Marnie Stern to tour UK in November
The ever-impressive New Yorker Marnie Stern, not content with filling a place in our countdown of favourite records with In Advance Of The Broken Arm, the queen of shred has just announced a UK tour for November.»
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September 7th, 2010
More bands announced for In The City 2010
Yet more bands have been announced for 2010's In The City festival in Manchester and the list is getting better as well as bigger.»
Listen: Gold Panda streams and releases new record, get it now
We've been keeping tabs on Gold Panda for a while now - even more so after seeing him live at one of our shows last year. Impressive. So we were quite pleased when he announced the release of his debut record, Lucky Shiner, a few weeks ago. That was originally due to come out in October, but for various reasons which you can probably work out, the record is out now, digitally.»
Big Scary Monsters celebrate ton of releases with CD/DVD combo
Probably worth getting your hands on this one. Congrats.»
Watch: Zola Jesus - 'Sea Talk'
VVVideo.»
Listen: Gigantic compilation of Sub Pop's songs of the '90s
Some seriously good shit here.»
Listen: Weezer stream new record on MySpace
Er, it's OK, I guess.»
Deftones confirm UK tour for November
Following on from their excellent LP earlier this year, legends of rock Deftones will be returning to the UK once again for a seven-date tour, kicking off in Glasgow on November 12»
September 6th, 2010
Listen: Stream new Blonde Redhead album on NPR a week before release
Blonde Redhead release their next album, Penny Sparkle, through 4AD next Monday. They've already given a track away from it but now you can preview the whole thing, courtesy of the ever-reliable and ever-brilliant National Public Radio. They do this thing quite often, so it's worth keeping your eyes and ears peeled. »
Watch: Belle & Sebastian 30-minute album webisode
A webisode, 30 minutes in length.»
Paul Weller becomes Mercury favourite
The past 10 days has seen an extraordinary amount of column inches devoted to betting practices and corruption. It's been a sad period for cricket but nevertheless there is some more betting-related news that is bound to cheer us up! Paul Weller has become the clear favourite to take tomorrow's Mercury Prize with his odds being chopped from 20/1 to 10/1 which is, if I calculate correctly, 200 times more likely (via The Guardian).»
Ten years in... "Beats"/Rap/Hip-Hop week - An Introduction
DiS contributor Adam Johns has compiled a special week dedicated to "Beats", we'll let him explain what it's all about...»
Listen: Download Röyksopp - 'Malangen Fra Bruhodet'
"New" track from the Norwegian duo.»
Deerhunter unveil 'Helicopter' video, plot UK tour for 2011
On Friday Deerhunter uploaded the video for 'Helicopter', a cut taken from their forthcoming LP Halcyon Digest. As has been the way with the material from this record, they uploaded it to the official site. The video has now been uploaded to 4AD's official YouTube, so we thought we'd embed it here for you»
Watch: The Bees - 'I Really Need Love'
The Bees return with their fourth full-length album on October 11 - that's called Every Step's A Yes and will come out through Fiction Records. It'll also be preceded by a single a week before (that's October 4 for those of you unable to deduct seven from 11). The video for it is now up and you can watch it here.»
Watch: Chilly Gonzales covers Daft Punk
As you hopefully know, 2010 marks the tenth anniversary of Drowned in Sound and to celebrate we're running various themed weeks and bits of content. We've asked some of our favourite acts over the past decade what they've enjoyed the most and among the first to feature is piano maestro Chilly Gonzales, telling us what's he liked. »
September 2nd, 2010
Villagers release new video, extend UK tour
Conor O'Brien fronted Villagers have a double dose of good news for you. The first is that there's a video for the next single (out October 4), which is 'That Day' and the second is that, following on from the previously-announced October dates, a news set for late November and December have just been confirmed. »
Lemon Jelly's Nick Franglen makes music from commuters, listen live
Lemon Jelly's Nick Franglen is getting all experimental today, making music from the passing commuters and and a theremin. »
New Squarepusher LP gets October release
New stuff. »
Listen: Download Twin Sister - 'Ginger'
Twin Sister release their debut EP, Vampires With Dreaming Kids on September 6 in the UK through Double 6 Records. It comes along with its follow-up EP on the same date, entitled Color Your Life, on double CD and 2 x vinyl gatefold. Both are really worth a listen.»
Abe Vigoda add new November dates to UK tour
New dates. In "the regions". Hurrah!»
Listen: Download Calories - 'Incredible Visions (Never Amount)'
A new, great, track from Calories. »
Watch: Guns N Roses get bottled off stage in Dublin
Sort of funny, sort of not.»
Watch: Everything Everything album track-by-track video
Manchester-based (but they're from all over the place, really) trio Everything Everything have been on our very metaphorical office stereo quite a lot over the past few months. I'm certain that most of those plays are from Wendy Roby, but it's not like sh»
September 1st, 2010
Listen: Hear four remixes of Broken Social Scene's 'All To All'
Some time earlier in the year - I forget exactly when - Broken Social Scene released Forgiveness Rock Record. It had an interesting cover. The songs contained within were and still are perhaps even more interesting, especially 'All To All'. That's been re»
Watch: The Morning Benders - 'All Day Day Light'
New video from the great band with a silly name.»
Watch: Tweak Bird - 'Lights In Lines'
The duo who go by the name of Tweak Bird release their debut album next week. We reviewed it already and guess what? Yeah, we quite liked it, but that's no surprise as we kind of got the feeling that we would from quite early on. You can read the review here, by thr way. »
August 31st, 2010
Watch: Wildbirds & Peacedrums cover Björk
We like Björk here. We also like Swedish duo Wildbirds & Peacedrums, so...well, you can understand what's happening here from the headline. As part of the 2010 Polar Music Prize the Swedish duo covered the Icelandic pop princess - 'Human Behaviour' t»
Band Of Horses line up early 2011 UK dates
American rock band Band of Horses will be playing a few dates in the UK early next year, something commonly known as a tour. It'll kick off in Newcastle before heading to...oh hell, just have a look below, you'll soon get the relevant info. »
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