Biscuits with The Bachelor - DiS meets Patrick Wolf
DiS opens its gob, presses record on the dictaphone and talks to Patrick Wolf about his forthcoming album The Bachelor»
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DiSsection: Chairlift Does You Inspire You track-by-track
Caroline Polachek walks you through Chairlift's album Does You Inspire You which was recently re-released by Columbia with additional tracks and tweaks. »
Great Escape '09: DiS' Suggested Schedule
Oh Brighton, with your annual clusterf*ck of bands 'n' booze, you really are spoiling us.»
Johnny Foreigner Tour Diary '09 - Part 1 & 2
JoFo tour diary is back! By overwhelming popular demand Johnny Foreigner are back on-the-road blogging for DiS. »
First three acts announced for DiS stage at Summer Sundae
DiS is very excited to reveal our first three names for the Summer Sundae Weekender.»
Stream the new Green Day album 21st Century Breakdown
The folks at We7 have tipped us off to the fact that they have the new Green Day album.»
Freshly Inked: The Temper Trap
In this special edition of Freshly Inked, DiS caught up with Korda Marshall, former Warner Brothers MD and the man who started Infectious Records, whose career has involved everyone from Muse to Sea Sick Steve via Symposium (one of your humble scribe's favourite bands), Ash, Take That, Garbage and The Enemy; to find out about his new signing The Temper Trap and to learn more about his new "music company."»
Spotifriday: Drowned in... The Great Escape 55 Track Playlist
Ahhh The Great Escape, the annual fish 'n' chips 'n' bands funfest beside the seaside. DiS has compiled a fifty-five track companion playlist of acts performing at the event. »
Chi Cheng from Deftones out of Intensive Care
Deftones' bassist Chi Cheng has been released from intensive care and reports suggest he is making the first steps towards recovery.»
Web exclusive: Rawside of Metric documentary
DrownedinSound is excited to première online this fascinating behind-the-scenes peak into the world of Metric.»
Metric week: Joules' guide to Oakland
Metric have lived and spent a lot of time in some of the hippest cities in the world, in fact, they're one of the most city-shifting, transient bands we've ever met. Each day this week they're going to share their favourite things about each city they've lived in or visited. For the final instalment of this series we have Joules', guide to Oakland, California.»
Listen to The Maccabees new album Wall of Arms
The folks at Fiction have given us this little player for DiS readers to listen to the Maccabees new album Wall of Arms.»
Spotifriday #1 - This Week on DiS as a Playlist
Seeing as our previous Spotify playlists have done down so well we thought we'd make this a new weekly feature. Essentially this is a mixtape-like companion, featuring songs from records we've reviewed, bands in the news, people we've spoken to and stuff being talked about on the boards.»
Metric week: Emily's guide to Buenos Aires
Metric have lived and spent a lot of time in some of the hippest cities in the world, in fact, they're one of the most city-shifting, transient bands we've ever met. Each day this week they're going to share their favourite things about each city they've lived in or visited. Next up is the bands songwriter, singer and synth-thrasher Emily Haines, walking you through Buenos Aires, where she she wrote the bulk of forthcoming album Fantasies.»
Metric week: Jimmy's guide to Toronto
Metric have lived and spent a lot of time in some of the hippest cities in the world, in fact, they're one of the most city-shifting, transient bands we've ever met. Each day this week they're going to share their favourite things about each city they've lived in or visited. Next up is the bands guitarist Jimmy Shaw, walking you through the city the band are currently most synonymous with: Toronto. »
Listen to The Horrors' new album Primary Colours here!
The Horrors are back, you might have heard. But have you listened to the album yet?»
DiSsection: Metric Fantasies track-by-track
To kick off our special Metric takeover week, Emily Haines, songwriter, singer, renown synth-basher and superhero, walks and talks us through their forthcoming album Fantasies. »
Shoegaze Week: Drowned in Shoegaze - 50 Essential Albums
DiS has compiled a Spotify playlist of fifty hazy, ethereal, swooping, swirling, static-drenched albums from the pioneers of Shoegaze and the makers of Shoegaze 2.0»
Camden Crawl coverage on 6music
At this weekend's Camden Crawl BBC 6Music_ will be out in force. From live broadcasts to Twitterfeeds through videos, podcasts and hosting shows in glorious NW1. We'll be running their content feed over in the left-hand side on our frontpage and community pages, as a little partnership test with those folks wot make stuffz with our TV license monies.»
Festival Preview Mixtape: DiS' Camden Crawl companion
Thirty tracks to get you in the mood for this weekend's festivities. »
News Drowned-Up: Animal Collective, Stevie Nicks, Billy Corgan, Courtney Love, Sigur Ros + more!
News, news and more news, all heaped together in a gravity defying heap...»
DrownedinSound's forty favourite songs of the first quarter of '09 (Spotify-centric)
DiS has gone through all the albums, singles and b-sides of the year (so far!) and put together a playlist of our favourite forty tracks for your listening pleasure.»
DiSsection: Maximo Park Quicken The Heart track-by-track
Here's Paul Smith to talk you through Maximo Park's forthcoming album Quicken The Heart. He reveals quite a few clues to what you can expect when its released on May 11th via Warp Records.»
Radiohead to Testify Against the RIAA?
Radiohead have indicated that they will testify against the RIAA (Recording Industry Association of America ) in a landmark case against a Boston University student, cementing their support of file-sharing.»
Reading & Leeds '09: Radiohead, Bloc Party, A.Monkeys, Deftones, Prodge, KoL, YYYs, Friendly Fires...
The festival no-longer-the-Carling-Weekend has confirmed names for 2009!»
DiSsection: Art Brut VS Satan track-by-track commentary
"Britain seems to be populated and run by T4 presenters and the cast of skins. Until we have The Mountain Goats, The Indelicates, Darren Hayman, Future Of The Left and Jeffery Lewis on prime time television and A listed on Radio 1, I think we should declare a state of national emergency"»
Freshly Inked to One Little Indian: Kill It Kid
The idea of this feature is pretty simple: a label we trust signs a band, we quite like them but don't know much about them, so quiz the label to find out more. This Freshly Inked... is about Kill It Kid who've just signed to the home of Bjork, The Fireman and, er Skunk Anansie, One Little Indian.»
Metric streaming Fantasies across the UK
Metric are back! Their new album Fantasies is now streaming online. Even better news, they're touring the UK and playing the DiS Stage at the Great Escape festival. »
Say Hello to the New Face of DiS...
You may have noticed that DiS has changed somewhat compared to how it looked yesterday. We hope you like what we've done to the place!»