Interview: Cut Copy chat about creativity, Can and Chicago house
DiS founder Sean Adams chats to Cut Copy, about making one of the albums of the year, Zonoscope, ahead of their performance at Wireless in Hyde Park on Sunday...»
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New Music Mixtape by Fishing for Cloud Control's London residency
Here's a mixtape by FISHING for Cloud Control's new-band-loaded residency at The Social in London, introduced by Alister from Cloud Control...»
The Whip return with Wired Together (Album Sampler)
Maligned Manc's return with album two...»
Album Stream: SBTRKT's self-titled debut album
Stream this much-talked about artists debut album in full...»
Glastonbury 2011: DiS' 65-Songs to Get You In The Mood (Spotify)
The gates of Glastonbury open in a mere 5 days, and DiS is excited that we've thrown together a big ol' Spotify playlist of sixty-five tracks from acts on this year's bill. And you can listen to it on Spotify by clicking here.»
Meltdown Mixtape Monday: The Sonics' favourite Kinks tracks
The Sonics were basically the germ that spawned punk rock. 40 years after they split up, they've reformed to play Ray Davies' Meltdown festival. As a thank you to Ray for picking them at his curated event, Rob Lind and Jerry Roslie from The Sonics have put together a mixtape of their favourite Kinks songs, and we've compiled it as a Spotify playlist... »
Kaiser Chiefs release new album The Future is Medieval today, in a thoroughly modern way
Kaiser Chiefs allow you to build your own album...»
Listen to DiS Radio on-the-go with Mixcloud's new free iPhone app
DiS embraced the platform around its launch, impressed that someone had finally solved a lot of the royalty related problems which forced us to stop DiS radio. Last year we did a a few mixes and uploaded them, and earlier this year we relaunched DiS Radio, with a special show (you'll find all of these compiled here. We've plenty more planned and we're very pleased that, with their free iPhone app, you can now take our radio show away from the computer and listen to it on your commute. »
Lady GaGa - Born This Way
Unlike Madonna who seemed to just ingest cool genres, it seems from the very concept of this album and woven into her manifesto, that Lady Gaga gets far more about the modern world than she's letting on.»
Watch: Kaiser Chiefs return with broody-broody-broody new track 'Little Shocks'
Yesterday, BBC Radio1's Zane Lowe premiered the brand new track from Leeds' (Leeds! Leeds! Leeds!), finest peddlers of cheeky indie pop, Kaiser Chiefs. 'Little Shocks' is a different beast to a lot of the Kaisers stuff before it, shuffling somewhere between Maximo Park's bubbling key-throbs and Oasis' guitar snarls. In fact, it sounds a little like the live version of 'Everyday I Love You Less and Less' and perhaps signals a (welcome) departure from their irritating-to-many trademark summer-anthem uh-uh-uhs and oh-ohs »
Mixtape Monday by Emmy The Great ft. Enya, Bangles, Bad Seeds, Scarlett Johansson
With her forthcoming album only a couple of weeks away, DiS asked Emmy The Great what her and her band were listening to and she made us this mixtape, playable on Spotify, as well as via the videos below. »
DiS talks dogs, Prince, Brooklyn and Burst Apart with The Antlers
To celebrate the album's release today in the UK, DiS fired some questions at Peter Silberman, the band's singer and chief songsmith. Here are the thoughtful responses, confirming a few of my fanboy theories, which were digitally transmitted back... »
RIP Gil Scott-Heron: 1949-2011 - Tributes Compiled
Details are still thin on the ground but what we do know is that the 62 year-old's death was confirmed by his book publisher on Friday afternoon in New York. Gil Scott-Heron died St. Luke's Hospital in New York after becoming sick upon returning from a European trip.»
Spotifriday #92: Nick Cave, Death Cab, Suede, Tom Vek, The Rapture
It's f-f-f-f-f-f-f-f-f-f-fuh-Friday! Here's our Spotify playlist running down the week that was, well, it was somewhat won by re-issues and threads about pop-punk. Who says we need to be cutting edge all-day everyday? Not Napster co-founder Sean Parker, that's for sure. In fact, I'm a bit a neophobe, and sick of the constant churnover of new bands. But if you want to hear me bang on like the boringest guy in the pub, just follow me on twitter @seaninsound. »
Frightened Rabbit's track-by-track guide to Sing The Greys by Scott Hutchison
Tonight, in Edinburgh, DiS-favourites Frightened Rabbit are playing a special show, as their original 3 piece line up, playing their debut album Sing The Greys. The album was originally released as a limited edition run of 1000 copies, on this day back in May 2006 (yes, that is five years ago) before getting revamped, re-mixed, re-mastered and re-released on Fat Cat. Seeing as it's fresh in his mind ahead of tonight's show, we asked singer and writer of the songs, Scott Hutchison to walk and talk us through the album, track-by-track...»
