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I’m REALLY starting to hate nu-metal! Hate is such a strong word, but it almost seems ‘strange’ to be so passionate in this day in age. Reaching the upper-echelons of passion (be it negative or positive) is never really expected anymore; it’s easier for everyone to make do, keep things simple and t»
“Well, Laaaaaaaaast Niiiiiiiiiiiiiiiite, she said…” dum-de-dum-dee-daarrrggghh! You scum! SCUM! I said SCUM GAWD DAMN YOU! I keep hearing this song everywhere. Every indie club I end up in. Every time my alarm clock pops on to wake me up. And even when I’m bored, it’s stuck in my head, like some kinda»
Tonight is a very good night to go on a killing spree. Well, it’s firework night and a gunshot would be hidden in the relentless traditional blasts shaking the city skyline. Then there’s the thought in the back of my mind that every bonfire could be a pile of bodies cremated amongst worn-out mattresses. Maybe it is tha»
”What we don’t know can fill a truck! What we don’t know can’t hurt us yet!” I hate not knowing what to expect. Support, ENON blast out their missing link between Wacko Jacko and Captain Beefheart, whilst I am preparing myself. I’ve heard a lot about the headliners show and with only a few l»
Dear Reader,
Sean, director of dis here... Just thought I better warn you that we have given up just running this site. We have crazily dog-damn-gone-and-done-it and arranged a tour featuring bands we've been raving about for a while. People have been listening to our passionate ramblings, prooving how righ»
Green Day front-dude Billie Joe has posted a message encouraging the pop-bands fans to use their message board to express opinions about the events of the past month (yes, the ones to do with war!). Drummer, Tre Cool, quoted Martin Luther King: "You can murder a murderer but you can never murder mur»
I’ve been asked to record the events of our upcoming tours, but I didn’t really need to be asked since I do this anyway. The following is from our first tour in Europe, five countries in seven days: Belgium, Holland, France, England and Wales from 8/25-8/31. As we do on all tours, we keep a win-loss record of Beulah v.»
Ben & Jason and two other guys, step onto the Dingwalls stage with all the right attire. The singer, Ben, has the indie-mohawk. The keyboard player / acoustic guitarist Jason, has bearded bloke-rock chic. The other two sit somewhere behind them on their drums and double bass oozing croons. However you perceive t»
Yesterday, was the first birthday of this 'ere site, Drownedinsound. It has been an eventful year with comings and goings, developments, attacks and various forms of discovery. I'd like to take this opportunity to thank everyone who has played a part in the past year and congratulate all our staff of volunteers f»
HELP! My desk is full of CD’s and I feel the need to write about all the ones I like. Please forgive me. Please. I’ve tried - I really have - to put them into a vague stylistic order from crazy chilled to funkier to rawk but that’s a damn hard thing to do and all the EPs’n’singles are muddled with the albums/LP’s. Look»
Breath deeply. Visualise. You’re no longer sat reading this, you’re with me in the Barfly. The Barfly is not a good place to breath deeply because it smells a bit. Taste the air there. Now, six people fill the stage. There are two bass players, sometimes two guitarists, sometimes just one, there’s also a drummer, a cel»
With a roaring chorus of "I don't want this feeling, give me something to believe in" Twist, the grrrls from Birmingham are back, louder, more post-rock, more pre-destined for arena's... or at least the following dates:
Weds Sept 12th Manchester Life Café
Thurs Sept 13th York Fibbers
Fr»
“I want you to feel pain” are the first words I can understand of Kittie’s set tonight. They’re actually the penultimate sentences as the feedback lowers for another onslaught of screams, riffs soaked in ectoplasm and headbanging, mainly from sweet (sic, sic, six!) looking 10-year-old boys complete with f»
Boy meets girl. Boy meets world. Then there was confusion. Then a band strolled onto the main stage of Reading on the day of pu/nu-metal. The band were Boy Hits Car. They may not of been Papa Roach or the sub-level of them in the form of Alien Ant Farm, complete with the kidz trying to look like their in »
It feels like there are too many bands playing, well, kinda.. isn’t it annoying that last year you missed half the bands who’ve changed your world in the past year? Maybe. Maybe not. Anyway, here’s a guide to bands that Sean(who likes his live stuff loud, proud and entertaining), editor of Drownedinsound.com will hopef»
Sometimes people can go over the top. Sometimes the world is too much. Sometimes words aren’t enough. But forget all that. Welcome into your world Saul Williams beat poet extraordinaire so good he's on the U.S. curriculum in some states. He's soon to be saviour of your soul and the heart[”..a philosophers sto»
Muse tease us with a mere 3 gigs on their mini-Rocktober tour. Tickets go on sale on August 1 for the following stadium'ish shows..
