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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 ...

Last month, Drowned In Sound were invited to the premiere of 'Beautiful Noise', the first ever documentary to tell the story of the musical phenomenon that came to be known as shoegaze. Lasting ninety ...

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 ...

Ahead of her performance as Fever Ray at the Loop festival in a few weeks time, DiS' Alexander Tudor got on the phone with Karin Dreijer Anderssen about various things including the commercialization ...

Britpop has been a dirty word since the turn of the century and rightly so. After all, for every Pulp or Blur came a Cast or Heavy Stereo and a generation of lumpen lad rock was born. However, not ...

Earlier this month, DiS spent half an hour in the company of a true folk legend. Having first started out with Fairport Convention in 1967, Richard Thompson has since gone on to become a distinguished ...

In part two of our epic interview with the Manic Street Preachers' Nicky Wire, he talks about Richey, recording with Albini, and the writing process behind Journal for Plague Lovers. BEHIND THE SCENES ...

With a rare public appearance of the elusive, ethereal singer of the Cocteau Twins, Elizabeth Fraser, interviewed by the artful singer-songwriter John Grant, this event brings together two very ...

Rock musicians talk about second albums being like painful births, but rarely is it said of album number six. If you’ve survived that long, you’ve hit your stride: you know precisely how many slices ...

It all began with a tweet. I had just started to write about music and I decided to tweet a young writer, a certain @danlucas86, because I’d read his reviews on Louder than War and Drowned in Sound ...