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Drowned in Sound is very pleased to announce that we've taken over from The Guardian, as England's representative in a global network of bloggers who champion their country's local music scene known as the Music Alliance Pact (or MAP for short - see what they did there?). »
This year, we've at least matched our previous endeavours, with three nights of music that takes in everything from tearful piano balladry in a church to grunge-guzzling, riotous, rock'n'roll in a tiny bar through to a club-venue with music that's so post-dubstep that it might actually be from the future.»
There’s everything here that those in the know have come to love and expect from The Veils, but there’s also a window in for the rest of you, so peer on in and you’ll see there’s a red velvet chocolate heartache cake just waiting for you to scoop it up. It’s laced with something special, but I can’t begin to describe what it is.»
Frightened Rabbit's Scott Hutchinson files his concluding entry for the bands US tour, with talk of some of their biggest shows they've ever played, meeting Twin Peaks' Laura Dern and there are a few mentions of drinking life on the road is really like...»
Daft Punk, Boards of Canada, TLC, Phoenix, Paramore, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, The Knife, James Blake... Reducing this month into digestible morsels isn't easy (is it ever?), but here goes.... Includes Spotify, RDIO and YouTube playlists and plenty more besides. »
This here internet page is Drowned in Sound's guide to Record Store Day 2013, which comes with a rather special competition. This is far from thorough, it's just some stuff that stood out that we wanted to highlight, which perhaps you might like to consider picking up if it wasn't something already on your radar.»
"On July 25th 2009 we headed our way from Seyðisfjörður towards the Dalatangi Lighthouse (far-east Iceland) in our van, loaded with all our instruments through narrow, steep roads and miles of fjords and heaths where not a trace of human inhabitants could be found. The rough dirt road with all it's blind turns and the steep drop into the ocean on one side freaked us out a bit, so when we finally got to the lighthouse we were both relieved and touched by the harsh beauty of the lighthouse and it's surroundings." - Maria Sigfusdottir from amiina»
To celebrate playing this year's Camden Crawl (on Camden St IN DUBLIN... the London one will take place later in the year), PVT aka Pivot featuring a chap who was in Prefuse73, have put together this mix of stuff they're loving at the moment. If you like the likes of John Maus, Modeselektor, Nathan Fake and Liars, then you'll like this mix and probably wanna catch them live at the festival. PLUS the festival organisers have kindly given us a pair of tickets to the festival to give away!»
A rather special mix that Portico Quartet have made for to promote their upcoming show at London's Koko (more details about that over here). --- --- About this mix, Duncan said: 'The mix I've done is pretty broad... I wanted to try and re»
A masterful rock-vs-rock voyage through 30 years of influences, rather than something you can put a pithy sound-bite to. »
To kick off this new feature, we've asked two of our favourite British electronic whizz-kidz to make a YouTube filled mixtape for one another, ahead of their show together tomorrow night in London. »
Merry bastah Scott Hutchison of Frightened Rabbit files more updates from the road, as they snake their way across America...»
This is our monthly digest of what you were reading and should have been listening (including a handy playlist) to that was released in March 2013. »
As comeback singles go, this is awesome x700! “I guess people will be surprised there’s a rapper on the album. We just did a song that we felt needed a rap verse. In order to keep making music we have to surprise ourselves. If we stop doing that we’ll have to stop making music.” »
Been busy? Missed some of our best bits? Lost that mental note you made to go back and read something? Here's a run-down of our editor's January-March feature section picks...»
There's been so much great music already in 2013, and with the help of the DiS hivemind, we've compiled this playlist of our community's favourite tracks of the first three months of the year. »
"The comic comes from a long line of our fans doing totally amazing things for us! We've had so many awesome things made for us over the years from fans, including incredibly powerful videos from Broken Pixel and Ana Stefaniak (who both won awards off the back of their videos) to this comic, which we thought was such a cool idea and executed absolutely perfectly by the lovely and very talented Rachael Smith, who is a Leicester based artist who makes these gorgeous looking comics. I can't exactly remember how it all got started, but we know Rachael from our shared Leicester connection, and I think one day we all saw these drawings she'd done of us and the idea just snowballed into this amazing comic!" - Sophie, Her Name is Calla»
Earlier this year, DiS' favourite anthemic Scottish indie-rock band Frightened Rabbit released their fourth album Pedestrian Verse. Rather than sending the band some inane questions, we thought it would be far more interesting to ask that rather eloquent so-and-so Scott Hutchison to keep a diary for us, documenting their adventures in the US of A. We also borrowed some of their Instagrammed shots from the road... »
Once again they've delivered an incredible list of names, featuring legends like Kraftwerk (in 3D?!) to DiS favourites including Cat Power, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Foals, Bloc Party, Efterklang, CocoRosie, Villagers, Mum, Japandroids, Maccabees, Everything Everything, Modest Mouse and Hot Chip. They've also got the makers of some of 2013's recommended DiS albums, such as Daughter, Wave Machines and Hookworms. Then there's the likes of Dylan Moran, Germaine Greer, and spoken word sets from Thurston Moore and Tracey Thorn?! And so much more.»
