New Music from Around the World: June 2013's MAP Compilation is here
For this month's pick, DiS' editor shares one of his favourite DiScoveries of the year so far... »
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June 16th, 2013
May 30th, 2013
First listen: Pins return with new drummer and single
Drowned In Sound have been following the progress of Manchester four-piece Pins for a while now.»
May 20th, 2013
Coming soon: DiS meets John Lydon
As Public Image Ltd. prepare for their first UK live dates of 2013, DiS spoke to frontman, founder, musical icon and cultural anti-hero John Lydon.»
May 18th, 2013
DiS joins the Music Alliance Pact + May 2013's global MAP compilation
Drowned in Sound is very pleased to announce that we've taken over from The Guardian, as England's representative in a global network of bloggers who champion their country's local music scene known as the Music Alliance Pact (or MAP for short - see what they did there?). »
May 9th, 2013
Darkstar, Ed Harcourt, Halls, Wall +more for 3 DiS-curated nights at Great Escape 2013
This year, we've at least matched our previous endeavours, with three nights of music that takes in everything from tearful piano balladry in a church to grunge-guzzling, riotous, rock'n'roll in a tiny bar through to a club-venue with music that's so post-dubstep that it might actually be from the future.»
May 3rd, 2013
A Scream and an Outrage: Win tickets to Barbican weekend of music curated by Nico Muhly
Nico Muhly curates the Barbican’s May marathon of music next weekend, including a line-up featuring Villagers, Philip Glass, Glen Hansard (The Frames) and Bang on a Can. Win tickets...»
May 2nd, 2013
Primal Scream, AlunaGeorge @ The Hospital Club, London, Thu 26 April
We popped along to watch Primal Scream and AlunaGeorge play a intimate gig at The Hospital Club in Covent Garden, London»
April 30th, 2013
DiS Digest: April 2013's Must-Hear Album, Top Tracks, Most Read + Playlist
Daft Punk, Boards of Canada, TLC, Phoenix, Paramore, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, The Knife, James Blake... Reducing this month into digestible morsels isn't easy (is it ever?), but here goes.... Includes Spotify, RDIO and YouTube playlists and plenty more besides. »
April 17th, 2013
Record Store Day 2013 - The DiS Guide: SoundCloud sampler + Wings / RSD13 competition
This here internet page is Drowned in Sound's guide to Record Store Day 2013, which comes with a rather special competition. This is far from thorough, it's just some stuff that stood out that we wanted to highlight, which perhaps you might like to consider picking up if it wasn't something already on your radar.»
April 16th, 2013
Nick Cave & TBs to headline ATP Iceland + amiina video exclusive + mixtape
"On July 25th 2009 we headed our way from Seyðisfjörður towards the Dalatangi Lighthouse (far-east Iceland) in our van, loaded with all our instruments through narrow, steep roads and miles of fjords and heaths where not a trace of human inhabitants could be found. The rough dirt road with all it's blind turns and the steep drop into the ocean on one side freaked us out a bit, so when we finally got to the lighthouse we were both relieved and touched by the harsh beauty of the lighthouse and it's surroundings." - Maria Sigfusdottir from amiina»
April 11th, 2013
Mixtape: PVT celebrate joining the bill of Camden Crawl IN DUBLIN + win tickets!
To celebrate playing this year's Camden Crawl (on Camden St IN DUBLIN... the London one will take place later in the year), PVT aka Pivot featuring a chap who was in Prefuse73, have put together this mix of stuff they're loving at the moment. If you like the likes of John Maus, Modeselektor, Nathan Fake and Liars, then you'll like this mix and probably wanna catch them live at the festival. PLUS the festival organisers have kindly given us a pair of tickets to the festival to give away!»
April 10th, 2013
Portico Quartet Soundcrash Mixtape + Ticket Competition
A rather special mix that Portico Quartet have made for to promote their upcoming show at London's Koko (more details about that over here). --- --- About this mix, Duncan said: 'The mix I've done is pretty broad... I wanted to try and re»
April 5th, 2013
Mixtape Exchange: Luke Abbott vs Dam Mantle
To kick off this new feature, we've asked two of our favourite British electronic whizz-kidz to make a YouTube filled mixtape for one another, ahead of their show together tomorrow night in London. »
April 2nd, 2013
DiS Digest: March 2013's Must-Hear Album, Most Read + Playlist
This is our monthly digest of what you were reading and should have been listening (including a handy playlist) to that was released in March 2013. »
March 27th, 2013
Watch: When Saints Go Machine 'Love and Respect' featuring Killer Mike
As comeback singles go, this is awesome x700! “I guess people will be surprised there’s a rapper on the album. We just did a song that we felt needed a rap verse. In order to keep making music we have to surprise ourselves. If we stop doing that we’ll have to stop making music.” »
March 26th, 2013
Q1 2013 Editor's Picks: From Bowie to Jason Molina - 13 Must Reads
Been busy? Missed some of our best bits? Lost that mental note you made to go back and read something? Here's a run-down of our editor's January-March feature section picks...»
March 25th, 2013
Playlist: DiS Community's Favourite Songs of the 1st Quarter of 2013
There's been so much great music already in 2013, and with the help of the DiS hivemind, we've compiled this playlist of our community's favourite tracks of the first three months of the year. »
March 23rd, 2013
Watch: LOW in session for DiS + 20 minute interview
Few bands have consistently tinkered with the darker recesses of DiS' collective heart as LOW have. With their tenth album out this week, we were lucky enough to catch the band on the campaign trail for a chat, and a special live session. Thankfully the guys from Beatcast were there to capture the intimate performance and Al Horner's chat with Alan Sparhawk and Mimi Parker. And here's what the camera saw... »
March 22nd, 2013
Friday Fun: Can Comic Books Save the Music Industry?
