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Drowned in Sound — 90 episodes
Why Your Favourite Band's Fans Might Not Be Real
Gomez's Tom Gray: How to Fight Spotify in Parliament and Why One Difficult Conversation a Day Is Enough - Part 2
How Gomez's Tom Gray Ended Up Taking On Spotify in Parliament - Part 1
Geoff Barrow (Portishead) Made a Film with a Sleaford Mod and Every Penny Invada Had
Sathnam Sanghera on George Michael: Iraq, Wham!, Empire, Fandom, and The Best Hit Rate in Chart History
Los Campesinos! Part! Two! On Class, Privilege, And The Economics Of Bands vs Solo Artists
You! Me! 10 Million Spotify Streams! How Much?!?!! Why Los Campesinos! Stopped Being Quiet - Part 1
AI & Consent Special with Addison Rae, Dua Lipa and Taylor Swift featuring Dr Hayleigh Bosher
Ticket Touts Rejoice! DiS & Which? React to The King's Speech
Two Music Fans. One Astonishing Fan-Led Review of Live & Electronic Music
The UK government promised to end ticket touting. So why hasn't it?
Movements & Music - Introducing Sounds Like Change
Nobody Consented to This: How AI Is Using Artists' Music, Voices and Likenesses Without Permission
Can £125,000 Make a Difference to the Crisis in Live Music?
Why Does Electronic Music Sound Like Shoegaze? Art School Girlfriend on Lean In, positive nihilism, and making music for fun
What If You Could Taste Music? kwes. on his "dreamy" new LP on Warp
The Grassroots Pledge: Wrestling Instagram, Spotify, and the Arts Council with promoter David Littlefair
When Boycotts Work: Arms, Hope and Soundtracking Brexit with Gazelle Twin
GIRLI on Fighting Back: Activism, Safeguarding & Turning Rage Into a Rallying Cry
Why Hope Over Fear Trumps No Music On A Dead Planet: DiS meets PVA’s Ella Harris
Over A Million Free Tickets: Discover The Ticket Bank's Mission
From 500 Podcasts to Radio 1: DiS meets 101 Part Time Jobs (Part 2)
Why Some Festival Headliners Still Need Part-Time Jobs (Part 1)
Kelly Lee Owens: Record Shops, Raves, and Rebuilding Music From the Ground Up
Our 2026 predictions: New Acts, Big comebacks, Gig ticket laws, and more
Flying Rivers, Slipknot Swifts & Musical Frogs: Take This Podcast For A Walk In Nature
Can music still cut through in 2026? DiS meets a leading researcher
Spotify Boycotts, Solidarity, and Jet2 Rage: Our Top 3 Moments of 2025
The Stories of 2025 - Part 1: Megagigs, Grassroots, and AI slop
Albums of the Year: Emma Wilkes & Sean Adams Pick Their Standouts
How Music Fans Can Save The Planet - Tori Tsui on Billie Eilish, Brian Eno & Fossil Fuel Treaty
UK Caps Ticket Resale at Face Value: What Took So Long?
What crisis?! UK Music’s CEO on our £8 billion industry
Was Indie Sleaze Even Real? Maxïmo Park’s ‘A Certain Trigger’ at 20
Putting the Fans First
How to Empower Music’s Next Generation - DiSpatch from the Youth Music Awards
Music Industry Misconduct: Why The System Still Protects Abusers
An ethical guide to quitting Spotify
Drowned in Sound is 25 today: Big lessons from the past and a new era unfurls
Is music finally ready to confront misogyny? DiS meets CheerUpLuv
Is national identity in music a good thing? In conversation with Idlewild
Why it's time to quit Spotify
Protect grassroots music, save so much more. A chat with Enter Shikari’s Rou Reynolds
DiSpatch: Raging at Reading Festival - Backstage with Enter Shikari, Sofia Isella, Cliffords, and more
Meet The Music Researcher Making Sense of the Techpocalypse
How Lore, DIY Music Scenes & The Cure Inspired This Viral Tiktokker (And What Musicians Can Learn)
What Great Music Journalists Hear That Algorithms Miss: DiS meets Ilana Kaplan
How to Use Social Media When You Hate It & Why Streaming Math Ain't Mathin' - Q&A Special
How to Start a DIY Music Business Before You Feel Ready - Girls Twiddling Knobs on Mission Driven Music Careers
Mary Spender - Why Now Is Actually The Greatest Time for Independent Musicians
DiSpatch: What a Glastonbury First-Timer Found - Hope, Love, Unity, Resistance & Joy
How Can Artists Build A Community? The Five Super Fans Theory
How Music Supports Mental Health with Ariana Alexander-Sefre (SPOKE)
Can You Hear Earth Singing? Meet Musicians Using Sound to Protect the Planet
Synths, Sound & Music’s Future with Martyn Ware (The Human League / Heaven 17 / BEF / Electronically Yours podcast)
Offline Joy: The Do-It-Together Spirit Fueling Stealing Sheep’s New Era
A Goth Walked Into Nature To Make a Radio Show. A Zine Walked Out.
Are Cover Bands Killing Music Scenes? (Q&A Episode)
The Report That Shook the Music Industry & Exposed Inequality
How Do We Save Our Music Scenes? Meet Sound Diplomacy’s Shain Shapiro
Festivals For Future: Frances Fox on Music’s Role in Climate Justice
How We Open Music’s Doors to Everyone (Not Just the Rich)
Will music survive the next 25 years? - Season 3 Prologue
How does music get discovered? Favourite venues? Brexit? - Q&A Special: Part 2
Why weren’t [insert band] massive? Music’s true value? Gaffes? - Q&A Special: Part 1
What is the function of record reviews in 2024?
The joys of magazine-making with PROG Editor Jerry Ewing
What’s it like to broadcast from a war zone?
Should music critics ’pivot to video’?
Why Music Journalism Matters
Is ’Traditional Media’ Still Relevant for New Artists?
If $600 billion a year is being spent, why are so many publications closing?
Has music become a sub-genre of internet culture?
Shouldn’t all music journalism be intersectional?
Lessons from two decades of crafting DIY Magazine
Why music needs to talk about the climate crisis
How will the music coverage of the future be funded?
Is music journalism’s future in campaigning?
Introduction to S2: The Editor’s Letter / Voice Note
DiS008: Live Music And Mental Health
DiS007: AI, AI, AI! UK Government’s War on Copyrighted Music?! Beatles AI song! - Dr Hayleigh Bosher explains it all
DiS006: Women’s Equality in Music & Glastonbury’s pipeline with Vick Bain from The F List / ISM
DiS005: How music can embrace the power of AI with ChatGPT expert David Boyle
DiS004: Tune in, AI Out - the co-founders of Endel on music’s potential futures
DiS003: TikTok, ”Authenticity” and Music with Eleanor from Crystal Fighters
DiS002: Discover... The Faux Faux (Faith Vern from PINS)
DiS001: The trade unionist campaigning for fairer streaming - Naomi Pohl from Musicians’ Union
DiS000: Prologue
From the Archive: Mercury Prize judges help us ponder: What makes a truly great album?
From the Archive: Blogs that became labels with Toby L from Rockfeedback / Transgressive (2015)