DiScussion: What are your top 8 albums of '08?
Before we compile our super-massive end of year coverage, we want to know what you've loved this year. We kick things off with DiS' returning Editor's favourite albums of 2008. »
Youthmovies News
New Site News: One week on, what works, what's still to come...
One week on and Tom Waddington, our web guru, has been working around the clock to make things work. As we said when we launched it's going to take us at least a month to begin to finish the new site; there is so much still to be done aside from stomping out a few rogue bugs but we had to go live so that the development of the site could be finished. This is where we're at...»
Ne'rmind the old site, welcome to the new one…
"If you don't know, honey, why'd you just say so? Cause I need this now more than I ever did. If you don't well, honey, then you don't. So here we are now, a sip of wine a sip of water. Someday maybe, maybe someday we'll be smarter. And I'm sorry»
In the studio: Youthmovies promise "country and calypso"
Oxford prog-rock quintet Youthmovies were in the studio last night, recording material that'll make up their next release, an EP scheduled for November»
Youthmovies confirm November tour dates
Oxford’s leading proggy alt-rockers Youthmovies have confirmed a number of live dates for November. Bonus: they’re again taking talking-songs artist Adam Gnade on the road with them»
Youthmovie soundtrack strategies: band perform live for Juno girl's new film
Youthmovies will be in London’s Brick Lane this time next week, playing after the UK premiere of Juno actress Ellen Page’s new film»
Watch: Youthmovies live on Channel M
Oxford quintet Youthmovies can be watched right here performing a City Centre Sessions, um, session for Manchester-based TV station Channel M»
DiS @ Summer Sundae: find out which of the new additions will be on our stage
More acts have been announced for this year’s Summer Sundae Weekender – including the five acts who’ll make up DrownedinSound’s stage»
Youthmovies: Tired Irie replaced by House of Brothers for tomorrow's London show
Casting minds back through the mists of time, you may recall that we ran a news story about Youthmovies, Tired Irie and Lovvers playing a show at the ICA in London this month»
Chart round-up: bite-size Bank Holiday edition
You stop work, but the charts keep rolling. Yesterday's movers, shakers, fakers and crap, here»
Youthmovies: ICA show news, plus WIN records for words
Youthmovies to play special ICA show in support of new album Good Nature - win swag in exchange for your view on the album, plus tickets to this awesome end-of-tour gig»
Weekend whetting: Youthmovies single out, live show this Sunday
With the peak looming and the slide to another weekend just over yonder hillock, it’s time attentions turned to Monday next’s releases, particularly the new Youthmovies single»
A Week in Drownload: Youthmovies, No Age, John Maus, the Sticks, Soiled Mattress and the Springs
More of what's good, including the magnificent new Youthmovies video and an Upset! The Rhythm special. Next week: Feist, Ronson x Radiohead, Chairlift, Islands and more.»
A Week in Drowned in Sound: 25/01/08
The strings in our bow.»
Tomorrow: Drowned in Sound live, twice
Drowned in Sound’s indulging in sheer amounts of live show harlotry this week, and we’re not stopping ‘til we’ve rubbed you red raw; you fucks.»
Exclusive: new Youthmovies video
Youthmovies have recorded a video for long-time fan favourite 'The Naughtiest Girl is a Monitor'.»
DiS sponsor Dead Meadow London show: Youthmovies added + download new track now
Dead Meadow are to release their fifth studio album, Old Growth, on February 4, and DiS is pleased to announce that we will be sponsoring the band's London show to support the new LP, at the Scala on March 2»
Exclusive: Foals clear up Sitek 'beef'
Foals frontman Yannis Philippakis has denied claims that recording the band's debut with producer Dave Sitek was a negative experience.»
Errors, Mae Shi, Rolo, Youthmovies: Drowned in Sound announces Bardens residency
Stretching our creaking January backs out wider, we come with news of us, live, with the Drowned in Sound-sponsored Winter Warmer series at Bardens.»
