We live in a time now where remixes can sometimes outnumber original songs twelve-to-one... Epic & Blues an instrumental EP of remixes and original material will be available to download for free on his Facebook page on the 23rd July»
Better late than never, here's Drowned In Sound's best bits from Sunday's (at long last) final day sunfest at Latitude festival courtesy of Dom Gourlay. »
It may have rained all day and most of last night here in not-so-sunny Suffolk, but that didn't dampen Drowned In Sound's collective spirits. Here with the highs and lows of Saturday's busy schedule at Latitude festival, Andrzej Lukowski and Dom Gourlay relive their best and worst moments from day two. »
Drowned In Sound are media partners at this year's Latitude festival, bringing you interviews, sessions and daily updates from the site. Here, DiS editor Sean Adams and DiS veteran Dom Gourlay relive their highs and lows from Friday's bill. »
DiS' countdown to Latitude concludes, as the event starts tomorrow... DiS will be there all weekend, recording sessions and interviews, keep an hour on our site, Facebook and Twitter for news updates, photos, and possible news of some pop-up shows.»
When asked by the PR company for [insert name of band] if [insert name of website] would like to host the premiere of the new entitled 'Relics' from a mini-album entitled [see below]. Siri said: WHY EEE SSS.»
On July 12th 1962, The Rolling Stones played their first ever gig. That was 50 years ago, and to celebrate, BBC 6 Music have a special series of programmes throughout July. One of the things they're doing, is asking some of 6 Music's favourite bands (if you drew a venn diagram the names would almost perfectly overlap with DiS' favourite bands) to do covers of their favourite Stones songs. This morning Lauren Laverne played a cover of ‘Blue Turns to Grey’ by The Walkmen and you dear readers, can hear it, right here:»
DiS' editor shares six of his/DiS' favourite albums of the first half of 2012...plus this includes full streams of all of his record picks..._»
Today's four picks, which you can should see at Henham Park near Sothwold in Suffolk between the 12th and 15th July 2012, vaguely sit together if you're a fan of soaring heartache...»
Hello. It’s The Pictish Trail here. Y’know. The Scottish hairy-faced ‘cuddly’ lo-fi singer-songwriter, and label manager of Scotlands’ finest DIY-pop collective, Fence Records. You might also recognise me as being two-thirds (in weight) of electro-spandex duo Silver Columns. »
DOOM, the artist formerly known as MF DOOM, is one of modern music’s great mysteries. According to one rumour emerging from a recent issue of Q Magazine (of all places), the masked emcee/producer has been living amongst us since 2010, relocating to South London where he’s been working on his forthcoming collaborative album with Jneiro Jarel. He’s also supposed to be, among other things, working alongside Madlib on a sequel to rap classic Madvillainy, as well as putting the finishing touches to other full length collaborations with Ghostface Killah and Masta Ace. »
At midday on July 2nd, it was the mid-point of the year 2012. Here at DiS we decided to take stock of the six months just gone, and over the course a few days, offer you a little digest of the must-hear music from the year-so-far. Today, it is the turn of debut albums...»
DiS' countdown to Latitude continues with three of our favourite acts...»
DiS' editor picks a selection of things for you to watch and listen to this weekend...including Errors full live set from The Great Escape, exclusive footage of Spiritualized at Glastonbury, new music from Meursault, Gatekeeper and Two Gallants, new videos from Lana del Rey, La Shark and Jimmy Edgar, plus the British Council's Selector radio show featuring Jessie Ware... »
It is just two weeks until Latitude Festival kicks off! This is the second of our 15 selected acts that we think you should catch...Alessio Natalizia (aka Banjo or Freakout) and Sam Willis (of Allez-Allez), are the duo known as Walls. Last year, they released their second album, Coracle. It's a record brimming with swooshing hazy electronica, but their music is so much more than a few lame descriptors ('hypnotic washes of sound' anyone?)»
