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Hip-hop legends to play free festival at The Dome.. On Saturday 19th July that big ol' waste o' public cashola will be put to some good use. RESPECT, now in its third year as a anti-racist free public party, which last year was headlined by De La Soul, this year has Public Enemy confirmed as headlin»
Brighton-based label Fat Cat are dogged by terms such as "ground breaking", "historically important", amd "soul bending". It must be such a hard life releasing all these amazing electronica-through-artnoize records that the press love, that fill peoples lives with so much pleasure and hope and joy. Records that »
Tatooed pop-fogies, former punkers, BLINK 182 are taking time off messing around with members of Rancid to entertain yankie troops.. To ensure their place at the heart of Americana (probably so they can pull more 'chicks' and sell more records to burger munching quarter-backs) fart-jokers Blink182 a»
America's hottest punks are coming. LOOK OUT! Yup, the headline gives it away good and proper, you happy shoppers better be ready 'cus female-fronted Icarus Line'ish'ers Pretty Girls Make Graves and Suburban punk rock mall mo»
We're down to the last 10... COMPETITION NOW CLOSED!!! In the past fortnight several thousand people have taken part in our Launch Party, pick the support band poll. We've now pulled it down to the top 10, as voted by you, to support The Koreans on the day our first release comes out Monday July 21s»
From humble beginnings come great things... we need YOUR help to stop the grassroots scene disappearing and the UK music scene totally eroding away! We're basically looking for people to run nights in conjunction with DiS.
RANTRO
Enough is enough. The underground is a real mess of brilliance. B»
It's now only a fortnight away and the bill's got bigger... This year's Truck Festival - which we're majorly bigging up 'cus it kicks major ass in a glasto-as-it-used-to-be, hippy, independence vibe, kinda away - has added a few more names to the bill, including nu-rawkers thisGIRL, The Koreans, and»
If you're a fan of gliding half-awake pop, step this way...a uk tour, with mostly free gigs beckons.. Another scandanavian is about to take over your world. Even Johansen aka MAGNET who duets on his album dis-rated 4/5 album »
It is with a heavy heart that we bring you the following statement regarding the Sigur Rós and Múm shows... 'FatCat Records & Foundation are sorry to announce that due to circumstances beyond our control, the two FatCat events scheduled for 1st and 2nd August 2003 at the Union Chapel have been postpone»
We don't mean to keep plugging our single or The Koreans, but it's an exciting time 'round these parts... Firstly, this week 'Machine Code' was added to the X-FM Playlist. There's a live session on BBC »
We went, we saw, we got sunburnt and we've just returned... Well what a weekend that was. Despite sunstroke, hangovers and being under the impression that the last train home on Sunday was at 1am (not 9:20 or something silly!), it was great. Very low crime. Apparently very few fence-jumpers, but I dunno ho»
Muse have announced a feck off sized arena tour..
To coincide with the campaign to promote their third album, Devon's finest blenders of Primus, Buckley and Bach, hit the road...
NOVEMBER
25th - Glasgow SECC
27th - London Wembley Arena
28th - Nottingham»
From the ashes of At the Drive-In, sprung The Mars Volta... and you can hear the new album in full! You know the score by now. The folks at Peoplesound have put together a stream of the entire album (out this week - June 23rd!) so you can try before you buy. To hear it: »
Mondo Generator are playing a secret gig tonight (25th June 2003) at The Monarch in Camden. ZZ-top bearded Viking lookalikey, who's partial to getting his cock out and sometimes Queens of the Stone Age bassist, Nick Oliveri, will be rocking the rock under his Mondo Generator side project gui»
DiS Label website launches.. Every darn record label has a website nowadays, so to avoid bucking any trends we've put together a website for our label which you can now find @ drownedinsound.com/recordings. The site has got news »
ROUND 1 IS OVER!!! CLICK HERE FOR ROUND TWO!! We want you to help us pick the supporting cast for THE KOREANS at our label launch party and we'll give you a pair of tickets and a copy of the single for ge»
We're putting together a Drowned in Sound "Guide to the Summer" which will double as the Truck Festival Programme. Here's the plan and a bit of a preview and a call for you to get involved by taking out ads, providing photos or stocking the mag (even distributing it if you can!)... We've teamed up with the»
"You're really grow-ow-ing on mee-eeeee-eeeee!!" Hair-metallers; the new Smiths (very debatable!); as seen on tour with Def Leppard; supporting Robbie @ Knebworth; on Jools Holland with Simply Red this week; playing just about every festival bill this summer; the only unsigned band I can thin»
Did you not get all you need to know from the headline? Me neither. Reading/Leeds new bands tent has been announced... and the good news is there's a coupla good new bands on the bill (Colour of Fire, Mclusky and Hope of the States), but obviously more garage rock and skanky blues than you c»
This is boring news, but someone out there might give a.. You may have noticed over the past coupla weeks dis has crashed a few times. It's not cus we've got a cheap server or our techies are rubbish, or anything like that. Far from it. We've basically been upgrading the server so that it will never ever c»
I've just been scooting around a well known music business discussion board, as you do. And I stumbled across someone - hiding behind a fake name, obviously - moaning about rock kidz (TM) not being happy when one of 'their bands' gets to numero uno in the UK's official singles chart, like Evanescence just»
I really hate let downs. It’s bad enough being promised you’ll be taken to the fun fair and waiting three years ‘til you eventually realise you could just go there yourself, only to get mugged. It ain’t too different to getting a CD through and thinking, another boring CD... oh, ‘ang on guv’nor! Don’t incinerate it jus»
The Godfathers of Electro return... To coincide with thousands of sweaty skinny men riding around france, Kraftwerk are re-releasing their 1983 classic (or press release speak "seminal, electro masterpiece") 'Tour De France', with a new mix entitled 'Tour De France 03'. It's out»
Heart yanking mancs announce some more live dates and the first proper single to be lifted from the new record... Continuing to plot their return Elbow have let slip details of their first gig since V2002 (they've been recording a second album called 'Cast of Thousands' dontcha know..). The g»
[the intro] Whatever way you look at it, Biffy Clyro have made their mark. People have an opinion on them but until recently, when ‘Questions and Answers’ danced into the charts at 23, they didn't have the commercial evidence to back up their fire-juggling, coal-walking vitality. Sloshed with intelligent »
Goth-icon H8rz are out in full-force again... It's a wonderful world that we live in. You speak out. You get blocked out. Marilyn Manson has been BANNED from playing the New York leg of Ozzfest on the 11th August. Officials at Six Flags in Darien Lakes, New York have used a clause in their con»
Can you think of a time when Josh Homme and his ZZ-top-bearded-buddy-who-likes-to-get-nekkid Nick Oliveri, have been outta the news? Well, don't expect 'em to be quiet anytime soon.. With at least two side-projects due this year (Desert Session 9+10 + Mondo Generator), you might be surprised to hear Que»
Ain't it hard to find out what's going on in our nation's capital? With summer holidays nearly upon us loads more people will be coming into London. More bands will be playing. More crazy events will taking place. But where on earth do you start looking to find out what's going on, and a bit about it? »
Psssst! Fat chap from The-mo-funkin-Pixies in l'il solo show shocker... Yep, you read that right, the mighty FRANK BLACK will be doing a totally solo performance at the Camden Underworld. It'll be "just him and a guitar" according to the rather excited promoter who rang me with the new»
It’s time to place blame. Mister Manson, you may not be responsible for that reality tv, high-school, Wolfenstein; or ruining middle America; or eating my Gran's cat, but you Brian - can I call you Brian, Brian? – are responsible for influencing some shocking examples of»
