In Depth
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Interview
DiS meets Susanne Sundfør
We have to admit that Susanne Sundfør wasn't on our radar before this year's Great Escape. Having seen the queue for Wild Beasts and summarised that there was n... »
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In Depth
Drowned In Oslo #1
As part of our ongoing series around local interests, we've started to span across Europe and the rest of the world. This inaugural Scandinavian/Nordic installment comes courtesy of Lazy Acre Records head man Ben Manwairing and fits nicely into our Nordic Music Serie... »
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Artist-generated
Nordic Talking Pt II: Haukur S. Magnússon of Reykjavík!
As part of our 10 Years Of Nordic Series we asked a bunch of artists who we like from said region to produce some words on their favourite - or most interesting, most controversial, most fun, most whatever - record of the past decade, and which came out of their coun... »
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Takeover
Keep an eye on: 10 Glasgow bands
Despite playing home to a disproportionate wealth of top-drawer acts over the past decade, Glasgow’s conveyor belt of music shows no sign of slowing. So, as a quick rundown of some of the best music coming out of from the city’s streets, I’ve put together »
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In Depth
This Week's Singles: 18/10/10
This week we have more bands whose singles are really hard to find, they are not smeared liberally over Spotify, SoundCloud, YouTube, Vimeo or any other popular musical delivery system you might care to create and then staff with young men in too-tight denims. Now, e... »
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Artist-generated
Listen: A Nordic-themed Spotify playlist from Ja Ja Ja
As part of our Nordic Music series we asked those wonderful promoters of such music Ja Ja Ja to put together a playlist of songs – what else? – from some of the best and most exciting artists to emerge from the region in recent years. Here's what they came up with. I... »
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In Depth
Spotifriday #65 - This Week on DiS as a playlist
This week's content-themed Spotify playlist featuring tracks from Belle & Sebastian, Sufjan Stevens, Esben & The Witch, Efterklang, Magnetic Man and some more. »
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Column
A Reykjavík Retrospective 2000-2005
As may have briefly been pointed out in other articles we thought - what with Iceland Airwaves being this week and all - that our Nordic Series would be best kicked off with a focus on that very country... »
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In Depth
In The City: Musings From Those On The Ground
An event that brings together people from all walks of the music industry, as part of our In The City preview we thought it’d be fascinating to collect the thoughts and memories of those who’d been involved in it in various strands. »
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In Depth
DiS meets The Concretes
When you’re celebrating the life of anything, a website such as Drowned in Sound, a loved one, a band, the first thing that always resonates after the initial huff at the candles is the realisation that ultimately, nothing’s changed… it’s ups as well as downs. That’s... »
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Festival Preview
In The City 2010: A Local Preview
Home presence has always been strong at In The City, previous bills acting as an accurate document of Manchester’s musical movements - for better or for worse. This year however sees local talent proving as exciting a draw as any on the bill, with all aspects of the ... »
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Festival Preview
In The City 2010: A Year Of Defiance
Our Drowned in Manchester columnist kicks off a day dedicated to In the City... »
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Interview
“I feel much more optimistic right now.” DiS meets Sufjan Stevens
It is 9am Eastern Standard Time when DiS calls Sufjan Stevens at home in Brooklyn and he is wide-awake and affable, even as a temperamental connection threatens to derail proceedings. The last-minute, primitive nature of The Age of Adz, outsider art, pe... »
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In Depth
10 Years of Nordic: An Introduction
So, why run a week of Nordic music to look back over the past ten years? Well, aside from being a Nordic fetishist, this series gives us a chance to look at the diversity within a geographical area and in particular one which has been such a deep well of significant ... »
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Interview
Interview: Trent Reznor discusses The Social Network soundtrack
DiS was stunned to find our request to chat with Trent Reznor, one of our all-time heroes, was accepted and got on the phone for a chat. Here's what he had to say, with an incredibly thoughtful tone and a surprisingly soft-spoken voice... »
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Column
Drowned in Nottingham #1
Our first local scene report and gig guide from the city of Nottingham... »
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Festival Review
Reeperbahn Festival 2010: the DiS review
The kind of fatigue that floods your muscles, where before adrenaline was flowing freely, feels like tour limbs and stomach are loaded with ball bearings. It's also a sign that, despite your crushed physical frame, you've given your all and had the best time you cou... »
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In Depth
This Week's Singles: 11/10/10
This week we ponder the RESURRECTION of ART. Next week I will go back to tabards. »
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In Depth
Spotifriday #64 - This Week on DiS as a playlist
This week's Spotifriday playlist featuring hand-picked tracks from British Sea Power, No Age, Uffie, Peter Broderick, Small Black, Errors and some more. »
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Takeover
No Age's favourite LA haunts
No Age have been one of Drowned In Sound's favourite forces of new music over the past ten years. As part of their takeover to celebrate the release of their new album, Everything Inbetween, the LA based duo took us on a tour of their favourite places in »
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Interview
Interview: Uffie on Uffie, Girl Power and Ke$ha (Part II)
Yesterday saw DiS premiere the new video from Uffie, the Fred Durst of the MySpace generation. In part two of DiS founder Sean Adams' chat with Uffie she discusses the kefuffle about Ke$ha and expands on her development as an artist. »
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Interview
Interview: No Age on duos, The Smell and their favourite live shows
DiS' two favourite live band of the past decade both hail from LA, they are HEALTH and these two guys called Dean & Randy. We've somehow managed to book both bands to play our 10th Anniversary events which take place in Sheffield on a rollerskate rink this Friday... »
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DiSection
DiSection: No Age's Randy Randall track-by-track guide to Everything In Between
Here at DiS, we're the sort of people that have listened to the director's commentary on the bonus disc of Fight Club and Twilight, several times. One day we wondered whether we could ask bands to do much the same thing and our 'DiSection' feature was born. As part o... »
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Takeover
No Age: Randy's Vegan Guide to Touring + Dean on Being Vegan
When DiS chatted with No Age, it was clear that there's one subject entwined with the spirit of the band that doesn't seem to have much to do with music but has a lot to do with the men behind it. We asked Dean and Randy to share some thoughts on wha... »