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News Mixtape: August 2012 ft. Kate Bush, Pussy Riot, Tom Waits, Flying Lotus, Talk Talk, Kanye West and more

News by Al Horner

August came and went so quickly that we at DiS can’t be entirely sure it wasn’t some weird, lucid dream. After all, we're pretty sure Romanian discus throwers aren’t supposed to congregate outside our bus stop, fairly certain that our television doesn’t usually flicker with images of Actual Talented People, and resolutely convinced we shouldn’t have spent the week or two since the Olympics mourning what was essentially an elongated school sports day presided over by the who’s who of bastard conglomerates. But such was the sheer cynicism-crumbling excellence of London 2012 that, well, if you saw DiS stumbling around Stratford at 5am following the Closing Ceremony, a clutch of Mandeville plush toys pressed to our chest, the blue and white of our Team GB face paint smudged from tears, strumming a morose version of Kelly Clarkson's Since You've Been Gone on a battered acoustic guitar to a billboard of Jessica Ennis, uh, thanks for not stealing our wallets.»

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Weekend Listening: LCD Soundsystem, Radiohead, Tom Waits, New Look, Cat Power + more!

News by Sean Adams

More music, less talk... the best of DiS' inbox this week... »

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101 Minutes of Bliss #2: A DiS YouTube Playlist

News 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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5 For Fri: Tom Waits, J.Dilla, Japandroids, Yeasayer, Poolside

News by Sean Adams

DiS' editor hand-picks five things for you to listen to this weekend... »

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Win: Sonos PLAY:3 Wireless HiFi + Deezer Premium+

News by Sean Adams

Tis the season for giving and the kind folks from Sonos would like to give one DiSser a prize which will enhance your ability to listen to DrownedinSound’s top albums and singles of the year. »

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DiS' Favourite Albums of 2011: 20-6

News by Sean Adams

Drowned in Sound's albums of the year countdown continues... »

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Introducing... The 12 Days of DiSmas

News 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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Tom Waits announces new album, private "listening party"

News by Luke Slater

Last week an e-mail/press release was sent round the world telling us that Tom Waits was going to set the record straight. Obviously everyone thought this was going to be a new album, and so it turns out it's absolutely correct. Mr Waits' new full-length is called Bad Me and will be released through Anti- Records on October 24. »

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Spotifriday #83: This Week as a Playlist ft. Battles, Tom Waits, Strokes, Pixies, Austra

News by Sean Adams

It is Friday. It is the end of a fantastic week. Here is our Spotify playlist which soundtracks all of what has been on the site this week... »

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Listen: Tom Waits - Glitter And Doom album preview

News by Luke Slater

A forty-minute-or-so preview of Tom Waits' forthcoming live album Glitter & Doom has been made available entirely for free on his official website. Pretty awesome, considering news only dropped of the record yesterday.»

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Tom Waits given a key to El Paso

News by Mike Diver

Tom Waits - currently on tour under the banner 'Glitter and Doom', playing venues stateside before coming to Europe - has been presented with a key to the city of El Paso, Texas»

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Tom Waits announces European tour dates

News by Ashraf Dumile

Gravel-thoated Lothario Tom Waits has announced the initial batch of European dates to his Glitter and Doom tour this summer»

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Tom Waits announces tour dates

News by Kev Kharas

Tom Waits will tour the western world this summer, confirming he’ll play live in Europe soon after revealing a series of US date»

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Pin ups: Bowie lauds 'mystical' Scarlett Johansson

News by Kev Kharas

Time for our tri-weekly update on the Scarlett Johansson record, lugs – star collaborator David Bowie has spoken about his input on the actress's album of Tom Waits covers»

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'I first realised I was a sexual being listening to David Bowie': Scarlett talks up new record

News by Kev Kharas

Scarlett Johansson has been talking to the Telegraph about her forthcoming Tom Waits covers album.»

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Scarlett Johansson's Blues: Actress ropes in TVOTR and Yeah Yeah Yeahs for Waits record

News by zzzzzz zzzzzz

Some are content with performing in The Horse Whisperer and having the opportunity to make a film with Bill Murray. Some are not.»

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Chart round-up: it's a DiScussion, too. Wow!

News by Mike Diver

So, indie-rock’s holiday in the sun, its honeymoon period following comeback second albums by Razorlight and The Killers, appears to be over: boybands are back, baby, in a big way...»

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Scarlett-hued Tom Waits recordings to be released?

News by Mike Diver

Make sense of this: The Sun reports that Scarlett Johansson is to release a record, entitled Scarlett Sings Tom Waits...»

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The Observer's suggested autumn listening: Beck, Joanna Newsom, Tom Waits...

News by Mike Diver

DiS's Sunday broadsheet of choice - well, we all seem to buy it, anyway - The Observer has published a list of this autumn's must-hear albums. Here, we've listed them for you...»

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Tom Waits to release three-disc set

News by Mike Diver

Tom Waits is to release a three-disc, 54-track set in November, entitled Orphans: Brawlers, Bawlers and Bastards...»

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New Rough Trade comp due: Singer Songwriter 01

News by Mike Diver

Another Rough Trade Shops compilation is due to hit store shelves pretty soon. Rough Trade Shops: Singer Songwriter 01 will be released via Mute on July 3rd...»

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Scandinavian ad men incur the wrath of Waits

News by Mike Diver

Opel cars is in hot water after it screened advertisements in Scandinavia featuring a soundtrack spookily similar to the style and sound of Tom Waits. Even the 'impersonator's singing voice was a close match...»

Tom Waits: Autumn LP

News by Sean Adams

The granddad everybody wants, releases new album in October...»

Ed Harcourt: Dreamy Return

News by Sean Adams

Don't you love it when the nights draw in and the swoonworthy solo artistes return? Well, this time its former Snug-guitarist Ed Harcourt, with a new single, lots of touring and the second proper albums in the pipeline... For those who didnt know, Snug sounded like Weezer doing Beach Boys but»

Wannabe fame-ous and get a deal?

News by Sean Adams

The BBC are looking for YOU! Well, maybe you, but they are looking for songwriters and stars... not false-icons! (not that it states that!) For a reality tv, meets documentary, meets quiz show... It's being billed as "the biggest prize in showbiz history" and although the adverts make it look»