Reading: More Bands
Another week, another few bands to whet our appetites for this years Reading/Leeds Carling Festival-ma-jiggy. The bands announced this week are: The Soundtrack Of Our Lives, New Found Glory, Raging Speedhorn (Reading onl»
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Silverchair: London gig'n'stuff
Those grungy kidz from Oz aren't quite kidz anymore and they're coming over play on our shores again - no doubt with yet more dodgy jokes. How bad was that 'Reading' one? Anyway, Silverchair, have a new record, their 4th by our reckoning, called 'Diorama'. It's their first album on Atlantic R»
The (International) Noise Conspiracy at London Notting Hill Arts Club, Wed 08 May
Nights like these don’t come around too often. SMACK-BANG-WALLOP!!! Yes, The (International) Noise Conspiracy are in town, playing a secret show tooonight and I managed to sneak my cheeky ass in… First things first, this lot are not just a band. By my unprecise maths, 98% of bands are just a bunch o»
Sean's Essential Festival Weblog: Part 1
10AM: I depart London Bridge Station in DiS-punka Peter Whites coffee-scented Lada with Miss.Dis-Emo Miranda and her friend Hannah.
10:05AM: X-fm starts to get annoying playing the same songs.
11:15AM: Pete decides to put on some Bon Jovi. Ears are covered. Some Get Up Kids and At »
Reading 2002: More bands announced!!
After last weeks Carling Reading+Leeds Festival launch party - where certain dissers drank as much Carling as we could in 3hours - line-up has been added to with some of our favourite bands... The Main Stage has added scandavian gutter-rockers THE HIVES and the sexy post-punk lasses SAHARA HOTNIGHT»
The Jam: 25years old?
You know that wrinkley mod-bloke with the funny whispy hair Paul Weller? Well, he used to be in this mod band called The Jam - who inspired the likes of Ocean Colour Scene and Oasis - and 25 years a-frigging-go, back in 1977 (what a year that must of been!) they released a single, their debut, 'In The »
Sex Pistols: Second Coming?
There was a time when punk was all about the message and living the punk life but long gone are the days of the SEX PISTOLS it's all about style, branding and hype nowadays ain't it? Maybies... we need the band who kicked punk history off properly to come back. Guess what? They're back, baby! And just in »
Everyone can get Bad Religion in the UK
Wow! Some clever spark has had the idea of putting two of todays punkiest of rock acts out of the road together in May. From "the land of freedom and democracy" aka The United States of Hype-o-crazy we get Bad Religion who've been ranting over their guitars for nearly 2 decades. And from our»
DiS presents... Crackout, Miss Black America, Engerica
Well, well, well, Drownedinsound have a little RAWWKK night for you @ The Camden Barfly/Monarch on Monday May 20th featuring 3 of our favourite rock outfits. We have those chirpy ickle rock bastids Crackout headlining the evening with support fr»
Hundred Reasons: not splitting up, at all
There is a rumour going around that the UK's version of At The Drive-In Hundred Reasons have split up. This is just scaremongering kidz, and here's the pr speal we get back from our mail. DiS: There's a strange message on one of our boards »
Oasis: leaked mp3's so bad they issue a statement
This is all a bit funny really. We've been sent a statement from Ignition Management who manage Oasis regarding their new album. Sounds to us like a pr stunt gone wrong. Anyway, here's the statement... The MP3s of Oasis tracks in circulation on the net appear to be illicit recordings (prob»
DEFRAGMENTATION E-zine: A Guide to Gigs in London #1
(for the sake of History) The Dictators Rules: Scale is Not Important. Music is Everything. Music should be a stable part of every culture and society. Music inspires, it entertains, it breeds energy and thought and morphs our emotions and..and...and.... I don't really have nor need any law»
Oceansize at London Kentish Town Verge, Tue 26 Mar
Everyone knows that there is a day coming sometime in the future. Some might say ”Come the revolution”. Some prefer to shout “FIDDLESTICKS!!!” Either way, that day isn’t too far away. ’WHY’ I hear you cry? It’s because of OCEANSiZE. And I knew they were coming. I could taste it in the air a»
Remy Zero, Budapest at London Highbury Garage, Mon 25 Mar
Fear of the day: Anticipation can often stifle how great something is when it actually happens. I heard ‘Villa Elaine’ around the time it was released back in ‘98. Tonight was going to be the first time I’d seen Remy Zero play a headline gig. Admittedly, I caught them yesterday supportin»
Weezer at London Brixton Academy, Sun 24 Mar
Nerds and Geeks, everywhere. Talking about b-sides. Talking about rumours which can’t be circumstantially linked. Weezer are one of the few bands who don’t just endorse this information craziness but fuel the fire. As the grandfathers of EMO (that genre, filled with irony, all music is emotional in my book, if n»
(Review of nothing)
I knew this band were somewhere on the horizon and I wasn’t wrong. First came Hundred Reasons, who I can’t get past the heavy insincere love songs and At the Drive-In-liteness of. Then came Vex Red who’re a little too grungey for me but have their odd moment. But now, this is going to sound stupid, but
Idlewild, Eva at London Kings College London (KCLSU), Tue 12 Mar
Thought of the day: When it’s all been said what is there left to say? A girl with blood-red long locks stands on stage strumming out brittle lo-fi surfaces from her guitar. It sounds as if I’ve been transported to a deadly quiet street. I begin to get closer to some sounds. Eventually, I fathom on one si»
'A' - Hi-Fi Serious
”I said AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!! we’re gonna be around,” and do you know what JP, you weren’t wrong! I’m glad like many a-band I loved 2 years or so ago ‘A’ are still here, they’re still cheeky but there’s something distinictly more complete about album number three (well, four if y»
=w= : Maladroit Tracklisting + Download
Drownedinsound have got hold of someone, who has got hold of a copy of the new Weezer album 'Maladroit' which is set for release on April 29th. The tracks (which I'm sure no-one is about to search the internet for mp3s of from h»
Ben Kweller at London Camden Barfly, Tue 26 Feb
There are a couple of specific things I find rather unnerving.
