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We made a feck up Drowned in Sound misinformed you that brummy glam-indie-kidz King Adora had signed to Mushroom. A spokesman for the label said.. "can you change this please as it's utterly false.. I don't know where that came from" This does mean any Umm&Ah chap(ette) with a bit»
Blame the Punkz. Blame Nirvana. Blame Corgan. Maybe blame Molko. And certainly blame the shit state of the world today. Don't blame Essex, that's just not fair...
But we're not going to place blame. We're simply going to point out something's a-happenin and has been goin»
You may have heard that recently the London Astoria was refused its entertainments licence. Now, the conspiracy against the music we love deepens, it seems... Our government is looking to change licensing laws, it was warned yesterday by the»
The Sun are reporting it and now DiS...(thought we'd save ya buying a paper) Terrible music and release strategies (i.e. using singles as a loss leader and way of getting media coverage) have caused a slump in singles sales. Some stats nerd has revealed that singles sales have dropped this year b»
ALOHA! Oh look, another Drownedinsound night at the Windmill - just off Brixton Hill in London.. and what of this weeks showcasing of "interesting and exciting new bands" we hear you ask. More drunken noisy rock antics? You betcha.. what about some art-rock, art-indie and a bit of art-metal? Some in»
DEFRAGMENTATION "..to put into an optimal order"
D:Frag London #28
...london gig previews by sean@drownedinsound.com
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This band make the polyphonics measly crew shudder and sound even more like a mercury rev covers band.. yeah, scots and irish; celts if you will, they like to drink and they like to woo a women. But then, there's the 27-strong REINDEER SECTION and their beautiful music. Gary Lightbody (Snow Patrol) and fri»
At DiS we love SPAN and we love conspiracies. Mighty Norwiegans SPAN need your help to subvert MTV2 and get their brillant brand of rock onto the airwaves... All you have to do is spend a whole 2minutes of your life doing the following. 1. Go on to the message board on »
KERRANG! (alternatively titled Kerrap..) are proud to announce their line-up for K FEST 2002! They've got a whole bunch of rawk and metal bands playing and without further a do here's what you can get along to in your kittie mittens sporting a leather jacket sprinkled in murderdolls, slipknot and white str»
Matt Hales aka AQUALUNG aka strange and beautiful... finally gettin' to where, for years, fans of Ruth and the 45s knew this little star belonged... now, he's touring the uk on the back of his massively successful debut album.. The self-titled album is gorgeous (review »
Them there brit-rock boys CRACKOUT who were last caught rocking out at a sold out Drownedinsound night at the Camden Barfly; return to the live scene this week, test driving some new material... We've heard through the grapevine»
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"now, everybody just stares and whispers..
can't you ever treat anyone nice?
think i'm gonna make the same m»
Soviet Union Records: previously responsible for OCEANSIZE Tsuji Giri: (pronounced Soo-jee Geary) were one of the bands of In the City this year, playing a Manchester Music show. Their music is raw, rough and loud like a lorry of fireworks crashing into a petrol station. But through the shards of a»
Marilyn Manson tells his fans to fuck off with his sixth lp. Maybe. Possibly. Not. The intelligent counter-culture icon, God of Fuck and Bowie fan Marilyn Manson is trickling out details about his sixth studio album ‘The Golden Age Of Grotesque’ due for release sometime next year. He h»
Ok, so maybe the headline is a little misleading. Virgin Radio's survey did find the most obvious thing tho Apparently, it took asking people to find that 2/3's of the nation is bored of manufactured tv production line, souless, lifeless covers done in a stars in their eyes style, crap TopShop pop. »
While the Grohl is away, the Chris Shiflett will form a side project with his brothers... Rolling Stone is reporting that Foo Fighters and former No Use for a Name guitarist Chris Shiflett went into the studio while Dave Grohl was messing around with the Queens and recorded 20 songs with his »
The most exciting band of the year THE (INTERNATIONAL) NOISE CONSPIRACY announce details of a new ep and we've bunged their tour dates in here for good measure... This band are far too good. They're exciting because they sound like all the passion of punk, wrapped up in soul and spat out like they truly me»
The legendary and highly influential tumbleweed-blueser CAPTAIN BEEFHEART's MAGIC BAND are to reform to play All Tomorrows Parties and apparently record a new record...without Mr.Beefheart. 20 years or so ago Captain Beefheart's Magic Band split. But on Sunday April 6th, at the upcoming All Tomorro»
I wish sound engineers would grow up! ...the hecklers are buried somewhere beneath the deafening bass, buzzing like a billion bees against the disco backdrop of synthy stuff. “I know that you like to hate me!” screams frontman Tim Vanhamel, once part of the mighty dEUS. Support bands always get this»
Dis faves MISS BLACK AMERICA have been forced to cancel two shows this week due to illness... Seymour is bedridden with flu which has been going around the band, forcing them to cancel several recent rockshows, including tonight and tomorrows. In a statement to the world, he proclaimed: "we've dec»
By now you will have the new album 'Songs for the Deaf', you'll have caught them on their recent tour at stoopidly loud volumes pullin alsorts of noises outta the »
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D-Frag # 26
....London gig previews e-zine thingy
Hallo!
I wish my ears would stop ringin»
We're very sorry to announce that the Drowned in Sound schelduled for this Wednesday @ the Windmill has been cancelled. This is due to an accident suffered by a member of Tyler, for a gig which was arranged at fairly short notice... The Tyler website tylercore.c»
Tomorrow night a mini-revolution takes place at the London Astoria and for £20 you get to see some big stars play acoustic sets, raising money and awareness about issues which face people in poverty around the globe... If you didn't already know this is a sick, twisted, cruel, harsh world. People far far f»
Anti-people? Anti-Garfunkel? Anti-Dylan? Surely not... Uk tour, yadda, yadda..strange dress..songs about drugs...blah. blah. The Anti-Folk Tour crashes into the UK in November with a line-up of... Major Matt Mason USA, Kimya from Moldy Peaches, Jeff»
Everyones favourite scottish indie folk popkins BELLE AND SEBASTIAN have decided to flog a car to help save the world! Stuard Murdoch has raised £4000 (a helluva lot more than the £1,500 he expected) for Friends of the Earth Scotland - by auctioning his Classic Ford Granada Mark 1 as featured on the sleeve»
Relapse. Remind. Rethink.
’Relapse’ is the latest very extended playing EP from Oceansize who you may have read excited waves of praise about on dis, mostly written within one inspired hour on leaving a venue.
There are reasons for this.
Remind.
Remember.
No other such R-words »
Enjoy.
It’s yours to discover.
( ) is..
…as urgent as hair growing, skin dying, memories fading, ice melting; mundane things changing…
…a beautiful, graceful, monumentally uplifting, sun setting; existential trip…
Gravity kicked in and it rattled as it went.»
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...mmm...scruffy...mmm...noisy...this demo does make me think of Kinesis. But then, Kinesis make me think of a lot of bands i like. This lot are from Edinburgh and they're full of discontent. The demo's gritty but full of swooping loops. They're yet another example of a scene people are missing of bands who prov»
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