This summer the much-revered Rival Schools, whose United By Fate LP of 2001 (pictured) remains a favourite amongst DiS readers and staffers alike, are to perform live in the UK and at a number of ...

If I told you that The Far Cries were a boy/girl duo with a penchant for drum machines and angular sexed-up feedback ridden riffery, would you dismiss them as mere Kills wannabes?» ...

marilyn manson continues to upend the mainstream with each new release, and his latest album 'born villain' takes that a bit further release. "the new record put simply has the ambition and ...

As hardcore-fetishism and macho-posturing permeated the mainstream during the infant years of the 1990s, indie-rock loyalists shifted directions. Responding to the shrill noise of populist rock which ...

'Planet Gear' is an irregular feature on DiS, in which we ask musicians to get a bit geeky and talk us through the equipment that makes the 'magic' happen... NY/LA genre-hopping duo Javelin return ...

As a founder member of Primal Scream some thirty years ago and former player with both The Jesus & Mary Chain and The Wake, Bobby Gillespie's status as a musical and cultural icon is assured. Having ...

As founder member of Californian psych rockers The Brian Jonestown Massacre, Anton Newcombe has become an iconic figure in his own right. Having initially formed the band in 1990, The Brian Jonestown ...

Back in 2019, Drowned in Sound hit pause and archived this site. In the meantime, our community has remained active here here. But we've made a return, that's a little different than before. You can ...

When lead singer Lee Newell declared them to be “the future of music” at their first show at the Flowerpot last year, Brother became the whipping boy of the DiS forum and have remained permanently ...

Today’s the day that Scotland decides whether to become an independent country or stay part of the UK. It’s been a momentous campaign that’s seen impassioned arguments from both the Yes and No ...

Last month, Drowned In Sound were invited to the premiere of 'Beautiful Noise', the first ever documentary to tell the story of the musical phenomenon that came to be known as shoegaze. Lasting ninety ...

Gotye talks us through some of the equipment and instruments he used to record the album Making Mirrors.... "I used to love the exhaustive gear lists that artists like Tomita and Vangelis would put on ...