In Depth
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Festival Review
Iceland Airwaves: The DiS Review
Reykjavík is a beautiful city. That’s the first thing that springs to mind when we arrive within its limits during the pitch black early hours, virtually nonexistent street light during the drive from the airport sending a striking vista of stars rolling out across t... »
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Staff-generated
Spotifriday #66 - This Week on DiS ft. Elliott Smith, Darkstar, Trent Reznor, James Blake...
Where did this week go? And how on earth have we managed to get to number 66 in our Spotify series of weekly playlists wot act like a hyperlink-laden cover mount of what we've covered on the site this week? Time, it really doth fly. Anyway, Luke has taken this whole ... »
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Interview
DiS meets Squarepusher
It seems a rare occurrence for Tom Jenkinson – aka Squarepusher – to come out of his self-proclaimed hermetic state for interviews. After all, save for the occasional takeover day and TV spot, he’s been a notorious busy-body for the span of his 17 year ca »
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In Depth
Order And Chaos: Norway In Noise And Metal
The Quietus' John Doran takes us through all things noisy and Norwegian in the past decade. »
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Interview
DiS meets Dosh
Martin Dosh is a multi-instrumentalist, renowned for his spooling reels that drop in and out, building complex soundscapes that never stray far from beauty. I reviewed his latest record, Tommy, for DiS earlier this year. In short, it got 9/10. More? His m »
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Festival Preview
Supersonic and Swn preview: DiS meets Swans
With the best will in the world, there are few weekends where Cardiff and Birmingham find themselves tussling for the title of most musically happenin' place in the UK... but that all changes over the next few days as Capsule's Supersonic festival goes head to head w... »
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In Depth
Nordic Talking Pt III. ft. Oh No Ono, Ólafur Arnalds + Amiina
Rather than just us choosing our favourite Nordic records of the last ten years and compiling them into some boring and dry list, we thought we'd ask the natives to do the talking (or writing, but that doesn't fit so nicely into a pun...). It's going along with the t... »
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Interview
Glasgow Day: DiS meets The Phantom Band
Over the past two years, The Phantom Band have been one of the leading lights on the Glasgow scene. The sextet’s debut LP, Checkmate Savage, was much lauded when it launched in 2009 and their subsequent live showings have proved the Phantoms to be a band »
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In Depth
Skweee: A Synthesizer Odyssey
As far as developments of musical genres (or subgenres...) go, The Nordic-originating skweee is a interesting as it is recent. We thought it'd be worth a deeper look at such an intriguingly-named type of music although, as it turns out, the music and its genesis is f... »
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Takeover
A Decade of Glasgow bands
To reflect on the last 10 years of music in Glasgow, we thought we’d put together a round-up of the best bands to come out of the city during those 120 months. So, as a fool proof way of sorting out the cream from the crap, we asked the people who’ve play »
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Label focus
Glasgow Day: Chemikal Underground
Ask anyone involved in the Scottish music scene what the foremost label in the country has been over the last decade and they’ll all give you the same answer: Chemikal Underground. Spawned by members of seminal Glasgow outfit The Delgados, Chemikal was »
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Takeover
Drunk and dirty: What makes Glasgow the country’s most exciting music scene?
On the face of it, Glasgow isn’t a natural cultural epicentre. Renowned for its hard drinking locals, the city’s roots are entrenched in the staunch Labour supporting shipyards of the Clyde and the part-football, part-religious tensions of the Old Firm. »
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Artist-generated
From Small Town to Big Time: Two Door Cinema Club's Guide to "making it"
Kev Baird from Two Door Cinema Club gives us his advice on being a band from a small town and how to "make it" in the music world. "First of all, lets cut the bullshit. It would be lovely but let’s face it, success doesn’t exclusively correlate with ha »
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Column
Subliminal Transmissions 03: incl Darkstar interview
In this edition we trace the twilight paths explored by Hyperdub's Darkstar. Their debut album North is released later this month, and has proved to be one of those deceptive records that quietly embeds itself in your consciousness and quickly becomes imp »
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Interview
DiS meets Susanne Sundfør
We have to admit that Susanne Sundfør wasn't on our radar before this year's Great Escape. Having seen the queue for Wild Beasts and summarised that there was n... »
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In Depth
Drowned In Oslo #1
As part of our ongoing series around local interests, we've started to span across Europe and the rest of the world. This inaugural Scandinavian/Nordic installment comes courtesy of Lazy Acre Records head man Ben Manwairing and fits nicely into our Nordic Music Serie... »
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Artist-generated
Nordic Talking Pt II: Haukur S. Magnússon of Reykjavík!
As part of our 10 Years Of Nordic Series we asked a bunch of artists who we like from said region to produce some words on their favourite - or most interesting, most controversial, most fun, most whatever - record of the past decade, and which came out of their coun... »
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Takeover
Keep an eye on: 10 Glasgow bands
Despite playing home to a disproportionate wealth of top-drawer acts over the past decade, Glasgow’s conveyor belt of music shows no sign of slowing. So, as a quick rundown of some of the best music coming out of from the city’s streets, I’ve put together »
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In Depth
This Week's Singles: 18/10/10
This week we have more bands whose singles are really hard to find, they are not smeared liberally over Spotify, SoundCloud, YouTube, Vimeo or any other popular musical delivery system you might care to create and then staff with young men in too-tight denims. Now, e... »
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Artist-generated
Listen: A Nordic-themed Spotify playlist from Ja Ja Ja
As part of our Nordic Music series we asked those wonderful promoters of such music Ja Ja Ja to put together a playlist of songs – what else? – from some of the best and most exciting artists to emerge from the region in recent years. Here's what they came up with. I... »
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In Depth
Spotifriday #65 - This Week on DiS as a playlist
This week's content-themed Spotify playlist featuring tracks from Belle & Sebastian, Sufjan Stevens, Esben & The Witch, Efterklang, Magnetic Man and some more. »
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Column
A Reykjavík Retrospective 2000-2005
As may have briefly been pointed out in other articles we thought - what with Iceland Airwaves being this week and all - that our Nordic Series would be best kicked off with a focus on that very country... »
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In Depth
In The City: Musings From Those On The Ground
An event that brings together people from all walks of the music industry, as part of our In The City preview we thought it’d be fascinating to collect the thoughts and memories of those who’d been involved in it in various strands. »
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In Depth
DiS meets The Concretes
When you’re celebrating the life of anything, a website such as Drowned in Sound, a loved one, a band, the first thing that always resonates after the initial huff at the candles is the realisation that ultimately, nothing’s changed… it’s ups as well as downs. That’s... »