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 ...

This latest instalment of the Austin Powers series comes across as somewhere between 'The Naked Gun', 'Blazing Saddles' and Benny Hill. There is much cacophonous laughstrionics to be had if you're the ...

Shirley Manson and the boys return with an album that's been touted as guitar-rock, but really should be described as an exercise in how to kill interesting music with a mixing desk.» ...

The weekend that was, and what a weekend it was. On Saturday (June 7), DiScover Club with This Town Needs Guns, Jonquil and An Emergency; on Sunday (June 8) at Barden’s Boudoir, Baddies, Rolo Tomassi ...

We're burnt by the industrial kraut stuff swimming around on Portishead's new one (DiS review). We'd lost interest and got sucked back in. Heavy 808 stuff, beautiful; an instant hit in our bus. The ...

How To Be Small are Danya, Jamie, Dan and Steve and are based in the city by the sea, Brighton. The band has been formed by members of Extra Man, Cat On Form and ex-quirk core noizenicks The Oedipus.

Black Rebel Motorcycle Club have probably experienced more ups and downs during their twelve year existence than most bands would get through in a lifetime. Heavily tipped to be one of the biggest ...

You might have noticed that Drowned in Sound has been on a reflective pause since 2019. We've been pondering and perfecting what a fully rejuvenated DiS would look like in the years to come. The good ...

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 ...

Take a look at the charts , listen to the radio or pick up a copy of one of the music weeklies and you can't avoid it. The British music market is overflowing with American acts producing brilliant , ...

If you head over to our new Substack newsletter, you can read much more about these records, see a longer list, and keep in touch with DiS by subscribing - as from January I'm sending out weekly album ...

Charles Griffin Gibson, aka CHUCK, is the type of artist who not many know, but those who do, instantly fall in love with. The New York native, who describes his music as "eclectic weird kid alt. pop" ...