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 ...

10 alternative must dos at the Glastonbury Festival Step back in time at The Rocket Lounge When the headline acts finish at Glastonbury, the party is only just beginning. For many people, the late ...

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 ...

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 ...

Arguably the first Post-Hardcore band of any import in Japan, bloodthirsty butchers had technically been around since the late 80’s, serving up a brittle and toothy brand of Fugazi worship. The band ...

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 ...

Fresh, glaring sunlight pours through the open door at Collins’ cottage in the banks of Lewes Castle in Sussex. It’s the first properly hot day of the year – unseasonably hot - and I’m sat at her ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...