sean

annoying it has to include a name for who has done photos and i uploaded them - first time we've used a gallery for something like this so a slightly technical oversight.

they're the same pictures?

when Rivers finally turns into Ben Folds and can leave the post-Pinkerton cave because I'm not sure it's possible to listen to a Weezer album fairly or at all objectively given how much they mean to so many of us. I wonder if this was put out under a different name, without the weight of expectation, whether it might be one of the debut albums of the year as, now, whenever they release anything it breaks my (emo) heart to even contemplate listening to it. Yet, I know I will listen to it and I'll feel like a orphan trying to love a social worker.

the Gothminister cover is incredible!

no rocky horror either. was trying not to be ridiculously obvious (apart from Count Duckula, obvs!)

Talk Talk are calling these plans a "breach of human rights" http://torrentfreak.com/isp-threatens-legal-action-against-uk-over-anti-piracy-plans-091029/

it'll treat both parties as criminals. why they can't just get the isps to block access to sites is beyond me, they say they don't have the technology but cuba and china have the technology, what they mean is they don't want to set a precedent of censoring the internet, despite the fact large swaths of horrendeous content is already censorsed.

i've never understood why some people feel the need or decide they have the right to upload and share entire albums/discographies. and those people who rip things from the tv, take the time to cut out the adverts, etc why do they do it? personally i think 'sharing is a healthy ecosystem and have been downloading music for a decade and without Napster i never would have started DiS and invested in the realm of £300k in releasing records. blah blah blah

Here's my suggestion which I gave to BBC at In the City http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/low/entertainment/8315873.stm

SEAN ADAMS, FOUNDER AND EDITOR, DROWNED IN SOUND

Licences to use music for digital services should be easier and cheaper to obtain from record label and publishers, Mr Adams believes.

Each new digital service should be given a two-year licence to sink or swim, he says.

"I think 95% of music that's downloaded illegally could be turned into music that's downloaded in legal means if things are licensed in the right way."

Drowned in Sound has stopped running a podcast because each episode would cost £20,000. "I don't have £20,000. But Laura Marling signed a record deal on the back of us playing her in a podcast. And various artists said they were selling hundreds of records on the back of us playing them."

He adds: "Instead of cutting people off the internet, I'd much rather they sent the worst offenders into studios for a week to do community service to understand exactly what goes into the process of making music.

"I don't think for a second they'd consider not paying something towards the creation of that content."

yep, we plan to do this in the near future - currently trying to stop the site from constantly crashing is a priority.

it's one of the albums of the year, easily.

now over on the music forum here http://drownedinsound.com/community/boards/music/4201338

*american apparel

i actually quite like her but she is the ultimate marmite artist.

probably a typo by guy who put it on there.
http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#/event.php?eid=136903637308&ref=ts

just really like what they do and think they've sensibly solved a big problem with web radio.

that was my original headline

maybe not but the volume of records they shifted in a day is pretty impressive. animal collective did that in a week in america and it was one of the hyped records of the moment, etc...

Stricken City ladies voice reminds you of Life Without Buildings via ol'-heroine-zit-faced Doherty's Albion?

and went for a different track for anyone who only knows OAS

just woke up to this mistake on the frontpage. fixed it now

most of the band reviews to the record seem to have come from an older and more mainstream demographic. it was an observation of the crowd reaction to their show. the groups of blokes in their 30s/40s all went to the bar when they played the louder new stuff, despite, you'd think, having bought/heard the new record a few times ahead of coming to Reading for the day to see them if my conversation overhearing and chat with people after the show are anything to go by.

Arctic Monkeys are slowly becoming a band that divides generations (and in some ways, from the mainstream to the alternative) and that in doing so, all the people in their 40s who still partake in youth culture, don't like them but then these are people whose favourite Nirvana album is the unplugged record. It's a much longer and indepth observation than writing a review on your blackberry with a cider in hand allows.

also no official times are out as yet - unless you know otherwise?

i couldn't work out whether the Libertines were a Reading band or not. it seems a little like they owe more to london that the festival but then pete's from so near by. hrm, def a silly omission on my part.

explanations often help get a point across. it's the summer, it's light and digestible content. and also it's been really popular so that's just your opinion.

which isn't on the list but like zero, noughties, etc

will be available to those who bought it. i assume there will be an email or details on idlewild.co.uk about it.

http://seaninsound.blogspot.com/2009/08/new-idlewild-biog-wot-i-writ.html

sadly wasn't on Spotify - i don't know why lots of stuff isn't on there

he gave it 8/10

1) our reviews are the opinions of individual writers (not some drownedinsound consensus opinion)

2) I refuse to give anything a 10, apart from maybe The National 'The Boxer', The Shins or anything that I know I'll still be listening to in 20 years time that is utterly era-defining. Least of all gonna say something is a 10 based on 1 listen.

sounds like it might grow on me.

thank you

you had to be out several weeks ago to qualify for the deadline for both but i know what you mean. hopefully they won't be forgotten.

meant 13th

to anyone voting and rating across the site

is average the same as "ok"? i might refine the above.

this page is getting a lot of hits and you'd at least make some impact on those looking at it

alternative acts being approached today.

get better soon.

we could only pick 12. can't catch them all.

score as many or as few as you want to (ideally only score them if you've heard them and you have quite some time to investigate them all). it should show the score once you've set it. if you're having any issues please let us know (we've spent the past few days testing it and eradicating bugs)

a list of 12 records no-one's ever heard of and none of the editorial team like, for the sake of making a list, would be a little childish and short-sighted. we want as many people as possible to discover some of the great records on this list which have only sold a few thousand copies.

because the bigger records will have been heard by as many people who don't like than as do like them. it'll be be a proportioned winner, however we'd hope in the next month and a bit people will take the time to listen to all 12 albums.

just so you know this list was compiled based on editorial choices, influenced somewhat by the records people were upset not to see on the mercury list, on threads on DiS, comments on our news story and comments on the guardian blogs, amongst other places.

we've got clever maths to work it all out. we'll reveal how we're getting our average at a later date.

if i had made everything bold

http://seaninsound.blogspot.com/2009/07/drowned-in-sound-recordings-spotify.html