1) Cult movie conventions where people queue up in the relevant tee-shirts so that someone who dressed up as robot can sign some of their prized dusty memorabilia – dunno about you but I find that strange..
2) Tribute bands »
Miss Black America - Infinite Chinese Box
I’m sure by now you’re sick of reading about Miss Black America on Drownedinsound, we might as well call it DrownedinMBA some weeks – well we did sponsor their tour last November.. This is their first release since signing to Integrity Records. The single (as seen on Mtv2) ’Infinite Chinese Box’ is»
Electrelane: Albini for post-president!
Electrelane featuring new drownedinsound recruit Mia Clarke on guitars, release a new EP entitled ’I Want To Be The President’ on April 15th. Along with the Le Tigre fighting Kraftwerk shimmery-syth-pop title track, complete with »
Six By Seven at London Bull and Gate, Fri 22 Feb
My first time was a very confusing noisy and somewhat painfully unnerving experience. It was at Reading 1998 in a tent. Ever since I’ve felt dirtied yet strangely compelled for more and more. Tonight is quite a few years on from then and four guys who look as if they’d break my face if I don’t buy a mobile phone »
6x7 2 Tour
After last night's amazing secret show @ the Bull'n'Gate we're happy to demand your attendance at the following Six by Seven evenings where 4 angry men will project out tender noise in alsorts of clever directions and deviations. Six by Seve»
LOGH - Everytime a Bell Rings an Angel Gets His Wings
I know Sweden is a cold place brightened by blonde hair and never ending golden days which are often confused with their endless nights, both filled with enchanting blues. I can comprehend that the beauty of such a twilight place could become as boring as eating jamican ginger cake every single day for the rest of my l»
Maximilian Hecker - Polyester
Yum! ...oh, ok, I can’t do one word reviews even if I try. So, anyway, Maximilian Hecker just imagine a guy whose been trapped for so long he’s forgotten what the real world is like. The only CDs he has are mellow piano-led Mercury Rev or a capella versions of Elliot Smith's best bits. The accompaniment t»
Tenner, Biffy Clyro, Serafin at London Highbury Garage, Tue 19 Feb
The sky is pouring and washing multicoloured oil residue into the gutters outside the Garage tonight. However, it’s just gone 8pm, people are blowing in off the streets and beneath their wet coats’n’jackets they’re wearing iDLE/WiLD, Seafood and Biffy Clyro tee’s. This can mean only one thing... The first »
Probe. The Spitz. TONIGHT! RAARGHWK!
Oh! No! SELF PROMOTION! SELL! SELL! BUY! SELL! Yes, we're putting on a gig tonight. Yes the bands all rock! Yes you will be there if you're in London and have any kind of heartfelt desire to discover new music or bathe in the beautiful (it's all in thine ears of the beholder!) art propelled from the geetars, mout»
Biffy Clyro - 57
Where do I begin? The b-sides stand out on their own as two of the best songs of the year with the talk of girls surrounded by flocks of angels maybe because of the girl in the singles “beautiful face, her beautiful face” (so nice they say it twice) which is nearly as teddy-bears-candyfloss-and-kittensy nice as »
Cooper Temple Chart Takeover
Just had a rather excited Cooper Temple Clause fan on the phone and it would seem, amongst the wooooops and yeeeeeaaaaahs that the band charted at number 15 in the first day of UK single chart sales yesterday with their double a-side rock-beast 'Film Maker / Been Training Dogs' single»