The Neptune Music Prize Winner is...
Following several weeks of voting, you have picked the winner of the Neptune Music Prize.»
Neptune Music Prize Relevant
Manic Street Preachers - Journal For Plague Lovers
It isn't so much a revitalised Manic Street Preachers here, but something more akin to a rebirth, such is the vehemently passionate stance all three of the band have seemingly taken on themselves to deliver with this record. »
Neptune Music Prize - Your Last Chance to Vote!
Today is your last chance to vote in the Neptune Music Prize.»
Spotifriday - Listen to the 12 Neptune Music Prize Nominees
The (nominees were announced on DiS yesterday](http://drownedinsound.com/news/4137495-dis-alternative-music-prize--the-neptune-nominees-announced) but before you rate the albums, we thought you might like to listen to all of them. You've got until 8th of September to vote so take your time, form your opinion and then score them out of 10. »
DiS' alternative Music Prize: The Neptune nominees announced
After your rampant enthusiasm last year for DiS ' Pluto Prize (our reader voted alternative to the Mercury Music Prize) we're doing it all over again for 2009 with a new name: The Neptune Music Prize. DiS' award highlights 12 out of this world albums that we felt missed the Mercury cut go head to head for the alternative title of best album of 2009.»
Nicky Wire on the Manic Street Preachers' return: Part One
Manic Street Preachers' Nicky Wire discusses Journal for Plague Lovers, backstage at The Roundhouse in Camden - part 1. »
Patrick Wolf - The Bachelor
'Hate was just a failure of the imagination' - Graham Greene, The Power And The Glory You know the rap. Patrick Wolf. Twenty-»
Biscuits with The Bachelor - DiS meets Patrick Wolf
DiS opens its gob, presses record on the dictaphone and talks to Patrick Wolf about his forthcoming album The Bachelor»
The Maccabees - Wall Of Arms
Wall of Arms is more Arcade Fire-like than Arcade Fire clone, and you could comfortably sling in a little Echo & The Bunnymen, Head On The Door Cure and Wolf Parade by way of further comparison. »
Super Furry Animals - Dark Days/Light Years
What sets this album apart though is its sustained attempt at departure, the feeling that the reigns have been removed for the duration. ‘Grazy Naked Girls’ is a zeppellin-echoing freak-out; ‘Moped Eyes’, a funky reminder of what made peple so attracted to Gruff Rhyss' recent Neon Neon sideline; and ‘Inaugral Trams’ with it's germanic, Nick McCarthy-spoken monologue, is a mechanically efficient worker bee, ticking throughout its duration.»
DiS Exclusive: Manic Street Preachers' Journal for Plague Lovers biography by John Niven
Ahead of their ninth studio album Journal for Plague Lovers, DiS has been given an exclusive peak at the Manic St Preachers' new biography by John Niven, author of Kill Your Friends. »
PJ Harvey & John Parish - A Woman A Man Walked By
Okay, it’s a bit unrealistic to expect Polly Jean Harvey (the person) to spend her free time pining at the stars in a Dorset garret, but still, seeing her goof around was... weird. PJ Harvey (the indie star) does not goof around or do fun. PJ Harvey can be exhilarating, thrilling, or offer up a disturbingly hysterical variant on black humour, but she ain't fun.»
Grammatics - Grammatics
It's rare that a new band comes along who divide opinion - critical and otherwise - quite so much as Leeds' Grammatics seem to have done in their short musical career. Chances are, you'll either love their sound, or hate it, because indifference just isn't an option when confronted with something as extraordinary as this.»
Micachu - Jewellery
For all the talk in the press of this being a pop album, those in search of something fitting the classic verse-chorus-verse mould should beware.»
Emmy meets Mica Levi of Micachu & the Shapes
It's last day of Emmy the Great week but it's not over yet. Here Emmy swaps emails with Micachu from the road as Micachu and the Shapes are currently touring with Late of the Pier. »
DiSection: Emmy The Great First Love track-by-track
Emmy the Great Week starts here!
The idea of a DiSection is simple: We ask an artist/band we like to walk us through their album, track-by-track, not unlike those director's commentaries you get on the bonus bit of a DVD. Here, Emmy The Great talks us through her debut album First Love, which is released today.»
The Phantom Band - Checkmate Savage
Perverse, ever-playful and sporadically thrilling, what one listener might immediately dismiss as overblown and indulgent is also likely to engross others. It’s a direct result of the frightening array of genres encroached, and one that renders The Phantom Band's Checkmate Savage a journey emphatically worth taking. »
Lost 8 of '08 - #1: The Week That Was
Some records slip beneath nearly every radar. DiS even missed some of our writers' favourites from our end of year list (either because they hadn't been reviewed or mentioned by their peers). These are individual writers favourites of the year, records which they suggest, nay they demand, you take the time to investigate. So, these were the eight that you and we should have been celebrating...»
2009: Ten Writers' Tips
So we're a bit early, but let's face it, there's not much else to do at this time of year other than think about which acts we're going to be celebrating come 2009, is there?»
Mixtape #27: Emmy the Great
Pro-Emo and Anti-folkster Emmy The Great made a mixtape for DiS readers back in November. We thought we'd re-feature it as part of our special Emmy the Great guest-edits DiS week!»
Mixtape #16: Grammatics
Another mixtape for your listening and viewing pleasure, this time from Leeds-based outfit - and longtime DiS favourites - Grammatics»
Rolo Tomassi: hysterical youths, bloodthirsty babes
As their debut LP nears release, DiS finds out what's gone into Sheffield prog-core teens Rolo Tomassi's melting pot for the much-anticipated Hysterics»
The Week That Was - The Week That Was
The Week That Was' debut unfurls the strands of a crime thriller whilst commenting upon the complexities of our relationship with the media»
Late Of The Pier - Fantasy Black Channel
They might borrow from forefathers to lay solid foundations, but Late Of The Pier prove that they’ve ability well beyond the sum of influential parts»
First love: The Maccabees meet The Futureheads
A memorable three-way, at London's Social: DiS, The Futureheads and The Maccabees, shooting the proverbial about life after the dreaded drop and how all guns're blazing for new LP This Is Not The World. Part one, here; part two, next week»
Discography reassessed: the Manics in perspective
With the band recognised by NME as ‘Godlike Geniuses’ at their forthcoming annual awards, and a massive gig at the O2 in London looming, DiS takes another look at the catalogue of Welsh would-be legends Manic Street Preachers»
Spanish Inquisition: Super Furry Animals answer your questions
It's 4pm on another sunny afternoon in Madrid, and DiS is nervous. Why? We're only about to interview Super Furry bloody Animals, one of our favourite bands, like, ever. Or, rather, you are. Ish»
DiScover: Grammatics
If, like me, you've been longing for a homegrown act that doesn't make you want to box your own ears until they bleed with their derivative lad-rock (The Twang? The Enemy? Really...), you'll almost certainly welcome Grammatics...»
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
Drowned in Bristol #12
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