Drowned in Sound - Features

Feathers Ruffled: Dirty Projectors rule the roost

Samuel Strang — Fri, 09 May 2008 11:20:59 +0100

Fresh from reworking Black Flag’s seminal hardcore racket Damaged as Rise Above's fractured art-pop splendour, DiS endeavours to get a closer glimpse of the exotic bird that is Brooklyn's Dirty Projectors

Mixtape #9: Gareth Los Campesinos!

Gareth Los Campesinos! — Thu, 08 May 2008 16:35:55 +0100

Hopefully it's not escaped your attention that we at DiS have a gooey spot in our dulled and cold hearts for indie-popsters Los Campesinos!. Here, singer Gareth selects us some top-quality listening

The Hungry Musician: Stuart Staples on Tindersticks' return

Gareth Dobson — Thu, 08 May 2008 15:31:12 +0100

After a five-year wait Tindersticks have returned with The Hungry Saw. Frontman Stuart Staples speaks to DiS about how it feels to be "touched again by the essence of what drove us to make music in the first place"

WIN! Tickets to The Great Escape

Mike Diver — Thu, 08 May 2008 11:02:16 +0100

Hey you! People who aren’t doing ATP on May 16-18. People who like music and the seaside. Wanna go to a festival for free? Wanna go to The Great Escape in Brighton for free? Read on

The Weekly DiScussion: the greatest bands to have never played at ATP

DiS Festivals — Wed, 07 May 2008 18:22:04 +0100

With ATP firmly on DiS's agenda for the next two weekends, we invite some industry types to suggest their favourite acts yet to play the celebrated festival, and you to DiScuss the potentials

Johnny Foreigner's 2008 diary: April

Alexei J-Fo — Wed, 07 May 2008 15:29:27 +0100

More from the pen of Johnny Foreigner’s Alexei, as the Birmingham indie-rock trio he fronts so very well plough through April’s ups and downs ahead of their current UK tour under the DiS banner

Getting Stuk in: DiS catches the returning Wire in Belgium

Luke Turner — Wed, 07 May 2008 13:23:08 +0100

DiS is in Leuven, at its Stuk arts venue, April 29; inside, Wire are playing their first show in four years ahead of the release of Object 47, the band's new LP. Is a belated renaissance on the cards, we wonder

DiScover: Bon Iver

Alex Denney — Tue, 06 May 2008 16:15:52 +0100

Every inch the archetypal grizzly North American man in lumberjack shirt and hat, Bon Iver is anything but the gloomy figure his backstory would suggest. He's also, as it turns out, a bit obsessed with toothpaste

Doing It: Clinic speak exclusively to DiS about new album

Rob Webb — Tue, 06 May 2008 12:04:53 +0100

Interviews with Liverpool pop mavericks Clinic are few and far between, so this conversation with vocalist Ade Blackburn represents a rare opportunity to delve into their fascinating world

Singles Round-up (05/05/08)

Mike Diver — Mon, 05 May 2008 14:45:56 +0100

Black Lips’ Cole Alexander and Jared Swilley assess a smattering of the week’s new singles. Check out the video for their forthcoming ‘Bad Kids’ and UK dates HERE. Their Single of the Week: Scarlett Johansson

Mixtape #8: Barry Adamson

Mike Diver — Fri, 02 May 2008 16:57:19 +0100

Barry Adamson is a British legend. High praise, backed up by experience: the Manchester-born musician has been a member of both Magazine and Nick Cave’s Bad Seeds. And now he's making us a mixtape

DiS Missive: Punks, critics, and why not to trust anyone over 30

Dom Passantino — Fri, 02 May 2008 15:39:34 +0100

A return, welcome or not, for DiS Missive. Here, the axe to grind is directed the way of music journalists making a pretty penny from the rep of punk, applying the term to whatever suits. Or, rather, doesn't

DiS @ Coachella: Prince, Portishead and The Verve? Pigs might fly...

Dave Kerr — Fri, 02 May 2008 13:46:59 +0100

Powering through the desert at as close to John Garcia’s prescribed 666mph as highway laws allow, DiS wonders exactly how these Coachella cats will surpass the mania of last year’s festival

DiScover Monthly: April 2008

Kev Kharas — Fri, 02 May 2008 13:17:18 +0100

Better (slightly) late than never, April's DiScover Monthly introduces you to six new bands presently tickling lobes amongst the DiS staff. Click away for intoxicating sounds you might not have experienced before

A Month In Records: April 2008

Mike Diver — Thu, 01 May 2008 19:36:12 +0100

Dampened though DiS’s shoes and socks most certainly are, we’re refreshed by the breezy brilliance of so many of April’s new releases, among them: Portishead, dEUS, Crystal Castles and The Fall

DiS's May UK Tour: Mae Shi, JoFo and Lionheart Brothers previewed

Mike Diver — Thu, 01 May 2008 13:34:16 +0100

From May 6 - that's TODAY! - DiS's UK tour is go. Here we take a look and listen at our three participating acts: The Mae Shi, Johnny Foreigner and The Lionheart Brothers... PLUS WIN TICKETS

Howlin' Rain: magnificently immediate rock 'n' roll explained

Mike Diver — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 18:13:01 +0100

At home in California, Howlin' Rain's Ethan Miller is trying to kick his brain into gear to discuss his new Magnificent Fiend LP, the band's first since the curtain came down on his previous concern, the mighty Comets on Fire

DiScover: Sam Sparro

Mike Diver — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 11:38:25 +0100

Sam Sparro is the 24-year-old pop phenomenon whose ‘Black & Gold’ single has stormed the UK top five. With his debut album doing the business too, we play the DiScover Q&A game with the LA-based singer

Track-By-Track: No Age spell out their Nouns

Samuel Strang — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 16:52:07 +0100

No Age's Nouns looks likely to be one of our albums of the year if this review is anything to go by. Here, its makers Randy Randall and Dean Spunt talk us through its inspirations, whether Lily Allen or dancing babies

United by emo's Golden Age: a reminder of Rival Schools' peers

Mike Diver — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 15:58:45 +0100

With Rival Schools set to tour this summer, both in the UK and in Europe, time seems right to look at a number of key releases - alongside the New York band's pictured United By Fate - from emo's Golden Age, 1997-2001