"The comic comes from a long line of our fans doing totally amazing things for us! We've had so many awesome things made for us over the years from fans, including incredibly powerful videos from Broken Pixel and Ana Stefaniak (who both won awards off the back of their videos) to this comic, which we thought was such a cool idea and executed absolutely perfectly by the lovely and very talented Rachael Smith, who is a Leicester based artist who makes these gorgeous looking comics. I can't exactly remember how it all got started, but we know Rachael from our shared Leicester connection, and I think one day we all saw these drawings she'd done of us and the idea just snowballed into this amazing comic!" - Sophie, Her Name is Calla»
March 20th, 2013
Latitude 2013 confirms Kraftwerk, Foals, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Bloc Party + Spotify playlist
Once again they've delivered an incredible list of names, featuring legends like Kraftwerk (in 3D?!) to DiS favourites including Cat Power, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Foals, Bloc Party, Efterklang, CocoRosie, Villagers, Mum, Japandroids, Maccabees, Everything Everything, Modest Mouse and Hot Chip. They've also got the makers of some of 2013's recommended DiS albums, such as Daughter, Wave Machines and Hookworms. Then there's the likes of Dylan Moran, Germaine Greer, and spoken word sets from Thurston Moore and Tracey Thorn?! And so much more.»
March 12th, 2013
Music Fans: A Moment of Your Time, Please.
It doesn't matter if you're a fan of the band School of Seven Bells (or his previous band Secret Machines) or not. A human being who makes music and has huge medical bills needs our help. So please take a second to read this, and if you can spare the price of a pint or more, it would be a big help. If you don't have any money, the least you can do is spread the word: »
March 11th, 2013
Stream: Low's 10th album The Invisible Way
Here it is, one week before release, the gorgeous new album from Low, streaming in full. It has all the heft and the lingering ache that we have come to expect from the band, as well as the lushness and hints of gospel amid the glorious gloom. These soulful sad songs are perhaps slightly gentler and sparser than we've heard from Low of late, but what The Invisible Way lacks in noise and ostentation, it more than makes up for with beauty. »
February 28th, 2013
DiS Digest: February 2013's Album of the Month, Playlist + more...
Ah, so February, you are such a short month, but what you lack in length, you've more than made up for with girth. This month has been bulging with brilliant new records, and tantalising tidbits of details about yet more goodies to come later in the year. Just imagine how hard it's going to be to pick an album of the year, but don't go wishing the year away quite so quickly, especially as this quick glimpse back at what has 'dropped' over the past four weeks will hopefully remind you that there is a lot to love and spend some time listening to before you zoom onto the next best thing... »
February 23rd, 2013
Phoenix on the phone: chatting about Bankrupt!
Just in case you missed the news - in which case we can only assume you've been off colonising Messier 83 so, you know, well done you but still - Phoenix made their big comeback this week. The French über-stars responsible for DiS's favourite album of 2009 Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix announced new album, Bankrupt!, last week, followed on Monday with the world premiere of lead single 'Entertainment'.»
February 21st, 2013
DiS Does the Brit Awards 2013: A not-live blog
We went to the Brit Awards 2013 and all you got to read was this lousy chronological recollection of the night's events»
February 19th, 2013
10 Things we've learned from Dave Grohl's documentary about Sound City studios
Last night, I saw the first UK screening of Dave Grohl's directorial debut, Sound City. The documentary tells the story of the legendary Sound City studio in LA where Nirvana's Nevermind, Fleetwood Mac's classic Fleetwood Mac, Rage Against The Machine's debut and several thousand other albums from Barry Manilow to Arctic Monkeys' Suck It And See were recorded across decades of scuzzy mayhem. It's essentially a love story, in which the main character is a 40 year old mixing desk with a great sound, and where all the sex scenes are 50-something rock stars having a bit of a jam together, a view given credibility by many of the faces they make mid-solo. »
DiS premiere: 'Don't Get Any Closer' by Eluvium
Eluvium are one of those special acts that somehow ends up in your life, and you presume everyone else must have already been hip to them, as music this gorgeous surely is as big as Sigur Ros and The xx and you just happened to miss all the fuss? Not that this expansive drone-driven work is necessarily meant to tip-toe into the mass consciousness, but there's something welcoming about the cinematic melancholy of Matthew Cooper aka Eluvium's ambient works.»
February 12th, 2013
Buzzageddon! Brighton's Great Escape announces first names for the 2013 festival
Once again, DiS will curate three nights of music, and we can confirm that our first two additions to the festival line-up are two headliners...»
February 11th, 2013
Watch: Suede, Foals, Richard Hawley, The Cribs, Everything Everything live for 6 Music
BBC 6Music is hosting a series of live shows this week at the BBC's legendary Maida Vale studios. From midday each day this week Lauren Laverne will live sets from Suede, Foals, Everything Everything and Richard Hawley, and you can tune in via the below video box to watch them at your desk. Plus, this year they have extra sessions later in the afternoon with The Cribs and Palma Violets joining Steve Lamacq. »
January 31st, 2013
DiS Digest: January 2013's Album of the Month, Playlist + more...
Oh January, you were meant to be a quiet month, wha' happen'? Prince, Postal Service, Daft Punk, Foals, Nick Cave, My Bloody Valentine, Suede, Timberlake and the return of David Bowie, that's what happened! And that's not to mention the albums, oh the albums, so many albums, and lots of them are rather special. »
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