"There’s no point getting anyone else to play": DiS meets Gaz Coombes
I’m talking to Gaz Coombes on the phone, meaning I can’t see him. But that’s okay, because my imagination has handily sorted me out with an image. »
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This Week's Singles 15.10.12: Anna Meredith, Susanne Sundfør, Liars, Hooded Fang
Single of the Week! Anna Meredith - 'Nautilus' from ‘Black Prince Fury’ EP (Moshi Moshi) Because the best fifty pence I ever spent was on Philip Glass and Aphex Twin's deliriously wonderful 'Donkey Rhubarb' EP, I am naturally inclined tward '»
"I've got a couple of pubes showing... what's the problem?" DiS meets Bat For Lashes
In the two years since that Two Suns, Bat For Lashes moved back from NYC to Brighton and spent some time getting to know herself away from life on the road. She spent hours recording on her own in her flat in-between visiting her old tutor at the university of Sussex and taking classes in life drawing, pottery and children’s book writing. She also worked with the most collaborators in her entire career including David Sitek, Beck and Justin Parker. The result, The Haunted Man, peels back the layers to reveal the artist at the centre of Bat For Lashes’ previous colourful carnival. »
Weekend Listening: Stay+, Patrick Wolf, Halls, Exitmusic, Stereophonics, Deftones
There is a lot of music in this round-up, partly because I haven't done one for a while, but mostly because there is a lot of great music around at the minute (IMHO, etc). This column is basically a round-up of the best of my inbox and social media feeds... »
DiS Does Pop Interviews: Marina and the Diamonds, Jessie Ware and Ruby Goe
It's DiS Does Pop's very first birthday and we decided to celebrate by interviewing three of our favourite popstars: Marina and the Diamonds, Jessie Ware and Ruby Goe. We chatted about why Fiona Apple can’t cheer up a bit, the perils of living around crack addicts and what makes a good knuckleduster. It’s pop but not as you know it...»
“I imagined I was astral projecting, seeing things no one had seen before” - DiS meets Flying Lotus
The electronic frontiersman's new album is a cosmos-straddling epic. But beyond its sci-fi scale lies a more human tale of depression and growing up, discovers Al Horner.»
The Insider: Doing it for the kids? How Radio One needs to get over its obsession with youth
Prior to the appointment of ‘Grimmy’ (never was a nickname more appropriate to a situation) the controller of BBC Radio One, the 42 year old Ben Cooper, essentially told anyone over 30 who listened to his station to ‘do one’. These festival dads were not the people his remit said he should have listening to his station so, despite the station being part of a publicly funded body, those folk were no longer welcome. Off to the ghetto of 6 Music (good job they didn’t close that eh?) or Radio 2 with you. »
This Week's Singles 8.10.12: AlunaGeorge, Standard Fare, Keane, Melt Yourself Down
Single of the Week! AlunaGeorge - ‘Your Drums, Your Love’ (Island) When you have a longheld, irrational hatred of a particular band, it doesn’t taint or falter. In the same way that the embarrassments of youth do not dispel or wane after t»
"Not for one minute do I think that I’m a confessional artist" - DiS meets Tori Amos
Ahead of her full orchestral show at the Royal Albert Hall earlier this week, DiS got to sit down for a cup of tea with the legendary songstress Tori Amos to talk about what still drives her creatively as an artist, her hatred of the term "confessional", and the anniversary of her debut album, Little Earthquakes.»
Drowned in the North East #4
Hello October. The month where we (well, I) reluctantly dust off the big coat, resign ourselves to the nights drawing in and savour the first faint whiffs of gunpowder in the air. Fortunately, to keep us warm we’ve got an especially bumper crop of fantastic new North East music sidling out of the shadows in a late bid to find accommodating ears before December’s list-making silly season turns otherwise rational music fans into anal loons obsessed with ranking the unrankable.»
90 Minutes with Johnny Jewel - Part 1: Chromatics' live show, torture and EDM
A few weeks ago, DiS' editor met Johnny Jewel, the founder of the Italians Do it Better record label. He produces the acts on the label and is in several of the 'bands' too, including Glass Candy, Desire and perhaps most notably Chromatics. DiS caught up with him for an extended chat about, The Man, The Music, The Label, The Drive soundtrack, and one of the albums of 2012 Kill for Love. The full transcript of the conversation will run in few chunks in the coming days. »
Drowned in Scotland: October 2012
News from north of the border, with a look at Oxjam, new releases from the likes of Randolph's Leap, and introducing We Came From Wolves. »
Band Of Horses on Mirage Rock, legendary producers and stealing the Kings Of Leon's fanbase.
Last month saw the release of Band Of Horses fourth album, Mirage Rock. On tour once more from now until the early part of next year, DiS caught up with frontman and founder member Ben Bridwell during a rare break from playing live.»
