Drowned in Sound
By Drowned in Sound
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Episodes: 80
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Music is upstream from politics. Drowned in Sound investigates how the music industry shapes society and how fans, artists, and workers can organise for systemic change. Hosted by Sean Adams, we decode streaming economics, sustainable touring, climate and tech, workers’ rights, and collective solutions with musicians, researchers, and changemakers.
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The UK government promised to end ticket touting. So why hasn't it?
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Apr 28, 2026 |
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Movements & Music - Introducing Sounds Like Change
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Apr 22, 2026 |
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Nobody Consented to This: How AI Is Using Artists' Music, Voices and Likenesses Without Permission
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Mar 24, 2026 |
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Can £125,000 Make a Difference to the Crisis in Live Music?
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Mar 17, 2026 |
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Why Does Electronic Music Sound Like Shoegaze? Art School Girlfriend on Lean In, positive nihilism, and making music for fun
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Mar 10, 2026 |
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What If You Could Taste Music? kwes. on his "dreamy" new LP on Warp
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Mar 03, 2026 |
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The Grassroots Pledge: Wrestling Instagram, Spotify, and the Arts Council with promoter David Littlefair
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Feb 24, 2026 |
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When Boycotts Work: Arms, Hope and Soundtracking Brexit with Gazelle Twin
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Feb 19, 2026 |
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GIRLI on Fighting Back: Activism, Safeguarding & Turning Rage Into a Rallying Cry
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Feb 10, 2026 |
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Why Hope Over Fear Trumps No Music On A Dead Planet: DiS meets PVA’s Ella Harris
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Feb 03, 2026 |
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Over A Million Free Tickets: Discover The Ticket Bank's Mission
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Jan 27, 2026 |
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From 500 Podcasts to Radio 1: DiS meets 101 Part Time Jobs (Part 2)
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Jan 20, 2026 |
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Why Some Festival Headliners Still Need Part-Time Jobs (Part 1)
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Jan 20, 2026 |
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Kelly Lee Owens: Record Shops, Raves, and Rebuilding Music From the Ground Up
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Jan 13, 2026 |
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Our 2026 predictions: New Acts, Big comebacks, Gig ticket laws, and more
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Jan 06, 2026 |
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Flying Rivers, Slipknot Swifts & Musical Frogs: Take This Podcast For A Walk In Nature
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Jan 01, 2026 |
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Can music still cut through in 2026? DiS meets a leading researcher
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Dec 27, 2025 |
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Spotify Boycotts, Solidarity, and Jet2 Rage: Our Top 3 Moments of 2025
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Dec 20, 2025 |
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The Stories of 2025 - Part 1: Megagigs, Grassroots, and AI slop
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Dec 15, 2025 |
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Albums of the Year: Emma Wilkes & Sean Adams Pick Their Standouts
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Dec 08, 2025 |
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How Music Fans Can Save The Planet - Tori Tsui on Billie Eilish, Brian Eno & Fossil Fuel Treaty
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Nov 27, 2025 |
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UK Caps Ticket Resale at Face Value: What Took So Long?
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Nov 19, 2025 |
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What crisis?! UK Music’s CEO on our £8 billion industry
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Nov 12, 2025 |
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Was Indie Sleaze Even Real? Maxïmo Park’s ‘A Certain Trigger’ at 20
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Nov 05, 2025 |
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Putting the Fans First
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Nov 04, 2025 |
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How to Empower Music’s Next Generation - DiSpatch from the Youth Music Awards
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Oct 24, 2025 |
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Music Industry Misconduct: Why The System Still Protects Abusers
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Oct 16, 2025 |
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An ethical guide to quitting Spotify
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Oct 09, 2025 |
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Drowned in Sound is 25 today: Big lessons from the past and a new era unfurls
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Oct 02, 2025 |
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Is music finally ready to confront misogyny? DiS meets CheerUpLuv
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Sep 25, 2025 |
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Is national identity in music a good thing? In conversation with Idlewild
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Sep 18, 2025 |
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Why it's time to quit Spotify
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Sep 11, 2025 |
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Protect grassroots music, save so much more. A chat with Enter Shikari’s Rou Reynolds
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Sep 02, 2025 |
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DiSpatch: Raging at Reading Festival - Backstage with Enter Shikari, Sofia Isella, Cliffords, and more
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Aug 26, 2025 |
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Meet The Music Researcher Making Sense of the Techpocalypse
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Aug 19, 2025 |
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How Lore, DIY Music Scenes & The Cure Inspired This Viral Tiktokker (And What Musicians Can Learn)
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Aug 12, 2025 |
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What Great Music Journalists Hear That Algorithms Miss: DiS meets Ilana Kaplan
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Aug 05, 2025 |
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How to Use Social Media When You Hate It & Why Streaming Math Ain't Mathin' - Q&A Special
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Jul 29, 2025 |
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How to Start a DIY Music Business Before You Feel Ready - Girls Twiddling Knobs on Mission Driven Music Careers
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Jul 22, 2025 |
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Mary Spender - Why Now Is Actually The Greatest Time for Independent Musicians
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Jul 13, 2025 |
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DiSpatch: What a Glastonbury First-Timer Found - Hope, Love, Unity, Resistance & Joy
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Jul 05, 2025 |
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How Can Artists Build A Community? The Five Super Fans Theory
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Jun 29, 2025 |
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How Music Supports Mental Health with Ariana Alexander-Sefre (SPOKE)
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Jun 22, 2025 |
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Can You Hear Earth Singing? Meet Musicians Using Sound to Protect the Planet
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Apr 12, 2025 |
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Synths, Sound & Music’s Future with Martyn Ware (The Human League / Heaven 17 / BEF / Electronically Yours podcast)
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Apr 12, 2025 |
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Offline Joy: The Do-It-Together Spirit Fueling Stealing Sheep’s New Era
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Mar 30, 2025 |
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A Goth Walked Into Nature To Make a Radio Show. A Zine Walked Out.
