In Depth
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Festival Review
Iceland Airwaves 2011 - The DiS review
There is just something about Iceland. In reality it is not one single thing but a combination of them, from the people, the weather, the city of Reykjavík and, above all, all of these distilled in a few days in the middle of October that make up the annual Airwaves ... »
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Column
DiS Does Pop: Sugababes' One Touch
Here's the first edition of a new column from Drowned In Sound which aims to delve into the world of pop music with a steady measure of snark and celebration. We consider it a duty and a privilege to wade through the Top 40, Olly Murs and all, plucking out everything... »
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In Depth
This Week's Singles: 24/10/11 Icona Pop, Peggy Sue, Casiokids, The Leisure Society
Roby is roaming the Irish countryside, so Jazz Monroe has stepped in to do(!) this week's singles...
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Discography Reassessed
A decade of Drukqs: Aphex Twin’s opus, ten years on
... a decade on it is more vital and relevant than ever, not only in the murky undertow of “credible” music circles but in the cold harsh light of mainstream pop culture too: mined for samples by Kanye West, used on the much cherished American institution that is Sat... »
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Interview
"I don't trust anyone": DiS meets Plan B
One of the UK music industry's most surprising success stories in recent years undoubtedly has to be the meteoric rise to fame of rapper-cum-soul singer Plan B. »
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Festivals
Treasure Island Music Festival 2011 - The DiS Review
Five Years ago, San Francisco did not have a music festival to call its own. Now it has two. While the larger event, Outside Lands, sells many more tickets every summer to those who wish only to pass out in the psychedelic haze of Golden Gate Park to art »
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In Depth
Spotifriday #113 - This Week as DiS on a playlist ft. Ben Frost, Lana Del Rey, Warpaint + more
This week's musical round-up, featuring music from Ben Frost, Lana Del Rey, My Brightest Diamond, Spectrals, Surfer Blood and a few more, to boot. »
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Takeover
My Brightest Diamond on her Detroit Garden
As part of her site takeover to celebrate the release of new album All Things Will Unwind, My Brightest Diamond (aka Shara Worden) talks about her Detroit Garden. »
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Takeover
My Brightest Diamond on Matthew Barney's Khu
As part of her site takeover to celebrate the release of new album All Things Will Unwind, My Brightest Diamond (aka Shara Worden) shares her experience of working with film maker and artist Matthew Barney. »
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Takeover
My Brightest Diamond's recipe for Galina's Ukrainian Borsch
As part of her site takeover to celebrate the release of new album All Things Will Unwind, My Brightest Diamond (aka Shara Worden) shares her very own recipe for Galina's Ukrainian Borsch. »
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Tour Diary
Jack Daniel's Birthday Celebration Gig: A DiS diary
It's not every day that DiS gets invited to a birthday party halfway across the world in honour of someone we've never met. That's what happened last week though when those nice people at Jack Daniel's offered us the chance to fly out to Nashville, T... »
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Column
Drowned In Sheffield #5
Everyone’s got their favourite music venue, whether it’s a grotty local pub, a swanky, poorly laid-out bar or a sprawling, sparse warehouse... »
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In Depth
This Week's Singles: 17/10/11 Lana Del Rey, Connan Mockasin, Django Django, Aidan Moffat
This week: blog-raged 'Hollywood sadcore' (shutupshutupshutup), Aidan Moffat doing Bananarama, Django Django not putting a foot wrong and Connan Mockasin forging his own, peculiar path. And some other things. »
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Column
Champion Sound #3: Feat. Paul White
Since the last Champion Sound there has been a lot of great mixtapes released, making the selection of what to include here all the more difficult. Not featured here are good to great tapes from the likes of Young L, Maffew Ragazino and Odd Future’s Domo Genesis, as ... »
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Column
SAVAGE PIXELS #4: Gears of War 3, The Bumper Preview Special, Best. Game. Ever…
After a barren summer for gamers – you can tell, they’re all looking rather more tanned than they do most years – it’s all guns blazing on the high street as publishers from across the gaming spectrum release the titles that they hope will not only shift significant ... »
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Staff-generated
Live Review: Ryan Adams at the Hollywood Forever Cemetery Masonic Lodge, Los Angeles, Mon 10 Oct
Ryan Adams is done wasting time. Make your concert plans accordingly. »
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Column
The Insider: Listen to The Brand
We are living through a commodification of taste that drives a fracturing of the appreciation of art for short term financial gain.... As part of its new Open Graph app platform, Facebook has partner... »
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Column
Drowned in Bristol #7
An ambient-electronic and warehouse-raving flavoured edition of Drowned in Bristol, looking at some excellent local album releases and chatting to the team behind In:Motion, ahead of their season launch this weekend. »
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Column
Drowned in Leeds #8
It feels like it was only last week when I was writing my last column in the midst of festival season and the usual summer gig drought, but it’s most definitely autumn now and we’re swimming in gigs and new releases so I won’t waste any more time, and get »
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In Depth
This Week's Singles: 10/10/11 Colin Stetson, Girls, Deerhoof, Real Estate, Spank Rock
Single of the Week! Colin Stetson - ‘Those Who Didn’t Run’ (Ltd 10” on Constellation) I was always told the saxophone was the hardest instrument, which may be true. But I think it is more likely that this was said to we young, eager musicians becau »
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Interview
"Art has the power to make good in the world... through the magic of money" - DiS meets Jeffrey Lewi
Around the release of Jeffrey Lewis' third record City and Eastern Songs - an album which, it would quickly become clear, was the high watermark of the burgeoning (hey, let’s just call it) ‘anti-folk’ genre - you might remember DiS running this feature, w »
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Festival Review
ATP I'll Be Your Mirror New Jersey: the DiS review
It wasn’t exactly ATP: Jersey Shore, but it’s about as close as we’ll ever get to that concept, with a series of bands delivering the most anti-Springsteen racket the good citizens of Asbury have ever heard. »
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Interview
Interview: Bjork talks piracy, punk, Lady Gaga and Biophilia
Here, you will find all five-parts of Kevin Perry's fascinating feature with Björk, in which they talk about education, about feminism and Lady Gaga’s outfits, about why she’s like 'carrot soup and tequila' and Coldplay are like 'chips and sausages', about political ... »
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Column
The Classical #2 - Rock Me Amadeus
Don’t know an Andantino from an Adagietto? Can’t tell the difference between the Borodin Quartet and the Borodin Quartet? Confuse Schubert with Schumann? Baffled by Viola Jokes? Have no idea what a conductor actually does? Slightly irritated by this long list of gent... »