New Rhodes: single, album, tour... PLUS: confirm DiS show headline slot
Long-time favourites on the DiS stereo and recent winners of the Vodafone Breakthrough Act of 2006, New Rhodes, are set for a busy end to the year...»
Articles
domgourlay has written the following articles:
New Rhodes - The History Of Britain
Having been away from the spotlight for what seems like an eternity (about 18 months, in fact), it's always a pleasure to welcome a band as distinctive and charismatic as New Rhodes...»
The Infadels - Girl That Speaks No Words
'Girl That Speaks No Words' doesn't just owe a few synth bleeps here and Captain Hook struck bass lines there, but literally recites the dictionary according to Barney Sumner and co...»
The Horrors, The Maccabees, The Fratellis, The Dykeenies at Trent University, Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, Fri 20 Oct
The Fratellis? Well, I guess one word can sum them up to perfection: 'why'...»
The Long Blondes - Once And Never Again
I don't know what it is about The Long Blondes but there is this little, nagging voice repeating itself in my brain, telling me that I should hate them...»
Shady Bard - Penguins / Dust
Along with kindred spirits iLiKETRAiNS, Shady Bard really do make music to think, as well as dream to...»
DiScover: The Insect Guide
Leeds-based label 48 Crash is known for being a maverick outlet amongst more straight-and-narrow companies - none of the artists on their roster are exactly sheep-like followers of what’s in vogue at the minute...»
Bedouin Soundclash - 12:59 Lullaby
To say that opinion is divided would be... wrong, as a matter of fact...»
If View go down to the Fopp today...
Tartan-tinged britpoppers The View will be marking the release of their second single, ‘Superstar Tradesman’, by partaking in a tour of Fopp stores across Scotland early next week...»
Look See Proof - Tell Me Tell Me Tell Me
Another day, another band influenced by those two bastions of late seventies articulate punk, The Jam and The Clash...»
The Lemonheads at Nottingham Rock City, Sun 15 Oct
Whilst not entirely relevant to most of today's glo-stick waving, leggings-wearing scenester kids, any aspiring young band would do well to check Dando and co. out - despite age not being on their side any more, passion, exuberance and unforboding energy is still omnipresent throughout...»
The Answering Machine - Oklahoma / The Hold Up
Fun, addictive, poppy, perky, and just as significant in student dorms as it is on club dancefloors...»
South - Adventures In The Underground Journey To The Stars
Adventures In The Underground Journey To The Stars: while it can be said that South 2006 sound very little like they did in 2000, even without a single change in personnel, parts of this record sound more like final clasps of desperation rather than any forward progression...»
The Nightingales - Out Of True
At fourteen tracks in total, Out Of True can be hard going, which is where the [SKIP] button comes in handy, but at the same time at least half of the record illustrates what a supremely understated and gifted songscribe Robert Lloyd is...»
Comets On Fire at Nottingham Boat Club, Sat 07 Oct
So the secret's out and about, and once word spreads to the man on the street, there's no doubting these comets will have already taken off into a backward-looking, forward-thinking world of their own...»
Bright Eyes - Noise Floor
He's still only 26 years old, yet Conor Oberst seems to have been around for a lifetime. Bearing in mind that his first known recordings were committed to vinyl whilst barely a teenager, to a large extent he has...»
People Of Santiago - People Of Santiago EP
People Of Santiago have been hovering around the edges of the local scene for a good while now, steadily building up a head of steam via their live following whilst honing their songs in the local rehearsal rooms and recording studios...»
Good Name For A Racehorse & HiSoc presents... at Rose Of England, Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, Wed 04 Oct
With just 85 days left until Big Ben chimes out the remaining seconds of 2006, if there's one thing you should do before the year is out it is go and see Lovvers...»
The Lemonheads - The Lemonheads
A Shame About Ray - undoubtedly the highpoint of The Lemonheads' career - came out in 1992, and the world and its musical tastes have moved on since...»
The Sailplanes - The Deepest Red EP
The ungainly spectres of Pussy Galore and Ikara Colt wrestle each other intently through the chaotic 'Seven Ships Lost' and 'Killing Time'...»
BabyPinkStar - Poseur
Sheffield's had its ups and downs as far as music scenes go...»
DiS gets together with OXJAM
Drowned In Sound is pleased to announce that its Nottingham show at Junktion 7 on Friday 13th October in conjunction with Hungry Audio Records will now be incorporated as one of the OXJAM events that will run throughout the month of October in order to raise money for the Oxfam Foundation...»
Days in December - Deleted Scenes
Days In December peddle the same kind of fare that Funeral For A Friend, Breed 77 and a million others have done to death since about 2001 when, quite frankly, there wasn't an awful lot else around to get in a lather about...»
Mercury Rev - The Essential Mercury Rev: Stillness Breathes (1991-2006)
For a band who've been around for fifteen years - and even longer if you count the formative years as Shady Crady prior to their present incarnation - it is perhaps a little surprising that Mercury Rev have only managed six studio albums...»
The Butterflies of Love - Orbit Around You / In A Blizzard In A Lighthouse
Listening to a couple of Butterflies Of Love songs back to back can sometimes make you feel like you're actually listening to two different bands...»
The Kooks, Larrikin Love at Nottingham Rock City, Tue 26 Sep
Four songs into an hour-and-a-quarter-long set I was bored to the point of chewing my own cheek linings and decided that a Subway Italian BMT was a better option... »
Echo and the Bunnymen - The Very Best Of Echo And The Bunnymen - More Songs To Learn And Sing
The countless spate of annual anthologies from any artist with a ten-year-plus back catalogue has now reached a point of saturation even the depths of the Pacific would struggle to cope with...»
Peter Bjorn and John at Nottingham Stealth, Sat 23 Sep
The last time Peter Moren, Bjorn Yttling and John Eriksson came to these shores their presence would have passed largely unnoticed...»
Gypsy punk Soundclash
Canadian trio Bedouin Soundclash will be hitting these shores at the end of next month for a co-headlining tour with fellow Side One Dummy label mates Gogol Bordello...»