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Drowned in Sound — 82 episodes

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Ticket Touts Rejoice! DiS & Which? React to The King's Speech

2

Two Music Fans. One Astonishing Fan-Led Review of Live & Electronic Music

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The UK government promised to end ticket touting. So why hasn't it?

4

Movements & Music - Introducing Sounds Like Change

5

Nobody Consented to This: How AI Is Using Artists' Music, Voices and Likenesses Without Permission

6

Can £125,000 Make a Difference to the Crisis in Live Music?

7

Why Does Electronic Music Sound Like Shoegaze? Art School Girlfriend on Lean In, positive nihilism, and making music for fun

8

What If You Could Taste Music? kwes. on his "dreamy" new LP on Warp

9

The Grassroots Pledge: Wrestling Instagram, Spotify, and the Arts Council with promoter David Littlefair

10

When Boycotts Work: Arms, Hope and Soundtracking Brexit with Gazelle Twin

11

GIRLI on Fighting Back: Activism, Safeguarding & Turning Rage Into a Rallying Cry

12

Why Hope Over Fear Trumps No Music On A Dead Planet: DiS meets PVA’s Ella Harris

13

Over A Million Free Tickets: Discover The Ticket Bank's Mission

14

From 500 Podcasts to Radio 1: DiS meets 101 Part Time Jobs (Part 2)

15

Why Some Festival Headliners Still Need Part-Time Jobs (Part 1)

16

Kelly Lee Owens: Record Shops, Raves, and Rebuilding Music From the Ground Up

17

Our 2026 predictions: New Acts, Big comebacks, Gig ticket laws, and more

18

Flying Rivers, Slipknot Swifts & Musical Frogs: Take This Podcast For A Walk In Nature

19

Can music still cut through in 2026? DiS meets a leading researcher

20

Spotify Boycotts, Solidarity, and Jet2 Rage: Our Top 3 Moments of 2025

21

The Stories of 2025 - Part 1: Megagigs, Grassroots, and AI slop

22

Albums of the Year: Emma Wilkes & Sean Adams Pick Their Standouts

23

How Music Fans Can Save The Planet - Tori Tsui on Billie Eilish, Brian Eno & Fossil Fuel Treaty

24

UK Caps Ticket Resale at Face Value: What Took So Long?

25

What crisis?! UK Music’s CEO on our £8 billion industry

26

Was Indie Sleaze Even Real? Maxïmo Park’s ‘A Certain Trigger’ at 20

27

Putting the Fans First

28

How to Empower Music’s Next Generation - DiSpatch from the Youth Music Awards

29

Music Industry Misconduct: Why The System Still Protects Abusers

30

An ethical guide to quitting Spotify

31

Drowned in Sound is 25 today: Big lessons from the past and a new era unfurls

32

Is music finally ready to confront misogyny? DiS meets CheerUpLuv

33

Is national identity in music a good thing? In conversation with Idlewild

34

Why it's time to quit Spotify

35

Protect grassroots music, save so much more. A chat with Enter Shikari’s Rou Reynolds

36

DiSpatch: Raging at Reading Festival - Backstage with Enter Shikari, Sofia Isella, Cliffords, and more

37

Meet The Music Researcher Making Sense of the Techpocalypse

38

How Lore, DIY Music Scenes & The Cure Inspired This Viral Tiktokker (And What Musicians Can Learn)

39

What Great Music Journalists Hear That Algorithms Miss: DiS meets Ilana Kaplan

40

How to Use Social Media When You Hate It & Why Streaming Math Ain't Mathin' - Q&A Special

41

How to Start a DIY Music Business Before You Feel Ready - Girls Twiddling Knobs on Mission Driven Music Careers

42

Mary Spender - Why Now Is Actually The Greatest Time for Independent Musicians

43

DiSpatch: What a Glastonbury First-Timer Found - Hope, Love, Unity, Resistance & Joy

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How Can Artists Build A Community? The Five Super Fans Theory

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How Music Supports Mental Health with Ariana Alexander-Sefre (SPOKE)

46

Can You Hear Earth Singing? Meet Musicians Using Sound to Protect the Planet

47

Synths, Sound & Music’s Future with Martyn Ware (The Human League / Heaven 17 / BEF / Electronically Yours podcast)

48

Offline Joy: The Do-It-Together Spirit Fueling Stealing Sheep’s New Era

49

A Goth Walked Into Nature To Make a Radio Show. A Zine Walked Out.

50

Are Cover Bands Killing Music Scenes? (Q&A Episode)

51

The Report That Shook the Music Industry & Exposed Inequality

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How Do We Save Our Music Scenes? Meet Sound Diplomacy’s Shain Shapiro

53

Festivals For Future: Frances Fox on Music’s Role in Climate Justice

54

How We Open Music’s Doors to Everyone (Not Just the Rich)

55

Will music survive the next 25 years? - Season 3 Prologue

56

How does music get discovered? Favourite venues? Brexit? - Q&A Special: Part 2

57

Why weren’t [insert band] massive? Music’s true value? Gaffes? - Q&A Special: Part 1

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What is the function of record reviews in 2024?

59

The joys of magazine-making with PROG Editor Jerry Ewing

60

What’s it like to broadcast from a war zone?

61

Should music critics ’pivot to video’?

62

Why Music Journalism Matters

63

Is ’Traditional Media’ Still Relevant for New Artists?

64

If $600 billion a year is being spent, why are so many publications closing?

65

Has music become a sub-genre of internet culture?

66

Shouldn’t all music journalism be intersectional?

67

Lessons from two decades of crafting DIY Magazine

68

Why music needs to talk about the climate crisis

69

How will the music coverage of the future be funded?

70

Is music journalism’s future in campaigning?

71

Introduction to S2: The Editor’s Letter / Voice Note

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DiS008: Live Music And Mental Health

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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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DiS006: Women’s Equality in Music & Glastonbury’s pipeline with Vick Bain from The F List / ISM

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DiS005: How music can embrace the power of AI with ChatGPT expert David Boyle

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DiS004: Tune in, AI Out - the co-founders of Endel on music’s potential futures

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DiS003: TikTok, ”Authenticity” and Music with Eleanor from Crystal Fighters

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DiS002: Discover... The Faux Faux (Faith Vern from PINS)

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DiS001: The trade unionist campaigning for fairer streaming - Naomi Pohl from Musicians’ Union

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DiS000: Prologue

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From the Archive: Mercury Prize judges help us ponder: What makes a truly great album?

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From the Archive: Blogs that became labels with Toby L from Rockfeedback / Transgressive (2015)