Album Stream: Stare - Ólafur Arnalds & Nils Frahm's album for Record Store Day
Nils Frahm and Olafur Arnalds team up to release an album for Record Store Day, and we're very proud to premiere this new album via Erased Tapes, »
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Win! A night out with DiS' editor to see The Antlers + signed vinyl copy of DiS' LP of 2011
You may remember that a band named The Antlers released an album named Burst Apart in 2011, and that DiS really rather liked it. So much so we named it our album of the year. You may also be aware that they're headlining The Shepherd's Bush Empire in London next week (Thurs 26th). We have a spare pair to give away, so that you and a friend can come see them play. Plus the band have kindly signed a copy of Burst Apart to throw in for extra measure. There is a downside however, and that is that you will have to attend the gig with our editor, and he may try and sneak you into the after-party so you can get a photo taken with the band to post on your Facebook (no promises - especially if you sneak off the loo and never come back). »
Metric announce UK dates and reveal more Synthetica album details
Canadian synth-rock-heroes Metric are coming back to the UK to play some shows to promote their fifth, full-length studio album Synthetica.»
5-4-Fri: Eight And a Half, FOE, Dirty Projectors, Buffalo Tide + "Sigh-Fi"
It's Friday. Here are five hand-picked streams to flick through today or at some point over the weekend...»
Rustie, Mogwai, Moffat and more for Scotland's first Mercury-esque Music Prize
Rumoured to originally have been titled, Scottish Music Will Never Die, But You Will, the SAY Award is set to underscore how much terrific comes out of Scotland.»
WIN: Tickets to see The Horrors, The Cribs and more c/o Jack Daniel's
May sees the launch of [JD Roots]](http://www.jdroots.co.uk), which recognises and celebrates the importance of home in the creative process. JD are putting on a unique series of shows featuring some of the biggest names in music returning to their hometowns to play intimate gigs. Entry to the shows is extremely limited but Jack Daniel’s and Drowned In Sound have combined to offer three lucky readers and their chosen plus one the chance to see the show of their choice and get there and back for free, plus a place to crash if you need it. »
Low, Walls and dEUS join the Latitude Line-up
Latitude 2012 festival line-up grows..»
Drowned in Spotify: A vast selection of DiS-curated Playlists
A sort of greatest hits selection of DiS' Spotify playlists. We've compiled these to show off their new play button feature, but mainly to give you one page to bookmark (and share) for hours upon hours of listening..»
Behind The Screens: DiS meets This Is My Jam
This is My Jam feeds neatly into all of your social media holes and has taken a certain corner of the music sphere by storm since its launch back in December 2011. The initial reaction from the DiS community was mixed but it seems quite a lot of you have come to love it as much as I have, and from what TIMJ co-founder Matthew Ogle (formerly of Last.fm) reveals below, it seems Hollywood A-listers and high-profile British Politicians are fans of it too.»
Playlist: Record Store Day 2012
DiS has made a Record Store Day 2012 playlist featuring things we're excited about purchasing on RSD12.»
The DiS Digest: Q1 2012 as a 50-song Spotify playlist
Over the coming days, as we head into the long Easter Weekend (otherwise known as hot cross bun-mas, or tea-cake-mas if you're a truly dedicate atheist), DiS' editor is going to try to reduce down the best of the year so far. Tomorrow we'll share our most read editorial, as well as our album picks, and on Friday we'll share the videos of the year so far, but before any of that, how about a quick 'humble-brag' with our year-to-date stats (saves us replying to people asking for them) and a Spotify playlist? And yes, you can have a hot cross bun with that! »
Bear in Heaven's track-by-track guide to their new album I Love You, It's Cool
Bear in Heaven's Jon Philpot sits in the director's chair to talk us through their new record...»
David Lynch self-directs the NSFW video for his song 'Crazy Clown Time'
Mr. Lynch describes the setting for the video as, “an intense psychotic backyard craziness, fueled by beer”.»
5-4-Fri: Chromatics (LP stream), Gwilym Gold, Shearwater, Red Kite, The Icarus Line
DiS' editor picks five songs (well, one is an entire album) to fling you giddy and grinning into the weekend and beyond....»
Weekend Listening: Dear... the debut album by Keaton Henson
Fans of Elliott Smith, Perfume Genius, Josh T. Pearson and/or Damien Rice, you will want to be clicking play on this...»
