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 ...

For once, Tom Barman is apprehensive. Not about tonight’s dEUS show, but the two-hour DJ set he’s been booked to play at the official after party. “What has happened in the past is this ...

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 ...

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 ...

This year, Kula Shaker release K 2.0 – a companion to their seminal debut, K, released in September 1996. At the time of this interview, I'm huddled in a quiet corner of a restaurant in New Delhi and ...

You could argue that The KLF’s attempt to subvert the music industry failed due to the very fact that they succeeded. Much like Nevermind, critical acclaim was an afterthought for British anarchists ...

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 ...