It doesn't matter if you're a fan of the band School of Seven Bells (or his previous band Secret Machines) or not. A human being who makes music and has huge medical bills needs our help. So please take a second to read this, and if you can spare the price of a pint or more, it would be a big help. If you don't have any money, the least you can do is spread the word: »
Here it is, one week before release, the gorgeous new album from Low, streaming in full. It has all the heft and the lingering ache that we have come to expect from the band, as well as the lushness and hints of gospel amid the glorious gloom. These soulful sad songs are perhaps slightly gentler and sparser than we've heard from Low of late, but what The Invisible Way lacks in noise and ostentation, it more than makes up for with beauty. »
There's a new-found classiness, but not like a wine bar refurb of their festival-friendly drinking anthems of yore.»
Paramore discuss their self-titled forth album with DiS' editor. "...there’s all sorts of synths and guitars, a gospel choir, we did a string section, yeah we put guitars through weird synths and we’d tweak ‘em. I don’t think there was anything that groundbreaking but it was certainly new for us, it was groundbreaking for us, personally."»
Ah, so February, you are such a short month, but what you lack in length, you've more than made up for with girth. This month has been bulging with brilliant new records, and tantalising tidbits of details about yet more goodies to come later in the year. Just imagine how hard it's going to be to pick an album of the year, but don't go wishing the year away quite so quickly, especially as this quick glimpse back at what has 'dropped' over the past four weeks will hopefully remind you that there is a lot to love and spend some time listening to before you zoom onto the next best thing... »
The passing of time and the Drive soundtrack success of that song (‘Nightcall’) has done little to phase Kavinsky’s phazers. The rhythms remain ominous and the bass still bathes in the shadow of the synths neon glow. »
Eluvium are one of those special acts that somehow ends up in your life, and you presume everyone else must have already been hip to them, as music this gorgeous surely is as big as Sigur Ros and The xx and you just happened to miss all the fuss? Not that this expansive drone-driven work is necessarily meant to tip-toe into the mass consciousness, but there's something welcoming about the cinematic melancholy of Matthew Cooper aka Eluvium's ambient works.»
Once again, DiS will curate three nights of music, and we can confirm that our first two additions to the festival line-up are two headliners...»
He moves like Jagger... scrap that, he moves more like Jagger’s shadow. Lithe, crooked, a controlled chaos, with these jutting motions that punctuate the syllable before the plosive sound. Threats, rather than eruptions, from a man who clearly has earthquakes juddering way down inside, alongside that hole where his soul used to be, and it’s from here that he warns you, seconds before the almost inevitable noise explodes»
BBC 6Music is hosting a series of live shows this week at the BBC's legendary Maida Vale studios. From midday each day this week Lauren Laverne will live sets from Suede, Foals, Everything Everything and Richard Hawley, and you can tune in via the below video box to watch them at your desk. Plus, this year they have extra sessions later in the afternoon with The Cribs and Palma Violets joining Steve Lamacq. »
Oh January, you were meant to be a quiet month, wha' happen'? Prince, Postal Service, Daft Punk, Foals, Nick Cave, My Bloody Valentine, Suede, Timberlake and the return of David Bowie, that's what happened! And that's not to mention the albums, oh the albums, so many albums, and lots of them are rather special. »
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DiS joins the Music Alliance Pact + May 2013's global MAP compilation
Drowned in Bristol #12
DiS Does Singles 13.05.13: Swim Deep, These New Puritans, The National
Darkstar, Ed Harcourt, Halls, Wall +more for 3 DiS-curated nights at Great Escape 2013
Interview: Frank Turner on The Olympics, The Backlash, Thatcher and Black Flag
Drowned in Nottingham #14