Drowned in Sound launches ‘Drownloads’ ‘blog
DrownedinSound.com has been sworn in with the heroic team - including Kompakt, Warp, Modular and Downtown - at RCRDLBL.com to launch a new audio and video ‘blog. We kick of with a brace of exclusives from Simian Mobile Disco»
Tonight: DiS Pinback show in London
Tonight in London, San Diego indie-rockers Pinback play live at 229, with suitably ace support from The Dudley Corporation and Youthmovies»
UniTRUCK 2.0: Youthmovies + more for Wycombe fest
Hot on the hay-caught heels of the first announced UniTRUCK comes news of a second TRUCK event in Wycombe.»
DiS does dates: the capital's covered
As 2007 nears its end and thoughts turn to Christmas shopping, DiS presents a selection of shows to take your mind off tinsel and turkeys... at least for a wee while»
Tour: 65daysofstatic to play Wembley with The Cure
Keen soundscapists 65daysofstatic have landed a gig supporting The Cure on their 2008 European tour»
House of Brothers: download 'Deadman' ahead of Youthmovies dates
DiS-approved solo singer-songwriter House of Brothers has made a free download of his 'Deadman' track available ahead of his linking up with Youthmovies for a section of the Oxford five-piece's current UK tour...»
Swn Festival tickets go on sale
Tickets for the inaugural Swn festival are now on sale.»
DiS is seven! Happy Birthday to us!
Happy Birthday to DiS, Happy Birthday to DiS... »
Touring NOW: Youthmovies and Adam Gnade
On tour, from this evening through 'til next month: DiS's Youthmovies and US spoken-word poetic dude Adam Gnade (pictured). Buy him gin and watch him spin...»
Brainwash Festival: line-up announced for Leeds charity bash
The Brainwash Festival returns to Leeds later this year for three days of bleeps and beats and riffs and rock, all in the name of charity...»
Eugene McGuinness announces dates aplenty
Fresh from support slots with the likes of The Shins, Regina Spektor and Rilo Kiley, our favourite new singer/songwriter Eugene McGuinness has announced a sod-load of new dates in some very fine company.»
Youthmovies celebrate last night of proms with free download
The third installment from the running series of Youthmovies free live downloads has been made available to you special, special people.»
Jonquil and Youthmovies join forces for Vertical Montanas
The five men of Youthmovies and the quintet known as Jonquil have joined forces for a new project, Vertical Montanas...»
DiS's end-of-summer shindig: updated (oh, and it's THIS Friday)
Early birds at this Friday's end-of-summer DiS bash at London's Monto Water Rats (yes, we know summer's only just started... sorry) will be treated to the sounds of up-and-coming Londoners Hot Rocket (pictured), who have been lined up to open proceedings.»
Fuel your engines: Truck is back
Sadly postponed in June due to flooding, Truck returns over the weekend of September 22 and 23.»
Free Youthmovies ATP download part 2
You may well recall that last month we offered you, beloved reader, an exclusive free Youthmovies download? Well here's another.»
65's away: Sheffield glitch-rockers miss DiS's summer show
65daysofstatic have had to cancel their DJ set at DiS's end-of-summer party - held at London's Monto Water Rats on August 31 - as they will be travelling to Ireland around the time of their set...»
End-of-Summer Party: tickets selling like cakes. Hot cakes. Straight from the oven cakes...
Tickets are selling... selling... selling for DiS's special end-of-summer party at London's Monto Water Rats at the end of the month, so if you want in, you'd best get on it now...»
Youthmovies: tour dates confirmed and two September releases scheduled
Oxford-based five-piece proggers Youthmovies - thankfully not under too many inches of water to measure right now - have planned two releases for September, and a tour for the very same month...»
Breaking news: Truck Festival postponed
News just in, folks: following the flooding of the festival site in Oxfordshire, this year's Truck Festival has been postponed...»
