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Wow! Some clever spark has had the idea of putting two of todays punkiest of rock acts out of the road together in May. From "the land of freedom and democracy" aka The United States of Hype-o-crazy we get Bad Religion who've been ranting over their guitars for nearly 2 decades. And from our»
Well, well, well, Drownedinsound have a little RAWWKK night for you @ The Camden Barfly/Monarch on Monday May 20th featuring 3 of our favourite rock outfits. We have those chirpy ickle rock bastids Crackout headlining the evening with support fr»
There is a rumour going around that the UK's version of At The Drive-In Hundred Reasons have split up. This is just scaremongering kidz, and here's the pr speal we get back from our mail. DiS: There's a strange message on one of our boards »
This is all a bit funny really. We've been sent a statement from Ignition Management who manage Oasis regarding their new album. Sounds to us like a pr stunt gone wrong. Anyway, here's the statement... The MP3s of Oasis tracks in circulation on the net appear to be illicit recordings (prob»
(for the sake of History) The Dictators Rules: Scale is Not Important. Music is Everything. Music should be a stable part of every culture and society. Music inspires, it entertains, it breeds energy and thought and morphs our emotions and..and...and.... I don't really have nor need any law»
Everyone knows that there is a day coming sometime in the future. Some might say ”Come the revolution”. Some prefer to shout “FIDDLESTICKS!!!” Either way, that day isn’t too far away. ’WHY’ I hear you cry? It’s because of OCEANSiZE. And I knew they were coming. I could taste it in the air a»
Fear of the day: Anticipation can often stifle how great something is when it actually happens. I heard ‘Villa Elaine’ around the time it was released back in ‘98. Tonight was going to be the first time I’d seen Remy Zero play a headline gig. Admittedly, I caught them yesterday supportin»
Nerds and Geeks, everywhere. Talking about b-sides. Talking about rumours which can’t be circumstantially linked. Weezer are one of the few bands who don’t just endorse this information craziness but fuel the fire. As the grandfathers of EMO (that genre, filled with irony, all music is emotional in my book, if n»
I knew this band were somewhere on the horizon and I wasn’t wrong. First came Hundred Reasons, who I can’t get past the heavy insincere love songs and At the Drive-In-liteness of. Then came Vex Red who’re a little too grungey for me but have their odd moment. But now, this is going to sound stupid, but
Thought of the day: When it’s all been said what is there left to say? A girl with blood-red long locks stands on stage strumming out brittle lo-fi surfaces from her guitar. It sounds as if I’ve been transported to a deadly quiet street. I begin to get closer to some sounds. Eventually, I fathom on one si»
”I said AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!! we’re gonna be around,” and do you know what JP, you weren’t wrong! I’m glad like many a-band I loved 2 years or so ago ‘A’ are still here, they’re still cheeky but there’s something distinictly more complete about album number three (well, four if y»
Drownedinsound have got hold of someone, who has got hold of a copy of the new Weezer album 'Maladroit' which is set for release on April 29th. The tracks (which I'm sure no-one is about to search the internet for mp3s of from h»
There are a couple of specific things I find rather unnerving.
1) Cult movie conventions where people queue up in the relevant tee-shirts so that someone who dressed up as robot can sign some of their prized dusty memorabilia – dunno about you but I find that strange..
2) Tribute bands »
I’m sure by now you’re sick of reading about Miss Black America on Drownedinsound, we might as well call it DrownedinMBA some weeks – well we did sponsor their tour last November.. This is their first release since signing to Integrity Records. The single (as seen on Mtv2) ’Infinite Chinese Box’ is»
Electrelane featuring new drownedinsound recruit Mia Clarke on guitars, release a new EP entitled ’I Want To Be The President’ on April 15th. Along with the Le Tigre fighting Kraftwerk shimmery-syth-pop title track, complete with »
My first time was a very confusing noisy and somewhat painfully unnerving experience. It was at Reading 1998 in a tent. Ever since I’ve felt dirtied yet strangely compelled for more and more. Tonight is quite a few years on from then and four guys who look as if they’d break my face if I don’t buy a mobile phone »
After last night's amazing secret show @ the Bull'n'Gate we're happy to demand your attendance at the following Six by Seven evenings where 4 angry men will project out tender noise in alsorts of clever directions and deviations. Six by Seve»
I know Sweden is a cold place brightened by blonde hair and never ending golden days which are often confused with their endless nights, both filled with enchanting blues. I can comprehend that the beauty of such a twilight place could become as boring as eating jamican ginger cake every single day for the rest of my l»
Yum! ...oh, ok, I can’t do one word reviews even if I try. So, anyway, Maximilian Hecker just imagine a guy whose been trapped for so long he’s forgotten what the real world is like. The only CDs he has are mellow piano-led Mercury Rev or a capella versions of Elliot Smith's best bits. The accompaniment t»
The sky is pouring and washing multicoloured oil residue into the gutters outside the Garage tonight. However, it’s just gone 8pm, people are blowing in off the streets and beneath their wet coats’n’jackets they’re wearing iDLE/WiLD, Seafood and Biffy Clyro tee’s. This can mean only one thing... The first »
Oh! No! SELF PROMOTION! SELL! SELL! BUY! SELL! Yes, we're putting on a gig tonight. Yes the bands all rock! Yes you will be there if you're in London and have any kind of heartfelt desire to discover new music or bathe in the beautiful (it's all in thine ears of the beholder!) art propelled from the geetars, mout»
Where do I begin? The b-sides stand out on their own as two of the best songs of the year with the talk of girls surrounded by flocks of angels maybe because of the girl in the singles “beautiful face, her beautiful face” (so nice they say it twice) which is nearly as teddy-bears-candyfloss-and-kittensy nice as »
Just had a rather excited Cooper Temple Clause fan on the phone and it would seem, amongst the wooooops and yeeeeeaaaaahs that the band charted at number 15 in the first day of UK single chart sales yesterday with their double a-side rock-beast 'Film Maker / Been Training Dogs' single»
It’s strange trying to think what this year will bring. Strange because time is something that we all fight with comprehending. But enough of the philosophical conundrums, onto the things I, as editor of this ‘ere Drownedinsound site, think will be exciting in 2002. Firstly, I'd like to point out that scale isn’»
'...And They Obey' the new single from Kinesis (one of drownedinsounds tips for 2002) is out on February 25th through Crystal Songs the label run by Hall Or Nothing PR people. To ensure their loudly-articulate banter is heard, Kinesis are playing a stint of shows which will drag them through your w»
Those boys with grunged up geetars, talk of girls with angels overhead, screaming and pockets full subtle beauty; Biffy Clyro, are currently out on the road with dis-faves The Cooper Temple Clause (tour starts in Portsmouth today) but when the»
Hey, get down from there! Yeah you Mister Gargoule dancing upon the ceiling! …like you, I am questioning what it is I am drinking. Electrelane seem to be able to do this to me. I’m being imprecise because whatever it is they are doing just now, makes me feel as if I am standing outside of myself or floating abov»
About 14months, ago back when Drownedinsound had just launched we tipped a band called The Cooper Temple Clause. It only seems like yesterday but it wasn't. On Monday they played a show at the Scala, in London. It was a show which our reporter on the scene (me) can only describe as 'an attack on various emoti»
Awoken. The bleeping of machines. Coming down from the night before. There's a record playing. It's all imprecise, hazy, fuzzy. Shakey sensations. A girl's whispering nonsensical rhymes that rummage and crawl along the hairs of my arms. However you choose to describe it, the band, Meanwhile, back in Communist Russia»
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