"Hello?", Giant Drag’s Annie Hardy answers sleepily as she gathers her senses for our Skype interview at midday in LA. Like the namesake of her recently released second album, sometimes, waking up is ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Teenage Fanclub are something of an institution in indie rock circles. Formed in the Glasgow suburb of Bellshill some twenty-nine years ago, the core of the band - Norman Blake (vocals, guitar), ...

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 ...

Over the last fifteen years, the relationship between artist and audience has changed immeasurably. Direct engagement with fans, particularly for artists without major label backing, can help forge a ...

According to the press release, Band of Skulls see this album as the start of 'a new era' for them. They still sound very much like themselves though, with the addition of a few synths and with ...

In London for an almost literal ‘flying visit’, a two-day press junket to promote the upcoming release of new album Stranger to Stranger (his first since 2011’s So Beautiful or So What), it takes a ...

Anyone for another end of year list? We have shared our songs of the year, UK & Irish albums of the year and Dom's gigs of the year. Now it is time for our annual albums list. In a year where music ...

Normally reissues of classic albums come about because of anniversaries, or nostalgia. McAlmont & Butler’s happened because guitarist and producer Bernard Butler discovered you could buy the original ...