 The Drowned in Sound logo Drowned in Sound or DiS is a UK based music webzine dedicated to new music. It started as The Last Resort but was relauched as Drowned in Sound in 2000. It is run by Sean Adams, designed by Simon Menhinick and programmed by Matthew Willson (with server hosting and support from David Nattriss) with Mike Diver overseeing general content. The site is mostly based on contributions from unpaid writers and has an integrated forum to allow for discussion and comments on interviews, news and reviews. It also includes a user rated database of artists and bands as well as details for most live music venues (big and small) in the UK. Aside from space for comments, there are separate forums for general discussion, music related discussion and advertisements for people requiring bands or musicians. The site has over 40,000 registered members, and gets around 155,000 unique visitors per week. Image File history File links Drowned In Sound Logo from www. ...
A Webzine is an ezine hosted on the World Wide Web rather than in print. ...
2000 (MM) was a leap year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
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The message boards themselves have taken on a life of their own, almost away from the site itself. The cliquey nature of the inhabitants of the site has occasionally been known to scare away new users and readers. Between them, however, a cavalcade of in-jokes and phrases have been created and purported, generally referred to as 'DiSisms'.
On March 19, 2006, The Observer Music Monthly ranked Drowned in Sound 9th on its list of top 25 internet websites. In November 2006 it passed the 150,000 unique readers a week mark and was nominated in the Best Music Website category at the 2007 PLUG Awards and the Best Website category at the 2007 Shockwaves NME Awards. March 19 is the 78th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (79th in leap years). ...
For the Manfred Mann album, see 2006 (album). ...
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The site and a handful of its writers received nominations at the 2006 Record of the Day awards, held in London on November 21, 2006. The site won in the category of Best Podcast and finished runner-up in the category of Best Website to Popjustice.com. A year earlier the site was also runner-up in the category of Best Website, although then to NME.com. Founded in the UK by former music industry insiders and journalists in 1999, Record of the Day has since become the UKs music industrys daily and weekly source of insider news and future hits. ...
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Popjustice is a music website founded in 2000 and is the work of UK freelance music journalist Peter Robinson, who has worked for NME, The Guardian, Attitude and many others. ...
The New Musical Express (better known as the NME) is a music magazine in the UK which has been published weekly since March 1952. ...
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In 2003 Drowned in Sound started a record label which has released recordings by: 2003 (MMIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
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Podcast In 2006 the site launched a podcast called Drowned in Sound Radio. The show provides a mixture of very new music with music that hasn't yet reached the mainstream. For the Manfred Mann album, see 2006 (album). ...
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