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Mar 23, 2025 |
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Are Cover Bands Killing Music Scenes? (Q&A Episode)
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Mar 20, 2025 |
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The Report That Shook the Music Industry & Exposed Inequality
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Mar 16, 2025 |
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How Do We Save Our Music Scenes? Meet Sound Diplomacy’s Shain Shapiro
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Mar 02, 2025 |
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Festivals For Future: Frances Fox on Music’s Role in Climate Justice
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Feb 23, 2025 |
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How We Open Music’s Doors to Everyone (Not Just the Rich)
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Feb 16, 2025 |
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Will music survive the next 25 years? - Season 3 Prologue
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Feb 16, 2025 |
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How does music get discovered? Favourite venues? Brexit? - Q&A Special: Part 2
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Dec 14, 2024 |
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Why weren’t [insert band] massive? Music’s true value? Gaffes? - Q&A Special: Part 1
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Dec 12, 2024 |
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What is the function of record reviews in 2024?
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Feb 27, 2024 |
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The joys of magazine-making with PROG Editor Jerry Ewing
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Feb 04, 2024 |
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What’s it like to broadcast from a war zone?
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Feb 04, 2024 |
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Should music critics ’pivot to video’?
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Feb 04, 2024 |
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Why Music Journalism Matters
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Feb 04, 2024 |
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Is ’Traditional Media’ Still Relevant for New Artists?
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Nov 23, 2023 |
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If $600 billion a year is being spent, why are so many publications closing?
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Nov 14, 2023 |
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Has music become a sub-genre of internet culture?
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Nov 07, 2023 |
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Shouldn’t all music journalism be intersectional?
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Nov 05, 2023 |
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Lessons from two decades of crafting DIY Magazine
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Oct 31, 2023 |
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Why music needs to talk about the climate crisis
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Oct 28, 2023 |
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How will the music coverage of the future be funded?
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Oct 28, 2023 |
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Is music journalism’s future in campaigning?
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Oct 23, 2023 |
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Introduction to S2: The Editor’s Letter / Voice Note
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Oct 22, 2023 |
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DiS008: Live Music And Mental Health
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Apr 20, 2023 |
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DiS007: AI, AI, AI! UK Government’s War on Copyrighted Music?! Beatles AI song! - Dr Hayleigh Bosher explains it all
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Mar 21, 2023 |
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DiS006: Women’s Equality in Music & Glastonbury’s pipeline with Vick Bain from The F List / ISM
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Mar 08, 2023 |
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DiS005: How music can embrace the power of AI with ChatGPT expert David Boyle
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Feb 22, 2023 |
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DiS004: Tune in, AI Out - the co-founders of Endel on music’s potential futures
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Feb 21, 2023 |
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DiS003: TikTok, ”Authenticity” and Music with Eleanor from Crystal Fighters
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Feb 16, 2023 |
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DiS002: Discover... The Faux Faux (Faith Vern from PINS)
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Feb 09, 2023 |
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DiS001: The trade unionist campaigning for fairer streaming - Naomi Pohl from Musicians’ Union
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Feb 02, 2023 |
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DiS000: Prologue
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Jan 17, 2023 |
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From the Archive: Mercury Prize judges help us ponder: What makes a truly great album?
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Nov 11, 2015 |
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From the Archive: Blogs that became labels with Toby L from Rockfeedback / Transgressive (2015)
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Oct 09, 2015 |