Drowned in Sound

Welcome to the weekend, it has landed or somesuch e-talking nonsense. This playlist was made with a hangover and it probably shows.

Possible contenders for BAND OF THE DECADE, Daft Punk, have had their tour dates for next year LEAKED, by someone close to the band, apparently, and we bring this news to you in the form of a list of those very tour dates. Thanks to Undercover.com.au for this very interesting and useful news.

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Silence can be so loud. The gentle hush adopted by the 500 lucky attendees of tonight’s first Little Noise Session of 2009 render parts of the bands' performances almost painful to endure. Not until you have sat in a silent church as a room full of peop

If this is the best Kitsuné have then they may well need to go back to the drawing board and start over. If it isn’t then why didn’t we get to hear it instead of being left with this rag-tag bunch of club kid hangers on?

up with Digital Leather’s mindset, rather than the other way round. You’ll have to dig that archaic keyboard sound to some extent, or you won’t be feeling Warm Brother.

If ever there’s a title that sums up a band’s ambitions and career trajectory, then Keep Calm And Carry On would be it.

Danish exports Efterlang have announced tantalising details of their debut record for their new label 4AD, as well as releasing a free MP3 of a track from it, all quite exciting news.

We're planning a special week and I don't think one of these threads has been started yet (I might be wrong) but here's my initial excitement list - The National (hopefully!) - Frightened Rabbit - Br

Around this time last year, Deftones bassist Chi Cheng was badly injured in an horrific car accident, leaving him in a coma, and with life-threatening injuries. Then, in May, he left intensive care, making the first steps to recovery. However, the recovery has not been complete and Chi has remained in a semi-conscious state for much of this time, the process of recovery being slow.

Former Nirvana bassist and general Washingtonian luminary Krist Novoselic has dubbed former bandmate and rock superstar Dave Grohl 'the greatest rock musician in the world today', in his column for Seattle Weekly.

Watch the new Vampire Weekend video, for 'Cousins'.

As London's most influential record store for the past three decades, Rough Trade have been responsible for providing many a fledgling artist a stepping stone from the underground to a far wider audience...

Being something of a placeholder release was always going to be an accusation you could level at the Bunny Club EP: it's a reasonably lightweight package by any standards, but in Scattergood’s defence, it doesn’t really feel as though it’s intended to be much more than that.

One recurring theme with Nordic artists appears to be that their records get released over here on average two years later. This is the case for Icelandic folk-maiden Ólöf Arnalds' debut, Við og við, which was originally set forth unto the world in 20

Exciting times. For Shearwater fans.

Guillemots frontman and all-round nice bloke, Fyfe Dangerfield, has confirmed a number of shows to support his blossoming solo career, for which there will also be a debut album in the year new.

Watch Bob Dylan's 'interesting' video for 'Must Be Santa'.

First Aid Kit will tour quite a bit early next year.

This is the sound of regression, desperately seeking the Ferris Bueller days off, sitting on our Spiderman bedspreads, playing Prince of Persia, Double Dragon and/or Starfox, wearing Karate Kid peejays. This is escapism, going down the Warioland pipe and into a rabbit hole of hazy days which began with bonus levels before breakfast.

Having made something of a habit of talking to Eleanor and Matt Friedburger in his tenure at the late lamented Plan B magazine, kicking k returns into action for DiS with something like his two billionth interview with The Fiery Furnaces. Matt has adorned

O how you vex me, Dayve Hawke. You vex me because I know you are just one person, yet two of your three alter egos have names in the plural. When talking about you I know I should be all "Memory Tapes is..." but see, that upsets my pedantic semantic circu