Men Women & Children were formed over two years ago when former Glassjaw guitarist Todd Weinstock, his bedroom DJ friend Nick Conceller and drummer David Sullivan Kaplan started work on a musically ...

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 ...

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 ...

"I mean, I suppose people are expecting me to say, Nick Cave’s a…" Mick Harvey, sipping sparkling mineral water in one of the Cumberland Hotel’s many lounges, mumbles a word that sounds an awful lot ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Lounge. Twee Pop. Tropicalia. Easy Listening. Jazz. Funk. Giallo. City Pop. Indie Pop. Baggy-Madchester. Ye-ye. 60’s Soul. Video Game Music. Downtempo. House. Nu ...

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 ...

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 ...

A nation frozen, stuck in the bitter season of ice. Desolate, withered and toiling under a deceitful administration, which teeters precariously towards chaos. One that belittles the constitution, ...

Drowned in Sound is counting down our favourite albums of 2025. Every year is a great year to be a music obsessive. 2025 was a year that felt like music was both a catalyst for change and the much ...