The Architect sees Jane Weaver evolving with an aero-lite melodicism, the drum heavy vivacious pop song evokes vivid images of early Modernist art, Archigram blue-prints with a rigid back-bone of ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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, ...

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 ...

'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 ...

Forty years ago this week, Neil Young entered a makeshift studio on Santa Monica Boulevard in a state of deep depression and alcoholism and, in that single session, recorded the majority of the ...

The first thing that struck me when I moved to Brooklyn in 2002 was how many anglophiles there were everywhere. I’d been to New York a few times prior to actually making the city my home, and on those ...

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 ...

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 ...