Drowned in Nottingham #14
In the second Nottingham scene round-up of 2013 we focus on some of the hottest new sounds filtering through the city as well as the regular release, festival and live updates.»
Articles
domgourlay has written the following articles:
Splashh - Comfort
A saccharine coated bundle of youthful exuberance wrapped in delicious halos of intoxicating reverb, ear-shredding fuzz and occasionally, pensive melancholia.»
Various - Psychedelica 5
Psychedelica 5 contains something for anyone with any interest in psychedelic, shoegaze, noise or even just guitar music in general»
Dirty Beaches - Drifters/Love Is The Devil
Alex Zhang Hungtai aka Dirty Beaches has somehow managed to go the extra mile here...»
The Vaccines, Toy, Temples at Millennium Square, Leeds, West Yorkshire, Sun 05 May
Despite being only two albums into their relatively short career, The Vaccines have fast become a global sensation...»
Still Corners - Strange Pleasures
Although never one dimensional, it would have been so much easier for Still Corners to continue along the same tried and trusted path as with Creatures Of An Hour.»
Public Enemy at Rock City, Nottingham, Tue 23 Apr
Public Enemy and St George's Day. Two cultures collide in the city of Nottingham. The good, the bad and the downright ugly... »
"Kids aren't as political now" - DiS meets Bobby Gillespie of Primal Scream
In one of Bobby Gillespie's most candid interviews in years, we spend the next hour or so discussing the new record, Primal Scream's legacy, former band members, the lack of dissent within the arts and how fatherhood has changed him. However, first on the agenda is a topic currently on the tip of the nation's tongues; Margaret Thatcher's funeral. »
Crystal Shipsss - Crystal Shipsss
Crystal Shipsss resembles something of a stop-gap between albums one and two while the band continues to search for an identity of its own.»
Gourlay Files: 3 gigs in 3 days... British Sea Power, The House Of Love & Evans The Death
DiS spent three days last week attending three shows in venues of varying sizes and locations, watching bands with very little in common.»
Depth And Current - Transient
A concise lesson in controlled aggression...»
Killing Joke - The Singles Collection 1979-2012
Thirty-four years and 15 albums after releasing their first EP, Killing Joke are still a force to be reckoned with...»
DiS meets Temples
Temples are one of the hottest new bands around at the minute. Endorsed by the likes of Brett Anderson who recently invited them on tour with Suede and cited by both Johnny Marr and Noel Gallagher as the best new band in Britain, it's been a memorable twelve months for a band that barely existed this time last year. »
"The only plan was no plan": Black Rebel Motorcycle Club on Specter At The Feast
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club have been longtime favourites among the DiS community and its writing team ever since the site started in 2001, the same year BRMC released their self-titled debut.»
Some Velvet Mixtape: 2013 in Drones, Reverb and Feedback - Part One
With Spring fast approaching, here's the first Some Velvet Mixtape of 2013 featuring thirty-eight of the finest tracks to grace our stereos this year.»
Suede, Temples at Rock City, Nottingham, Thu 28 Mar
It's taken Suede a long time to reach Nottingham's Rock City. Twenty-one years in fact from the release of their first record...»
The Black Angels - Indigo Meadow
Austin four-piece The Black Angels have been at the forefront of the neo-psychedelia movement for the best part of a decade.»
Label Profile: Labrador Records
One of the most consistent independent labels in recent years has been Labrador. Now entering its fifteenth year of existence, Drowned In Sound caught up with Acid House Kings' Johan Angergård, now essentially responsible for running the label. We also spoke with The Mary Onettes' Philip Ekström and Johan Duncanson from The Radio Dept. about their time with the label, and in the latter's case potentially opened a huge can of worms in the process. »
Haiku Salut - Tricolore
Haiku Salut aren't your stereotypical band. »
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club - Specter At The Feast
The days when Black Rebel Motorcycle Club would vie for front page headline space with The Strokes and Oasis are long gone.»
Gourlay Files: Clash of the Titans - Sigur Ros vs My Bloody Valentine
Two of the most eagerly anticipated tours in the early part of 2013 undoubtedly center around the return to UK stages of Sigur Ros and My Bloody Valentine. In the second of Dom Gourlay's regular series of Gourlay Files reports from the UK's best gigs, and some of the world's finest festivals, DiS handed Dom the unenviable task of comparing the two in a head-for-head battle before deciding which one came out on top. Let the Clash of the Titans commence... »
Spectres - Hunger EP
If guitars are supposed to be dead it's probably because Spectres have killed them...»
Exit Calm at Academy, Sheffield, South Yorkshire, Fri 22 Feb
For a band that's been amassing plaudits and critical acclaim since their conception in 2006, it's something of a travesty that Exit Calm still reside in the same underground backwaters seven years on.»
Tunabunny - Genius Fatigue
With a lineage of musical talent that includes REM, Neutral Milk Hotel and The B52s among its number, the city of Athens, Georgia has a history to be proud of. One of its more recent exports are Tunabunny, a four-piece whose lo-fi, post-punk stylings have occasionally drawn comparison with Sleater Kinney, Throwing Muses and Yo La Tengo. »
Hookworms - Pearl Mystic
Pearl Mystic just happens to be one of those records that embodies perfection.»
"If the music wasn't very good people would stop coming": DiS meets Swim Deep
Birmingham quartet Swim Deep have become next band-most-likely to emerge from the country's second largest city and into the mainstream. DiS caught up with them post-soundcheck prior to their recent show at Nottingham's Bodega. Here's what they had to say...»
Girls Names - The New Life
At times, The New Life feels like a concept. The sound of isolation and despair. Even visually mirrored and depicted by Rob Peart's monochrome sleeve photo.»
Drowned in Nottingham #13
In the first Nottingham scene round-up of 2013, Drowned In Sound's man in the East Midlands looks at the best new releases and live shows the city has to offer in the coming months and talks to up-and-coming three-piece Kagoule. »
Golden Grrrls - Golden Grrrls
It wouldn't be unfair to say any band that goes by the name of Golden Grrrls are likely to have been influenced by the likes of Bikini Kill, Huggy Bear and Bratmobile. »
Beach Fossils - Clash The Truth
Clash The Truth isn't so much a departure from Beach Fossils' playful innocence as a more a mature statement of intent documenting Dustin Payseur's coming of age as both a musician and songwriter.»
"More bands should split up" - Brett Anderson opens up to DiS about the return of Suede
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DiS meets John Lydon - Part 1: The Man
DiS Does Singles 20.05.13: Paramore, Laura Marling, The Replacements
DiS joins the Music Alliance Pact + May 2013's global MAP compilation
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