In Depth
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In Depth
Spotifriday #98 - This week on DiS as a playlist ft. The Horrors, Destroyer, Low + more
This week's Spotifriday playlist featuring The Horrors, Destroyer, Zomby, Low, The Besnard Lakes and a few more. »
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Column
Drowned in Norwich #1
The first in our local scene reports from Norwich by David Pye... »
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Takeover
St Vincent, Seb Rochford, The Tiger Lillies and more on Tom Waits' Rain Dogs Revisited
Rain Dogs, released in 1985, is an object of fascination for many Tom Waits fans. On the 13th July 2011, the Barbican Centre will host a special concert with a host of guest artists reinterpreting tracks from the album. Here, the artists inv... »
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Artist-generated
Ed Harcourt on Tom Waits: "The grizzled uncle I never had"
Our series of Tom Waits pieces continues with one of DiS' favourite songwriters on his favourite songwriter, Mr. Tom Waits... »
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In Depth
David Coulter on Tom Waits' Rain Dogs
David Coulter, the multi-instrumentalist who worked with Tom Waits on The Black Rider, is the musical director for the live project, Rain Dogs Revisited. With a host of guest artists reinterpreting tracks from Tom Waits' legendary album, Coulter will bejoine... »
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Festival Review
Pulp at Wireless Festival - The DiS Review
Britpop's very best band entertain the masses at Wireless Festival - nobody goes home disappointed. »
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Discography Reassessed
Discovering the exquisite carnival of Tom Waits' Rain Dogs
On 13th July, Rain Dogs Revisited comes to the Barbican in London. Over the next three days, Drowned in Sound presents a series of pieces reevaluating and celebrating this classic Tom Waits album.... »
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Festival Preview
Sonisphere 2011: The DiS Preview, Part 2: DiS meets The Sisters Of Mercy
Following on from the first part of our preview for this coming weekend's Sonisphere Festival, DiS thought it would be a great idea to try and pin down one of the most influential bands of this or any... »
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Drowned-Up
Moving Pictures - Videos of the Year: 2nd Quarter 2011
Our quarterly round-up of music videos from a man who really-really loves music vids! »
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Festival Review
Sonar 2011: the DiS review
Sonar’s willingness to take a risk remains the same. »
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Festival Preview
Sonisphere 2011: The DiS Preview, Part 1
Here's the first part of Drowned In Sound's Sonisphere 2011 preview, whereby we've put together our guide to ten artists we'll be checking out over the course of this weekend... »
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In Depth
This Week's Singles: 04/07/11 Low, Metronomy, Bright Eyes, Hype Williams
By the time you read this I will be in Fronce, speaking Fronch. Sexy. »
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Interview
Interview: Cut Copy chat about creativity, Can and Chicago house
DiS founder Sean Adams chats to Cut Copy, about making one of the albums of the year, Zonoscope, ahead of their performance at Wireless in Hyde Park on Sunday... »
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In Depth
Spotifriday #97 - This week on DiS as a playlist ft. Robyn, Blondie, Pulp + more
This week's Spotifriday playlist featuring Robyn, Beyonce, Metronomy, Pulp, Lykke Li and more! »
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Festival Review
Glastonbury 2011: The DiS Highlights
With a weekend of Glastonbury's sheer magnitude, it's nigh on impossible to try and capture everything within a single review - although we've made a fair attempt with our Glastonbury Diary. Here we offer DiS... »
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Festival Review
Glastonbury 2011: A DiS Diary By Rory Gibb
DiS' Rory Gibb pilgrimaged to Pilton, and here's his diary.... "There are so many stages, bars, themed areas and tiny oddities to discover across the course of five days that it’s no longer necessary to worry about being at a certain place for a certain band at a ... »
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Interview
“This is the best band we’ve ever been in!” : DiS meets Nick McCabe
Legendary guitarist Nick McCabe talks about his new band, The Black Ships, consisting of members of Portishead, Goldfrapp and The Verve, their unique approach to recording, the state of the record industry and what went wrong with Richard Ashcroft. »
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Interview
DiS meets Dananananakroyd
"...as soon as you worry about what everyone says, you’re toast!" »
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Interview
"I wish we'd never spoken to the media": DiS meets WU LYF
Three months ago, when first DiS first enquired about the possibility of speaking to the four band members of WU LYF, we were politely refused. But then twelve weeks is a short time in the music industry, particularly when your debut album is about t... »
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Interview
DiS meets ...And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead
…And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead are a rarity in an increasingly disposable age of music: childhood friends Conrad Keely and Jason Reece have been making a career out of the band for the past seventeen years. They survived being dropped by ... »
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Column
Articulate Silences, Ambient Sounds #9
Welcome to to the eighth regular installment from Joe Marshall, focusing on the very best of ambient, drone and other assorted outsider transmissions. »
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In Depth
This Week's Singles: 27/06/11 Theophilus London, Patrick Wolf, Kreayshawn, Art Museums
Some mornings you wake up and realise Beyonce Knowles’ 'Run The World' will not result in the immediate dismantling of the Patriarchy. Thankfully I have managed to restrain myself from writing 500 words on this subject for a pointless blog and have writte »
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In Depth
Spotifriday #96 - This week on DiS as a playlist ft. EMA, Suede, Gold Panda + more
This week's Spotifriday playlist. »
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Column
Drowned in Liverpool #2
The second installment of our local scene guide from our man in Liverpool... »