Album Stream: Andrew Bird Break It Yourself
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.»
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February 27th, 2012
February 24th, 2012
Friday Fun: Fanfarlo's Five Favourite Bridges
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...»
Listen: Bear in Heaven's 'The Reflection of You' remixed by CFCF
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. »
Five For Friday: Beirut, Burial, Kate Wax, Olafur Arnalds, Scuba
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... »
February 22nd, 2012
Metric confirm new album Synthetica will be released in June
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.»
Listen: HEALTH remix Crystal Castles (again!) + new video
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.»
Video: The Shins 'Simple 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'.»
February 21st, 2012
Rufus Wainwright reveals a teasing taster of his new Mark Ronson-produced album
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'.»
February 20th, 2012
Album Stream: School of Seven Bells Ghostory
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.»
Listen: Stream Shearwater's Animal Joy in full
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. »
February 17th, 2012
Five For Friday: POLIÇA, EMA, The Kills, Chromatics, Perfume Genius
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... »
February 15th, 2012
Drowned In Sound Manchester presents Blondes live
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 »
February 13th, 2012
Walls confirmed for Drowned In Sound stage at Sounds From The Other City
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 -»
February 10th, 2012
Watch: Pulled Apart By Horses 'Wolf Hand' LIVE
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.»
Five For Friday: St Vincent, Blondes, Chairlift, Icarus Line, A Whisper In the Noise
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... »
February 7th, 2012
Erased Tapes celebrate fifth anniversary, give away compilation
Some free stuff from one of our favourite labels.»
Listen & Watch: The Shins b-side 'September'
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).»
Killing Joke to release new record, hear 'Rapture' now
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. »
Girls announce May and June European shows
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...»
Efterklang working on a new album, lose a member
The last thing we heard from Danes Efterklang was around the full DVD release of their wonderful music documentary-film-project with Vincent Moon, An Island. The news today is two-fold. The first is that they are now down a member, after Thomas Husmer left the band after a decade.»
February 6th, 2012
BBC 6Music announces tenth anniversary celebration shows
It was not all that long ago that people were fighting to save BBC 6Music from closure. That, of course, turned out rather well and the station is going, with 2012 marking its tenth anniversary. Naturally, when you have a birthday party of anniversary you'll want to celebrate and some of those plans have been unveiled. »
Perfume Genius announces UK tour for May
In a couple of weeks' time (February 20) a new Perfume Genius record is released, through Organs (Turnstile). It's the follow-up to the hugely acclaimed and largely excellent debut, Learning. This one's called Put Your Back N 2 It and now there's a batch of UK and European tour dates in May. »
M.I.A. gives Super Bowl audience middle finger, NBC apologise
Last night the Super Bowl happened. The Giants won, so well done to them. As always, there's a lot of half-time entertainment and this year it was up to people like Madonna and M.I.A. to provide it. Unfortunately - as with Janet Jackson' weird star-shaped nipple a few years ago - there was some "controversy". »
February 3rd, 2012
Watch: NSFW video for The Magnetic Fields' 'Andrew In Drag'
Back in December The Magnetic Fields announced the release of a new record, called _Love At The Bottom Of The Sea _ and out on March 5 through Domino. One of the tracks on the album is 'Andrew in Drag' and now there's a video for it, being the first single from the album.»
Watch: New M.I.A. video for 'Bad Girls'
A new track from M.I.A. surfaced earlier this week. Called 'Bad Girls' it's taken from her Vicki Leekx mixtape. Now, as is often the case, there's a video for the single, directed by Romain Gavras (who has worked with her on 'Born Free') and filmed in Morocco. It was premiered over on VICE's new video channel, Noisey but you can also watch it here.»
New Toro Y Moi retrospective box set, download unreleased track now
Chaz Bundick aka Toro Y Moi will release an archival vinyl box set in April. The vinyl will be of the 7" variety, with two tracks on each of the 5 plates. It's going to be released on April 23 and is called June 2009, somewhat confusingly. »
Sunn O))) to tour Europe, UK dates
Let's not beat around the bush here - legendary doom/noise/drone band Sunn O))) have announced a batch of dates in Europe, two of which are in England - London and Manchester. So, have a look for the full details.»
Friday Fun: Time for some James Murphy coffee?
Anyone for a cup of Joe?»
February 2nd, 2012
Metronomy's The English Riviera to be released as remix album
Some remixes and that.»
Rufus Wainwright to release Mark Ronson-produced album
Rufus Wainwright and Mark Ronson are two pretty big names in their own right but when put together that perhaps veers a little bit more towards massive. Anyway, that is exactly what they have done and will be releasing a record together later this year, with Rufus doing the musical bits and Mark on the production side of things.»
Drowned in Manchester #15 – May 2013
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DiS joins the Music Alliance Pact + May 2013's global MAP compilation
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