The biggest videogame release of 2012’s first six months is, surely, Max Payne 3.Developer Rockstar Games (Red Dead Redemption, Grand Theft Auto, etc) is rarely an outfit to do things by halves – and ...

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 ...

Amidst the many panels and workshops at Bratislava’s Sharpe Festival, one stood out.Titled “Good-hearted Promotion or Downright Spam”, it looked at the role of PR in the digital age and how artists – ...

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 ...

The following year, 1989, as the genre began in earnest, an underground Shibuya-kei arms race began. Starting with the release of Pizzicato’s best album to date, On Her Majesty’s Request, which melded ...

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 ...

Two decades on, through the mists of time, nostalgia and a changing record industry which seems to fold upon itself at every conceivable opportunity, it is difficult to fully quantify the cultural ...

It's album of the year time. Drowned in Sound’s Albums of 2016. 1) DAVID BOWIE - ★ 2) NICK CAVE & THE BAD SEEDS - Skeleton Tree 3) THE 1975 - I Like It When You Sleep, For You Are So Beautiful Yet So ...

From one bunch of music lovers to another: Help us resuscitate our site and rebuild our infamous forums. Due to old code and a lack of investment over the years, it currently costs us over £700 per ...