When trust fund kids get bots to listen to boost their streaming and they’re so into it they end up buying tickets *camera pans*

Apologies for the radio silence since the budget last week. We have been working flat out with the UK’s grassroots music venues to see what mitigations, help and support might be available to prevent over 350 (43%) of them closing next year 🧵 👇

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On the gloomiest of days, lean into it. Grab your headphones, look up the nearest ancient wood, and go wander alone to The Cure Then support some humanitarian and climate orgs that ROBERT SMITH recommends like Earth/Percent MSF UK UNHCR United Kingdom Amnesty UK

Suggested Sunday itinerary 🌳 Look up your local ancient wood 💻 Log off 🎧 Grab your headphones 🚶‍♂️ Listen to the incredible new album by The Cure 🪙 Support some of the orgs ROBERT SMITH endorses drownedinsound.org/the-cure-go-in…

This also works on a Monday

Very few musicians over there. Is that about to change? 👀

We’re not leaving this place whilst orgs like HOPE not hate continue to highlight issues like this But do have a 15 minute exposure limit a day (I am also over on the place where the sky is blue)

THREAD | Free Speech, Culture Wars and Dodgy Journalism 🔴 "WHERE IS YOUR SON?", barked a lady as she banged on my parents' door yesterday in London. She identified herself as a journalist, and was told I wasn't at home. Still, she hung around. Why...? 🤔 It's complicated.

🎵 Sun is shinin' in the sky There ain't a cloud in sight It's stopped rainin', everybody's in the play And don't you know It's a beautiful new day? Hey! 🎵

To mark 24 years of Drowned in Sound we asked you for some questions And boy did you deliver Part 1 of our Q&A podcast just dropped - did your question get answered?

What an amazing year for music. Here are Drowned in Sound's 10 albums of the year. drownedinsound.org/2024s-albums-o…

Have you heard all 10? drownedinsound.org/2024s-albums-o…

Do you love music? Do you want a say in its future? Make sure your voice is heard and inform decision making in Government, the music industry, and city regions around the UK 👇 musicfansvoice.uk

I know most of my followers have left this toxic timeline but I thought I’d try posting this piece Not even reached 600 of my followers in 12 hours Pointless

A decade ago, 2025 seemed like the unfathomably distant future. Now, 2015 feels like yesterday. Will these Brit Awards predictions from a decade ago come true tomorrow evening? Am I the Nostradamus of mid-2010s music blogging? Clearly! drownedinsound.com/in_depth/41487… Drowned in Sound ⚓️

Corporate music industry, UK government, wealth extracting tech broligarchs, private equity vulture capitalists, and monopolistic concert promoters, are you listening? can you hear us?

Brilliant book. Dip back in on the regular. About time I gave it a full re-read. Interviewed JD for Drowned in Sound ⚓️ when the audiobook came out. That Q&A is also worth a re-read, IMO. #JRMvsJD drownedinsound.com/in_depth/41500…

Music contributed £7.6 billion to the UK economy last year That a huge chunk of the £124 billion the creative industries contributed Here’s Mary Spender speaking to me about why we need to invest in grassroots music

#HayleyWillliams new “album” is exquisite Loving the paramore community swarming every detail, looking for lore & meaning at every turn Ok, it’s not an “album”. It’s 17 singles. Independently released by Secretly Distribution And it got 10/10 from me here drownedinsound.org/decoding-hayle…