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Spotifriday #25: This Week on DiS as a Playlist

Welcome to the weekend, it has landed or somesuch e-talking nonsense. This playlist was made with a hangover and it probably shows. As per every Friday, this is a playlist which reflects the content on DiS and on our boards this week. To listen to it ...

From SEAN ADAMS, Drowned in Sound,  20 Nov 2009
Related Topics: Daft Punk

Neon Indian - Psychic Chasms

Growing up in the Eighties there was so much hope. But it was hope for a future that promised much more than it delivered. If films and TV had lived up to their promises, we should all by now have virtual reality machines, be able to teleport, or, at ...

From SEAN ADAMS, Drowned in Sound,  18 Nov 2009
Related Topics: Daft Punk,  Led Zeppelin (musician)

Paramore reveal 'Brick by Boring Brick' video

DiS Editor's alt-pop band of the year and Emo phenomena Paramore have a new video and we have the first sneak peak of it. A few hours ago Hayley Williams tweeted about the video, telling fans that it was nearly ready. And to tease you all that little ...

From SEAN ADAMS, Drowned in Sound,  16 Nov 2009
Related Topics: Hayley Williams,  Paramore (musician)

Spotifriday #24: This Week on DiS as a Playlist

To prove that DiS has nothing against 'the people' and to kinda admit we were surprised to find this Ian-Brown-gone-hazy track taken from their latest elpee Jewellery Quarter, clearly about the hipster nYc district but it isn't much of an ode to ...

From SEAN ADAMS, Drowned in Sound,  13 Nov 2009

My Generation: The bigger picture

At this time of year, as someone who runs a music website that finds itself at the cutting edge of things, I’m asked “Who’s the next big thing?” by the folks at the Brit Awards’ critics’ choice and BBC’s Sound Of... poll. And it’s the word “big” that ...

From SEAN ADAMS, Times Online,  7 Nov 2009
Related Topics: BBC,  Adele (musician),  Kate Bush,  Dido (musician),  Tesco P.L.C.

Spotifriday #22 - This Week on DiS as a Spotify Playlist

As you've hopefully come to expect, DiS ends each week with a little audio interpretation of what was on the site this week. Some say it's a little like a website cover mount, whilst others have been heard asking whether we have shares in Spotify or ...

From SEAN ADAMS, Drowned in Sound,  30 Oct 2009
Related Topics: Radiohead (musician),  Sufjan Stevens,  Peter Gabriel,  Magnetic Fields (musician),  Arcade Fire (musician)

Spotifriday: DiS does Hallowe'en - 50 Song Spotify Playlist

DiS has hand-picked almost four hours of music to soundtrack your All Hallow's eve and somehow managed to avoid anything as, ahem, obvious as including The Horrors. On this playlist we've mixed theme tunes from TV shows and songs from horror movie ...

From SEAN ADAMS, Drowned in Sound,  30 Oct 2009
Related Topics: Edgar Allan Poe,  Elliott Smith

My Generation: Money troubles

I have been preparing to speak at the In the City music industry conference in Manchester. Founded by the late Anthony H Wilson of Factory — the record label that brought the world Joy Division, New Order and Happy Mondays, among others — this ...

From SEAN ADAMS, Times Online,  17 Oct 2009
Related Topics: Radiohead (musician),  Imogen Heap,  WIRED Magazine,  AC/DC,  Kurt Cobain

Welcome to the Shareodome: Public Enemy to use Sell A Band to fund new album

Hip Hop pioneers Public Enemy are striking back at people who say the internet is killing the music record business and asking fans to invest in their new record. As the first major act to use the fan-led investment site SellaBand, PE are hoping to ...

From SEAN ADAMS, Drowned in Sound,  6 Oct 2009
Related Topics: Patrick Wolf,  Chuck D

Watch: Uffie 'Pop The Glock' + Sex Dreams and Denim Jeans album news

Forgot about Uff'? Finally ready to Uff? A new video, er, about 3 years after EVERYONE was talking about her signals the feared awaited debut album from the one-time Queen of MySpace. Yesterday, the blogfluential Parisian label Ed Banger Records ...

From SEAN ADAMS, Drowned in Sound,  4 Oct 2009

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