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Spotifriday is dead! And it's been replaced by a February Highlights thread (and monthly Spotify playlist) and this, a new weekly feature in which DiS' editor shares his picks of the week, as a digest sort of thing... »
DiS' editor fills in for Wendy Roby and names The Kills single of the week... »
It is Friiiiiiiiiiiday! The weekend is about to belly-flop before you. You're perhaps looking for something to listen to and wondering where the hell Spotifriday is (it's gone monthly!)... well then, sit back, take your grubby trainers off, relax a little and ingest these five videos and/or streams hand-picked by DiS' editor... »
Call it sigh-fi, slow-wave, disso-dance, tranbian, trance-andental, throbtronica, shoeadelia, gaaasssp, bass-gaze, cat-gaze, lazer-haze or whatever silly genre your care to name..»
DiS' editor reflects on the month that was and introduces a new monthly feature which includes our album of the month, streams of the month and a Spotify playlist....»
DiS is thrilled to reveal the first few names for Great Escape 2012. This includes some of the acts who will perform at our three nights of DiS-curated music. Oh and we've also made a Spotify playlist to get you in the mood... »
Another DiS exclusive full album stream. Especially recommended for fans of The Field through Errors, Joy Orbison, Laurel Halo, Luke Abbott and Oneohtrix Point Never. »
Make room between your Fionn Regan and Ed Harcourt records, and welcome David's Lyre into your world.... »
Rock your socks off duo Blood Red Shoes are bloody well back! With a new album! And new tour dates! And a new song for you to hear, right here: »
With a new album filled with life-disrupting guitars waiting in the wings, who better to ponder the apparent 'problems' with 'rock music' than Steven Ansell, one half of DiS-favourites Blood Red Shoes... HARD TIMES FOR GUITAR MUSIC? There's been a bi»
Have Some Faith in Magic is the sound of a band who've truly found their stride. It's not that they weren't marching like robotic b*st*rds before but there's a definition to this, the Scots third album, that hits you like an ebbing gust of joy and wonder. It thrusts and bursts but in a dazed, slow-motion... And there's a real magic to that. »
Whilst Broken Bells take a break, The Shins' James Mercer and his new band of merry men have a new album and are coming over to London in March to play it, like, live.»
DiS' editor runs through the year's most read, as well as his favourite things published on DiS, and elsewhere, in 2011. Plus a competition to win a subscription to the brilliant Stack magazine club.»
Ah, that weird week between Christmas and New Year's Eve. It's a week when DiS likes to kick back and read, and we thought it'd be a good chance for you (and us too) to catch up on some of the best bits of writing from this year. But it's the holidays, and we're feeling mega-lazy, so we've let Steve from Stack Magazines - a brilliant magazine subscription service that sends you a different magazine each month - takeover the site. This week, you can read the fruits of chats with the editors of some of his favourite music magazines, each sharing some insights from the year that was and their favourite thing they read in 2011. Here Steve chats with Michael, editor of Notion..»
Ah, that weird week between Christmas and New Year's Eve. It's a week when DiS likes to kick back and read, and we thought it'd be a good chance for you (and us too) to catch up on some of the best bits of writing from this year. But it's the holidays, and we're feeling mega-lazy, so we've let Steve from Stack Magazines - a brilliant magazine subscription service that sends you a different magazine each month - takeover the site. This week, you can read the fruits of chats with the editors of some of his favourite music magazines, each sharing some insights from the year that was and their favourite thing they read in 2011. Here, Steve chats with James Griffin, the editor of Bonafide...»
Ah, that weird week between Christmas and New Year's Eve. It's a week when DiS likes to kick back and read, and we thought it'd be a good chance for you (and us too) to catch up on some of the best bits of writing from this year. But it's the holidays, and we're feeling mega-lazy, so we've let Steve from Stack Magazines - a brilliant magazine subscription service that sends you a different magazine each month - takeover the site. This week, you can read the fruits of chats with the editors of some of his favourite music magazines, each sharing some insights from the year that was and their favourite thing they read in 2011. Here Steve chats with Stuart Stubbs, editor of Loud and Quiet...»
Ah, that weird week between Christmas and New Year's Eve. It's a week when DiS likes to kick back and read, and we thought it'd be a good chance for you (and us too) to catch up on some of the best bits of writing from this year. But it's the holidays, and we're feeling mega-lazy, so we've let Steve from Stack Magazines - a brilliant magazine subscription service that sends you a different magazine each month - takeover the site. This week, you can read the fruits of his chats with the editors of some of his (and our!) favourite music magazines. Each conversation shares some insights about being a print magazine in 2011 and their favourite thing they read in the year that was. Kicking things off, here is Steve's chat with Marisa, editor of 'SUP...»
Tis the season for giving and the kind folks from Sonos would like to give one DiSser a prize which will enhance your ability to listen to DrownedinSound’s top albums and singles of the year. »
We've shown you our albums/singles/etc of the year, so we thought it only fair to share the favourite five albums of some of our favourite musicians of 2011... we've also embedded a few tracks so you can get a taste of some of these records.»
Merry DiSmas! This the season to give it away, give it, away, give it away now and to celebrate Spotify's Festive Playlist 'thing' they've given us some premium memberships to their service to give away...»
The countdown of DiS' albums of the year reaches a climax but before reveal our five favourite albums of the year, here are some words from the site's founder and current editor..»
Drowned in Sound's albums of the year countdown continues... »
Drowned in Sound's albums of 2011 countdown continues, as does the ponderneering on the year that was from our editor...»
Drowned in Sound’s top 75 albums of the year countdown starts here. But first, DiS founder and current editor, has his annual ponder about the year that was..»
Tis the season for indie bands to do seasonal songs and BBC 6Music are getting in on the fun... Each day this week, the lovely Lauren Laverne (yes, yes, she was in Kenickie and yes, she was on that telly show with Charlie Brooker and presented the Cultu»
This week, we'll be counting down DiS' favourite 75 albums of 2011, with our top 5 revealed on Thursday. Before we do so, we thought you might find it interesting to see what each of our staff members named their number one record of the year.»
...it's a walk in the bruises, a run in the dust, a monolith for the Blues, a relief in other's emergency.»
On the third day of DiSmas, the music gods gave unto us, one free download from a forthcoming EP by him out of Bloc Party and 'im what used to be in yourcodenameis:milo.»
There's talk on the DiS boards that Guided by Voices have split up (again!) and we've had some clarification from their PR folks, which reads thus: »
This mixtape-like selection is a failed attempt to try to sum up the sounds that have throbbed through me while I've worked, walked and woozed off to sleep. This is less of a playlist and more like the confetti of a year in music.»
