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Frightened Rabbit: Tour Diary Part 5 - New York, Boston, DC, Philly
Frightened Rabbit's Scott Hutchinson files his concluding entry for the bands US tour, with talk of some of their biggest shows they've ever played, meeting Twin Peaks' Laura Dern and there are a few mentions of drinking life on the road is really like...»
Wampire: 10 things musicians need to know to survive multi-venue festivals like SXSW
Wampire on the ten things you need to know before you play SXSW (or any multi-venue festival).»
First listen: Daft Punk's Random Access Memories
Daft Punk's Random Access Memories is a lavish celebration of a time when dance music was human and had a proper beating heart, told through the eyes of two robots who have redefined computer music. It’s when pop-rock was easy and groovy, when the people that played it had impressive facial hair and their melodies had the bronze glow of a sunset over the Pacific Coast. It’s also bloody bonkers.»
Canon in the 1990s: From Spiritualized to Coolio, Regurgitating Pachelbel's Canon
The New York Times describing it as “...fast, funny, catchy and high-powered.” BBC Radio One listeners voted it “The Greatest Punk Song of All Time” in 2006. Missing from any appraisal of Green Day's 'Basket Case' was mention of the chord progression, which closely mirrored a piece of chamber music written in the seventeenth century by Johann Pachelbel, Canon in D. »
DiS Does Singles 29.04.13: Daughter, Phoenix, Classixx, Dutch Uncles
Hello and welcome to another edition of your favourite singles column on Drowned In Sound. It's the week after Record Store Day, which means I hope you got that David Bowie vinyl you were after and the supply of brand new singles is a little depleted. The upshot of this is that there was room to squeeze in a cheeky Phoenix remix and Jessie Ware's cover of a 90s R&B anthem. That's in addition to already brilliant tracks by Classixx, Daughter, Dutch Uncles and The Pastels. Also, will.i.am's Justin Bieber collaboration is revealed to be pure woe.»
Champion Sound #12: Feat. Southern Hospitality's First Quarter Future Jams mix
London has always had a place for rap music - it’s too great a city not to - but finding the right club is a little trickier.»
"Kids aren't as political now" - DiS meets Bobby Gillespie of Primal Scream
In one of Bobby Gillespie's most candid interviews in years, we spend the next hour or so discussing the new record, Primal Scream's legacy, former band members, the lack of dissent within the arts and how fatherhood has changed him. However, first on the agenda is a topic currently on the tip of the nation's tongues; Margaret Thatcher's funeral. »
Live at Leeds 2013 - The DiS Preview
The Live at Leeds venue-hopping alldayer is nearly upon us again, taking place on the bank holiday weekend across a staggering 15 city-centre venues over a 12 hour period means that this years’ attendees have an overwhelming amount of choice.»
Planet Gear: The Boy Least Likely To on recording The Great Perhaps
'Planet Gear' is an irregular feature on DiS, in which we ask musicians to get a bit geeky and talk us through the equipment that makes the 'magic' happen... Here, The Boy Least Likely To talk us through the making of their fourth album, The Great Perhaps.»
"If we made it big we'd move to LA and buy motorbikes & guns" - DIS meets Wet Nuns
Formed over “a mutual enjoyment of cat videos, Alan Partridge, and drone metal” Wet Nuns, aka Alexis Gotts and guitarist/vocalist Rob Graham, take the blues and administer a lethal shot of raw rock n roll attitude to make The Black Keys look like sissy little choir boys. »
"More bands should split up" - Brett Anderson opens up to DiS about the return of Suede
Drowned in Manchester #15 – May 2013
armchair dancefloor 39: Mount Kimbie interview, Bobby Browser, Powell, Move D, Leon Vynehall...
DiS meets John Lydon - Part 1: The Man
DiS Does Singles 20.05.13: Paramore, Laura Marling, The Replacements
DiS joins the Music Alliance Pact + May 2013's global MAP compilation
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