Plymouth Pavillions Oct 4th
Portsmouth Guildhall Oct 5th
Edinburgh Corn Exchange November 5th
Teignmouth's lil prog-goths release their third single f»
Someone please lift me from my chair and levitate my mind to a higher state of consciousness. Oh, hello there Turin Brakes. A re-release. ’Mind over Money’ - would make a very simple pictograph would that. If you missed it first time around, please make yourself comfortable as things are about touch you,»
The headliners for the Tibetan Freedom Concert has been announced and they are: Pulp, Morcheeba and Joe Strummer with the Beastie Boys. The event will take place on September 15 in London. On July 31st the complete full line-up will be announcement tieing in with new website @ »
As already reported on DiS, [reported here] Spiritualized hit the road on massé with a 13-piece line-up. The tour is to promote the new album 'Let it Come Down' which is set for release on September 17th via Sp»
The shortlist for this year's Technics Mercury Music Prize has just been announced in London. The £20,000 prize was won last year by Badly Drawn Boy's 'The Hour Of Bewilderbeast'. The full shortlist is as follows:
Basement Jaxx - 'Rooty'
Ed Harcourt - 'Here Be Monsters»
Titled, "No-One Here Gets Out Alive!" you are right to fear what may be about to happen. This Sunday (July 29th), that-band-we-haven't-shut-up-about-lately Miss Black America, are playing at one of those venues in the back streets of Camden called the Dublin Castle - tho I ensure you there is no cr»
Hello folks,
I caught an evil virus on Friday, which may or may not of sent itself to you or you via someone who could of caught it off me or where I caught it from.
Basically, the evil beeeyatch of a virus comes in the form of an e-mail, which you would of already sent to someone, with a copy of the origin»
Us folks @ Drownedinsound are proud to bring you the video for the current Kings Of Convenience single 'Failure' which was released on the 2nd of July. Click here for our audio/vid page featuring the video stream. For the observant of you»
What do you get if you have 7 Seconds of Everyday People? Give up? Or are you some kinda smart arse… the trivia link is Neneh Cherry and Speech from Arrested Development who feature on this, the second single from the eagerly awaited (well, for me at least) 1 Giant Leap album. If there is a»
Is Rock’n’roll all about pretty silhouettes and projections of psychedelic kaleidoscopes? For some it is, I guess. For me it’s all about what is contained within the outlines of the star’s shapes. It’s about a groups creation of an alternative universe where we can wander around to escape from reality into surreality. »
Drownedinsound.com presents...
Fighting Gravity :Battling the Musicworld from the Underground
@ The Kiva, King Street, Weymouth
Friday June 29th - Sunday July 1st 2001.
The event launches on Friday with an evening of Dj's playing the best in hip-hop, funk, al»
”This album is meant to be a soundtrack for political activists all over the world” – Jim Lindberg, Pennywise. This is PW album number seven. This is passionate anti-establishmentarianism pumped out with soon-to-be reclaimed street cool. This is cynicism mixed with a sense of panic and fear, pullin»
Enter Robert Miles, most famous as the do-er of ‘Children’ - with that hit single, silly! So it is or rather was a big Ibiza anthem, maybe that fact is enough to put any non-Ben Sherman owning smuck off this record. Do not walk away just yet! The fact of the matter is no artist is ever the sum of t»
The crowd say: "HOOOO-OOOO-OOOH" Taking place on the second weekend of July (14th-15th) @ Hackney Marshes, London is this years ESSENTiAL FESTiVAL. The festival is in support of Greenpeace and Centrepoint("housing young people"). The line-up spans the funkier genre's »
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