Latest Drownedinsound Podcast Episodes
What is the function of record reviews in 2024?
Drowned in Sound - February 27, 2024 14:10 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 1 ratingElijah is a profound thinker and this conversations draws on his influential grime nights with Stormzy & Skepta, writing about music, DJing and to his Yellow Square instagram posts, which are a form of community-building journalism that act as prods and prompts that agitate thoughts into focus. ...
The joys of magazine-making with PROG Editor Jerry Ewing
Drowned in Sound - February 04, 2024 20:54 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 1 ratingHow do you become a magazine editor that can put Kate Bush on the cover? And what’s it like running a genre-specific title in 2023? In a world where the digital age is rapidly redefining media, Sean Adams (@seaninsound) meets a titan of the magazine world, Jerry Ewing, editor of PROG magazine f...
What's it like to broadcast from a war zone?
Drowned in Sound - February 04, 2024 20:25 - 41 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingAward-winning reporter Julia MacFarlane explains what the music press can learn from traditional news journalism. As Drowned in Sound's podcast season looking at the future of music media continues, we wander into the world of international journalism with award-winning reporter Julia MacFarlan...
Should music critics 'pivot to video'?
Drowned in Sound - February 04, 2024 20:14 - 51 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingMeet the YouTube music critic who runs whilst reviewing records. Probably not all of them, but there are some people evolving music criticism onto new mediums. To understand what it's like to be a "creator" on YouTube, we spoke to Jimmy Watkins, who gave up his career as an athlete (he reached ...
Why Music Journalism Matters
Drowned in Sound - February 04, 2024 15:21 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 1 ratingThe Quietus' John Doran reflects on the demise of Pitchfork and whether music journalism is now destined to be a hobby or can writing/thinking/talking about music thrive in a reader-funded era? DiS020 | S2: The Future of the Music Press EP12 In his widely-shared piece for The Guardian, this ep...
Meet the YouTube music critic whose ink literally runs (DiS019 | S2 E11)
Drowned in Sound - January 30, 2024 05:05 - 51 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingShould music journalists pivot to video? Probably not all of them, but there are some people evolving music criticism onto new mediums. To understand what it's like to be a "creator" on YouTube, we spoke to Jimmy Watkins, who gave up his career as an athlete (he reached the 800m final in the Wo...
Journalism Without Borders: Julia MacFarlane On Recording Global History (DiS018 | S2 EP10)
Drowned in Sound - November 30, 2023 06:44 - 41 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingWhat can the music press learn from traditional news journalism in war zones and TV studios? As Drowned in Sound's podcast season looking at the future of media media continues, we wander into the world of international journalism with award-winning reporter Julia MacFarlane. From her in-depth ...
The Music Press Paradox: Is 'Traditional Media' Still Relevant for New Artists? (DiS017 | S2 EP9)
Drowned in Sound - November 23, 2023 16:09 - 58 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingDoes the music industry still need the music press? Do new acts still care about media coverage? Explore the shifting landscape of music promotion in the digital era with Atlanta Cobb, the award-winning Music Business Coach and manager of multi-platinum selling artists. In this episode, Drown...
Is 'Traditional Media' Still Relevant for New Artists?
Drowned in Sound - November 23, 2023 16:09 - 58 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingDoes the music industry still need the music press? Do new acts still care about media coverage? Explore the shifting landscape of music promotion in the digital era with Atlanta Cobb, the award-winning Music Business Coach and manager of multi-platinum selling artists. In this episode, Drown...
If $600 billion a year is being spent, why are so many publications closing?
Drowned in Sound - November 14, 2023 08:02 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 1 ratingIn a digital world awash with advertising money, why are music publications and media outlets facing extinction? As we explore the future of the music press, we take a detour into the world of marketing to help make sense of the economics of the media landscape. Especially as the brilliant Jez...
Doesn't Ads Up: If $600 billion a year is being spent, why are so many publications closing? (DiS016 | S2 EP8)
Drowned in Sound - November 14, 2023 08:02 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 1 ratingIn a digital world awash with advertising money, why are music publications and media outlets facing extinction? As we explore the future of the music press, we take a detour into the world of marketing to help make sense of the economics of the media landscape. Especially as the brilliant Jez...
PROG Editor Jerry Ewing on Magazine-making, Kate Bush, Genre Journalism and more (DiS015 | S2 EP7)
Drowned in Sound - November 09, 2023 06:11 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 1 ratingHow do you become a magazine editor? And what’s it like running a genre-specific title in 2023? In a world where the digital age is rapidly redefining media, Sean Adams (@seaninsound) meets a titan of the magazine world, Jerry Ewing, editor of PROG magazine for a rare interview. From his roots ...
Has music become a sub-genre of internet culture?
Drowned in Sound - November 07, 2023 19:41 - 58 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingNBC News' tech and culture reporter Kat Tenbarge has her finger firmly on the pulse of internet culture and the influencer economy. She honed her expertise at Insider through investigative forays into the complexities of digital fame. Her coverage is much more than product launches and squillion...
