DrownedinSound.com editorial ch-ch-changes: job vacancies
Time for change. It’s with a heavy heart that DiS today gazes at a new horizon following the departure of Editor Colin Roberts, but with this restructuring comes new roles...»
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Metric add extra London show due to demand
Metric add extra show! The Canadian sensations return to the UK this weekend to begin their tour with Bloc Party in support of their forthcoming single 'Empty'...»
Win! Tickets to see new Drowned in Sound signing Brett Anderson
Win! Tickets to see new Drowned in Sound Recordings signing Brett Anderson...»
Drinking the Knights Away: DiS meets James Mercer from The Shins
You may have read part one already, but if not here's the skinny. Last year DiS went to a pub. We do that quite a lot, and probably talk about it even more than we do it. This time though we were answering the call of duty, to meet James Mercer from The Shins. DiS founder Sean Adams sat in a pub, in Shepherd’s Bush, with beer circles on some scribbled notes and a shaky Dictaphone in a sweaty palm to meet one of his heroes...»
Metric announce extra headline dates
Drowned in Sound Recordings' favourite Canadians, Metric, are back over here to play with Bloc Party but they've added three extra headline dates for folks in London, Brighton and Oxford...»
Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Show Your Bones
YYYs: it’s now your mission to shake the minds, wardrobes and asses of a planet at war with itself as ice caps melt, culture is fracturing into one thin bland mess and no-one's making music to escape into, least not like this...»
The Blood Brothers at Los Angeles Henry Fonda Theater, Fri 01 Dec
Our hero is dressed in chopped-and-sewn-back-together striped tees. Bandana around the neck, like a pirate. He sings, "where is love now bah-ba-bah-dah", and rips every cute girl’s broken heart from its barb-wired nest. They play more. The new album sounds near perfect, live, and they still sling themselves around like they hate their skeletons. They still sound like the kids from South Park raised by Thurston and Kim...»
Joanna Newsom at El Rey Theatre, Los Angeles, Thu 30 Nov
I'm rocking back and forth as if overdosed on methadone to every string, stood in the El Rey Theatre in LA some time after Newsom’s latest came out - a considerable while in this digital age – and this is where my virginal unravelling of Ys takes place. However, I could be anywhere; I'm completely lost, as every word featherishly whirls from her breath to mine, diving like dolphins or gravity-defying penguins up my nostrils and wrapping themselves around my brain veins, sensed only momentarily before dissipating...»
The Weekly DiScussion: An Open Letter To Muse
So Muse have only gone and sold out Wembley Stadium, before the thing's even open! Now they've added a second show for June 2007. Shitting crikey! Congratulations... now, can we suggest some support acts...»
Drinking the Knights Away: DiS meets The Shins' James Mercer (part one)
Poet, saint and genius, The Shins' James Mercer reveals all about the new band's forthcoming album, Wincing The Night Away... »
Arab Strap's London bow: a fan's recount
Walking home in the drizzle past King's Cross scum and debris whilst trying to say "ser-ah-tone-in" like a Scotsman, it sinks it that that is it. It's over. The end feels like not just the end of a band but the end of a world built by John Peel, when a late-night play on Radio 1 was a respected local badge of honour and meant touching an industry and an audience bigger than those on a stadium tour...»
CSS - Alala
Dear Sub Pop, we hate you. We can’t stop dancing and I just broke the repeat button on my Discman. You utter bastards...»
The Weekly DiScussion: How do you DiScover new music?
Once upon a time, in the not so distant past, people used to find new soundtracks for their lives from weekly newspapers - the type that got your hands all inky - and from the radio. Nowadays, the goalposts have moved: how do you, now, find out about new music?»
Rob Da Bank launches new Rob Da Bank Show with DiS faves
He sent DiS an email which said this: "The new show's called, imaginatively, The Rob Da Bank show! Every Sunday on Radio 1 and covering all bases from the leftfield - techno, indie, reggae, dubstep, breakcore, hip hop etc... A Maida Vale session each week from the likes of Metric, Nina Nastasia, Man Like Me, Kids in Tracksuits or Blood on the Wall"»
Elliott Smith tribute show cancelled
We're sorry to announce that this show is no longer happening.»
