The band's first single for EMI, 'Johnny Two Bands', is a simple pop-by-numbers affair that capitalises on good, honest showmanship and handclap-laden fun... » ...

If I told you that The Far Cries were a boy/girl duo with a penchant for drum machines and angular sexed-up feedback ridden riffery, would you dismiss them as mere Kills wannabes?» ...

ECFOP feature the poetic skills of Compere, poet, MC, promoter, loud-mouth. Sometime Stylish Riot MC, Viz the Spoon, claim The Ramones and The Clash as inspirations and are described "as gutsy, angry, ...

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 ...

'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 ...

The Twilight Sad's James Graham give us an exclusive photographic tour of where the band grew up... I'm going to start this photo feature by saying I love where I grew up. It might not be California ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...