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With a new album filled with life-disrupting guitars waiting in the wings, who better to ponder the apparent 'problems' with 'rock music' than Steven Ansell, one half of DiS-favourites Blood Red Shoes... HARD TIMES FOR GUITAR MUSIC? There's been a bi»
Have Some Faith in Magic is the sound of a band who've truly found their stride. It's not that they weren't marching like robotic b*st*rds before but there's a definition to this, the Scots third album, that hits you like an ebbing gust of joy and wonder. It thrusts and bursts but in a dazed, slow-motion... And there's a real magic to that. »
Whilst Broken Bells take a break, The Shins' James Mercer and his new band of merry men have a new album and are coming over to London in March to play it, like, live.»
DiS' editor runs through the year's most read, as well as his favourite things published on DiS, and elsewhere, in 2011. Plus a competition to win a subscription to the brilliant Stack magazine club.»
Ah, that weird week between Christmas and New Year's Eve. It's a week when DiS likes to kick back and read, and we thought it'd be a good chance for you (and us too) to catch up on some of the best bits of writing from this year. But it's the holidays, and we're feeling mega-lazy, so we've let Steve from Stack Magazines - a brilliant magazine subscription service that sends you a different magazine each month - takeover the site. This week, you can read the fruits of chats with the editors of some of his favourite music magazines, each sharing some insights from the year that was and their favourite thing they read in 2011. Here Steve chats with Michael, editor of Notion..»
Ah, that weird week between Christmas and New Year's Eve. It's a week when DiS likes to kick back and read, and we thought it'd be a good chance for you (and us too) to catch up on some of the best bits of writing from this year. But it's the holidays, and we're feeling mega-lazy, so we've let Steve from Stack Magazines - a brilliant magazine subscription service that sends you a different magazine each month - takeover the site. This week, you can read the fruits of chats with the editors of some of his favourite music magazines, each sharing some insights from the year that was and their favourite thing they read in 2011. Here, Steve chats with James Griffin, the editor of Bonafide...»
Ah, that weird week between Christmas and New Year's Eve. It's a week when DiS likes to kick back and read, and we thought it'd be a good chance for you (and us too) to catch up on some of the best bits of writing from this year. But it's the holidays, and we're feeling mega-lazy, so we've let Steve from Stack Magazines - a brilliant magazine subscription service that sends you a different magazine each month - takeover the site. This week, you can read the fruits of chats with the editors of some of his favourite music magazines, each sharing some insights from the year that was and their favourite thing they read in 2011. Here Steve chats with Stuart Stubbs, editor of Loud and Quiet...»
Ah, that weird week between Christmas and New Year's Eve. It's a week when DiS likes to kick back and read, and we thought it'd be a good chance for you (and us too) to catch up on some of the best bits of writing from this year. But it's the holidays, and we're feeling mega-lazy, so we've let Steve from Stack Magazines - a brilliant magazine subscription service that sends you a different magazine each month - takeover the site. This week, you can read the fruits of his chats with the editors of some of his (and our!) favourite music magazines. Each conversation shares some insights about being a print magazine in 2011 and their favourite thing they read in the year that was. Kicking things off, here is Steve's chat with Marisa, editor of 'SUP...»
Tis the season for giving and the kind folks from Sonos would like to give one DiSser a prize which will enhance your ability to listen to DrownedinSound’s top albums and singles of the year. »
We've shown you our albums/singles/etc of the year, so we thought it only fair to share the favourite five albums of some of our favourite musicians of 2011... we've also embedded a few tracks so you can get a taste of some of these records.»
Merry DiSmas! This the season to give it away, give it, away, give it away now and to celebrate Spotify's Festive Playlist 'thing' they've given us some premium memberships to their service to give away...»
The countdown of DiS' albums of the year reaches a climax but before reveal our five favourite albums of the year, here are some words from the site's founder and current editor..»
Drowned in Sound's albums of the year countdown continues... »
Drowned in Sound's albums of 2011 countdown continues, as does the ponderneering on the year that was from our editor...»
Drowned in Sound’s top 75 albums of the year countdown starts here. But first, DiS founder and current editor, has his annual ponder about the year that was..»
Tis the season for indie bands to do seasonal songs and BBC 6Music are getting in on the fun... Each day this week, the lovely Lauren Laverne (yes, yes, she was in Kenickie and yes, she was on that telly show with Charlie Brooker and presented the Cultu»
This week, we'll be counting down DiS' favourite 75 albums of 2011, with our top 5 revealed on Thursday. Before we do so, we thought you might find it interesting to see what each of our staff members named their number one record of the year.»
...it's a walk in the bruises, a run in the dust, a monolith for the Blues, a relief in other's emergency.»
On the third day of DiSmas, the music gods gave unto us, one free download from a forthcoming EP by him out of Bloc Party and 'im what used to be in yourcodenameis:milo.»
There's talk on the DiS boards that Guided by Voices have split up (again!) and we've had some clarification from their PR folks, which reads thus: »
This mixtape-like selection is a failed attempt to try to sum up the sounds that have throbbed through me while I've worked, walked and woozed off to sleep. This is less of a playlist and more like the confetti of a year in music.»
Released today, Oh! What A Night Before Christmas features a selection of festive numbers by the former Arab Strap man. Sadly this won't be out physically but as of today you can download it from his bandcamp page by bashing your mouse on this text which is a hyperlink. »
Before we announce our albums of the year, we thought we'd spend twelve days building up to it with lists and giveaways.»
Following on from his ornate DiS 2010 year-end list bothering album Learning, heart-string snapping tearjerker Michael Hadreas aka Perfume Genius has a new record. His 'people' have confirmed that this new album'll be out on February 20th 2012 and it will be entitled Put Your Back N 2 It.»
Yep, a whopping 180+ UK tastemakers voted for the three names of new acts they like (and think will do well in 2012). Can you imagine 180 people agreeing on anything? Especially a disparate bunch of music snobs? »
A week of DiS, as a playlist...you should probably have the gist of what this weekly digest is by now. A Spotify playlist + amongst the blathering below you'll find links to the best bits of this week...»
Throughout 2011 the Brooklyn based 'sigh-fi' duo Blondes put out a series of 12" singles on the New York label RVNG Intl., all of which unsurprisingly show up on their debut album, via the same label. They've also slung together a second CD of remixes by an enviable list of awesome sorts. RVNG Intl. will release Blondes (it's self-titled) digitally and as a double-CD on February 7th, 2012.»
All week this week Apparat Organ Quartet kick off a new 'Planet Gear' irregular feature for DiS, in which we ask musicians to get a bit geeky and talk us through the equipment that makes the magic happen...»
All week this week Apparat Organ Quartet kick off a new 'Planet Gear' irregular feature for DiS, in which we ask musicians to get a bit geeky and talk us through the equipment that makes the magic happen...»
All week this week on DiS Apparat Organ Quartet kick off a new 'Planet Gear' irregular feature on DiS, in which we ask musicians to get a bit geeky and talk us through the equipment that makes the magic happen...»
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