Tech-no-logic: NBC's Kat Tenbarge on Culture & Tech Reporting (DiS014 | S2 EP6)
Drowned in Sound - November 07, 2023 19:41 - 58 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingWhat can the music press learn from reporting on technology and content creators? In the ever-evolving landscape of music and technology, where do the twain meet and diverge? Drowned in Sound founder Sean Adams meets NBC News' tech and culture reporter, Kat Tenbarge. With her finger firmly on t...
Big Time Intersectionality: Cultural Revolutions vs Pop In A Time of Populism (DiS013 | S2 EP5)
Drowned in Sound - November 05, 2023 00:16 - 56 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingShouldn't all music journalism be intersectional? In this episode, DiS founder Sean Adams meets journalist, writer, editor, and wonderful human Emma Garland who has written for Vice, Huck, The Quietus, The Face, Crack, Dazed, Sunday Times, Rolling Stone and many more great publications about ev...
Shouldn't all music journalism be intersectional?
Drowned in Sound - November 05, 2023 00:16 - 56 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingFrom 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 Ratajkowski to Lingua Ignota, capturing their ...
Crafting DIY Magazine: Emma Swann on Two Decades of Music Writing, Editing, Printing and Website-ing (DiS012 | S2 EP4)
Drowned in Sound - October 31, 2023 19:16 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 1 ratingWhat'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 current print & online format with a discussi...
Lessons from two decades of crafting DIY Magazine
Drowned in Sound - October 31, 2023 19:16 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 1 ratingWhat'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 current print & online format with a discussi...
Why music needs to talk about the climate crisis
Drowned in Sound - October 28, 2023 15:23 - 57 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingJournalist, podcaster and climate communicator Greg Cochrane shares how interviewing ANOHNI changed his life, what it was like editing NME’s website, the joy of being involved in Loud & Quiet magazine plus a little bit about writing for The Guardian, interviewing Lady Gaga for the BBC, and plent...
Climate Change x Pop Culture: No Music Press On A Dead Planet (DiS010 | S2 EP2)
Drowned in Sound - October 28, 2023 15:23 - 57 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingIs music journalism’s future at the intersection of society’s bigger issues? Journalist, podcaster and climate communicator Greg Cochrane shares how interviewing ANOHNI changed his life, what it was like editing NME’s website, the joy of being involved in Loud & Quiet magazine plus a little bit...
How will the music coverage of the future be funded?
Drowned in Sound - October 28, 2023 14:44 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 1 ratingKickstarter's co-founder Yancey Strickler shares lessons from Fugazi's label and Beastie Boys' Grand Royal magazine and discusses the forward-thinking ethos of The Royal Society, a prestigious fellowship of the world's most eminent scientists. Yancey is a big thinker, a music lover, writer and...
From Fugazi and Beastie Boys to The Royal Society: Kickstarter's co-founder on the future of Media (DiS011 | S2 EP3)
Drowned in Sound - October 28, 2023 14:44 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 1 ratingHow 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 Royal and discuss the forward-thinking ethos of The Roya...
Is music journalism's future in campaigning?
Drowned in Sound - October 23, 2023 19:55 - 49 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingThe Big Issue's Culture Editor Laura Kelly on their campaigning work, like Venue Watch to help save grassroots music venues across the UK. As Laura says, "Across the UK, there was more than two venues closing every single week." Through Venue Watch, The Big Issue is raising awareness of the cha...
Activism & Music Journalism: The Big Issue's Venue Watch Campaign (DiS2009 | S2 EP1)
Drowned in Sound - October 23, 2023 19:55 - 49 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingIs 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 shining a light on grassroots music venues acr...
Introduction to S2: The Editor's Letter / Voice Note
Drowned in Sound - October 22, 2023 23:08 - 12 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingWhere 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 embark on a series of interviews with TikTo...
DiS008: Live Music And Mental Health
Drowned in Sound - April 20, 2023 13:33 - 46 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingEveryone 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 contributions from a series of mental health ...
DiS007: AI, AI, AI! UK Government's War on Copyrighted Music?! Beatles AI song! - Dr Hayleigh Bosher explains it all
Drowned in Sound - March 21, 2023 19:00 - 59 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingOur 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. And not everything has gone in with permiss...
DiS006: Women's Equality in Music & Glastonbury's pipeline with Vick Bain from The F List / ISM
Drowned in Sound - March 08, 2023 20:31 - 51 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingIn 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 into inequality in the music industry. Th...
DiS005: How music can embrace the power of AI with ChatGPT expert David Boyle
Drowned in Sound - February 22, 2023 21:10 - 54 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 rating“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 over the last few months has become an ex...
DiS004: Tune in, AI Out - the co-founders of Endel on music's potential futures
Drowned in Sound - February 21, 2023 14:14 - 49 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingThe robots are coming, and people are fearful and excited about the potential for AI and music to collide. It's hard to escape the discourse surrounding artificial intelligence, with various projects launches or low-level things reaching critical max in 2023. As someone who is pretty cynical an...
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