Saturday, 19 December 2009

DiS names WOLFGANG AMADEUS PHOENIX the album of 2009 | press release

DROWNED IN SOUND NAMES WOLFGANG AMADEUS PHOENIX THE ALBUM OF 2009

DrownedinSound.com has revealed its top 50 albums of the year and the list is topped by sophisto-pop Frenchmen Phoenix.

On hearing they topped the list, the band had this to say:

'merci drowned in sound for the gold medal! 
We are very proud to be on top of your list.
Merry Xmas to you all and happy 2010!
Phoenix

The top 20 is a follows:

1) Phoenix Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix
2) St. Vincent Actor 
3) Yeah Yeah Yeahs It's Blitz! 
4) Manic Street Preachers Journal for Plague Lovers 
5) F**ck Buttons Tarot Sport 
6) Grizzly Bear Veckatimest 
7) Animal Collective Merriweather Post Pavillion
8) Wild Beasts Two Dancers
9) Fever Ray Fever Ray
10) Paramore brand new eyes 
11) Bat for Lashes Two Suns
12) Arctic Monkeys Humbug
13) The Horrors Primary Colours 
14) PJ Harvey & John Parish A Woman a Man Walked By 
15) Dirty Projectors Bitte Orca   
16) Memory Tapes Seek Magic 
17) Metric Fantasies 
18) The Veils Sun Gangs
19) The Phantom Band Checkmate Savage 
20) Raekwon Only Built 4 Cuban Linx… Pt. II 


For the full top 50 and to hear a Spotify playlist of all the albums click here:
 http://drownedinsound.com/in_depth/4138638-drowned-in-sounds-top-50-albums-of-2009-50-1

 

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Tuesday, 15 December 2009

Goodbye Teletext and a fond farewell to Planet Sound

In a parting message, Manic Street Preachers' Nicky Wire paid tribute to Planet Sound by saying: "I love the feel of books and records, and I loved the feel of the remote control to give me information."
via guardian.co.uk

Sad times. Teletext is no more.

I used to flick on Planet Sound every day after school to find out if anything interesting had happened in music or whether my email fanzine (which I used to print out and send in) had been covered. Big up John Earls, who did a fantastic job running it for nearly a decade.

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Monday, 14 December 2009

All my Sunday Times Culture columns from this year

12 articles:

Article(s) missing? If you notice an article is missing, click here

via journalisted.com

One more 'festive' column to come on Sunday but a few people have asked if I could compile these and just discovered that Journalisted does it for me.

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Facebook | The campaign to get Sufjan Stevens Get Behind Me Santa into the Xmas charts

via facebook.com

I've started this campaign. Hope you'll get involved.

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Sunday, 6 December 2009

Wanted: Ruby on Rails Web Developer

Drowned in Sound, the UK's leading independent music website, is looking to employ a world class web developer.

Over the past decade we've built a vast resource of information and opinion but we could, and should, be doing a better job to share what we've got. We want to make it much easier to explore our site and by doing so, turn more people on to more great music.

Entering our 10th year, we have a new vision for what we wish to deliver to our 350k+ readers. We have enhancements we wish to complete and changes we'd like to make to our award-winning site and need a highly capable web developer to take things forward. The primary focus will be improving the experience and site functionality for our large community of irreverent music enthusiasts.


Key Responsibilities:
- Working with Drowned in Sound's founder and editorial team to improve the display of content and simplify CMS
- Liaising with our freelance designers on the implementation of a new and improved UI
- Debugging, improving data management and optimising pages
- Reliably delivering new features to a faultless standard.
- Developing new ideas
- Integrating DiS with various established and start-up partners
- Implementing special campaigns, such as site takeover

The idea candidate will be:
- A fan of 'alternative'/'indie' music
- Highly self-motivated, independent worker
- Able to meet deadlines and be focused on execution under pressure
- Resourceful
- A good communicator
- Logical, methodical and have an attention to detail
- A good manager of time and expectations
- Time flexible and willing to help with any urgent issues out of hours

Knowledge requirements:
- HTML / CSS / Javascript (Prototype/Scriptaculous)
- Ruby on Rails
- Nginx / Haproxy / Thin
- Linux

Additionally, experience using MusicBrainz would be preferable but isn't a necessity. Location isn't a major issue but an ability to take weekly meetings in London and to be easily contactable is preferred. Salary and length of contract is flexible and negotiable depending on experience. The ideal candidate would be available full-time for a minimum of 2 months from January 7th

To apply, please send your CV to to jobs@drownedinsound.com. Please include in the body of the email links to recent work and highlighting any relevant projects. If you have any current commitments please stipulate, the role can be flexible for the perfect person.

Please note, there are no other vacancies currently at Drowned in Sound.
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