Death Cab for Bass: Mixtape of Songs That Inspired Nick to Play Bass
Or Death Cab for Cutie's Nick Harmer's Top Songs In No Particular Order that inspired him to become a bass player, way back when:»
Stream: Death Cab for Cutie's new album Codes & Keys
You may have noticed but those chaps from emo-slanted indie-rockers Death Cab for Cutie have just started the first of several days 'taking over' Drowned in Sound. You'll find all of the Death Cab takeover editorial here but why are they doing it? Well, because they have a new album Codes and Keys out in the UK on Monday (the day after in the US) and, yeah, you can ch-ch-check it out by moving your mouse and clicking play below. So, have a listen to it, for zero pence...»
Mixtape: Dot to Dot Festival ft. Trail of Dead, Braids, SBTRKT, Hyetal
To get you in the mood for this weekend's festivities, I've put together this Spotify playlist featuring tracks form acts on the bill... »
10 Things To Not Expect Your Record Producer To Have A Cogent or Completely Satisfactory Answer For
Our Death Cab for Cutie takeover continues with their guitarist/producer Chris Walla's "Ten Things To Not Expect Your Record Producer (me) To Have A Cogent or Completely Satisfactory Answer For". Chris has produced all seven Death Cab for Cutie full length albums and also albums by many artists over the years including the Decemberists, Hot Hot Heat, Tegan & Sara and The Thermals..»
Death Cab for Vietnamese: Nick Harmer's Guide to the best Pho in Seattle
Kicking off several days of DiS being taken over by Death Cab for Cutie, to celebrate the release of Codes & Keys (released on Monday), is bassist Nick Harmer's Guide to the best "Pho" in Seattle.»
Warpaint join the DiS curated bill at Summer Sundae Festival
Drowned in Sound is pleased as punch to announce that those blogosphere ravaging, magazine conquering, DiS community adored ladies of indie-rockness Warpaint, will performing on our stage at Summer Sundae on Sunday 14th August. Their debut album The Fool really put the LA-based quartet on the map and they'll be zooming across the atlantic to play at Leicester's huge De Montfort Hall, joining our previously announced, hand-picked by DiS bill of Blood Red Shoes, The Antlers, Factory Floor, Phantom Band and **Everything Everything»
Watch: Digitalism's new video for '2 Hearts' (DiS Exclusive)
DiS is very excited to exclusively reveal the German electro duos brand new video for '2 Hearts':»
Friendly Fires announce November jaunt around the UK
The children of the dance-punk revolution have just released their new album and now they've announced a big ol' tour.»
Watch: Gonzales orchestral rap album medley
Gonzo is back! And this time it's 'serious'. Or at least as serious as a man who stomps on pianos in his slippers whist taking your from heart break to laughing your guts out, in the space of thirty 'sexy' seconds. He's the lothario you'd want as an uncl»
Mixtape: Liverpool's SoundCity Festival ft Emmy the Great, Kurt Vile, Clinic, Braids
To get myself in the mood, I made this Spotify playlist of songs by folks that are playing SoundCity and I thought I might as well share it with you 'orrible lot to listen to too. »
Mixtape Monday: Grizzly Bear share the songs that would soundtrack their biopics
Last week, to celebrate the DVD release of the fim Blue Valentine, which features a soundtrack by the chaps from DiS-favourites Grizzly Bear, we asked you to share the songs which would soundtrack a film about your life. Here, Grizzly Bear share their favourite soundtracks and Ed has made a playlist for his own biopic... »
Tegan & Sara's open letter calling Tyler, The Creator on his homophobia and misogyny
This weekend, an eloquent open letter from Tegan & Sara criticizing both Odd Future and the media's acceptance and celebration of his music, which features rape fantasies and homophobia, was met by the following heinous response from Tyler, The Creator on Twitter:»
The Antlers' track-by-track guide to their new album Burst Apart
Peter Silberman talks us through The Antlers incredible, album-of-the-year contender, Burst Apart...»
Everything Everything join the DiS festival stage line-up at Summer Sundae
They join the already announced line-up of Factory Floor, The Antlers and The Phantom Band which is headlined by the return of Blood Red Shoes. We still have more names to reveal for Leicester's De Montfort Hall on Sunday 14th August, so if you haven't done so already, go grab a ticket before they're all gone: summersundae.com/tickets.»
Watch: Battles 'Ice Cream'
As you probably know by now, on June 6th, them Battles chaps what make mathy-spazzy-dancey-space-prog are back with a new album entitled Gloss Drop. And such is the way of the world, they - or rather the folks at Warp records - are releasing a single to market the release and they have a video to promote the single. »