In Depth
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Festival Review
I'll Be Your Mirror Yeah Yeah Yeahs: the DiS review
Yeah Yeah Yeahs were great, but I'll Be Your Mirror never felt like a ‘real’ festival. »
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Column
DiS Does Singles 6.05.13: Vampire Weekend - Ya Hey (XL)
You know how most singles columns are about cheerful things like space age electro-pop and how terrible the new Nicki Minaj track is? This one’s not like that, although the new Nicki Minaj track is terrible. This column is about Vampire Week... »
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DiScussion
Emo? Twee? In unnecessary defence of Neutral Milk Hotel…
It wasn’t always like this. Over the past fifteen years I’ve watched Aeroplane grow from obscure gem to cult favourite to whatever the hell it is now, mostly organically, mostly via ‘word of mouth’ (albeit considerably enabled by occasional rereleases, the U... »
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Column
Champion Sound at the Movies: Snoop Lion's Reincarnated
“Fuck Snoop Dogg,” says Snoop Lion, as he describes his conversion to Rastafarianism in this new Vice-made documentary. Snoop is 41 years old and he is tired of making rap music, a genre in which he has long played a leading role. Why then, is Reincarnated such a non... »
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Tour Diary
Frightened Rabbit: Tour Diary Part 5 - New York, Boston, DC, Philly
Frightened Rabbit's Scott Hutchinson files his concluding entry for the bands US tour, with talk of some of their biggest shows they've ever played, meeting Twin Peaks' Laura Dern and there are a few mentions of
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Artist-generated
Wampire: 10 things musicians need to know to survive multi-venue festivals like SXSW
Wampire on the ten things you need to know before you play SXSW (or any multi-venue festival). »
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First Listen
First listen: Daft Punk's Random Access Memories
Daft Punk's Random Access Memories is a lavish celebration of a time when dance music was human and had a proper beating heart, told through the eyes of two robots who have redefined computer music. It’s when pop-rock was easy and groovy, when the peopl... »
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Column
Canon in the 1990s: From Spiritualized to Coolio, Regurgitating Pachelbel's Canon
The New York Times describing it as “...fast, funny, catchy and high-powered.” BBC Radio One listeners voted it “The Greatest Punk Song of All Time” in 2006. Missing from any appraisal of Green Day's 'Basket Case' was mention of the chord progression, which closely ... »
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Column
DiS Does Singles 29.04.13: Daughter, Phoenix, Classixx, Dutch Uncles
Hello and welcome to another edition of your favourite singles column on Drowned In Sound. It's the week after Record Store Day, which means I hope you got that David Bowie vinyl you were after and the supply of brand new singles is a little depleted. The upshot of... »
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Column
Champion Sound #12: Feat. Southern Hospitality's First Quarter Future Jams mix
London has always had a place for rap music - it’s too great a city not to - but finding the right club is a little trickier. »
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Interview
"Kids aren't as political now" - DiS meets Bobby Gillespie of Primal Scream
In one of Bobby Gillespie's most candid interviews in years, we spend the next hour or so discussing the new record, Primal Scream's legacy, former band members, the lack of dissent within the arts and how fatherhood has changed him. However, first o... »
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Festival Preview
Live at Leeds 2013 - The DiS Preview
The Live at Leeds venue-hopping alldayer is nearly upon us again, taking place on the bank holiday weekend across a staggering 15 city-centre venues over a 12 hour period means that this years’ attendees have an overwhelming amount of choice. »
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Artist-generated
Planet Gear: The Boy Least Likely To on recording The Great Perhaps
'Planet Gear' is an irregular feature on DiS, in which we ask musicians to get a bit geeky and talk us through the equipment that makes the 'magic' happen... Here, The Boy Least Likely To talk us through the making of their fourth album, The Great Perhaps. »
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Interview
"If we made it big we'd move to LA and buy motorbikes & guns" - DIS meets Wet Nuns
Formed over “a mutual enjoyment of cat videos, Alan Partridge, and drone metal” Wet Nuns, aka Alexis Gotts and guitarist/vocalist Rob Graham, take the blues and administer a lethal shot of raw rock n roll attitude to make The Black Keys look like sis... »
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Interview
"'I'm a citizen of the world and I deal in emotions" - DiS meets Ghostpoet
Ghostpoet is a humble man. Despite the huge success of his Mercury nominated debut Peanut Butter Blues and Melancholy Jam back in 2011, he's firmly remained himself. His simple, stripped back and honest approach is unlike any other artist ar... »
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Column
DiS Does Singles 22.04.13: Daft Punk, Savages, Snakehips, Big Deal
Hello. Welcome to Drowned In Sound's weekly digest of the best tracks to be released over the past seven days. On Friday, I was feeling a bit sorry for all the bands who weren't Daft Punk and had recently shoved out a song for you to listen to. Then ... »
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Column
Drowned in Bristol: Record Store Day 2013 special
It’s that time of year again. The time of year when we all get up especially early on a Saturday morning and try to nab our favourite exclusive releases before the ebay-nit-pickers do; the time of year when indie record shops rejoice at their profits but »
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In Depth
"To be fair, I'm a bit jaded" - DiS meets Sky Ferreira
Sky Ferreira of 'Everything Is Embarrassing' fame talks about that massive track, her forthcoming album and tarantulas... »
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Interview
"Pop through a kaleidoscope" - Phoenix on success, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and Bankrupt!
DiS' Krystina Nellis got 20 minutes to chat with half of Phoenix, right at the start of the whirlwind of mayhem that is their campaign for Bankrupt!, aka. The Follow-Up To DiS' Album of 2009
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DiS Does Singles 15.04.13: Cat Power, Jessie Ware, The National, Bibio
Hello and welcome to a brand spanking new edition of DiS Does Singles. It's been a busy seven days for track releases with Jessie Ware, The National, Bibio and several significant others all vying for 'Single Of The Week' status. A word of warning about the Cat Power... »
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Column
Drowned In Film #2
So awards season has come and gone for another year, culminating in Adele winning at Oscar. (I am biased, but those lights tho?) And Jennifer Lawrence winning whatever Adele left over, between doing what I guarantee we would all do if our name was calle »
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Column
Drowned In Sheffield #13
When the first Tramlines festival was held in 2009, I didn’t go. I was on holiday in Europe, desperately trying to find ATMs that still had cash in them. You see, this was at the start of the biggest worldwide financial cris... »
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Column
DiS Does Singles 8.04.13: Cold Cave, Cat Power, Deerhunter, Woman's Hour
Hello and thanks for tuning in to another dazzling edition of the Drowned In Sound singles column. We've got synth-pop a plenty from Cold Cave and Big Black Delta, sombre indie from Cat Power and Woman's Hour, plus a new Deerhunter song that's appropriately shambolic... »
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Interview
DiS meets Temples
Temples are one of the hottest new bands around at the minute. Endorsed by the likes of Brett Anderson who recently invited them on tour with Suede and cited by both Johnny Marr and Noel Gallagher as the best new band in Britain, it's been a memorabl... »