This year's festival takes place Little John’s Farm in Reading and Bramham Park in Leeds on the August Bank Holiday Weekend. There are still more names to be announced but the bill so far - which weirdly features The Shins sandwiched between Odd Future and Enter Shikari?! - looks like this...»
Keane, more than a lot of bands, have made a running theme of the homecoming gig. Even as far back as 2004 they were playing 'locals only' gigs in Battle. Of course with such fervent fans as Keane are lucky enough to enjoy, Friday's comeback gig at Bexhill-on-Sea's De La Warr Pavilion saw audiences from as far away as Argentina; a fact cheerily flagged up by Tom Chaplin when he started pointing out all the familiar faces. Local gig it may have been, but Strangeland's public debut couldn't have been more international if Keane had set up their own special branch of the UN.»
Ahead of the albums release next week, you can stream Lee Ranaldo's newie Between The Times and The Tides, here, in full...»
The Association of Independent Music (AIM) confirms second awards show...»
After postings gigs listings all over the world, Radiohead finally announce three UK dates.»
Latitude festival reveals the first taste of its 2012 line-up...»
DiS' end of the week selection of streams and vids, hand-picked by our editor...»
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February may be the shortest month of the year but what it lacked in days, it made up for in releases. Here's our editors picks of the month in a (hopefully) digestible format including our albums of the month and a Spotify playlist, as well as the most read pages of February's 2,677,492 pageviews.»
DiS' favourite Icelandic sculpter of heart-fracturingly beautiful post-classical music Ólafur Arnalds has created a soundtrack for a film starring the likes of Demi Moore, and you can listen to it in full here.»
Before we tell you about the rest of the names, we're very excited to confirm that Errors - who've released one of the albums of the year, so far - will be headlining one of DiS' three curated nights at the festival. We've also confirmed the first UK date for Eight And A Half, the new project from some of the chaps from The Stills and Broken Social Scene, who sound like this:»
Andrew Bird has been a favourite of DiS' for many years so it's with great pleasure we premiere his new album Break It Yourself.»
Fanfarlo's new album features a bridge on the cover, so we thought it'd be interesting to find out what their favourite bridges actually are...»
CFCF who've previously remixed the likes of HEALTH, Holy Ghost!, Porcelain Raft, Owen Pallett, memoryhouse, Junior Boys and Fever Ray, and have a few releases to their name, have morphed Bear in Heaven's drifting but rich 'The Reflection of You' into a svelte, spring-sun drenched dittie. In fact, you can almost imagine Erland Oye bopping along to it like one of those Turntable.fm avatars. »
As you may have noticed over the past few weeks, we've scrapped our weekly Spotifriday playlist in favour of a monthly playlist. Instead we're now doing this digestible weekly post of five things we think you coulda/shoulda heard this week but if you didn't, here they are, in one place with play buttons and everything... »
SYNTHETICA is about being able to identify the original in a long line of reproductions. It's about what is real vs what is artificial.»
Once again those noizy chaps from LA (HEALTH) have gone and done a sterling remix of Crystal Castles. The track is called 'Suffocation' and you probably need another remix in your life like you need a cup-holder on your ankle but seriously, is very very special indeed... plus Ethan Kath has made a video for the original version of the song.»
The clock counting down to the release of the new Shins album is tick-ticking louder by the day, and to whet your appetite further, Mr Mercer and co. have finally unveiled the video for 'Simple Song'.»
A Rufus Wainwright album teaser, exclusively for Drowned in Sound... plus news of the first single from the album and a stream of a new song entitled 'Montauk'.»
If you follow DiS' editor on Twitter or have seen the "School of Seven Bells new album is brilliant" thread on our board, you'll be aware there is a lot of love in the air for the third album from Brooklyn-based disco-gaze duo Benjamin Curtis and Alejandra Deheza.»
A week today (February 27) DiS favourites Shearwater released their new record, Animal Joy, through Sub Pop. Now you can listen to it in full, via the SoundCloud player below. Is it as good as the last one? Or even the one before that? You decide. »
Spotifriday is dead! And it's been replaced by a February Highlights thread (and monthly Spotify playlist) and this, a new weekly feature in which DiS' editor shares his picks of the week, as a digest sort of thing... »
It’s been a busy couple of weeks up in DiS Manchester HQ; on Monday we announced Walls as our headliners for our Sounds From The Other City stage in Salford on May 6th among a host of other acts. Now we can confirm that on March 29th we’ll be teaming »
A couple of weeks ago we announced that we were going to be involved with Salford’s grassroots-driven DIY festival Sounds From The Other City. Since then, as well as getting our own stage in order – curated with local promoters and pals Grey Lantern -»
We all know Pulled Apart By Horses are one of the most devastating live acts on the planet, so we won't bother mentioning it any more. It should really go without saying. Well we've got a video of them performing live, at their album playback last year. The track is from the album - obviously! - and is 'Wolf Hand' and was performed at the Buffalo Bar in London. Here it is.»
It is Friiiiiiiiiiiday! The weekend is about to belly-flop before you. You're perhaps looking for something to listen to and wondering where the hell Spotifriday is (it's gone monthly!)... well then, sit back, take your grubby trainers off, relax a little and ingest these five videos and/or streams hand-picked by DiS' editor... »
Some free stuff from one of our favourite labels.»
In March The Shins finally return with a new record, Port of Morrow. It's been a long time coming, but you can find out more information about it here. We can't wait. Nor can we wait for their London show on March 22 and 23, afraid we're going to have to though. What concerns us today is a new song. It's the b-side to new single 'Simple Song' and is called 'September' (via Pitchfork).»
On April 2 2012 Killing Joke will release a new album, their second since the line-up of Jaz, Youth, Geordie and Paul Ferguson re-united, back in 2008. It's called MMXIIand students of classics may note that is "2012" in Roman numerals. »
One of the most un-Googleable bands in the history of bands, Girls, have just announced a very small number of shows in Europe for later in the year. At the moment there's only one date in the UK, but it's at a significantly large venue. I remember seeing them in a small one, how ahead of the curve...»
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