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Brief band history: Bedfordshire-based Loose Thread formed in the summer of `97, not reaching a full line up until `99 Loose Thread quickly became one of the best live bands in the area. After many ...

This latest instalment of the Austin Powers series comes across as somewhere between 'The Naked Gun', 'Blazing Saddles' and Benny Hill. There is much cacophonous laughstrionics to be had if you're the ...

Gertrude's Storm have a lot of excellent elements, but never quite string them together into something flawlessly cool. However, this still makes them a damn sight more intriguing than most ...

1996 – 1999 With hindsight, the early records made under the name Songs: Ohia were Jason Molina’s attempts to find a voice, literally and figuratively. The debut, Songs: Ohia (1996), introduced a ...

Further Reading: Bedhead – Transaction de Novo When people call slowcore sleepy or boring, they are referring to the aptly named Bedhead, a band who sound like they just woke up and can’t be bothered ...

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 ...

The first thing that struck me when I moved to Brooklyn in 2002 was how many anglophiles there were everywhere. I’d been to New York a few times prior to actually making the city my home, and on those ...

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 ...

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 ...

Rock musicians talk about second albums being like painful births, but rarely is it said of album number six. For Josh Homme, formidable leader of ...

Forty years ago this week, Neil Young entered a makeshift studio on Santa Monica Boulevard in a state of deep depression and alcoholism and, in that single session, recorded the majority of the ...