Watch: Mount Kimbie reveal parting shot video for 'Carbonated'
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Watch: Cut Copy reveal new Planet of the Apes-esque video
Cut Copy reveal their video for 'Blink And You'll Miss a Revolution'...»
St. Vincent - Strange Mercy
These amps distort 'til they sound like a fairground ride loop-de-looping through Tom Waits’ cochlea...nerdy intricacies and flowery flourishes...this is the sound of utter-utter-utter mastery.»
Beirut's Summer 2011 - European Tour Diary
As part of today's site takeover, Beirut's Kelly Pratt and Paul Collins provide us with an glimpse into their life on the road over the past few months...»
Ten Wonderful Brazilians by Beirut
As part of today's Beirut takeover, bassist Paul B. Collins, shares ten Brazilians that he respects and/or adores...»
The Neptune Music Prize 2011: And the Winner is...
The votes have been counted and verified, and we can reveal the winner of Drowned in Sound's two-thousand-and-eleven Neptune Music Prize, is... »
New DiS Site Coming Soon: Your Feedback is Very Much Welcomed
We want you're feedback. Also we're migrating our mailing list to a new service, to ensure we have the best email address for you and to ensure no-one is getting our emails that doesn't want them anymore / we're not emailing dead people / that we're not emailing your old Compuserve email address that you haven't checked since back in 2001. If you'd like to get an email from us every six-eight months, with a gentle reminder that we exist and a summary of anything you might have missed, then plonk your email address in this box. »
The Neptune 2011: Nominees announced for DiS' alt-Mercury Music Prize
Another year, another Mercury Music Prize, and another DiS selection of alternative album choices, which probably should, in a just world, have made the Mercury list.»
Win: A trip to Tennessee to see Warpaint & Plan B at the Jack Daniel's distillery
Win! Win! Win! A special trip to this exclusive show featuring Plan B, Warpaint and Never Silver Cornet Band will take place for only 250 people and you and three of your friends could be there, courtesy of Jack Daniel’s. The prize includes return flights, two nights’ accommodation in Nashville, a tour of the distillery, a genuine Southern barbecue and tickets for the show.»
Idlewild guitarist Rod Jones reveals his Birthday Suit
With Roddy off making folk records, Rod Jones, the riff-spewing guitarist from DiS-favourites Idlewild, has been working on a new band, who play their first show tomorrow night in Edinburgh.»
Three Must-See Videos: St. Vincent, Low and Fear of Men
DiS gets a lot of great videos in our inbox but we tend to cherry-pick the best ones and run them in their own 'news' 'story' and expect you to click around like some sort of ad-revenue-generating node in our network. Well not today, we don't want to waste your time listening to this lushness. Just don't call it a three-way... »
Ley Lines - Oxford's new festival featuring Jamie Woon, Futures, Hyetal, Catherine A.D.
DHP Concerts, the fine folks behind Dot-to-Dot - the much-loved multi-city, multi-venue festival - have announced a brand new festival, which is taking place in Oxford for one day in October. That day is Saturday the 15th October and across the cities finest music establishments will be a line-up headlined by really-rather tip-top don't-call-him-blubstep Jamie Woon, plus an assortment of awesome talented including: Futures, ? Alt J, Anothers Blood, Catherine A.D., Hyetal, Man Without Country, Melé and Theme Park but there are plenty more names to be announced in due course.»
St. Vincent announces European tour
St. Vincent, aka Annie Clark, aka the utterly brilliant Queen of DiS' collective heart whose third album Strange Mercy (Out 12th September) is a very very strong contender for DiS' album of the year 2011, has confirmed a run of dates in the UK and Europe in November-December.»
Spotifriday #103: Oneida, Blood Red Shoes, SBRKT, Luke Abbott
What a strange week this week has been. I hope you've not suffered as a result of this idiocy and that you got out there and helped in whatever way you could to not let these i-want-iwantiwant little shits nicking (do)riotos from PoundLand and smashing up charity shops, turn our tea-slurping land into a haven for assholes. The fascists can fuck off too.»
