Dear Music Lover, We're Not "Here"
Hello. Hi. Sorry. Erm... we have a new website!
Hello you,
It’s Sean here, founder of that music website that since 2000 has banged on about Bloc Party, Björk, Foals, St Vincent, Four Tet, Janelle Monáe, Deftones, FKA Twigs, M83, EMA, Frightened Rabbit, Sharon Van Etten, The Cure, Angel Olsen, Run the Jewels, Fiona Apple, Nils Frahm, Princess Nokia, El Perro Del Mar, Paramore, Little Simz, PJ Harvey, Metric, Nicolas Jaar, and [insert the name of your favourite act you discovered because of DiS here]
Is this the first time you’ve heard from Drowned in Sound for a while? If so, I wanted to let you know that last year, we moved this newsletter from Substack over to our new home at drownedinsound.org. It was for reasons we won’t delve into now *cough*.
A few of you mentioned that you have not been getting our newsletter…
That means you’ve not been getting our recent musings including
or heard a special DiSpatch from Glastonbury
or read a special report from an inspiring installation Bicep are involved in…
Sound like your kinda thing? To continue getting our music recommendations & other reportage:
Check your filtered inboxes (another reason AI is ruining everything…), add us to your address book, and mark us as not junk, obvs
Pop your email in again if you want to keep getting our updates.
We also just moved our podcast away from Spotify for Creators, and will be explaining more about that soon, so please triple check your subscription is still working or sign up by heading over here: drownedinsound.podbean.com
Either way…
I wanted to reach out (and touch faith…) because we’re gearing up to celebrate 25 years of Drowned in Sound this autumn and we hope you’ll follow along for
some nostalgia
lots of future-gazing
a pile of conversation provoking pieces / podcasts
some exclusive interviews
a few “definitive” lists
…and of course all the usual album recommendations, playlists, and news round-ups.
One thing you’ll notice, is that we will increasingly be campaigning for a better music industry. Sometimes this will involve detangling its complexity for our readers and listeners.
Other times we’ll be speaking to people actively exposing its ethical deficiencies.
We’ll always be advocating for fans or showing solidarity with artists who use their platform for change (see: Billie Eilish at the O2 on our Insta). We’ll amplify campaigns, platform activists, and constantly consider how we - you, me, and everyone reading - can best have an impact. Whether it’s corporate rip-offs or grassroots music being in crisis or wider ways music impacts every surface of our lives. Collectively, “we” have a lot of power.
This mission driven approach is at the core of our podcast which is now 40 episodes deep. In recent months, we’ve spoken to some amazing changemakers, including a YouTuber with over 100,000,000 views (you can see clips from that on our new YouTube channel too) and one of our absolute favourite bands Stealing Sheep on how they’re approaching running their do-it-together independent label.
Bye for now (or forever…) (if you’re unsubscribing, you probably didn’t read this far…?)
Sean
p.s. Have a look at our fancy brand new website drownedinsound.org, and let me know if you spot any issues.