Sklav is a family man. He likes nothing better than a spot of DiY on the weekend. He likes to drive his Capri and during the week he tries not to crash. His retro mindset keeps him in sideboards and ...

Possibly Manchester's best kept secret for the past couple of years now, Jim Noir has been writing, developing and recording music in his bedroom since the age of nine, and now 14 years later, 'Tower ...

Formed in 2003, Receiving End Of Sirens have released one EP, one album Between the Heart and the Synapse ( 2005 )and toured with bands such as: The Deftones, Thrice, Panic! at the Disco, Acceptance, ...

UK two piece, recently signed to Coercion Records. They play droning 60s tinged psychadelia likened to that of The Velvet Underground, Spacemen 3 and early Brian Jonestown Massacre.

'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 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 ...

From the DiS archive... republished because Jason Molina sadly died at the weekend... There’s only one mystery when it comes to music that speaks to the depths of your soul. It’s not the way that ...

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 ...

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 ...

When piano prodigy and singer-songwriter Tori Amos released Boys for Pele in January of 1996, all people could talk about was that photograph. In one picture from the album artwork, Amos sits inside ...

Lounge. Twee Pop. Tropicalia. Easy Listening. Jazz. Funk. Giallo. City Pop. Indie Pop. Baggy-Madchester. Ye-ye. 60’s Soul. Video Game Music. Downtempo. House. Nu ...

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 ...