Poliça - Give You The Ghost
Enter Poliça, slinking in from stage left. Six months ago their name barely registered on Google (unless you were looking for an Italian policeman) but The Blog Machine and ageing respect-mah-authority Rock Writers have been knocked for six by tracks from Give You The Ghost - some even going as far as naming them The Band of SXSW™. Driving all of this <3-ing is ‘Lay Your Cards Out’, an oblique pop ditty that starts off pirouetting in space, and as it begins to hurtle out the spaceship doors - whilst seeming motionless - the whole song soars and skitters along the crest of a double-drumming wave. »
Gold Panda and Stay+ join the DiS stage line-up for Summer Festival
It's time to reveal two more names for the Drowned in Sound stage at Summer Sundae Festival... »
Gemma Hayes, Hey Sholay, Temper Trap, Halls, Blanck Mass + loads more join The Great Escape 2012
The latest additions to the three nights of DiS curated music, which take place from 10th-12th May in Brighton. We've already announced some of the acts playing our bills: Errors, When Saints Go Machine, New Look, Eight And a Half, The Soft plus the DiS vs Erased Tapes Records night with Nils Frahm, A Winged Victory for the Sullen and The British Expeditionary Force. And now we've got two more names for our stages to reveal, and then a 140+ more acts for the festival itself to reveal... »
A Journey to the Port of Morrow: A Mixtape by The Shins
The Shins have a new album Port of Morrow came out last week and the band want to take you on a journey 'there'.»
Listen: When Saints Go Machine cover The Verve's 'Bittersweet Symphony' (DiS Premiere)
The makers of one of DiS' favourite albums of 2011, re-invent a classic... »
Album Stream: Chapter Two: Konstellation Neu by The British Expeditionary Force (Erased Tapes)
Another DiS exclusive for you... Erased Tapes Records have provided us with a full stream of Chapter Two: Konstellation Neu the new album by The British Expeditionary Force, plus a track-by-track guide to the album by the band. They play DiS' stage at The Great Escape in May.»
Life, Death and Broken Bells - DiS meets James Mercer (The Shins)
"It’s funny because ‘Simple Song’ is a very almost jubilant song, it’s very happy and I’m being very positive about some things in my life. And then there’s some real dark songs, like ‘Port of Morrow’, that song is just dark, it’s about how strange it is to be a human being and see human beings dying and human beings killing – that’s heavy dark stuff. There’s songs about love, there’s songs about death, there’s songs about…" - James Mercer»
The Shins: Introducing the Band
When James Mercer wrote and recorded the new Shins record Port of Morrow (which is streaming in full, here), he put together a new band to head out on the road with him but who are these strangers lurking in the stage lights? We sent them each a questionnaire to find out a little more about them... »
Blood Red Shoes' track-by-track guide to In Time To Voices
On Monday, DiS' favourite guitar-thrashing, drum-thrashing, stage-thrashing, crowd-thrashing, duo Blood Red Shoes follow-up the Radio1-bothering Fire Like This with the release of their eagerly anticipated third album. Here, Steven Ansell walks us through the new album In Time To Voices... »
Five For Friday: Blood Red Shoes, Spiritualized, Plan B, Low, Chromatics
Five videos picked by DiS' editor to fill that void in your Friday... »
Twilight Sad, Django Django, Hey Sholay and more for DiS' stage at Summer Sundae Festival
DiS returns to Leicester's Summer Sundae on Sunday 19th August to curate our own stage. »
UK exclusive - Album Stream: The Shins fourth album Port of Morrow
The Shins are back with the new album Port of Morrow. It's out next week in the UK but you can hear it in full before it's out all week on DiS!»
Futureheads, Raincoats, Rolo Tomassi, Actress, NZCA/Lines and loads more line up for Camden Crawl 2012
London's Camden Crawl 2012 festival line-up expands...»
Watch: SBTRKT in session for BBC 6 Music's 10th Birthday Celebrations
Yesterday, winner of DiS' alt-Mercury, The Neptune Music Prize, who also came highly placed in our albums of the year list, SBTRKT, kicked off Lauren Laverne's week of 6 Music tenth anniversary celebrations at Maida Vale. »
At the Drive-In, Blood Red Shoes, Metronomy, SBTRKT, Shins, Cure, Paramore and more for Reading & Leeds 2012
This year's festival takes place Little John’s Farm in Reading and Bramham Park in Leeds on the August Bank Holiday Weekend. There are still more names to be announced but the bill so far - which weirdly features The Shins sandwiched between Odd Future and Enter Shikari?! - looks like this...»
DiS meets John Lydon - Part 1: The Man
DiS Does Singles 20.05.13: Paramore, Laura Marling, The Replacements
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
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