In Conversation: Nils Frahm and Olafur Arnalds
The Erased Tapes label-mates on their favourite 'spaces'.»
Articles
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Drowned in Sound's Favourite Albums of 2013: Top 20
And the best record of 2013 is...»
Drowned in Sound's Favourite Albums of 2013: 50-21
On Monday we will reveal our top twenty albums of the year, but first, here is numbers 50 through 21.»
Tourmet Delights: The Best Things Musicians Ate On The Road in 2013
What's the best thing you ate this year? DiS asks some of our favourite musicians.»
Our Favourite Musicians' Five Favourite Albums of 2013
Some of the makers of our favourite albums, and bands we love who are due back in 2014 share their top 5s of the year.»
End of Year Listageddon Begins... DiS Staff's Favourite Albums of 2013
Before we reveal our albums of the year lists, here are all of our team's number one albums of the year.»
Inbox Gold #2: Parlour, ARMS, Rainer, Deathcrush + more new music
After dredging through 10s of thousands of emails, here are the picks of our editor's inbox as a nifty SoundCloud playlist.»
A Year In Music: 2013 As Spotify Playlists
Monthly playlists, a guide to 4AD, music for office workers and more...»
New for 2014: Independent Venue Week
DiS will be hosting a special night at the Joiners in Southampton to celebrate.»
DiScover: THUMPERS
Gloriously fizzy party-pop - think early Bloc Party, but with a big grin, glitter and clown-shoes for drum sticks»
Watch: Richard Hell narrates a new documentary about New York's underground
This first episode of "New Music Cities" focuses on New York's legendary underground music scene and is narrated by punk innovator Richard Hell and features one-off performances from local New York acts including seventh grade heavy metal trio Unlocking The Truth, ethereal duo Starred and indie-rock outfit Widowspeak.»
DiS Website Relaunch Party with The Icarus Line and Future Of The Left
Exciting news! Rock & roll carcass-kickers The Icarus Line and album-of-the-year-contenders Future of the Left have both agreed to play a London show to help relaunch this website you're gawpin' at.»
New DiS: Thank You For Your Patience
Woah-oh! We're half-way there! Woah-oh! We're livin' on an "application error". Take my hand, we'll make it I swear. Woah-oh!»
Contact Drowned in Sound
If you ever need to contact Drowned in Sound, here's how to do it...»
DiS Site Map - Columns, Takeovers, Albums of the Year and More...
This is a guide to all the different sub-sections of DiS. You'll find artist site takeovers, our regular columns and special weeks/days we've done over the years, dedicated to genres, labels and places we love.»
And Drowned in Sound's Neptune Album Prize 2013 Winner is... HOOKWORMS
DiS' alternative-Mercury winner revealed.»
DiS-favourites Efterklang premiere not one but two new videos!
Two new Efterklang videos for your eyes and ears.»
Elliott Smith 10yrs Gone: DiS' editor on the brutality that burbles beneath the beauty
Elliott Smith’s back catalogue has been a great companion to me and thousands of lonely bastards just like me. »
Marissa Nadler on Elliott Smith
The profound affect of his music on my life was undeniable. Countless songs that will continue to speak to me.»
Watch Sigur Ros live at midday (UK Time) today
All week this week, Lauren Laverne's award-winning BBC 6Music show has been broadcasting live from Maida Vale with a series of live shows. The week culminates today with a session from those Norse Gods Sigur Ros. »
Annie Eve is DiS' pick on this month's free MAP compilation
If you fell under Daughter's spell in 2012/13 then you'll likely be obsessed with Annie Eve in 2014.»
Video Premiere: Travis shoot the video for 'Mother' with the new iPhone
DiS premieres the new video by Scottish indie-pop legends Travis.»
Music tourism is worth £2.2bn to British economy: Which is a good excuse for playlist of great new-ish British music
UK Music and VisitBritain have revealed that the UK has 6.5million music tourists every year.»
Polica's track-by-track guide to their new album Shulamith
Channy talks us through their second album Shulamith, track by track. »
The Neptune Album Prize 2013: DiS' Alternative-Mercury Shortlist Revealed
13 exceptional British albums which weren't nominated for the Mercury Prize that we feel you should take the time to investigate.»
Pearl Jam discuss their forthcoming album Lightning Bolt with Carrie Brownstein
Carrie Brownstein from Sleater-Kinney / Portlandia, sits down with Pearl Jam's Stone Gossard and Matt Cameron to discuss recording, song-writing and their forthcoming tenth studio album Lightning Bolt.»
Win: Tickets to the Barclaycard Mercury Prize + £200 Bose headphones
Our winner receive a pair of balcony tickets to the prestigious awards show, but Barclaycard have teamed up with Bose to offer a pair of wireless AE2w Bluetooth headphones (worth a penny shy of £200). »
DiS turns 13 Today: A Playlist, Some Words and A Sneak Peek of the New Site!
A lot has changed over the past 13 years, but there are still a lot of challenges, which keeps things interesting.»
A 70-song introduction to one of the greatest record labels of all time: 4AD
A playlist filled with some of the finest tunes of the past 30 years, which were all released by a record label with impeccable taste 4AD.»
Au Revoir Simone - Move in Spectrums
Slow-dance grooves and sleep-walk-with-me lullabies. The keyboard-wielding trio have taken just enough inspiration from The Velvet Underground’s slumberdelic blueprint (yet it always feels like they’re more into Maurice Sendak than Warhol), the epic pop hooks of the Eurythmics, Broadcast’s grainy night-train steam plumes and mix it with that sweet sadness that swarms around Charlie Brown.»