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MARTHA WAINWRIGHT
+ ThisGIRL (first ever acoustic gig)
+ ACTION PLAN
+ LES INCOMPETENTS
+ Pyrrha Girls and Drowned in Sound DJs
Saturday 13th November, 4-8pm
@ RoTa, Notting Hill Arts Club RoTa.»
Kaiser Chiefs, top of the pops?»
No longer will the dance genre feature as its own specialist award for people who generally like their songs to start, loop, loop, loop, break down, loop, loop, crecendo, loop, loop, end or have the alternative slow or dirty mix. Instead, they'll be honouring the best British live act in 2005.»
Sanctuary Records, home of the once great, have signed Lou Reed to their label.»
It's about that time of year where you hear... Mumble, Rumble, grind, rumble... as the Glastonbury rumourmill gets into full swing...»
Ooooh! Gossip! Keith Richards to shiver some timbers...»
DiS takes on London once again. Some of the artistes under our label wings and others who're about to fly into the maintream...
NOVEMBER
Thur 4th @ 93ft East: Killing Moon, Dustins Bar Mitzvah,(£3)
13th @ Notting Hill Arts Club: Martha Wainwright, Action Plan, Les Incompetants, thisGIRL (Free)
22nd @ The Marquee: Giant Drag + Fleeing New York + Host (Free)
And post your gig plugs below...
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If you thought we'd get nose bleeds leaving the m25, just imagine what happened when we stocked up on duty free and went to the sulphuric rock heaven of Iceland...»
Days 3 and 4...
Blue Lagoons on the set of Star Wars. Globalization. Perving. Drinking. And the best night of the year with The Shins and The Stills.
Sean Adams' diary continues...»
Off to to the part of the world where Eurasia meets American teutonic plates... Sean Adams' diary...»
Hip gunslingers Bloc Party follow potential single(s) of the year (parts I and II) with a horizon-blazing, saddle-slashing blast from their debut album.»
Running a record label is like running amok, with your heart in your head, ears on the ground and eyes to the sky. Finding amazing new artistes is what we've done at Drowned in Sound for the past four years and our label is simply an extension of that voyage through the depths of discovery and a ruddy-minded belief in the music we love.
Today we officially welcome a new member to our family...»
Thank you for partying!»
DiS is 4! Special Guests Announced!»
Much a doin' in the land of our label...»
Four more years! Four more years!
Well, that's one more year of existence and evolution down. We're having a party to celebrate not being a dot-gone. We're celebrating with some of the finest new bands in the country.
Join us...
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This is the record for all those tearful Soulwax fans, it's for those who thought the Rapture were derivative and for them who got bored of Hot Hot Heat after their initial overblown saturation. The Faint have come up with the goods. Come hither and bust a move to one of the records of the year...»
Our hero is not some kind of God, or Dog, but he could be. In lieu of his next masterpiece, ’Non-Fiction’ is a collation of ‘pieces’ which Chuck Palahniuk (most infamous for writing Fight Club), our hero, has published elsewhere. These are the stories of Marilyn Manson, of Juliette Lewis, a day at the Testicle Festival... Book of the year?»
ThisGIRL return to the road... and cover Massive Attack?!»
“[There] are three reasons they have for this – U2, No Doubt, and Eminem. All three are putting out records in October, and they don't want to have to dust ours under the rug. This happens in the industry sometimes. There are other reasons, such as we don't wash our hair and we need to take promo pictures.” - Conrad»
August UK dEUS dates cancelled...»
Off to The Carling Weekend? Not sure who you really really have to see? Here's our guide to ten of the very best.»
"So far this month we have had 10 times as much rain as this time last year and it looks like more is coming. It is essential festival-goers bring sufficient changes of clothes, wet weather gear and camping gear to stay dry."»
About once a year we annoy everyone and move house. Why should this year be any different. Except this year, we've finally moved into an office.»
After August off to drink ourselves around the nations festivals, Drowned in Sound's Brave New Ideas night is b-b-back.
We have: visceral rock at its most splendid from Stoke-on-Trent's AGENT BLUE plus Muse-vs-Pumpkins-vs-Coopers combo of gushing samples and zooming guitars from Sheffield's AFTER THE SILENCE and Londoners MIRROR.SIGNAL.CRASH kick things off with some Dave Grohl-infested QOTSA, xanex-free At The Drive-In kinda thing... see you there?
And DiS readers can get in for just £3.»
The revolution will not be homogenized. What revolution? Only the one in our minds, whereby the mainstream is full of poets, subversive melodies and 'worthwhile' acts. Doorways (like when you help make this a top 20 single) from the mainstream to our scene helps numbers into shows, media attention/tastes and more people being affected by the music we love. Who knows, maybe good indies will stop going bust or being taken over by The Man, and quality acts won't get dropped before they've had their chance to develop and win over our hearts. Just believe.»
Their aim is simple "to restore the reputation of the Marquee as the first choice live music venue in the country - not just for the public, but for the bands and industry as well."»
Cheeky northern indie-pop scamps tour...»
DiS label bed-fellows hit the highlands and Cornwall this August...»
“Despite Britain’s position as the second largest supplier of hits in the world this will be the first UK event to recognise music legends throughout the genres and decades. It will also be the first event of its kind to empower the public - they decide.”»
