First-person shooters are first-class success stories in contemporary gaming. Of the top-three selling titles of 2011, two were FPS in nature – Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 and Battlefield 3 – and ...

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Five years ago JJ72 had the world at their feet. Along with Muse and Coldplay, they were being tipped as the forerunners of a new legion of anthemic, stadium rock for the new millennium. But then, ...

This month, armchair dancefloor 's review of the best electronic music sees us falling for the many faces of Actress, bowing before the authoritative Berlin techno of Marcel Dettmann, losing ourselves ...

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 ...

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 ...

From the DiS archive... republished because Jason Molina sadly died at the weekend... There’s only one mystery when it comes to music that speaks to the depths of your soul. It’s not the way that ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...