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 ...

As a founder member of Primal Scream some thirty years ago and former player with both The Jesus & Mary Chain and The Wake, Bobby Gillespie's status as a musical and cultural icon is assured. Having ...

For years I wanted the complete Pere Ubu back catalogue. I’d tease myself as a teenager walking into record shops and pick up one of the million albums that made up their back catalogue, or so it ...

Last week, Sir Paul McCartney sat down with musician Paul Draper (of DiS heroes Mansun), to discuss songwriting and the re-issue of RAM. When we were initially asked if Drowned in Sound would like to ...

As founder member of Californian psych rockers The Brian Jonestown Massacre, Anton Newcombe has become an iconic figure in his own right. Having initially formed the band in 1990, The Brian Jonestown ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...