This Week's Singles 1.10.12: Alt-J, Pollens, Richard Hawley, Tilly & The Wall, Allo Darlin'
Single of the Week! Pollens - ‘Helping Hand’ (Tapete Records) ‘Helping Hands’ is a sound collage in the ma-ma-manner of Laurie Anderson’s earlier work - though I should point out; there are no benevolent Art Nutbags doing voiceovers on i»
Andy Bell of Ride & Oasis: "It would be a shame if we never got to play those songs one more time"
DiS caught up with Andy Bell during an extended break where the discussion switched from the making of both Nowhere and Going Blank Again, to his disillusionment with music after disbanding Hurricane #1, to working with the Gallaghers and the questions everyone keeps asking; will Ride and Oasis ever reform and take to the stage one more time. »
"I've always considered songwriting to be just another literary artform": DiS meets Two Gallants
Two Gallants is comprised of San Fransiscans Adam Stephens and Tyson Vogel, who have been making music together since they were kids. The two-piece have built up a reputation for their literary leanings and live show, on occasion playing in random locations for a handful of fans. They've just released their fourth album, The Bloom and the Blight. DiS got on the phone for a chat....»
Efterklang on the making of Piramida
Efterklang on the making of Piramida...»
This Week's Singles 24.9.12: Dan Croll, Trimbal & Harmonimix, Jesse Boykins III, Umberto
Single of the Week! Dan Croll - ‘From Nowhere’ (Racquet Records) You would not expect a single that has Raw Sex as its backing band to be full of pomp, but Dan Croll’s is. ‘From Nowhere’ is, in fact, as packed with bombast as it is poss»
SAVAGE PIXELS #14: Get Gaming Again… plus Stay+ and Homeboy Sandman, Sleeping Dogs and Transformers
Reviews of Sleeping Dogs and Transformers: Fall of Cybertron, plus favourite games eva(!!!) from Homeboy Sandman and Stay+... Oh, and a load of current-gen classics that you really, really should play.»
Confessions of a Pop Maverick: Neil Kulkarni meets Twin Shadow
George Lewis Jr, aka TWIN SHADOW, has produced one of the most innovative and intriguing collections of high-tech pop songs you’ll hear all year. The fella’s got a mighty fine moustache, too. Words: NEIL KULKARNI from the first issue of Electronic magazine.»
September 2012: Editor's 10 Favourite Streams + Spotify playlist
We know September's not over, not over, not over yet! However, we have so many things that we're loving at the moment that we thought, instead of putting them all on single pages for you to flick through, we'd do what we have been trialling for the past few months and dump them altogether in one page that you can bookmark and come back to.»
Planet Gear: Butch Vig on recording The Emperor’s of Wyoming's debut album
Butch Vig, best known as the drummer of Garbage and producer of albums such as Nirvana’s Nevermind, has a new project – The Emperor’s of Wyoming. Here, Vig talks us through The Emperor's recording gear....»
armchair dancefloor 037: Keysound/Dusk + Blackdown, Artifact, James Blake, NeferTT, Pangaea, Oneohtrix, Happa...
armchair dancefloor catches up with Keysound bosses Dusk + Blackdown to chat about the label and their new LP, Dasafelx. Plus, download not one but two exclusive tracks, and loads of new tunes to stream.»
This Week's Singles 17.9.12: The Insomniax, Marry Waterson & Oliver Knight, The Castanets, Pale Seas
Single of the Week! The Insomniax - ‘Love She Wants’ EP (Earnest Endeavours) At the tail end of summer I get on a rescue mission, clinging to singles with any kind of bright aspect, as if they could prolong what little daylight is left, befor»
Bestival 2012: the DiS review
That Bestival 2012 was possessed of the kind of cloudless skies under which it made its name as the last big party of the summer meant it was inevitably going to be a good one.»
Must Hear: Liars remix of The Twilight Sad's 'Nil'
Of the remix album and this Liars re-jiggery, Andy MacFarlane, The Twilight Sad said: "We like to put out something that bridges the gap between releases, that will continue the theme and artwork. After the new minimal, synth led approach we did with 'No One Can Ever Know', it seemed fitting to follow up with a remix album, to continue in that direction. We've been big fans of Liars since 'They Were Wrong, So We Drowned', so we were really happy when they agreed to do a remix for the record, it puts a whole new perspective on the song."»
The Monster Pit, The Castle and Me: Lady GaGa in London by Sean Adams
If you wander into 'the monster pit' and pick almost any moment of tonight's over two hour feast of bombast in a castle (yes, I’ll say it again, a fucking C-A-S-T-L-E!) and you are - if you're me - soaring upon a sea of glee. »
Green Man 2012: The DiS Review
“[Festivals are] snapshots of an imagined ghost of festivals past, with added corporate sponsorship. And oddly, while the corporate stages and tents get imaginative with their neediness, the thing that's really left wanting is the sense of communit»
Jersey Live 2012: The DiS Review
Last weekend, DiS headed across the channel to the virtually tax-free haven that is Jersey. Here's what we saw and heard for our sins...»
DiS Predicts: The Mercury Prize 2012 nominees
Drowned In Sound's writers and board members select what they'd like to see on the hallowed shortlist come this Wednesday»
DiS joins the Music Alliance Pact + May 2013's global MAP compilation
Drowned in Bristol #12
DiS Does Singles 13.05.13: Swim Deep, These New Puritans, The National
Darkstar, Ed Harcourt, Halls, Wall +more for 3 DiS-curated nights at Great Escape 2013
Interview: Frank Turner on The Olympics, The Backlash, Thatcher and Black Flag
Drowned in Nottingham #14
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