Single of the Week! Pure Bathing Culture - 'Ivory Coast' from ‘Pure Bathing Culture’ EP (Memphis Industries) Sometimes it only takes one perfect line, and one perfect melody to which that line is sung, to make you fall for a song. I feel like»
This month Martin Rossiter. formerly of Gene, returns with a new album, The Defenestration of St Martin, a beautiful record of melodramatic, witty torch songs performed almost entirely as naked voice and piano, self released and funded through crowd-sourcing site Pledge. We ventured to a Brighton boozer on a windy Autumn afternoon to talk reunions, record company politics, expectations and slipping through the cracks of the music industry.»
Armchair Dancefloor catches up with dubstep lynch-pin and Tectonic label head Rob Ellis (aka Pinch). Plus a chance to win tickets to catch Pinch, Loefah, Peverelist, Boddika and loads more this NYE in Bristol, and the usual round-up of upcoming electronic releases. »
This column, this time: Words and thoughts on the grim situation here in Spain and two fantastic shows by Calexico and Andrew Bird that took place over two consecutive nights in the city’s beautiful Apolo venue.»
Following on from last week's foray into the Fifty Shades phenomenon, DiS gets all 'literary' again as Buck 65 writes an exclusive piece for us about Anais Nin.»
Single of the Week! Omega Male - 'Testosterone' (Full Time Hobby) Lecherously low slung, 'Testosterone' includes the sound of sirens going off - as if a particularly manly cove had passed through a sexy airport detector, and broken it by sheer »
Whisper it quietly but Nottingham five-piece Dog Is Dead might just be the hardest working band in the music industry right now.»
Max Richter casts a distinctive shadow on the contemporary classical landscape. Despite spending his formative years sheathed in the a world of musical academia, studying both at the Royal Academy of Music and with the likes of Luciano Berio in Florence (an influence he regards as “a genius,” describing their few meetings as “life-changing”), Richter continues to make the sort of music that's as accessible to fans of post-rock or electronica as it is to admirers of something more traditional.»
From 3D Monster Maze, through Wolfenstein 3D and Doom, to the Halo series... the DNA of the first-person shooter, laid out.»
The 13th installment of our local scene guide to all that's best and brightest in and around Leeds.»
There’s not much left to say about KISS that hasn’t already been screamed, picketed or printed by generations of militant fans, close-minded religious fanatics or gore-hungry press over the course of about four decades. But that’s not to say there’s no new ground left to cover for this larger-than-life hard rock juggernaut.»
Love them or loathe them, it's pretty hard to ignore The Vaccines these days. With a relentless tour schedule that isn't set to finish until May of next year, DiS managed to catch up with frontman, guitarist and all-round gent Justin Young and bass player Arni Arnason prior to their recent set in Castleton's Peak Cavern as part of Jack Daniel's birthday celebrations.»
Single of the Week! Sam Lee - ‘The Ballad Of George Collins’ (The Nest Collective) Even the most glancing knowledge of murder ballads should leave you in no doubt: if you spot a 'fair maid' with 'red ruby lips' you should immediately scarper;»
Today, the Manic Street Preachers release the 20th anniversary edition of their debut long player 'Generation Terrorists'. To mark the occasion, DiS has christened today "Manics Monday"...»
As part of our 'Manics Monday' to mark the reissue of the Manic Street Preachers' first album, Marc Burrows talks us through the key tracks on Generation Terrorists»
With the corpse of last years’ astounding Tao Of The Dead barely cold, And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead are already back with their latest album, Lost Songs. Before the album’s release we skyped one-half of the band’s core nucleus, guitarist Jason Reece. In loud Austin drawl that pleasantly reverberates around your skull, Jason talked us through the place of politics in music today, what recording in Germany was like and why eight albums and 13 years down the line Trail Of Dead are not even close to splitting up. »
Jason Pierce’s has never been shy about his drug use. But rather than it being something that happened alongside the music, it was, for many years at least, an intrinsic part of his artistic output.»
Sam Kinchin-Smith explores the importance of music to E.L. James' erotic blockbuster trilogy. Why is so much of the 50 Shades books’ blatantly misogynist (and materialist) project played out to, and through, music? And what does this say about the place and status of music, both popular and “classical”, in contemporary culture?»
Iceland, land of snow-capped glaciers, lustrous beauty and for the next five days, one of Europe's best loved music.»
The past couple of weeks I've been mostly holed up in cinemas, watching a load of films ahead of their UK releases. The good, the bad and the ugly. All so you don't have to. »
Single of the Week! Mac DeMarco - 'Ode To Viceroy' (Captured Tracks) You, lazy, are not allowed to invoke the Beach Boys when appraising any songs with honeyed, three or four-part close harmonies. The Dogs of Criticism also decry comparisons to »
With this edition of Champion Sound we’ve mixed it up a little, taking a look at Ice T’s recently released hip hop doc The Art of Rap, while also rounding up some of our favourite videos of the past two months. »
The best of DiS' inbox this week... »
Now that you've hopefully had time to pick up a copy of the album and sink your ears into it, we turn your attention over to Mr Banks, who has written this guide to the album.... »
Summer may be over, but there's still a vibrant buzz in the air as far as Drowned In Sound's man in Nottingham is concerned. Here's the latest on what's happening in and around the East Midlands at the minute, starting with a celebratory toast to the city's first ever number one solo artist... »
DiS meets Japandroids’ Brian King in Barcelona to talk life on the road and their exhilarating second album, Celebration Rock.»
Currently on a whistle stop world tour of promotional engagements; today's brief sojourn in England being his sixth country in seven days; DiS caught up with Interpol's Paul Banks in a central London hotel.»
Does Resident Evil 6 represent the death of survival horror? Hardly... There are great examples of wet-yourself gaming out there, and this month's Savage Pixels casts its can-barely-open-them eyes over a few.»
Single of the Week! Everything Everything - ‘Cough Cough’ (Columbia) Forced to choose a concept whose importance supercedes all others when it comes to the creation of pop music, I would definitely settle upon 'effort'. I mean, I could care»
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