Riot Protection: Massive Attack’s Robert Del Naja makes massive sweeping statement
Massive Attack’s Robert Del Naja has shared his thoughts on the recent riots on his blog. »
Stage Times revealed for DiS stage this Sunday at Summer Sundae + Playlist
It should probably go without saying but we're very excited to be returning to Leicester's De Montfort Hall on Sunday, to see the line-up wot we hand-picked. Of course we booked stuff 'we' are worryingly obsessed with love and once again the lovely people behind the festival have selected two mighty fine local acts to open the bill. »
Fund established to support [PIAS]-distributed Independent Record Labels affected by warehouse fire
Atop of various efforts to support and assist independent labels (including a soon to be announced developer contest recordlabellove.com), [PIAS] and AIM (the association of indpendent music) have created a fund to help support labels that have been adversely affected by the Sony DADC fire.»
Indie label distributor [PIAS] release short statement regarding fire at SonyDADC warehouse
PIAS, whose website has gone down due to a huge surge in traffic, have released the following short statement...»
Download: Deftones' Chino Moreno & Shaun Lopez from Far release free Crosses EP
Debut EP † is available as a free download as of today...»
DiS staff name Low's 'Try to Sleep' the song of the year, so far
Ok, so we didn't countdown all 45 (which we revealed here, yesterday, complete with a Spotify playlist), as that would take forever-and-ever, instead we counted down the top 25 via our music forum, as well as DiS' Facebook, Twitter and DrownedinSoundcloud Tumblr blog. And without furtherado, here's what we named number one... »
Spotify Playlist: Drowned in Sound's Songs of the Year (So Far)
Tomorrow, we'll announce our number 1 (can you guess what it is yet?) but for now, here's a quick Spotify playlist reminder the songs that made us wiggle, yelp and blub....»
Win: Tickets to Summer Sundae Festival featuring our DiS stage
With only a few weeks to go, DiS has a pair of tickets for Summe Sundae for you to win.»
Vinyl sales up 55% in first half of 2011 - Radiohead KoL tops vinyl chart
Good news everyone... Vinyl sales up 55% in first half of 2011»
Mixtape Monday: Electrelane's Current Favourite Songs
Kicking off our takeover week of content from Electrelane is this mixtape of songs they're currently loving...»
Spotifriday #99 featuring Rufus Wainwright, Prince, Biffy Clyro, Weezer...
At the end of every week, DiS makes a playlist using Spotify of what we've been loving and/or writing about this week. This is the 99th week we've done this, so hopefully you know the drill by now. If you're American and only just got Spotify, welcome!. This week's Spotifriday playlist is here and links to content is amongst the below. »
House of Rufus - Boxset Introduction by Rufus Wainwright
Next week, critically celebrated songwriter and sometime Judy Garland dresser-upper, Rufus Wainwright, releases a 19-disc boxset, entitled House of Rufus to coincide with his 5-night residency at the Royal Opera House in London. Here, the man himself introduces the boxset as part of DiS' series of pieces for Rufus Week...»
Listen: Two new Rufus Wainwright tracks from House of Rufus (DiS exclusive)
We're very excited and grateful to premiere these two songs new Rufus Wainwright from the box set, via this we7 player. »
House of Rufus week: Wainwright Family Photos
With the release of Rufus Wainwright’s definitive House of Rufus 19 disc collection looming (it’s out on July 25th), Drowned In Sound gets a sneak peak at some of the set’s never-before-seen content. »
Independent's Yay! - New awards bash to celebrate Independent Music
A brand new awards show has been added alongside The Brits and the Mercury's to the UK music calendar, to celebrate independent labels and all the great music they release...»
Half-Year: DiS' 11 Favourite Albums of the First Half of 2011
11 albums we (DiS writers and regulars) have been liking so far this year. Plus a text file that you can download to your Kindle or Smartphone to easily read the reviews of these records, and a few interviews, on-the-go... »