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 ...

Yes, we‘ve kind of shut up shop. But we have some pre-hiatus commitments to honour, and Drowned in Sound is off to Worthy Farm again this year for arguably the world’s biggest festival. Rather than ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

As 2018 draws to a close, it's time to not only look back at what's been another great year for records in the shoegaze, noise, and dreampop worlds. But also gaze ahead to what 2019 has in store.

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 ...

An oft-repeated exercise for easy clickbait is to debate which year was the best ever for music. "1966!" claim the popsters for whom everything starts and ends with The Beatles. "1971!" retort those ...

It’s been a long four years since El Perro Del Mar’s last record, 2012’s Pale Fire. And her singular blend of hazy-alt-folk pop has been missed. A reminder of her music’s charms came when her ...

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 ...

Dream Theater aren’t scared of taking risks. But it’s a given; the genre the US quintet effectively coined, progressive metal, expects the out of the ordinary. The Grammy-nominated band, who formed in ...

Ed Ledsham explores the history of auto-tune... (Listen to Auto-tune Anthems on Spotify). "Auto-Tune is great for fixing vocals, but we use Auto-Tune in a way it wasn't designed to work. A lot of ...