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Shouldn't all music journalism be intersectional?
November 04, 2023

From revolutions in Iran to the pleasures of Lana Del Rey journalist Emma Garland has written for Vice, Huck, The Quietus, The Face, Crack, Dazed, Sunday Times, Rolling Stone and many more great publications. Emma's interviewed everyone from Emily Ra

Lessons from two decades of crafting DIY Magazine
October 31, 2023

What's it really like to edit a music website?DIY Magazine co-founder Emma Swann joins DiS founder Sean Adams on season two of the Drowned in Sound podcast about the future of music journalism. We journey from the early days of the website to its cu

Why music needs to talk about the climate crisis
October 28, 2023

Journalist, podcaster and climate communicator Greg Cochrane shares how interviewing ANOHNI changed his life, what it was like editing NMEs website, the joy of being involved in Loud & Quiet magazine plus a little bit about writing for The Guardian,

From Fugazi and Beastie Boys to The Royal Society: Kickstarter's co-founder on the future of Media (DiS011 | S2 EP3)
October 28, 2023

How will the music media of the future be funded?In this episode Sean Adams is in a conversation with Kickstarter's co-founder, Yancey Strickler delve into the impactful musical legacies of Fugazi's Dischord label and Beastie Boys' Grand Roya

Activism & Music Journalism: The Big Issue's Venue Watch Campaign (DiS2009 | S2 EP1)
October 23, 2023

Is music journalism's future in campaigning?On this episode of the Drowned in Sound podcast (S2 E1 | DiS009), DiS founder Sean Adams (@seaninsound) spoke with Laura Kelly, Culture Editor at The Big Issue, about their Venue Watch campaign, which is sh

Introduction to S2: The Editor's Letter / Voice Note
October 22, 2023

Where is music journalism headed? Sean Adams (@seaninsound) introduces season* two of the Drowned in Sound podcast in the style of an editor's letter meets a meandering, unscripted voice memo. TL;DR? To mark 23 years of Drowned in Sound, I decided to

DiS008: Live Music And Mental Health
April 20, 2023

Everyone from Radiohead to Sugababes to industry insiders are raving about a new book by therapist and live music expert Tamsin Embleton. It's an extraordinary body of work entitled Touring and Mental Health: The Music Industry Manual, which includes

DiS007: AI, AI, AI! UK Government's War on Copyrighted Music?! Beatles AI song! - Dr Hayleigh Bosher explains it all
March 21, 2023

Our series of conversations about Artificial Intelligence and music continues with a look at the ethics and legal implications of these new forms of technology that inhales creativity and spits out creativity using everything that has been fed into it. An

DiS006: Women's Equality in Music & Glastonbury's pipeline with Vick Bain from The F List / ISM
March 08, 2023

In case it wasn't obvious, this a music podcast that hasn't had enough of experts and to mark International Women's Day 2023 we spoke to Vick Bain the founder of The F-List and President of ISM (the independent society of musicians), to her PhD research i

DiS005: How music can embrace the power of AI with ChatGPT expert David Boyle
February 22, 2023

If you start out and it doesn't do something that you're very impressed by, your assumption should be that your prompt wasn't very good, this summarises the advice from music industry veteran David Boyle, who specialises in understanding audiences, and