Truck festival: leave the car at home
Keep on trucking, folks – just do it by train, m’kay? Due to the shitload of water that’s just been falling out of the sky flooding the car parks, Truck festival organisers are warning revellers to use public transport to reach the Hill Farm site.»
Free Youthmovies ATP download available
DiS-signed progressive rockers Youthmovies have made an exclusive track available to readers of this here site...»
Latitude: sold out
Off to Latitude this weekend? DiS is. Hope you've got your tickets, too, because the three-dayer's sold out as of now...»
DiS's end-of-summer Russian Circles show: line-up expands
Good news, friends of DiS! Our special end-of-summer bash at the Monto Water Rats on August 31 - headlined by the beyond awesome Russian Circles, who'll be delivering their debut London headline set - has grown. Now, we think, it's time to get properly excited...»
DiS End-Of-Summer Party: new bands announced...
By now you already know who's headlining DiS's super-special end-of-summer party, held at London's Monto Water Rats on August 31. To say we're excited about having Russian Circles play is something of an understatement - we're wetting ourselves in anticipation of one of the best sets the venue in question has ever hosted, trust. But what of the support acts...»
Truck X: Line-up announced
The line-up has been announced for this year's Truck festival.»
ATP Versus The Fans: running order announced
Seriously, are you as excited as we are? I doubt it - the DiS office is stinking, what with all the wet pants littering the place...»
Youthmovies: studio updates via MySpace
Oxford-based and DiS-signed (yippie) all-over-the-place rockers Youthmovies are currently in the studio, working on their debut album. Touch wood and cross fingers now: it'll be out later this year...»
Saturday April 14: DiScover Club is GO
Another day, another free DrownedinSound show, and this one’s a real treat...»
65days: full support bills confirmed
Sheffield electro-post-punking-rock sorts 65daysofstatic have announced their confirmed support acts for all upcoming UK shows...»
Good on Youthmovies: Oxford post-prog-rockers sign with DiS
Good news, all 'ee fans of funny time signatures and trumpet-scorched post-rock fun: DiS Recordings has crossed the t's and dotted the i's on a deal with Oxford-based quintet Youthmovies...»
Next week: two free DiS shows in London
DiS has not one but two free shows up its flappy sleeves for y'all next week...»
Escape to the sea: Great Escape tickets going fast...
Tickets to this year's three-day jolly by the Brighton seafront, The Great Escape, are going fast. Consider this your warning: if you're not ATPing on the weekend of May 18-20, get some of this...»
DiS in Digest: our pick of the week's news
DiS in Digest has been away. We were physically away. Now we are not. Hello...»
DiScover Club update: April alterations
Bad news, brothers and sisters of The Rock - Leeds' ace pop-punkin' trio Sky Larkin have been forced to pull out of April's edition of our once-a-month DiScover Club, held at London's Notting Hill Arts Club...»
DiScover Club update: loadsa free shows for London DiSsers...
Tonight's free-entry event's no one-off, y'know - we'll be putting on more and more free shows at Fopp on London's Tottenham Court Road this year. Be sure to check the site for updated details in the near future. Which leads us quite nicely to this: all the dates for our forthcoming DiScover Club shows...»
Mogwai confirm ATP appearance, PLUS full current line-ups
Scottish almost-instrumental rockers Mogwai have today confirmed that they will appear at ATP's Versus The Fans weekend in May...»
DiS does STUFF: MTV2, tours, shows, sexyfun!
The rest of November sees DiS get all nice and stuff, giving you, the readers, the opportunity to not only attend awesome gigs, but to also watch videos that we've selected on your televisions. In your house! Or flat. Do you have a license? I am telling...»
Adam Gnade joins Youthmovies on tour - confirmed
Wanderer of the great American expanses and writer of some of the most extraordinary modern-folk 'talking' songs to reach DiS's ears in recent years, Adam Gnade has now been confirmed to tour the UK in November alongside Youthmovies...»
Collateral Music All-Dayer: it's this weekend!
