Kenny Anderson (aka King Creosote) & Jon Hopkins talk us through their album, Diamond Mine. Described by King Creosote as a "soundtrack to a romanticised version of a life lived in a Scottish coastal ...

What's New? We're calling a the new era of Drowned in Sound an "audio publication" because it's a magazine-style podcast, with a singles club on our independent label, which acts a bit like a magazine ...

Further Reading: Cat Power – Moon Pix Unlike many of her slowcore contemporaries, Cat Power (aka Charlyn Marie Marshall) did not write songs in service of her sonic world; her voice and her lyrics ...

That same year Kenji Ozawa of Flipper’s Guitar would release his popular and critically adored second album Life which blended Shibuya-kei and ska music, while his fellow bandmate Keigo would release ...

Like so many aspects of popular culture, radio has been labelled as ‘dead’ by many commentators, usually old hacks struggling with the changing dynamics between audience and media, trying to denounce ...

Teenage Fanclub emerged from the scene that's since gone on to be known as C86; you'd all played in various bands before such as The Boy Hairdressers, The Soup Dragons, and BMX Bandits. Do you feel ...

Urban Hymns, The Verve 's legendary breakthrough album, turns 20 next month. Released on 29 September 1997, Urban Hymns was the band's third long player, and was recorded amidst band tensions between ...

It's album of the year timeLet Them Eat Chaos In the conclusion to his review of this critically-celebrated opus, Nick Roseblade said: “ Let Them Eat Chaos yet again showcases not only Tempest’s ...

There was a point, at the turn of the decade, where Fucked Up threatened to crash through the self-created glass ceiling they had set for themselves by adopting that name. At the time of their ...

From one bunch of music lovers to another: Help us resuscitate our site and rebuild our infamous forums. Due to old code and a lack of investment over the years, it currently costs us over £700 per ...

Not everything on By Default is misogynistic, mind, it’s just that when the lyrics aren’t threatening or creepy, they make fuck all sense. It shouldn’t come as a huge surprise, I suppose that a band ...

In London for an almost literal ‘flying visit’, a two-day press junket to promote the upcoming release of new album Stranger to Stranger (his first since 2011’s So Beautiful or So What), it takes a ...