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What do you get if you have 7 Seconds of Everyday People? Give up? Or are you some kinda smart arse… the trivia link is Neneh Cherry and Speech from Arrested Development who feature on this, the second single from the eagerly awaited (well, for me at least) 1 Giant Leap album. If there is a»
Is Rock’n’roll all about pretty silhouettes and projections of psychedelic kaleidoscopes? For some it is, I guess. For me it’s all about what is contained within the outlines of the star’s shapes. It’s about a groups creation of an alternative universe where we can wander around to escape from reality into surreality. »
Drownedinsound.com presents...
Fighting Gravity :Battling the Musicworld from the Underground
@ The Kiva, King Street, Weymouth
Friday June 29th - Sunday July 1st 2001.
The event launches on Friday with an evening of Dj's playing the best in hip-hop, funk, al»
”This album is meant to be a soundtrack for political activists all over the world” – Jim Lindberg, Pennywise. This is PW album number seven. This is passionate anti-establishmentarianism pumped out with soon-to-be reclaimed street cool. This is cynicism mixed with a sense of panic and fear, pullin»
Enter Robert Miles, most famous as the do-er of ‘Children’ - with that hit single, silly! So it is or rather was a big Ibiza anthem, maybe that fact is enough to put any non-Ben Sherman owning smuck off this record. Do not walk away just yet! The fact of the matter is no artist is ever the sum of t»
The crowd say: "HOOOO-OOOO-OOOH" Taking place on the second weekend of July (14th-15th) @ Hackney Marshes, London is this years ESSENTiAL FESTiVAL. The festival is in support of Greenpeace and Centrepoint("housing young people"). The line-up spans the funkier genre's »
Fred Durst the joke's on you..AGAIN! The five remaining dates of Limp Bizkit's "Anger Management" Tour in Europe have been cancelled. Why? Because of.. *controls giggling* ..MRI indentified a "stress fracture to the fifth lumber vertebrae" so young Freddy has to take time off t»
After rocking the main stage of Reading last year, the 'A' boys have been far too quiet (metaphorically, obviously, as the Perry twins never stops talking in their pony race commentry stylee). After questioning it in my head, an e-mail flew into my inbox from A-communication, call it fate, telepathy or whatever.»
I don’t know if you heard but there is apparently some kind of Acoustic revolution going on. I heard it was fuelled by a delayed desire for all the young dudes to want to become Bob Drake or something? You heard about it? Maybe it takes the end of a millennium to do something like this presumed un-plugged mass m»
Another love song? Just what we need. A ballad, acoustic guitars, "oooh yeahs" blah-di-blah. Boring! …but wait!! This is Incubus! This is not another nu-metal band to disregard and laugh at. Nor is this another insincere mainstream ooze of fake glow in the dark orange tan. And please don’t be fooled by the»
Tricky! Portishead! Massive Attack! Roni Size! Bristol is briiiiiiiilllaaaannnnntttt!!!! Sorry, just had to get that out of my system because I’ve just put this into my system for the umpteenth time. This is URBAN MILITIA a band who could easily be a combo of the first four bands, but they’re not. You could mayb»
It’s always hard to work out whether a band admire another and want to sound like them, or whether it’s just a combination of similar influences. The admired band in question seems to be the Dandy Warhols, but then again, it wouldn’t be hard for this band to have taken sleazo-rock, a dash of punk and put a synth with i»
Only in Amerikah! The land of dope and glory! A land that walks around like it owns the joint….enough pun action, let’s cut to the chainsaw wielding chase… This debut single 'I'm a Hippie' (shouldn't that be Hippy??) sounds like it’s been ripped, teared and brutalised straight from ‘Screamadelica’ »
You know the story. You’ve heard the rumours. You may own a t-shirt. If you’ve been naughty you may have the dodgy live mp3’s from Napster… But do you know WHO Muse are? The singer, Matt Bellamy clearly isn’t the same as everyone else and that is definitely not a bad thing. “Paradise comes at a price” is »
As I scrape the pixie dust from the corner of my eyes, I press play. My head returns to the pillow. Several minutes pass. These are several minutes, maybe an hour or so of dreamy perfection. Sparklehorse have created a perfect barely awake, sleepy layering of introflective sound – and that is a good thing»
