In Depth
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DiScover: Good Shoes
With a sound that revels in a congealed montage of all that was good about the last three decades and a name that epitomises the meaning of style, London based quartet Good Shoes look set to be one of the names on the tips of a few wagging tongues this year. »
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DiScover: Les Incompétents
Adorned in sweat, vintage and off-the-wall attire, Frederick Bang, singer and spokesperson for West London's Les Incompeténts is filled with hope, fear and ideas. Weeks of radio sessions, debauched live performances and skewed interviews have brought his band to the ... »
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DiScover: Jason Collett
The what�s now obvious: Collett is a singer-songwriter, a troubadour always ready to regale those before him with songs of whiskey-stained memories and on-the-road recollections. The why, as in why you should care considering the saturation of ... »
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DiScover: Eiger
After a few months of sporadic e-mail contact, I finally adjusted my arse to the correct gear and fired off some DiScover questions, certain that you, too, would want to hear the last band � the last totally unknown band � to completely stop me in my track... »
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ReDiScover: The Blood Brothers
The Blood Brothers formed in 1997, although their debut, This Adultery Is Ripe, only emerged in 2000. Four albums in four years (a fifth has been delayed, no doubt by members’ side projects) is some standard of productivity, and the quality’s only incre... »
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DiScover: The Scare
DiS brings you a UK exclusive: an interview with Australian punk rockers, The Scare. Raziq Rauf talks to bassist Wade Keighran about starting a new life on the other side of the world... »
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DiScover: Wolfmother
DiS talks to Andrew Stockdale, frontman with the ever growing phenomenon that is Wolfmother about jamming, fame, and why scenes really aren't that important... »
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ReDiScover: Low
Jordan Dowling takes a retrospective look at the career and music of Low; through obscurity, The OC and their trademark drawn-out chord changes and melody. »
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DiScover: The Campaign For Real-Time
DiS talks time travel with C4RT's 'Rory Stark', who just might've enjoyed a former musical life as a member of punk-rockin' quartet Garrison. They, though, talked a lot more sense... »
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DiScover: A tea'n'cake way to club
"We flyer like bitches, bake like crazy and hope for the best!" it’s not the usual list of priorities for a London club night but then Rock’n’Roll Tea Party Viva Cake isn’t your standard three pints of Carling and the threat of a fist-fight. »
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DiScover: Moneytree
A while ago, Drowned in Sound’s attention was drawn toward a youthful rock combo hailing from the sombre climes of Southampton. This band is Moneytree and so we hooked up with keyboardist Michael Anderson and eager bassist Joshi Finesilver to discuss their aims and a... »
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DiScover: Howling Bells
In one of the first of our new DiScover features, we meet Howling Bells. Hailing from the shores of Australia and now seeking residence in London, Howling Bells are four eager young beatniks playing dirrty elegant sex rock. DiS checks them out live and gives them a... »
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Label focus
Label Focus: Roadrunner Records
The year has drawn to a close and here at Drowned in Sound, we think it’s nice to reflect on what we’ve enjoyed and who has given us that enjoyment. Roadrunner Records celebrated a quarter of a century as the world’s leading independent underground metal and heavy r... »
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DiScover: Dom Gourlay's seven picks for 2006
Who said that 2005 was a bad year for music? Probably one of those sceptics who complains endlessly about the primetime televised Saturday night talent shows then in the same breath whinges about the "rubbish" on Jools Holland the night before. As two big bearded Spu... »
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DiScover: Let Our Enemies Beware
DiS introduces you, readers, to another new, exciting talent. Let Our Enemies Beware call Medway home and The Rock their own. They writhe and wriggle, twisting their way through a hundred ideas in the space of a four-minute song. Then they light the fuse and r... »
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DiScover: The Research
Dom Gourlay talks to The Research about pop, scenes, Tortoise and more as they sit on the brink of super-stardom
As the Yorkshire “scene” continues to grow in stature, spreading all around the county to its borders on the peripheries of Manchester, De... »
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DiScover: The Crimea
Two years ago, The Crimea’s single, ‘Baby Boom’ made number seven in John Peel’s Festive Fifty, out-placing the likes of the White Stripes and Yeah Yeah Yeah’s. In October, ‘Tragedy Rocks’, their first album, was finally released. So what on earth have they been doin... »
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All that you can leave behind: DiScover Adam Gnade
DiS has stumbled across a fair few talents over the past eleven months, but few have made an impact upon these particular ears in the manner of Adam Gnade’s Run, Hide, Retreat, Surrender. Here, the singer - the talker - explains the stories behind his r... »
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DiS Takes Over London. Come, Dance and Discover.
DiS Takes on London - win or lose, we're gonna have some fun, come join us and check out all these great new bands...
Tues: WWBP @ Dublin Castle Fandango, Weds: Redjetson @ Arts Cafe, Thurs: Club in Old St, Fri: Art-Rock NONE MORE ROCK Upstairs at the Garage, Sa... » -
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DiS Birthday Shenanigans. Discover new music and PAAARTAY with us!
Zooooom... there went the past three years of your life. All you have to show for it is a pile of receipts, a mountain of demos and an inbox you dream of one day clearing out. It must be time to party, surely? Three years in music is a long time. Three years gets ... »
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Albums of the Year
The ‘Official’ Drowned in Sound.com Top 41 Albums of 2002
Yeah, so you got the tentative version of a Top 20 at the arse end of 2002 but a couple more votes came in which helped The Streets to win by a virtual mile. Eventually a nice round 50 votes were cast and this allowed Biffy Clyro to sneak in at the expense of Doves.... »