Gertrude's Storm have a lot of excellent elements, but never quite string them together into something flawlessly cool. However, this still makes them a damn sight more intriguing than most ...

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The Grim Northern Social are a 5-piece band performing all self-written material. During the past year they have attracted considerable notice - They were nominated 'Best Unsigned Band' at 'In The ...

This month, armchair dancefloor's review of the best electronic music sees us falling for the many faces of Actress, bowing before the authoritative Berlin techno of Marcel Dettmann, losing ourselves ...

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 ...

1996 – 1999 With hindsight, the early records made under the name Songs: Ohia were Jason Molina’s attempts to find a voice, literally and figuratively. The debut, Songs: Ohia (1996), introduced a ...

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 ...

Rock musicians talk about second albums being like painful births, but rarely is it said of album number six. For Josh Homme, formidable leader of ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...