David Coulter on Tom Waits' Rain Dogs
David Coulter, the multi-instrumentalist who worked with Tom Waits on The Black Rider, is the musical director for the live project, Rain Dogs Revisited. With a host of guest artists reinterpreting tracks from Tom Waits' legendary album, Coulter will bejoined by a host of guests on 13th July at the Barbican, including St Vincent, The Tiger Lillies, Seb Rochford, Arthur H, and Camille O'Sullivan. »
Discovering the exquisite carnival of Tom Waits' Rain Dogs
On 13th July, Rain Dogs Revisited comes to the Barbican in London. Over the next three days, Drowned in Sound presents a series of pieces reevaluating and celebrating this classic Tom Waits album....»
Spookify: The Phantom Band's Hallowe'en Spotify Playlist
...moooha-aha-hargh! The witching hour cometh, the undead are rising up and all you can do is stick a few floor boards to your window and hope those zombies don't know how to use a crowbar. Whilst you baton down the hatches, our Hallwe'en weekend overlords The Phantom Band have concocted this selection of All Hallows' Eve anthems that even Satan himself would flash a knowing pair of rock horns at. »
10 Years of singer-songwriters: The Changing of the Guards
They don't make 'em like they used to, do they? Cars, films, local beat bobbies - certainly not singer-songwriters. That was my initial thought when I began to look back upon some of the genre's chief exponents over the past ten years. And it troubles me. subbed and ready to roll...»
DiScussion: Choice Paralysis
DiSser Michael Wheeler ponders whether we should all calm down a little and consider a step or two back from the infinite jukebox in the cloud...»
Column: BBC 6Music, The Library and Me
DiS contributor Mike Wheeler on the day we heard the news that we may see the demise of BBC 6Music...»
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!»
Jeremy Warmsley's Valentine's Mixtape
Ahead of his two Valentine's Day shows and his special Valentine's day download, we asked Jeremy Warmsley to make a mixtape to woo his beloved...»
Versus The Fans, the preview: The ATP Perspective...
Barry Hogan is, to many an extent and purpose, the brains behind All Tomorrow’s Parties, which this weekend stages its first-ever fans-curated event. Versus The Fans’ line-up is built, primarily, of acts voted for by the attendees, by those buying tickets for the three-dayer. Which means DiS didn’t get a vote, as we didn’t pay. We’d have asked for Battles, Mogwai and Trans Am… what’s that? They’re all there? Amazing…»
The Weekly DiScussion: An Open Letter To Muse
So Muse have only gone and sold out Wembley Stadium, before the thing's even open! Now they've added a second show for June 2007. Shitting crikey! Congratulations... now, can we suggest some support acts...»
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