The Tuesday DiScussion: Your favourite music videos of the past six years
We're compiling a phat list of videos we would like shown on MTV2's 120 Minutes, especially ones you'd almost never see. What we'd like is for you to suggest some of your favourite videos of the past six years (with links to youtube.com or Google Video, if you can find them) and say why you like it. Why? Because we'll be running quotes from you lovely people across the screen when our selections are broadcast...»
Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Cheated Hearts
If Yeah Yeah Yeahs made spaceships, they'd probably be the most haunted, glitter-splatted, decadent messes you’ve ever had crash through your roof. They’d step out wearing angel wings, but rather than you sensibly screaming, "What the fuck is gahn on...?", you’d dance the dust off, rub soot around your eyes and sweat yourself clean...»
Free Metric download
Ahead of their performance at Reading/Leeds this weekend we thought some of you might have heard of DrownedinSound Recordings' Metric either because of the buzz on the web, because their part of the Broken Social Scene collective but you might not have heard them.»
Regina Spektor - Begin to Hope
This feels like Regina at her most Regina - Begin To Hope is a record that could fit into some scummy boho venue cranking out Guns N' Roses as easily as it could the grandest concert hall of St. Petersburg... »
Young Turks Night at London Cafe de Paris, Thu 13 Jul
Within three chords the crowd swarms at the stage and band take half a shocked step back. The pogoing is intense and the front of the crowd looks like a Japanese cartoon of waves, with layer upon layer of grins...»
Metric to play Reading & Leeds + UK live dates
Metric join the Reading/Leeds bill and play some UK shows to concide...»
The Tuesday DiScussion: MySpace or MyFarce?
Social networking does not make million-selling acts... so what is really happening?
Is it still the traditional media hype model? Is it all virtual word of mouth? Does it feel like you're bashing your head against a million bands trying to stampede through a stage door towards a mirage of an audience of 80 million people who are busy talking to each other in lolz 'n rofls?»
Metric get Wireless
Hyde Park are you ready?»
DiScover: Emmy the Great
Over the past year we’ve given Emmy a few mentions here and there and even pushed her out on stage to play to 1000 Brightonians to support Martha Wainwright after Teddy Thompson had to pull out at the last minute to do Jools Holland. A few weeks ago we made her part of our new digital singles club with the release her debut single ‘Secret Circus’ (which is also available as a 7” on Fear and Records). This week she begins her second stint around the UK, this time with Saddle Creeks finest Tilly & the Wall. Sean caught up with Emmy to DiScover more...»
Martha Wainwright returns to the UK
Having walked out from her families shadow and wowed crowds everywhere from Glastonbury to South by South West, the youngest of the Wainwright clan returns to the UK, armed simply with her acoustic guitar and that voice. »
DiS Stage at Brighton's Great Escape Festival Announcement
One city, three nights beside the seaside, 14 venues filled with over 100 bands from all over the world and a Drowned in Sound Stage...»
Drowned in Sound SXSW Must See Bands
Before we ironically don a Stetson and fill our tattered suitcases with Alka Seltzer, Berocca and Drowned in Sound Recordings label samplers; here's a guide to some DiS highlighted acts that we think you should take a moment check out, regardless if you're going or not. Please post your own suggestions and recommendations as comments below. And if you're throwing any parties please drop us an email with invites as our media accreditation was turned down and we don�t wanna miss out. »
Howling Bells at London The Luminaire, Mon 27 Feb
Howling Bells' live show is too flawless for stages like this. It feels distractingly confined in the space, ready to erupt and burn itself onto much, much bigger and more grandiose stages. There's a real sense in the room tonight that this band, these songs, really aren't meant to stay down here for the likes of us.»
DiS Digital Singles Club Unveiled
You heard it here first... DiS does singles club in the digital age. 45 digital singles a year (available from all good download stores) and to launch annual subscription later this year.»
Metric sign to DiS. Tour UK in May.
Metric sign to the DiS label and tour UK in May.»