Oi, Leeds: get off your bottoms and go to this tomorrow, yeah...»
Inaugural DiScover tour: Youthmovies & Blood Red Shoes
As if to confirm our commitment to new music that little bit further, we're announcing the inaugural (and hopefully start of many) DiScover: New Music Tour, featuring our favourite Oxford-based undefinables, Youthmovies and Brighton's grunged-up sex-rock duo, Blood Red Shoes.»
EXCLUSIVE: Youthmovies play village house party
Rather than taking a day off with their current touring buddies ¡Forward, Russia!, the progressive four-piece (plus new trumpeting recruit, Sam) sent a bulletin via MySpace looking for a house to play before the final support date in Bristol tonight (21st July)...»
DiS Scotland: More nights, more bands, more FUN
Drowned in Sound loves Scotland. North of the border they produce the finest soft drink known to man (Irn-Bru), over the years they've produced some rather splendid bands and now Scottishland plays host to a grand total of three DiS-affiliated nights.»
¡Forward, Russia! + Youthmovies = tour
>Two of the UK's most interesting bands are heading out on the road together this July. I read somewhere, possibly Wikipedia, that if you don't go to one of these dates, you're both ugly AND a heroin addict.»
If at first you don't succeed; Try Harder
A rather spiffing new label is entering the throes of indie magnificence. Sim, Simon and Al (yes, of Youthmovie Soundtrack Strategies fame) are proudly announcing their brand new label and hitting you with the wicked debut 7" from Leicester boys Tired Irie.»
Reading/Leeds: Weather Forecast & Updates
Michael Fishtival gives his top five new bands to investigate and uses his quality insight to give you the best weather forecast ever! On top of ALL of that, he also gives some exciting new news»
Liver damage: W.H.O.R.Efest is THIS weekend
So, you can't make it to Essex for TMF, but you're still in the mood for some debauchery and insane amounts of great music, beer and frolics. Look no further than the inaugural W.H.O.R.Efest (that's White Heat's Only Recorded Ever Festival to you and I).»
One Big WHORE
24 bands, 3 stages, 1 day. WHORE fest, London's best all-dayer?»
EXCLUSIVE: 65 Days of Youthmovie - Tour
Two of the best bands of their ilk hit the road this October. RESULT.»
YMSS single release party: you really Ores to go...
DiS's favourite band with 'Strategies' in their name, Youthmovie Soundtrack Strategies, play a launch party gig in honour of their new, rather splendid single 'Ores'.»
UPDATE: Hurrah! YMSS to re-press, not re-release
DiS favourites Youthmovie Soundtrack Strategies are set to re-release last year’s thoroughly impressive mini-album Hurrah! Another Year, Surely This One Will Be Better Than The Last; The Inexorable March Of Progress Will Lead Us All To Happiness this May»
Youthmovie: Tour, Single, Session, NEWS
DiS's very favourite prog-rockers, YMSS, are going to be busy little boys over the next few months. Read on...»
YMSS Join HOTS Tour
Youthmovies to tour with Hope Of The States...»
YMSS: new Album + Tour
Youthmovie Soundtrack Strategies have a lot of stuff 'going' 'down' right now, as it were, with a new single, new mini album (which doesn't look that mini - especially the title) and tour with 65 Days Of Static coming up.»
Youthmovie Touring Strategies
DiS faves Youthmovie Soundtrack Strategies, who've just released their debut mini album on Oxford's Quickfix Recordings, are out on an equally mini tour with The Edmund Fitzgerald.»
In the City Unsigned: Line-up Announced (Finally!)
In the City, the big ol' music biz shindig, have announced their line-up for the annual A&R scrum to snap up the nations finest new bands for one week, in Manchester, in various venues, with loads of bands playing at the same time. And if that didn't make much sense, nor will this big list of new bands, wh»
Good Nature
The Naughtiest Girl Is A Monitor
Ores
Hurrah! Another year...
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