We're not content with just being a [fill in the gap] website. Nor putting out the odd record here and there. No, no. We've been crazy enough to book a festival... Fighting Gravity will take place @ the Kiva in Weymouth. It all kicks off on Friday June 29th with a night of an alternative natu»
Post-noise-quartet Twist have been confirmed as support to MUSE @ Birmingham, Academy on 23rd May. The show is sold out, but anyone going, be sure to get there early - alternatively paint a water pistol silver and rob a ticket tout, it's only right.* The next Twist single - being mixed as you»
I think idealism will be the death of me. I can see pop making a difference to a million lives. However, messages in modern pop are refined to love, lust, x-rebellion or mentions of other ’cool’ music! Alsou’s gone for both love and lust. “Baby I want it so bad I can taste it” which could be»
Another year and it looks like another good Carling Weekender, Reading/Leeds festival to look forward to. The BBC Radio1 website today revealed the headliners, a day before tickets go onsale (April 24th). And the headliners are [dodgy drum roll]
Reading Friday 24th/Leeds Saturday 25th:
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The fourth Ash studio album. Following the fans duped and critically mixed received, ‘Nu-Clear Sounds’ this must have been a tough task for the band. Having heard the singles ‘Shining Light’ and ‘Burn Baby Burn’, both worthily entering the top end of the charts, for critics and fans alike th»
Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmm…..What? I said mmmmmmmmmmmm…that is the only word which sums this track up. What? Well, urm, I’m 19 years old, same age as Beyoncé and co, and I have a fetish for sexy female vocals. I’ll admit it. What? It’s not a criminal offence y’know! I’m only mmm-ing about this ickle ditty. Cus you know my mummy t»
[The sound of an acoustic geetar, casually strolling into your world] “In the beginning as the earth started spinning, cooling down, in a system surrounding other planets…” What a way to introduce yourself on a debut album! The albums title track ‘Picture That’ a summary of the evolution of the wor»
Punk in 2001? Surely not! That whole thing was dead 20 years ago wasn’t it? I mean, there’s nothing wrong with the world today... If you have ever ranted down someones throat for saying that, stick with us. If you’ve ever said that; be afraid, be very, very afraid! Here is the sound of anger. This is the s»
“The OZZfest is finally back in the UK and we’re really happy we’ve managed to get together one of the best rock bills ever seen over here.” Sharon Osbourne. The re-re-re-re-formed Black Sabbath front by the man Ozzy, will headline Ozzfest 2001. The original Sabbath line-up will»
Curled up and dead to the world, a cat's life seems ideal. That was the case until his loving owner (me) threw on the sound of Gorillaz. This is no word of a lie and it?s not just a half-witted metaphor? my cat stirred, his ears tweaked and then he jumped up to stare at the speakers. Who knows what he mus»
“Life is Loud” is brandished beneath a poster for tonight’s tour sponsors, rawk-mag Kerrang. Maybe “Black is the colour” or “Piercing's are not just for Xmas” would be a better slogan for the quiet, band t-shirted groups, sipping pints in the Joiners tonight. Seems like everyone is disconnected, but not as much »
The internet has taken over the world, it's a fact. And it?s even more apparent from song titles/theme?s at the moment. A ?plug-in? - as you will probably know - is one of those things that attach themselves to your browser so that you can watch porn vids? or maybe that?s just me!? Anyway, moving swiftly o»
After two years, three limited 7"'s, 'antisocial' the album, a xmas single, tours with: Seafood, Wilt and iDLEWiLD; Turn have parted company from Infectious One of Drownedinsounds big tip's for this year are Dublin three-piece Turn. They have recently parted company with their label infectious, afte»
After teasing fans via napster and one-off gigs, it sounds like the weezer folks are finally back... The mailing list from official weezer site, www.weezer.net announced today the release date of the new =w= album and the title of the first single. The album, still witho»
A new URL! New single delayed! New Bassist! On tour! What more can Twist do for you?
Out on ORG, March 19th (was put back 2 weeks) is Twi»