Let the countdown commence... it is just two weeks until Latitude Festival kicks off! This is the first of our 15 selected acts that we think you should catch... Mike Hadreas (aka Perfume Genius) seems to live in another place and time. It's a world somewhat more melancholic than the one most of us live in, and it's a land where everyone drifts between tears and sleep. Hadreas sends telegrams from this place by occasionally crawling to his piano to pen another sad song or a bittersweet pop dittie.... »
Ooooh, I'm ready for the week-end...a weekend of chatting about magazines in a pop-up shop and then sobbing about a 93rd minute penalty from Italia against Ing-gland. Anyway, you may wish to skip all that and toe-tap and jiggle along to some streaming music (we've got Spotify and a YouTube playlist by Bear in Heaven), some free downloads (the new Cat Power track and a podcast with Johnny Jewel) or gawp at some music videos (including an exclusive interview with Polica), if that sounds good, drag your mouse this way, as DiS' editor has the contents of your monitor and stereo for this weekend sorted... »
DiS has a little something for you from the new release by Nico Muhly, but first some words from Sam Cleeve...»
With European dates underway, we wanted to make a little sense of the bustling melting pot of influences that lay beneath Bear in Heaven's exceptional new record I Love You, It's Cool. They responded in the form of a mixtape, which offer clues toward at least one element of their inspirations... oh, and if you look down at the end of this article, you'll find all the tracks as a YouTube playlist, plus we have a competition to win a pair of tickets to their London show...»
DiS' editor hand-picks five things for you to listen to this weekend... »
Today the organizers have announced a new batch of news including: Chilly Gonzales, Van Dyke Parks and Britten Sinfonia, Demdike Stare, Revere, Deap Vally, Splashh, Mick Flannery, The Staves, Twin Shadow, Mark Lamarr’s God’s Jukebox presents – Wanda Jackson, Gizzelle, The Delegators & Big Boss Man and more... they join the likes of Bon Iver, Paul Weller, Elbow, Lana Del Rey, Laura Marling, White Lies, The Antlers, Yeasayer, Explosions in the Sky and Bat For Lashes and a whole host of other acts and performers in a range of weird and wonderful traditions (I mean, they even have MP Tom Watson chatting about Leveson).»
Some playlists and a selection of hand-picked videos and streams that our editor has been loving this month...»
Yesterday, Antlers, put up this cryptic YouTube on their website with something about something called Undersea. It turns out those big teases have a new EP with four songs on it coming out on July 30th via the Transgressive Records label.»
To celebrate the release (it came out yesterday!), we have been given a pair of tickets to Hard Rock Calling on 15th July to see Paul Simon perform Graceland live. Blimey! One winner gets those tickets, plus them and the four runners up will win copies of the 25th anniversary edition CD/DVD! »
Metric's fifth studio album Synthetica has been slipped up online (it is legit, shared by the bands official SoundCloud) for you to stream ahead of its release on June 12th... »
dEUS! New album! Released today! Streaming! Here! Now!»
DiS' editor compiles a selection of music using new-fangled streams and videos including his interview with Metric and an exclusive mixtape by Airbird (aka Joel Ford, one half of Ford & Lopatin) for your long-long weekend... plus a special YouTube playlist of music documentaries! »
DiS' editor compiles a mixture of tracks (including a special premiere!), some mixes (one of which was made especially for you DiS readers) and a selection of things that have cropped up in his social feeds and inbox this week... »
Metric's Emily Haines and Jimmy Shaw discuss their fifth studio album Synthetica with Drowned in Sound editor Sean Adams. This conversation includes chat about the writing of the album, Jimmy's seven "synth symphonies", a photograph which inspired the album, rock'n'roll's existential crisis, whether 'protest music is dead', but the bulk of the conversation swarms around the idea of authenticity in an age of Instagram and Urban Outfitters. »
Ahead of their free show in London for DiS tonight (details below), Exitmusic have given us their new video to premiere.»
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